These readings made me reflect on how I think about change on both personal and global levels. I realized how our perceptions of good deeds, making change and having power are extremely generalized and inaccurate. For example, I fell into the fallacy described by Goska, equating virtuous with acts receiving major recognition\/attention. Of course I try to be a good person, but I would apply this method of thinking onto other people. Reading about the problem with people not using the power they have, how easy it is to excuse oneself from being better if they consider themselves an insignificant contributor. They discredit their own power and in doing so, become the problem.<\/p>\n
Chapter five made me think of the protests and events in response to the racist incidents that occurred earlier this semester. Students rallied together to bring attention to an important issue and call for administrative action. If “small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world”, then imagine what could happen if students at every university advocated for creating a culturally inclusive society. I’m not trying to say that the protests and events were small acts. Only that they could become even more powerful if people who discredited their own power would act.\u00a0 Similar to Kushner’s sentiments, if everyone would find an issue they are passionate about and fight for it, the world would be more united in generating solutions. Each person would be pushing themselves to be a more humane human being and use their power for good. Obviously, it’s not that simple to just make everyone interested in taking that initiative but it is amazing to think about how far we could go if even 50% of the world population did that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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