Reflection Paper

Reflection Paper

Christine Garrison

BSHS/345

March 9, 2015

University of Phoenix

Reflection Paper

When I look back at my life and the many different circumstances that I personally have been involved in my life time. When I look back I see both the pain of my childhood and the good how fleeting that it was in my younger years. These actions when I was younger is what made me who I am today.

My younger years were full of abusive situations that many people would not know how to deal with, but the good memories helped me learn what is considered to be right and good. I have had to deal with physical abuse as well as mental abuse in my childhood as well as in my first marriage. The circumstances that I was accustomed to when I was younger has helped me deal with situations as I have grown it has helped me see that situations can change in an instant. With my own mental protection system that I have developed when I was younger it makes it so I can look even at my own situations as an outsider. This helps me see what is really happening and to not take things personal. This has come in useful at work with many of the people and jobs that I have had in my adult life. These situations have been bias actions from an employer to racism when I go out to eat or when looking for a new home.  The way that I think of people now are just as people nothing more I do not look at a person for their race religion or cultural background.

There are many ways to stop invidious comparisons many I believe start when people are children. Being raised to not look at a person for their race religion or where they come from. This takes changing the minds of their parents and guardians. People see bias material on television as well on social media outlets. The social media outlets can be monitored by that parents and taught what is right and wrong but them simply checking up on what is being posted to their personal pages. In the cases of younger people they see how their elders treat others and will mimic it in their own lives. The saying “Hate begets hate” (Martin Luther King) is a perfect reminder of what needs to be done to end this issue. People need to be looked at as the person they are not their background or race. This is my personal belief. If people are taught that certain actions are wrong at an early age they will be less likely to do it as they grow older. The actions of many people over the years is what I think is what has caused these actions to persist over the years. People fear what is different from what they personally believe so intern they make decisions on things without knowing the whole truth about a culture. I believe many people only want to see problems or what they view as problems with different groups. I also think that main stream media in many cases blows items out of proportion to make them seem worse that what they really are without having all the facts. Speculating without the facts has caused a major rift in our country and has made it very difficult to know the real truth until it is too late. This is why the media has to correct so much of what they report.