Cultural Conflict: In this video I candidly speak about my most recent experience with overt racism. I experience TONS of covert racism whilst doing online research, it's pretty horrible what people will say once they have a computer screen to hide behind, it's disturbing!
But it's been about 2 years since someone has actually said something to my face. I was verbally attacked by someone 30 minutes after our first cultural psychology class this summer, it was quite the mood kill to say the least (so I made a video about it to remember that day)
I talk about my experience:
.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEpNoEuFv5E&feature=youtu.be
Assimilate to Integrate: What's in a name?: I have always tried to NOT be lazy in pronouncing peoples given names and this says a lot because I worked for an international organization for 8 years and most of the names that I came across were very hard for my Anglo tongue to pronounce but I always tried. I often met people who would say to me "Hi, my name is Sambianmulibianathian but you can call me Sam". Being a hard head I would often keep a note of the persons phonetically written name but most of the time would still end up mangling their names terribly . Many people did appreciate my effort of not shortening and Westernizing their names, or I hope that I did. I always thought that not doing so would make me lazy not very culturally sensitive/competent. If you ever read the book Roots by Alex Haley or saw the mini-series, you may recall the memorable scene in which the slave master attempted to strip Kunta Kente of his given name, re-naming him Toby brutally whipping him into submission. I don't know if my own cultural glasses make me hyper sensitive to these things or if I am just more knowledgeable about the deeper connotations of some of the things that others find simple...sometimes I feel that nothing is simple for me and wonder if I'm too complicated. Who knows?
I love my bf and feel really bad about calling him by his made up English name but I had already been calling him Eric for 6 months and it was too strange to suddenly call him by another name (though I have tried). He said that it's not a big deal to him though- he actually has 3 names that he uses: Eric, Guy (french name) and Qida which is only used by his mum and dad.
Eric VS Qida
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0B7VVte12k&feature=youtu.be
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