The Comeback Kid Strikes Again

I honestly can say in my life so far, I have not been the target of microaggressions, that has cause a verbal or physical response.There has been little to none microaggressions aim directly at me, however , I have witness microaggressions happen to other people. I remember in the beginning of this school year, all the preschool teachers, including myself had to do intake the week before the children started school. The teacher next to my class had just finished an intake on a young girl from Africa. She hurriedly walk into our room and said,” I must be the first white face, that girl has ever seen. She would not answer me at all, or look directly in my face. Maybe her parents have taught her this at home,” she said. Just because, you have been in the early childhood profession for over 20 years, it does not give anyone the right to assume, that just because, a child will not respond to you has anything to do with the color of your skin. I thought, here we have an early childhood

   To deepen my grasp about perspectives on diversity and culture, I listen to an 11 year old mixed Italian African American girl, a 34 year old African American female, and a 55 year old African American male give their definitions. The 11 year old definition of culture was “religion, and what they believe in.” Her definition of diversity was,” I don’t know.” The 34 year old woman’s  definition of culture, “ what, makes us who we are, our ethnic history, the foods we eat, the music we make, our languages and dialects, the way we raise our young and how we worship.” Her meaning of diversity was, “the differences between the cultures all around us. It’s good to experience a diverse community.” The 55 year old definition of culture was,” the way people live their lives day to day.” His definition of diversity was, “where nothing is dominate and the same.”    I found some aspects of culture and diversity that I have studied in this course included in some of the definitions. “Deep cultur

   The three items I would chose would be photographs of my family, seeds of the foods we eat for planting a garden, and books. The photographs can tell a thousand words about my family culture, such as where I was born, who my mother and father were, and what I did as a child. The seeds could be planted to represent the types of food we eat in our culture, and I could share the food with the people that accepted us into their country. The books would be in my family’s language along with the Bible, which reflects my family’s culture, and religion. I would not feel too bad about giving up two personal items because, I would keep the pictures to keep me connected to my family culture. This assignment has reinforced what I have known for a while, and that is I love my family very much, and I am who I am today because of my family.They are very dear to me and realized that we are only on this planet for a while, and we should appreciate everything our families do and have done for us, pa

I look forward to sharing my social identity in this course and improving my insights working with young children of diverse backgrounds.