Select one of the following prompts to guide your initial post.
Prompt #1
Select one of the cultural identities mentioned below:
- Age and generational identities
- Identities based on appearance and health
- Socioeconomic identities
- First-generation student identities
Make a list of several stereotypes about your chosen group that you have perceived or witnessed. Which of the stereotypes in your list frequently leads to interpersonal discrimination or institutional/systemic oppression? As an ally, how could you support someone on the receiving end of this type of discrimination?
(USLO 10.1)
Prompt #2
Imagine what it might be like to be 10, 20, or 30 years older than you are now. What are your assumptions about growing older based on – facts, myths, or observations? How do you think lookism, sizeism, and healthism will affect some of your ideas about aging? How might systemic oppression or oppression at the institutional level affect you someday, regarding your age? Do you know any older person who defies certain stereotypes or pressures related to lookism, sizeism, and healthism?
(USLO 10.2)
Prompt #3
How might first-generation college status intersect with ageism, lookism, sizeism, healthism, and classism? How might you be an ally to your older or younger classmates struggling with obtaining their college degree due to their first-generation status? Do you think lending your support to your Galen peers will be difficult or easy? Consider what you might do at the interpersonal and institutional levels to combat these oppressions.
(USLO 10.3)