The Final Blog

I have a respectful mind. I am most comfortable when I am surrounded with various groups of people. Whatever the case maybe, age, race, or sex, I enjoy finding the differences within each individual and find a way to work well among them. With younger children, there obviously has to be a change in approach compared to a teenager. I love to find these variations and learn different ways to work effectively within each sector.

If I had to choose some characteristics that I exemplify include exhibiting curiosity, respect for other viewpoints, and read with awareness of self and others. I show curiosity by wanting to learn more, and then finding answers to questions. I don't wait for others to tell me the answer, but instead I go out and search myself. I respect others viewpoints during class discussions and outside of the classroom. I am patient until a person finishes their thoughts and then I give my viewpoint with respect and courteous. I also read with awareness to others and myself by thinking about how a certain subject affects my life and the lives of people around me.

I learned two things through this blogging process. The first is that I can share my thoughts about my feelings and expand my horizon by following others blogs. Before this project, I only shared my feelings, if you could call it that, on facebook. Well as you can imagine, I never researched or thought of ideas that could support my question. I learned that others have significant questions about the world, or have ideas that could help in everyday life, that by following I could learn more about. The second thing I learned directly relates to my big question on equality in America. I thought that whites had more privileges and received more than blacks, but I never had the statistics to back up my hypothesis. I learned that even after the Civil Rights Movement, blacks still have a little ways to go before they have the same equality as whites. I enjoyed this process and I learned a lot about my subject and the people I followed.

IQ

Would you think that IQ scores vary among ethnicity. Well tests that have been conducted determined that there is a slight difference in the scores of whites and blacks. It shows that blacks score an average of 90 points or below on the IQ test, where whites score an average of 100 or more points. What causes this? Is it really that whites are smarter than blacks? Well, some have complained of cultural bias. This means that the questions can have answers that appeal to blacks, but the correct answer is one that appeals to whites. So not only is there discrimination within the work place but also on intelligence quotient tests.