Essay on Brief Research and Results on Bias

The Peculiar Benefits essay talks about how “you have to surrender to kinds of privilege you hold. Nearly everyone, particularly in the developed world, has something someone else doesn’t, something someone else yearns for.” In Peculiar Benefits essay Roxane Gay gives the reader background information from her childhood going to Haiti during the summer and seeing the poverty that ran throughout the country. How she realized how much privilege she had back at home in the United States. Privilege is a right or immunity granted as a peculiar benefit. Not everyone has the same privilege therefore people will view life different. There are many privileges in the world we live: racial, gender, identity, heterosexual, economic, able bodied, educational, religious and etc…

When discussing whether people have a bias or not, most people would answer that they do not have one or at the least not one they can think of. I too normally will answer that I do not believe I have a bias and tend to treat everyone and everything equally. But when we really sit down and reflex back on our thoughts and behaviors it becomes clear that most everyone has a bias of some type whether it is against or for a person, place or idea. Most everyone, including myself, has one or more biases that we contend with daily. In this paper, I will discuss my personal bias I have toward panhandlers, the origin of this bias, how it could maybe affect my career and possible solutions to my bias.

Implicit biases are “‘habits of mind,’ learned over time through repeated personal experiences and cultural socialization, which can be activated unintentionally, often outside of one’s own awareness, and are difficult to control” (Burgess, Beach & Saha, 2017, p. 372). Implicit bias is seen in the medical field partly because of the time pressure of medical visits, and the reliance on stereotypes in situations of high stress. It is difficult to study implicit bias because of social desirability. No doctor wants to admit that they are biased and, as a result, they are going to do their best to demonstrate the socially desirable response of being non-biased. However, research shows that bias and prejudice from health care providers toward patients exists, and leads to poorer care related to the assessment of cardiovascular risk and whether or not a patient is referred for additional treatment (Stepanikova, I., 2012). Even health care providers from one of the best health care organizations in the world, Mayo Clinic, struggle with

A considerable volume of psychological research has focused on the decision-making process in humans, from everyday decisions on what to buy in grocery stores to the global life decisions that will influence all other aspects of life. Some of these decisions involve making judgments about other individuals of our own species: what kind of a person are they? Do we like them? Are they fit for a given task? Although a lot of times humans answer those questions on a conscious level using anecdotal evidence or direct experiences, a growing number of studies have shown that subconscious ‘shortcuts’ consisting of fixed opinions about certain characteristics of individuals have dramatic influence on our perception of the people possessing those characteristics. These are referred

The next assignment, a day without privilege involved giving up some often overlooked luxurys that we take for granted here in America. This resulted in limiting the use of some of the luxuries I possess such as access to transportation, smartphone, laptop, and shower time. This exercise is connected to sociology, because it backs the notion that many of the privileges we have access to in America are by no means universally

Furthermore, normalizing whiteness and white privilege plays a part in preserving racism because it places responsibility on cultural divides. In the

Grab the remote and take a seat. Put your feet up, and get comfortable. Now, turn on the television. What do you see? One day it is a police officer killing an innocent African American, and the next it is a crazy white man shooting and killing a mass of African American's. Notice a pattern? Every single news channel on television today broadcasts half of the truth. Yes, there are murders occurring. However, there is more to it than meets the eye. The media is racially bias, because they only report news stories where African American's are innocent, not where they are the culprits or killers.

the concept of oppression we see that it is a lack of power and unjust

For the Race Implicit Bias Test, my results were that I have a moderate automatic preference for White people over Black people. When receiving those results, they really didn’t surprise me. I was adopted by white parents when I was a baby and all my relatives, except my brother, are also white. Growing up with white parents and an all-white extended family, I never really had opportunities to associate with black adults. I did have black and white friends when I was little, but when your little you don’t think about your friend’s race or identify them as a race. The reason I have a moderate automatic preference for White people over Black people is probably because with having an all-white family

Ethics of Privilege Introduction Prior to beginning my social work education, I thought little about privilege. I felt as though I knew what it was, but now I realize that I had little idea about just how privileged my life has been. Mary E. Swigonski defines privilege as "unearned advantages enjoyed by a particular group, simply because of membership in that group" (1996). Some kinds of privilege are obvious, some are much more subtle.

Census data, 25 percent of Latino/as and 28 percent of African Americans compared to 10 percent of white Americans are living in poverty." My thought to this is that with race, privilege can come in alternative forms such as socioeconomic class being an example.

This short video explains a lesson about privilege. The video describes a lesson one high school teacher used to explain privilege using wadded up paper and the recycling bin. The teacher asked the students to stay in the desk and throw the paper into the recycling been. The students on the front row did not object that this would be an easy task. The main objections came from the students near the back row. The students in the back could not see the bin clearly and were at a further distance than the other students. The teacher carried on with the exercise and then explained that the exercise represented privilege. The video concluded with telling the students in the front that it is their responsibility to be aware of their privilege and to use their privilege in a positive way

Roxane Gay concedes that “One of the hardest things [she has] ever had to do is accept and acknowledge [her] privilege” and that “It’s also really difficult for [her] to accept [her] privilege when [she] consider[s] the ways in which [she] lack[s] privilege or the ways in which [her] privilege hasn’t magically rescued [her] from a world of hurt.” We must reach this very epiphany that Gay has in her essay. It is that, as humans, we are all in some way advantaged and disadvantaged. We are all in some way powerful and

My explanations of European lifestyle discuss that we believe in democracy women's privileges the separating of Cathedral and State, and personal image. People are amazed to listen to that these are not worldwide principles. I describe that People in America often wrongly think their principles are worldwide. But when I describe the Western as anti-racist I really get indignation. Surely we are very racist comes the response. Quiet follows my reaction that we are amongst the least improper locations in the world or in the past. While Barack Hussein The presidents' strategy has gotten the issue into worldwide information, we need to set the history straight; European nations like The America lead the globe in the combat racism.

Privilege is an uncomfortable thing to talk about, plain and simple. No one seems to think about what privileges they do have without being prompted to do so. Everyone is focused on the privileges that they do not have because they do not want to claim to have more privilege than someone else. I do believe that we should focus on what we do have, rather than what we do not have, and make the world a better place by helping those who do not have the privileges that we do. In this paper, I will be discussing the first times that I realized that there was race, class, and gender.