Tag: Tolerance

• Eeriness of Echo Chambers in Blogging

  Social media prompts users to live within echo chambers. Echo chambers are created by individuals with similar ideologies, reinforcing ideas and inhibiting diversity of thought. Within the many social media platforms, blogs are the most user specific. For every hobby, religion, food preference and random thought there is blog, which allows an individual to feel…

  Kalen Nicole

  March 9, 2017

  Assimilation

  Acceptance, beliefs, Blogging, Community, conversation, cultural diversity, culture, differences, diversity, Experience, growth, identity, Individuality, Influence, Institutions, Others, perspective, politics, reflection, religion, Social Media, spain, Tolerance, travel

• The Advantage of Viewpoint

  Within the political paradigm, the cultural concept, the religious routine, emphasis is placed on distinction. In an effort to maintain their identities, members of certain groups keep to themselves, lest they be tempted to a new way of thought.   “Cognitive dissonance refers to a situation involving conflicting attitudes, beliefs or behaviors. This produces a feeling…

  Kalen Nicole

  February 21, 2017

  Growing Up, Young Adult

  Adulthood, beliefs, Cognitive Dissonance, conversation, cultural competency, cultural diversity, culture, differences, education, Experience, Friendship, Golden Rule, growth, identity, inclusion, MLK, Others, perspective, politics, reflection, religion, self-perception, Tolerance

• There is room

  “Sometimes you have two children born at the same time; one is stillborn but the other one alive and healthy because the dead one gave the other a life transfusion in the womb and in essence sacrificed itself” Edwidge Danticat’s. Danticat likens discrimination, and the subsequent prejudice and oppression, caused by a perceived scarcity of…

  Kalen Nicole

  February 7, 2017

  Assimilation, Growing Up, Young Adult

  Acceptance, cultural awareness, culture, diversity, Farming of Bones, Immigration, inclusion, reflection, Tolerance