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Essay On Tokenism

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The event, diversity on campus, brought up important points of treatment towards students of color at St. Olaf. Personally, I stand behind the movement, but disagree with the process in which they’re using. Despite this, I believe the event held an importance within our St. Olaf community in how we rally together and morally hold ourselves to a high standard. There were many things I enjoyed hearing at the event; however, my favorite was the idea of tokenism and its effects at St.Olaf College. I enjoyed the detail to your opinion on tokenism and the people who you referred to in the presentation are highly educated in the area of tokenism. Many of the students claimed to be tokens of the school, but I didn’t really receive a full perspective or idea as to what direct actions make them …show more content…

However, when a woman asked you if you felt like a token, I had no idea how you were going to respond. I thought your response was professional, yet hinted at some areas of improvement of where you may have felt tokened by the administration, specifically through your application process. Another thing I enjoyed about the presentation was the human interaction and conversations that came after the presentations. Though I didn’t agree with what everyone said, it’s important to let people feel heard. This helps everyone out because it allows people to hear others thoughts and opinions which helps reform or reaffirm their beliefs. I call it, progress through reforming or reaffirming individual beliefs. These conversations allow people to ask you questions about certain things at St. Olaf and lets them speak about their experiences at St.Olaf. As a white student attending St.Olaf, I don’t experience tokenism. Now, I believe there are forms of tokenism at

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