Today in class we went completely over the few selected terms that we learned about yesterday which were Discrimination, Prejudice, Bigot, Racism, Stereotype, and Scapegoat. We specifically went over documented events of some of these words taking proper place and examples of them. First was being Gareth Thomas, a famous rugby player, being discriminated against for his secretly gay orientation and the documentary went in depth towards why he was afraid to open up because he feared of not being accepted and his reputation being gone since rugby is known for being extremely manly and masculine. It ended with him being open and proud and currently a competitor ice-skater however.
After watching Gareth Thomas, we pursued to watch Chivas USA which was all about the Mexican soccer team, the Chivas, being only open to Mexican soccer players. These were examples of discrimination and racism since they were only open to Mexican players. The most shocking part of the case to the class was that two non-Mexican coaches for the youth soccer team were fired because of the fact they weren't Mexican, despite the fact they were excellent coaches. Afterwards we watched Interracial Dating which was mainly in depth towards how parents of one specific race view their children dating others of different ethnic backgrounds. The results were rather neutral for the parents that were interviewed since they didn't really have a fixed view of whether it's fine. However, the parents did state that they taught their children to respect all races and to hate none. Overall, each of these cases showed solid examples of certain negative acts of others like discrimination and stereotypes, and racism and these will surely guide the class later on in the course.
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