Racsm and Social Justice
Asian -Philippines
There are several key points I learned in ready the scholarly literature. When I was in the military I was stationed in the Philippines for one year. My thoughts and example on classism is having attended an “influential” university for ones undergraduate education, I have noticed that classist attitudes are ubiquitous among the classmates, friends, and peers both during and after undergrad. The same is true about many young Asians who graduate from our country’s top private schools and often, their families. Classism is considered a disparity behavior based on social class or perceived social class.
My neighbor is from the Philippines I decided to interview her. Her name is Dalisay , her name means pure. Dalisay, said she was once told by a White male friend that she had three strikes against her: I quote, “ 1) being an Asian, 2) being female and 3) growing up in a British colony”. Dalisay grew up in a traditional Chinese family where the sole ambition for girls was to get married into a respectful family. Girls getting an education were not viewed as a top priority, and if you were going to get an education then you should be doing a degree in law, medicine, or engineering. Dalisay decided she did not want to be traditional it was difficult for her parents to understand why she wanted a degree in psychology since compared to a doctor, a psychologist has lower status and receives significantly less income. As luck would have it, it was the values that were instilled by her parents that led me into psychology, human rights, social justice, and social action.
I did not realize that my social inequality lesson came at such an early age until in recent times. Dalisay was watching a television show where someone was doing an exercise about earliest memories. At that time she thought, “What a great exercise”. So Dalisay began to think about her earliest memory. Her earliest memory was a wonderful memory of holding her grandfather’s hand and
There are several key points I learned in ready the scholarly literature. When I was in the military I was stationed in the Philippines for one year. My thoughts and example on classism is having attended an “influential” university for ones undergraduate education, I have noticed that classist attitudes are ubiquitous among the classmates, friends, and peers both during and after undergrad. The same is true about many young Asians who graduate from our country’s top private schools and often, their families. Classism is considered a disparity behavior based on social class or perceived social class.
My neighbor is from the Philippines I decided to interview her. Her name is Dalisay , her name means pure. Dalisay, said she was once told by a White male friend that she had three strikes against her: I quote, “ 1) being an Asian, 2) being female and 3) growing up in a British colony”. Dalisay grew up in a traditional Chinese family where the sole ambition for girls was to get married into a respectful family. Girls getting an education were not viewed as a top priority, and if you were going to get an education then you should be doing a degree in law, medicine, or engineering. Dalisay decided she did not want to be traditional it was difficult for her parents to understand why she wanted a degree in psychology since compared to a doctor, a psychologist has lower status and receives significantly less income. As luck would have it, it was the values that were instilled by her parents that led me into psychology, human rights, social justice, and social action.
I did not realize that my social inequality lesson came at such an early age until in recent times. Dalisay was watching a television show where someone was doing an exercise about earliest memories. At that time she thought, “What a great exercise”. So Dalisay began to think about her earliest memory. Her earliest memory was a wonderful memory of holding her grandfather’s hand and