PLN at KIS

The more emphasis we put on the idea of “races” it seems like there is a proportional increase in racism and stereotypes. This idea brings back my previous post on the relationship between education and racism/stereotypes, Education and Stereotypes?.

Is knowledge and learning actually the real criminals to blame? or were we just born with the idea of discriminating people. To me it just seems like a matter of time. Yes I’m talking about the same time, which is a fourth dimensional object, and is probably the most powerful object that ever existed. We all know that humans are the most intellectual species on this planet, and that we develop more and more as time goes by. But this cannot happen with just education and some experiences with reality. So how does this relate to stereotypes and racism? Well if your asking me, I believe that we just don’t have the ability to become a racist or stereotypical person. I mean that no one is “born to be a racist”. We learn that there are different people in this world, we learn that people don’t share the same history, and we learn in many ways that our ethnicity is the best. I might be wrong and please correct me if I am, but this it what I’ve learned from the society and I know that it will go on.

From all this learning I’ve come to one decision for my grade for the work I’ve done in February. I think I deserve a B- at least. I haven’t been able to produce a hard product of what I’m doing so far, but I’ve been able to make more connections with people around the world. I’ve gotten a contact in China now, but all I know about him is that he is a government official who works at a Chinese educational facility in Macao. A great relief is that he speaks English (British English, since he says he learned his English from Hong Kong), which is a great relief to me since I don’t have the capability of speaking Chinese fluently yet. But one of the major problems I faced was from the fact that he doesn’t know Skype or any other web 2.0 skills. So I’m still in the conflict of either moving on to another person who knows how to work with Tech, or actually try teaching him some basic communication skills. I hope to have it soon and I know that I won’t need to worry about the time difference, since there is only a one hour difference. Good Luck to myself and everyone else in the Fight Against Stereotypes and Racism.

Photo Credit to Philgarlic

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