Journals Ch. 1-4

Growing up, I have been an individual who has pushed myself beyond the minimum requirements in order to succeed. In high school I excelled in both academics and athletics. I graduated in the top 10% of my class and lettered in hockey and tennis my sophomore, junior, and senior year. I worked hard and put in extra time in order to set myself apart from others. Succeeding in both school and athletics made me a responsible, reliable, and an organized individual. These experiences made me a versatile individual and have given me a work ethic that has benefited me with my academics in college and with my work and volunteer experiences.

When addressing self-identification, some multiracial or biracial individuals do identify as being two or more races. Some identity as just one, or that they feel closer to a certain racial group. About 69% of Multiracial adults with a black background considered themselves as black/African American (experiences, social interactions that align them within the black community). While Multiracial Asian adults, with a white and Asian background, feel more connected to the white community than to the Asian community. Another group of multiracial individuals, are those that are white and native American, and around 22% say they have a lot in common with the in the US that is native America. And 61% say they have a lot more in common with the whites.

I am third-generation Puerto Rican American. Although some do not see me as black, my race is black, my ethnicity is Puerto Rican, and my nationality is American. I grew in a city where 39.3 percent of the population is Hispanic. Growing up in urban city where a large percentage of the population is Hispanic shaped who I am, what I have learned, and the struggles I overcame.

I consider myself to be a white Irish-Italian American woman. My mother was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and my paternal grandparents are from Sicily, Italy. I imagine being first generation Irish and second generation Italian makes me identify more with my ethnicity.

The race I identify with is white. While for some people it is difficult to decide, I don’t have trouble determining that. My mom’s side is almost all Polish and Yugoslavic, and my dad’s side is a mixture of several European countries. I have lived

Read carefully the following piece of text. What does it tell us about cross cultural encounters?

One has to evaluate his/her thoughts, ideas, behavior patterns, customs, values, skills, language, arts, and faith or religion to understand and respect others who might not share the same culture or

For the purposes of the following discussion, the term “race” will be assumed to include both race and ethnicity.

There are numerous personality tests that claim they are able to determine who a person is. While taking these tests, most people feel they identify with more than one answer. However, since they can only choose one answer, people think these tests are inaccurate and pointless. The personality tests try to put people into boxes and subvert the complexity of a human being. This slight frustration people obtain from these tests is how multiethnic people feel all the time. They do not know whether they should be one ethnicity or the other, so they become lost in the stereotypes. In the American society, multiethnic people continuously struggle psychologically to determine their identity, to keep their cultural values, and to still call themselves

Reading the prescribed chapters 4 and 7 in Diversity in the Workplace, I hemmed and hawed what workplace to target filled with heated debates aligned with their side, the other side and the truth. I will also provide my insights and observations onsite at a federal agency located in the Hudson County region recently. We have grown and continue to grow in technology, science, and math like the speed of light, however, when it comes to us on personal and interpersonal relations, I feel that we are little better than our ancestors nineteen generations ago.

Growing up, I always knew I was Mexican, Hawaiian and Caucasian. When someone would come up to me and ask what is your nationalities, I would just say Mexican and Hawaiian. I never actually thought about the Caucasian side of me. My dad is

If you were to generate a report card for your organization, how would you rate its performance in each of the areas? Identify strengths and areas for improvement.

The article Psychological Advantages of Strong Identifying As Biracial introduces the idea of multiracial people and what they identify themselves as.The article Psychological Advantages of Strong Identifying As Biracial uses facts to explain how they fit in with people that are not multiracial. Multiracial people have flexible identities is a powerful example that illustrates biracial people have no problem blending into our society. Another important idea from the article Psychological Advantages of Strong Identifying As Biracial is “Multiracial people are proud to be multiracial which demonstrates they are proud of who they are and have no problem expressing it. The examples found in the article Psychological Advantages of Strong Identifying

Growing up, I always felt like an outsider. I yearned for a sense of belonging, but I would always have to bring myself to a constant realization about the implication of my existence—I was black and white, not one or the other, but both. The continual task of “checking one box” on surveys and papers didn’t really help the situation either. Being the product of an African-American father and an Irish-American mother made me appreciate and understand all the variations of race and culture in the spectrum, but it also left me in this murky-gray area with no sense of direction—a feeling that most multiracial

However, the acceptance and adaption [sic] to something which is not established or proper to one’s cultural pattern marks a change brought about by the exposure of the members to the language different from their own, their opportunity to accept it and the way the language was diffused.