December 11, 2013

AT&D #39. Social Class Background

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What advantages and disadvantages have you experienced due to your social class background? One obvious advantage that I have had based on my social class (where I was growing up in my region) was the accessibility of a community that my family could relate to (whose members came from the same country as my parents). Because there were and still are big numbers of my cultural peers in an area that I have been mostly raised
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Will changing trends in American families encourage more cultural “assimilation” or “pluralism”? I personally have to say that it varies between families and their choices regarding how to go about in the way of life. On one hand, you could have a family that comes from the same foreign country where the spouses marry and have kids but move to the US for economic reasons (where the language and culture is different). Ultimately, this setting
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December 11, 2013

AT&D #37. Challenges of Treating People

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We cannot always treat everyone the same and ignore the differences that an individual or group of individuals have. Like humanity itself, no one single person is perfect and unfortunately, there are many people out there who are worse off than others in terms of living (setting or quality of navigating through it). Additionally, not everyone is necessarily “accessible;” there are certain cultural barriers that can make it hard for people to communicate or perform
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