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    Giver”, we were assigned to take a color blindness test. By taking the test we learned if we had a certain type of color blindness or had normal vision. Not only was the test interesting and useful but we also took it because in “The Giver” our teacher told us that the people can only see in grays. I would not want to live in an environment where I could only see grays. Taking a color blindness test is extremely useful, because you may not know if you are color blind. By taking the test I had mixed

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    negative feeling or the issues become worse or more intense, especially through long-term neglect or indifference. It's just like anything in life if you ignore something by the time you go back to it, the problems harder to clean up. The way color-blindness is supposed to work, it's believed since the Civil Rights Movement white peoples attitudes have demonstrably changed, racism is no longer embedded in the U.S or

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    see color. The damage area was a direct result of those who had a stroke or trauma in the brains. Patrick Cavanagh, a Harvard professor of psychology, and his colleagues, in a related experiment, discovered

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    The article is about color blindness the author talks about three rules that drive colorblindness. He first mentioned that race is all about skin color which he explains that race is about the skin pigmentation that one has, the second rule is that race is about unscientific notions of racial biology and third rule is that racism is personal problem. The article talks about how in-order for us to overcome racism we must read and be better informed about racial groups which is something we have discussed

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    Looking back to the previous answers, I relate to these key details. First, because I was part of the predominant racial group, race didn’t need to be discussed. There was some color-blindness in the way we viewed race. Second, I can see there is a difference between “Hispanics” and “blacks” in Colombia, nevertheless this difference has not been as strong as it has been in the United States. Still, it is sad to see that there are more differences between Colombians due to corruption and internal

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    Health 25 February 2016 Color Blindness The genetic disorder that I chose is color blindness. The reason I chose this disorder is because I have three brothers who all have some degree of this disorder. As a result, I have observed and heard from personal accounts what the symptoms and drawbacks are to being color blind are. Basically, color blindness is the inability to see color at all, or the inability to differentiate between colors, or the inability to see certain colors in varied lighting.

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    appears to be abnormal because everything is equally out of sorts. One way to look at it can be like looking at color blindness. Whether or not the color blind person knows that they cannot see color regularly is irrelevant, either way their perception of color is damaged everywhere they look. So, this life of color blindness is normal when it otherwise would not be to someone who has seen color before. This is just like Tony’s damage, even if he could recognize his damage, he would still see the world

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    their unintentional biases when teaching students of color. In the study conducted by two teachers that understood White privilege tested how White racial identities influenced the teaching of students of another race. The study focused on “White racism as unacknowledged White privilege, similar to color blindness.” Although the paper may focus on the idea of racism as color blindness, I personally do not believe in the concept of color blindness. The teachers that were used in the study started the

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    people of color. Most of the time, the media uses the following words when writing articles about blacks: low income, uneducated, welfare, single parent, drugs, illegal immigrant, crime, etc. According to Teun. A. Van Dijik, ‘’ Much research has shown that this is indeed the case. In a Detroit study, for instance, we found that of 1500 headlines on ethnic issues, not a single one was positive when it involved minorities as active and responsible agents.’’ Color blindness enables

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    suffer from color blindness and use minimization to ignore racism. Usually, their evidence stems from the success of a small percent of the population and fails to take into account the remaining populace that suffers from racial injustices. Most of the American citizens that reject the presence of racism don’t have frequent contact with people of color or aren’t one of those targeted races. For example, an Italian girl in a white community might come in contact with someone of color once every other

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