Tim Wise Reflection

There were several videos, lectures, and readings that taught me very valuable knowledge about ethnic studies throughout this class. Throughout this class I learned a lot about this world and how it treats minorities. It amazed me of how much I did not know about what goes on in the world. This class really opened up my mind about how the majorities treat the minorities. I am glad I took this class so I can see the world in a different perspective and have a different view of what we live in today. One of the videos that really stood out to me was the speech given by Tim Wise. Wise talks about how he is able to talk about racism and be taken seriously because his white audience would rather hear it from a white man's perspective that he has
Redlining is discrimination against people trying to buy homes in minority and racially changing neighborhoods. I knew there were neighborhoods that were mainly minority groups but I did not realize there were getting denied to live in changing neighborhoods. I remember talking in class about if a black person and a white person were both trying to get a home that the white person would get called back first. This really hit me because it is so unfair that someone could get a home based on their skin color. I also remember talking about if a document had a white person named compared to a black person named that the white person name would be chosen or the black name. It is so sad that our world automatically thinks like that and are taught to discriminate without even thinking about it most of the time. The next topic is tracking. Tracking is the practice of putting children at school in groups of which they think they belong based on tests and assumed language. Many children are placed in a Spanish course because they are Mexican American. A lot of the time the child does not even speak Spanish. Minority students are placed in classes that will not allow them to grow and be put into higher level learning classes as they grow. It is so awful that students are unable to succeed because the schools dragging them down. The last concept I learned about what brain drain, which is immigration to the United States of trained workers who are needed by their home countries. Many people immigrate to the United States in order to get and education or a job. This take away from the country they came from because they do not get to benefit from their knowledge and hard work in their country of origin. It is sad that United States is taking away from the country that the worker came from and in turn is making the country less skilled and not as advanced as