Sorting people is hard….
10 Aug 2011 3 Comments
When I was going into the Sorting People activity, I thought it would be easy. It turns out that I was very wrong. It’s a lot harder than it sounds to sort people into races, especially when it isn’t blatantly obvious. Out of the 20 people, I only sorted 9 correctly. I just went through, not so much basing my guesses on skin color, but on features like eyes, face shape, or hair. This exercise showed that even if you think you know someone’s ethnicity, there’s a good chance you are wrong, because sometimes it is nearly impossible to guess based on looks. I was rather surprised by my score, seeing as I was rather confident, but in seeing everyone else’s, mine was pretty average. The exercise really opened my eyes to race and leads me to believe that assuming something is never the way to go.
Aug 10, 2011 @ 14:59:51
I thought it would be easy too! But it wasn’t, it was really hard. I only got 7, which reallly surprised me
Aug 10, 2011 @ 09:16:49
I agree! It was way harder than I expected.
Aug 10, 2011 @ 09:13:45
Pshh, I only got 7. Your is pretty good.