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Reflection Summary

Posted by Sheena Christison on Thursday, December 3, 2015,

My experience throughout the class and blog process has been liberating. I remember the first day of class when we were asked to list what culture is. I instantly thought of ethnicity and religion but I struggled to think of any further words. I was surprised as the class continued to shout out different words such as politics, traditions, SES, gender, etc. I soon realized how ignorant I was to the meaning of culture. Unfortunately, I also realized how ignorant I was to my own culture. I rem...


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Mormen Leaders Stand Behind Rules For Gays, Their Children

Posted by Sheena Christison on Wednesday, November 18, 2015, In : Religion 

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Mormon church is standing behind its new rules targeting gay members and their children that generated widespread blowback from members, while providing more explanation about the policy changes and clarifying exactly what they mean.
The rules issued last week are designed to protect kids, following in the footsteps of Jesus Christ's "tender love of children," officials with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said in a news release Friday.
"Church leader...


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Education Gap Between Rich and Poor Is Growing Wider

Posted by Sheena Christison on Wednesday, November 11, 2015, In : Race 

The wounds of segregation were still raw in the 1970s. With only rare exceptions, African-American children had nowhere near the same educational opportunities as whites.

The civil rights movement, school desegregation and the War on Poverty helped bring a measure of equity to the playing field. Today, despite some setbacks along the way, racial disparities in education have narrowed significantly. By 2012, the test-score deficit of black 9-, 13- and 17-year-olds in reading and math had been...


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Aziz Ansari on Acting, Race and Hollywood

Posted by Sheena Christison on Wednesday, November 11, 2015, In : Race 

Fisher Stevens was cooking dinner when I got him on the phone. I had wanted to talk to him for years because, as I recount in my new Netflix series, “Master of None,” this actor played a strange role in my relationship to television and film.

The first time I saw an Indian character in an American movie was “Short Circuit 2,” a 1988 film in which a humanized robot named Johnny 5 goes to New York and bonds with an Indian scientist named Benjamin Jarhvi.

Seeing an Indian character in ...


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Racial Anxiety May Alter Time Perception For Some White Americans

Posted by Sheena Christison on Sunday, November 8, 2015, In : Race 

WASHINGTON — Time may appear to slow down for white Americans who feel threatened by an approaching black person, raising questions about the pervasive effects of racial bias or anxiety in the United States, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.

In a series of experiments, white adults viewed faces of white and black people who appeared to be moving toward them on a computer screen. Participants rated the apparent speed or approximate time that each face ...


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Ireland to 'decriminalise' small amounts of drugs, including heroin, cocaine and cannabis, for personal use

Posted by Sheena Christison on Wednesday, November 4, 2015, In : World 

Ireland will move towards decriminalising substances including heroin, cocaine and cannabis as part of a “radical cultural shift”, the country's drugs minister has said.
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, the chief of Ireland’s National Drugs Strategy, told a lecture at the London School of Economics on Monday that drug users will be able to inject in specially designated rooms in Dublin from next year.
The minister said attitudes to drugs needed to move away from shaming addicts to helping them and ...


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Culture Shock

Posted by Sheena Christison on Monday, October 19, 2015, In : World 

Recently I had the opportunity to visit Mexico and to my surprise, it was all that I had expected and more! Like any vacation, your experience is of that similar to the honeymoon stage of acculturation, whereas you (if everything goes as planned) experience excitement and euphoria. Being that I was only a tourist I did not mind the language barrier that occurred, actually I embraced it. I enjoyed trying out my few Spanish words that I knew as well as the different foods that I savored. Ultima...


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Study: Utah has 4th Largest Gender Wage Gap in the US

Posted by Sheena Christison on Sunday, September 13, 2015, In : Gender 

SALT LAKE CITY — As an employee, student and mother, St. George resident Emily Havens, 21, is facing the same challenges as many other Utah women.

While working full time as an Internet sales associate, Havens has been attending Dixie State University full time since 2012. However, she became pregnant last year with her now 3 ½-month-old daughter, Roslyn. With Roslyn’s birth, Havens and her husband, Rodney, had to make some changes.

While her husband continued to work full time selling car...


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Upper Class More Likely to Behave Unethically, Study Says

Posted by Sheena Christison on Wednesday, September 2, 2015, In : Socioeconomic Status 

SALT LAKE CITY -- Apparently, bad behavior is a lot like a college senior - upper-class.

University of California, Berkeley doctoral student Paul Piff and co-authors conducted seven studies to find out not only which socioeconomic class behaves with the most disregard for ethics, but why that behavior might have come about. What they found was "upper-class individuals behave more unethically than lower-class individuals."

Those on the highest rung of the social ladder tended to break ...


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Boyz N the Hood

Posted by Sheena Christison on Tuesday, September 1, 2015, In : Socioeconomic Status 

Stating, “One in twenty-one African-American males will die of murder”, and that “most will be killed by another African-American” is how the film Boyz N the Hood begins. Boyz N the Hood is a disturbing account of the lived experiences of black people, particularly black males, in a poverty-stricken South Central Los Angeles neighborhood. The story follows the relationship and connections between three young Black males: Tre Styles, Darrin “Doughboy” Baker, and Ricky Baker. During...


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