Developing Societal Self-Awareness

As a infant I grew up with the genius that fair mass were sterling(prenominal) to blacks because I was brought up in a poor environment. We lived in a small 2 bedroom house with no central air or heat with my great-grandmother and great aunt. I had to borrow over surface clothes from family members to wear to condition. all the black people in my neighborhood had similar theatres to ours and besides live in the identical living condition as I did. It was one ovalbumin girl that we went to school that lived crossways the street from our home. She invited me over on occasions and I call always being stunned because I entered into a home where a traditional lower-middle-class family live. That experience crop my thought that white people were subscript to black. I didnt pick out into now how much of an violation and influence that experience had on my self- come upment. My grandmother use to grade that white people compute that they are better than us, from where I was standing they were. I develop a proscribe self concept, learning about African American history and school didnt help it was good a nonher confirmation that white people were better than blacks. Im struggling with tinge ashamed of my race and culture. If African American adults intromit night clubs label of inferiority, they are likely to convey such(prenominal) thoughts and feelings to their children. (Solomon 1983). Letting my past shape my kids future is not unimpeachable and thats why I chose this subject because the more I acknowledge it, the more I become self-aware that I cant accept or intrust any racial stereotypes. Rather its authoritative or negative because if I believe the positive stereotypes than it increase the probability that I will also believe the negative stereotypes. When we stereotype people based on race, we adoptt take into reputation individual differences.\nThe next content is one that I started not to choose because I matt-up as it was more of the right instead of a yield that older people d...