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The argument I had was in person. It was about the opposing person feeling left out. I would say I took the more mature and reasonable positions. I felt as if I was using the logos when it came to persuading. I think it was successful for me, both of us saw the lack of communication from their side.

“The term ‘racism’ had taken on its broad, all encouraging, ‘systematic’ meaning the idea that’ we live in a racist society’ and that this inbuilt, inescapable institutional racism is policed by a thousand and one micro aggressions.” this line stuck out to me because no one realizes or thinks of the micro aggressions or other actions, like for example as someone who is Hispanic, and when I was a little girl id feel different from other people when people would only talk about white princesses

I personally don’t see much to disagree with, I really enjoyed a lot of what I read, but I can agree on how a lot more people are definitely way more sensitive to things especially after covid-19, I don’t believe there is much to do about it than just ignore them and continue doing things that are at least good for your well-being. This article still makes very strong points that are often under looked.

I could have done better with not procrastinating the essay. My only complaint about the peer review is that me personally and I know of some other people that their peer partner didn’t send them the like editing, which kind of sucked especially if we were looking forward to the constructive criticism. I like my final product, I got to learn things about classmates that I would not have guessed. I thought that was admirable.  I also learned that I’m mainly just good at writing essays when they’re about myself.

“The way we think about ourselves and others – and even the way we perceived reality-makes us distinct from other humans on the planet, not to mention the vast majority of our ancestors.” this quote stuck out to me because I love thinking about how all were so different from each other, and its honestly a weekly thought I will have, and then ill also love learning new things about people.

‘So, if you really want to hurt me, talk badly about my language.’ (page 4).

I think this sticks out to me because it helps you feel how important it is to him, and how it is not just a language to him but a part of who he is. People will often try to mock other languages not realizing how it can be harmful.

So, for this essay, its mainly my brother who inspires me to do good in college, like I want to make my mom proud of course, but I’d consider my brother someone who is pretty smart, not that my mom isn’t, but he likes to give me tips to do better, and I’m always wanting to help and listen to people which is what inspires me to major in Social Work.

I think my favorite part was that he actually started an acting career, I think his approach of being a new person and pretending to be someone completely different is a little odd though, but it adds comedic affect that after pretending to be African all that time he started acting.

I present myself as a very shy, and calm collected person, but reality is that I typically stress over everything and I’m very outgoing to the ones close to me. When people point out how I’m shy I sort of just want to internally scream because I truthfully don’t even know how to respond, it makes me feel Awkard and I start feeling sweaty. I probably could not count on my fingers the number of times in high school where people started calling me shy. Anytime I see an outgoing person do that to another shy person I can’t help but feel bad for them because I can completely understand how they feel.

” Even if you’re east Asian, you need to attend a top tier university to land a good high paying gig. Even if you land that high paying gig, the white guy with the pedigree from a mediocre state university will somehow move ahead of you in ranks simply because he’s white.”  (paragraph 35) This line stuck out to me because after reading this passage I learned how Asians work incredibly hard, and this sentence shows how you hard work could be disregarded because you aren’t the “American standard” and I’m sure most employers have internalized racism where they will lean more towards someone who is the standard that was created. As someone with a Hispanic family, I can understand the pressure of needing to be better than you parents and succeeding in a good high paying job.