Reflection 20:- INTERSEXUALITY

Intersexuality is the combination of features in a human. These features are from both male and female. Transexuality is the changing of an individual into another. For example, a male changing himself into a female for various reasons such as not liking the body in which they were made in. The study of these topics was rather interesting. Some parts of the discussion I hated but others were interesting. This proved to me that anything is possible whenever a woman is expecting. As a teacher in training, I would like it to be implemented in the minds of everyone that no matter what is wrong with you; you should be able to go to a public school. Reason being for that statement is because my professor asked me as if I had an intersexual child if I would send him to public school. Of course, my response was yes I would because I do not think that I should keep a child in home school just because of his/her sexuality. My professors response was no because that child is going to need special care and attention. In my head, I thought no matter what school you went to you would be jeered whether about sexuality, height, color etc. so I thought to myself that I would try to implement a standard to make parents send intersexed kids wherever they want to send them. They should feel as any normal person would and should get no different treatment other than how normal persons are treated. There is a lot of controversy when it comes on to this topic, which makes it somewhat rather confusing. There is no right way or wrong way to this ongoing issue rather than how the person in the situation feels. I am really touched about this topic and I hope that anyone that comes across this situation will treat these individuals with respect, dignity, love and care. Therefore, I leave this reflection by saying treat others just as you would like to be treated.

REFLWCTION 19:- SEXUALITY

I think the cause of homosexuality is somewhat of a choice and sometimes I think that you were born with it. I truly do not know what the cause is. I have grown into the mentality of not caring about a person’s sex life or sexual preferences. With this way of thinking, I am positive that I will be a non-judgmental teacher. My views on homosexuality after the lecture with my professor have not changed. I think it has done so because of my personality. I have a personality of which I stick to what I believe no matter what my culture says. I am Jamaican, and in my culture, they hate homosexuals and homosexuality I do not judge others based on that I think of people as individuals and through their personality. This will definitely influence me later in life as a teacher because I will come across different people of different sexuality. As a teacher, I cannot judge students due to their personal life not only because it is not my business but also because I do not care and I am not like that. I think others in our society should stop being judgmental and allow everyone to have privacy and their own belief in their sexuality. I do not ever think I would have a change of mind because I would not want anyone to judge my sex life. I have experienced once where people were judged and stoned to death because of their sexuality. I thought that was where inhumane and those individuals who did that deed were heartless. I could not come to reality what had happened because I saw it firsthand. To see something like that can really change your way of thinking and how you treat others and in my case teachers others to treat others. In my classroom, the kids will be advised to leave their personal lives at home in order to avoid conflicts, jeering and other hurtful stuff that happen in schools. This would allow kids to live in peace and d harmony without knowing each other’s business.

REFLECTION 18:- THE TALE OF TWO ISLANDS

In the article, the tale of the two islands racism was very prominent. It was very appalling to find out that people were discriminated just because of what color they are and where they are from. If this was to happen to me, I do not know what in the world I would do. It is very hard to believe that another human being can do such bad things to another human. The US discriminated against Haitians and Cubans after they left their homeland in trying to seek a better lifestyle. Instead of trying to help, they instead started to stereotype against them. Most Cubans and Haitians here in the USA now can relate to this story because their parents and grandparents experienced this dilemma. I think a case can be developed against the US government for being so hard, harsh, and insensitive to their own kind. Not only that but also stereotyping individuals was very awful. As an inspiring teacher, this has influenced me in so many ways. It has taught me how to look at everyone through the same eye not to stereotype and to educate the young about their past so that the future will be different. I would never want to be looked at differently because of the way I look, talk, walk or even where I am from. I want to be treated as an individual and equal. Each child in my classroom will learn to be looked at as an individual and be treated with respect, dignity, pride and equality. To me this will change everything and how things are looked at in today’s world. This will not only have an impact on the USA but the entire universe. I am very happy I got this opportunity to explore the various aspects of diversity. With this, it will help to mold me into a better person, and an awesome teacher. One who listens talks out and is very fair. This will have a positive impact on the students thus affecting the society.

REFLECTION 17:- RACE AND RACISM

For the past few weeks in my class, we have been discussing race and racism. This topic drew many debates and a lot of important incites to everyone. I personally learnt that everyone was of different color, style and nature. It was also prominently shown that everyone one on this earth believes in something different looks differently and talks differently. The next big debatable topic was racism, which is present everywhere and everyone, has experienced it at least once in their lifetime. Racism comes about in a group of individuals who think they are superior to other groups and they deserve everything. I was pretty amazed by some facts presented and how horrible it was back in the days. One example was that of Emmett Till, a teenager who was crucified for whistling at a white woman. When this documentary was shown, I was moved by it and I definitely started to appreciate more the things that are present in my life and for the time in which I was born. To me it was definitely ridiculous to kill an individual over something so minute. In today’s day and age, it might not be as prominent but it is still in existence. We the generation of today should try to destroy such thing as racism and other ethnocentrisms. I think so because we are all one and everyone should learn to love and live with each other. As an aspiring teacher, I am definitely going to teach my class about such tragedy and it will not be accepted in that room. I will teach them to treat each other as themselves while encouraging them to take that lifestyle on the outside to influence others. Thinking back now to that class period in which that discussion was held my mind is still at a lost in trying to believe that someone with a brain and a heart would hurt another human being like that. My conclusion is that they never knew better so we of today know better and should show it.