Sunday, June 2, 2013

Practicing Awareness

This week for my classroom assignment I have gain knowledge about microaggression and how it can be hurtful to people in how he or she communicate with other people. I observe this week how people communicated with each other there where not that many that were being microaggression in their communication. There was one I did see and it was a women and a men talking to each other the men ask her a question and the women responded back with an attitude. I did not know what the question was about but I did hear the guy tell the women you will not disrespect me like that either you are going to respect me or you remove yourself from my area. The respond back was that the women did not like what was said to her and she responded back to the men you think you are better than me because you have more money then me? You are full of trash money do not make you better than anyone else. You have a nasty attitude and I do not want to be bother. This was all I heard and I left from the area that the people were in. Sometimes microaggression can be very offended and it can also make a person think how people should be treated. The way people treat you and a disrespectful would you treat someone else like that? That is a good question it does happen people can be disrespected for no reason and it causes others to respond back in the same way. I know it is hard to avoid it I know it is hard for me to avoid but we do have to take this into consideration working with children and families. We also can take it out of purposing how a person is we can assume a person is something that he or she are not. When I observe the couple I said to myself what is going on the couples look like a couple that has it all together but there was some misunderstanding on my part of the observation. I did not believe that the guy thought he was better than the women he was just trying to get his point across of the women being disrespectful to him out in the public.

2 comments:

  1. Hi Shelia,
    This is aweful to have to witness. People should always be respectful of each other. Everyday life is hard enough and having to deal with rude indviduals just should not have to happen. Maybe there will be a learning process from this incident.

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  2. I think that you are correct about responding to others. I think that often people respond out of hurt and then in turn hurt another. I also think that the term respect can be used negatively rather than in a positive manner. People even define respect in different ways.

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