CSIT120 blog 3

This week in class we talked about personal barriers that people have personal barriers and social barriers. Personal barriers are things that get in your way to keep you from being successful such as cultural problems/Racism. Social barriers are barriers that are external the actions of others not yours.We also talked about Limited Perception, Ethnocentrism, Stereotypes, Prejudice, Prejudice Plus Power and Discrimination which are all barriers that we need to overcome to be successful.Then we talked about stereotypes and how a college had statues in front of the building with whites,blacks and Asians with certain stereotypes and people felt offended by them.I thought it was a little bit of a problem but in reality it's nothing bad all 3 where successful the black student played sports the white played instruments and the Asians where smart had books all 3 are good but i guess the person who made them didn't look at it in a bad way either.I think that stereotypes are too hyped up and we shouldn't really pay attention to them it's just a "label ". On Thursday we watched a video of a lady Susan who wanted to be a singer she looked old and not fit to be a singer and the judges even looked at her weirdly the crowd made weird faces but when she started singing everyone was amazed and everyone liked her so don't judge a book by it's cover.What i learned at the end of the week is to not let others judge you and don't let things get in your way just because someone else thinks it's weird or doesn't agree with you we all have our own opinions and ways of doing things to become successful.

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CSIT 120 Blog Two

This week we all looked at how the world is becoming flat by looking at different things in our society. Everyone was split up into groups and we had to pick five things that made the world flat such as Facebook,Twitter,Instagram,Xbox, and YouTube they all flatten the world for us. When we saw how people all over the world are actually able to use these sites and or game consoles and everyone can talk to each other across the world. People from Europe are able to play video games with someone who is in the United States through the Xbox 360 if they have the same video game. Which brings us together as people we make friends with strangers all over the globe. This assignment helped the whole class understand how the world is flat a little bit better then what we thought at the beginning of the semester.

Starting the second day our assignment was to interview two people about "what is diversity"
most of the people we interviewed had different answers on what diversity is and some didn't even have a clue. This shows that we really are different and everyone thinks differently but we all had one common answer it's our culture and the differences in the people.

This week has brought us together to see how social media is connecting everyone from all over the world and it just shows us what is possible with technology showing us what diversity means.

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Diversity in a Technological Society the beginning.

Diversity in our society is seen as race and culture but, that is far from the truth as technology increases and is spread around the world people are seeing diversity in new ways.Technology is now all about digital immigrants and digital natives, people who have grown up with technology and those who didn't. People all around the world are getting closer and closer over the internet because of technology and all of our cultures and differences don't make a difference in the way we look at each other and how we do things. Digital immigrants however don't like this new technology being introduced to them by the newer generations which creates space between some people they don't want to change from the way things used to be in the past, which is know as the digital divide.Technology is increasing and is taking over we must learn to adapt to it and make the changes needed in order to keep up and survive in the technological war.

Problems that are caused is that some people are being left behind and won't "update" the way of living. Even though Technology was meant to bring us together in a way it also separates us as well. Digital natives who grow up with the technology now are used to the electronics and are being separated from the people in the 1900's which leaves a big gap between the younger generation and the older generation in our society. Kids are learning to adapt as soon as they are born they must go to college in order to get a degree and keep up with the updates in technology it is the only way to survive and stay at a job with a good pace. People can't use things the way they did back in the day now they need a diploma to show what they are skilled at and companies have to update now we have to update with the technology instead of sending things by mail some companies have to do everything electronically over the internet which is causing our postal services to run out of business less letter more emails."The U.S. Postal Service sparked uproar this month when it announced plans to stop delivering letters on Saturdays"NICK PERRY. We as the people have to adapt and come together and change in order to survive together in this period by taking in all of the technology.

PERRY, NICK. usnews. 26 february 2013. 8 february 2014 <http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2013/02/26/worlds-postal-services-struggle-with-lower-demand>.

Norris Dickard, Diana Schneider. edutopia. n.d. 8 february 2014 <http://www.edutopia.org/digital-divide-where-we-are-today>.