{"id":6217,"date":"2021-03-07T19:14:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T00:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=6217"},"modified":"2021-03-07T19:14:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T00:14:48","slug":"blog-post-2-culture-and-implicit-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2021\/03\/07\/blog-post-2-culture-and-implicit-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post 2: Culture and Implicit Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This week&#8217;s podcast\/readings discussing implicit bias and stereotypes reinforces what I already knew about both of these topics. Especially in my Women Gender and Sexuality Studies courses, these two topics are widely discussed, and how these stereotypes and implicit bias affect the everyday lives of those around us. I find Dr.Bezios&#8217;s point so true that no matter what we are looking at or talking about, whether its an ethnic group, our campus culture, or various other\u00a0 ideas, we inherently create bias in our own heads, even if we don&#8217;t mean to, and the only way to curve this and make it better is by exposure to other types of cultures and listening\/learning about these cultures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hearing Dr.Bezio in the podcast talk about stereotypes of groups of people and the implicit bias\u2019 towards them makes me think\u00a0 about\u00a0 my own life experiences. I was privileged enough to never\u00a0 experience stereotypes based on the color of my skin, and because of the very diverse middle\/high school i went to, I did not see as many of these stereotypes come into play; Although I knew it was already present in media and I saw it, I never really saw it in person or experienced as much of it until later in high school and college.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0An area I have experienced implicit bias is the fact that I am Jewish. Although looking at me you might not be able to tell, I am very open when it comes to my religion, as it is a part of my culture and heritage. When I tell people I am Jewish, I am often met with responses such as \u201cyou don&#8217;t Look jewish\u201d, or \u201cyou\/your personality doesn&#8217;t seem jewish\u201d. This is due to the implicit bias\/stereotypes that jews have large\/curved noses, or even the assumptions that\u00a0 Jews control businesses\/financial markets or are money hungry, or even the idea that jews agree with everything\u00a0 that the Israeli government says\/are more loyal to Israel than anything else. Sure, this may be true for some people, but is an extreme stereotype that does not apply to the entire group. For those who are open to learning and removing these bias\u2019, I usually try to help educate others, whether its\u00a0 teaching about jewish history\/rituals, or discussing the holidays or letting them try some of our signature food dishes, people being willing to learn and grow truly is a solution to make these stereotypes and implicit bias\u2019 lessen. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s podcast\/readings discussing implicit bias and stereotypes reinforces what I already knew about both of these topics. Especially in my Women Gender and Sexuality Studies courses, these two topics are widely discussed, and how these stereotypes and implicit bias affect the everyday lives of those around us. I find Dr.Bezios&#8217;s point so true that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5101,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6218,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6217\/revisions\/6218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}