{"id":6340,"date":"2021-03-08T23:34:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T04:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=6340"},"modified":"2021-03-08T23:34:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T04:34:50","slug":"biases-blog-post-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2021\/03\/08\/biases-blog-post-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Biases Blog Post 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nobody wants to be accused of having biases, yet it is impossible to not have biases. Stereotypes are embedded into literally everything in our lives. As a business student with a marketing concentration, I literally learn how marketing relies on stereotypes. Companies group people into segments in order to determine their target audiences and marketing strategies. In America, as Dr. Bezio points out in the podcast, basically all products are marketed to middle class white people. Growing up, implicit biases were placed in our brains by these companies and the media we all consume. The Disney princesses were mostly white, I never saw a black or brown barbie doll until these past few years, and the main characters in my favorite TV shows were always white. It\u2019s really sad looking back as an adult. It is nice to see how media and popular culture have evolved since I was young, but there is still a looooong way to go.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There is a massive lack of exposure to different cultures, and I agree that exposure is the best, if not only, way to erase implicit biases. I find it problematic that white culture is the default culture. The US loves to call itself a \u201cmelting pot,\u201d when in reality, we only ever fully embraced the white European cultures. Historically speaking, non-white cultural voices have been suppressed which is the cause of such strong biases. Nobody talks about white culture because as said in the podcast, white people feel guilty, but we only feel guilty because we know it&#8217;s wrong.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s also important to point out how easy it is to find biases and how many different ways stereotyping exists. As a woman I have experienced the consequences of these biases. This is not to say that I have not benefited from white privilege because I certainly have. While it is difficult to admit we have biases, it is an essential step for everyone to take. In order to reverse bias, the first step is awareness, the second step is action (not performative activism!!!). <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody wants to be accused of having biases, yet it is impossible to not have biases. Stereotypes are embedded into literally everything in our lives. As a business student with a marketing concentration, I literally learn how marketing relies on stereotypes. Companies group people into segments in order to determine their target audiences and marketing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6340","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\/6340","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\/5111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6341,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6340\/revisions\/6341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}