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  How is discrimination against neurodiverse individuals institutionalized? How is this similar to systemic racism?  Discrimination against neurodiverse individuals is institutionalized because they are placed in a group where people are going to say, “Oh you are on the spectrum so you must be like A B or C.” Individuals who are neurodiverse often don’t have their needs accommodated to in the world. For instance, there were a set of kids who had to be pulled out of class during reading time to read with another adult at their own pace because of the fact the school believed they would slow the other kids down due to them being on a different level. It’s implementing that neurodiverse individuals aren’t able-bodied to due things on their own. This is similar to systemic racism because with that you also have that group of individuals, for instance people of color, grouped in the system that makes them more vulnerable to threats or discrimination due to them not looking a certai...

The three macrolevel factors are Historical Trauma,  National Context, and  Societal and Institutional Discrimination. While two of the microlevel factors are Interpersonal Discrimination and Microaggressions.  Some of the outcomes for trauma is a sense of hopelessness, insecurity and alienation. And these feelings can definitely lead up to those MENA Americans to have their hopes and dreams live within the US be crushed by confusion and a sense of lost. They also could feel social exclusion because their culture might be highly different from the ones in the US so there would be a culture shock. In the  video "Coming Of Age As A Muslim Girl In America", Dalya talks about how she has been questioned about her religion and why she dressed the way she dressed. It demonstrates that culture shock not only to Dalya but to the people around her. People judged based on her background and it's hurtful because what is being said. Something that really struck me is when s...

To put it in simple words, no not all multiracial people identify as Multiracial. In lecture, it was mention that "Individuals with multiracial  identities may choose to identify by a single race". Giving multiracial individuals the choice to pick their own race they want to identify as is good and bad. Good because it's their decision of what part of themselves fits but bad because it's important to not forget you're not just one particular race but to embrace both. In lecture we had a discussion on reasons why some multiracial people may identify as one race. One of the reasons is maybe the race they chose to identify as isn't on the list of options or census. They would have to choose other. For example, in lecture it states that, "white, some other race" was the largest in the demographics. That's because people who are Hispanic/Latinx or Asian wasn't account for.  Some major similarities comes from the article Johnston & Nadal (2010)...