Jolie Huang, Period 2, 1/12/21, Day A

Jolie Huang

Modern Mythology

1/12/21

Period 2

• Socio-political Consciousness
• What are your thoughts and feelings about issues of inequity, oppression, and/or power?
• During a time where our world is becoming more divided than ever politically, socially, and economically, there’s bound to be rising issues of inequity and unbalanced power that we need to address. As a young American, I’ve been trying to educate myself on what exactly caused and is still causing this inherent divide in our country. I believe that inequity and oppression solely based on someone’s gender, race, and religion is abhorrent. As a country based on liberty and freedom, we are completely going against the ideals we built our nation on. I may not be someone who strongly prefers one side of the political spectrum over the other, but I do believe that equal opportunities given to everyone to the country is a key factor in mitigating our inequity problem. We don’t need to necessarily hand out resources for free without work, but we could at the very least give the people sufficient opportunities to get themselves going and reach their own goals. As cheesy as it may sound, I do believe that if one person could do it, any person can do it if they were given the proper resources as preparation. Thus, as a country, we should strive to fight for a system that doesn’t discriminate based on race, gender, sexuality, or religion in a police justice setting, in economics, in politics, and in society. 
• How do you reflect critically on your own beliefs, assumptions, values, and experiences, and how these can influence your perception of self and others?
• In order to reflect critically on my preexisting beliefs, I definitely try my best to listen to what the other side is saying and how exactly they formed their opinions. Even though it’s obvious to say, it’s true: in this day and age, it’s important to be open-minded to other people’s beliefs, even if you disagree with their opinion. Baselessly assuming that someone’s views are wrong without seeing how exactly they formed this viewpoint is ignorant. Therefore, whenever I’m educating myself on a topic, I try to look for sources that are both legitimate and different than mine. It’s a bit hard to distinguish whether something is wrongly biased or just stating an opinion, but there’s a reason why so many sources exist and it’s our job to be exposed to all sides of a topic’s spectrum and formulate our own opinions based on our own values and beliefs. I also think it’s important to stay unbiased until I have enough objective information in my mind about a topic and to consume as little biased information as possible, no matter if that source is supporting or against my views. We are all humans who know how to think for ourselves and if we have an outside source swaying our opinions, we’re going to turn into sheep who eventually blindly follow whatever other people say.