SOCS 350 - Week 7:Appreciating Our Differences Discussion. A Graded.

SOCS 350 - Week 7:Appreciating Our Differences Discussion. A Graded. Week 7 Appreciating Our Differences (graded) We have been talking about the importance of understanding our own attitudes and prejudices in order to appreciate cultural differences. In light of this topic, why is it important? How have you dealt with situations in which you did or said things that you later learned or realized might have been offensive, or at least misunderstood? This section lists options that can be used to view responses. Collapse All Print View Show Options Responses Responses are listed below in the following order: response, author and the date and time the response is posted. Sort by Read/Unread Sort by Response Sorted Ascending, click to sort descending Sort by Author Sort by Date/Time* (an instructor response) Collapse Mark as Read FINAL WEEK OF GRADED CLASS DISCUSSIONS! Professor Morgan Email this Author 10/11/2014 12:53:55 PM WELCOME TO OUR FINAL WEEK OF GRADED CLASS DISCUSSIONS! We took some time earlier to visit the question posed in the heading above... this week we can actually elaborate, in the spirit of sharing what we have learned from our own experiences, related to the topics that we've covered so far... Before you post, please be sure to read what others have posted, so that we may have a dialogue. It's possible, even likely, that you can find similarities in your experiences. Ready? Think about the people you have connected with the most here... did you find yourself agreeing with their points of view, or did you connect more with those who challenged your points of view...? Collapse Mark as Read RE: FINAL WEEK OF GRADED CLASS DISCUSSIONS! John Curry Email this Author 10/13/2014 1:36:14 PM Prof. Morgan and Class, The past seven weeks have been quit an adventure to say the least. I have encountered students with opinions the same as mine and different from mine. I can remember that week 2 discussion over what does it mean to be American was my first encounter in this class where my strong opinion clashed with that of another. I have to say I actually enjoyed the disagreement and that I did notice I disagreed with the same student during a different week’s discussion. For the most part I noticed that I agreed with a lot of the class and a handful that commented on my posts seemed to have agreed with me week after week. I always like classes where the instructor pushes us to give our opinions and then support them, it creates a very diverse atmosphere. I can remember where I was having a meeting with my staff and I was going over the chain of command. I instructed the staff that RNs were at the top, then LVNs and then CNAs. I made the comment of CNAs being at the bottom of the food chain and this tended to offend and upset some of the CNAs. They felt as if I insulted them and felt them to be worthless. After a few of them brought this to my attention I addressed the issue and reminded them that I started as a CNA and worked my way up to the position that I am in now. I reminded them that CNAs are the backbone of patient care and they play a vital role in the care given to their patients and that LVNS and RNs depend on them and their knowledge. Collapse Mark as Unread RE: FINAL WEEK OF GRADED CLASS DISCUSSIONS! Arthel Tamakloe Email this Author 10/13/2014 7:04:39 PM I have enjoyed this class very much. I appreciate your style of teaching, Prof. Morgan. You have challenged me to look at race, ethnicity and social status with understanding eye especially when it comes to diversity. I have also gained great respect for my classmates. I agree with majority of the post and some of them I have to agree to disagree. I applied week 4 "working together " concept in our monthly meeting last week, how understanding and valuing cultural and racial and ethnic differences promote productivity. Wow 7weeks already. Collapse Mark as Read RE: FINAL WEEK OF GRADED CLASS DISCUSSIONS! Timmy McCoy Email this Author 10/14/2014 11:45:42 AM Profesor Morgan and Class, I have to say where has the past seven went. This was second online class to take and my first to use a E-Book which was very different to me. I have enjoyed everyone's post and our opppions may be different at times but it gives us a new way of thinking. I have been lucky to have grown up in a area where we had several cultures and really enjoyed everyone's post. I think this class has broaden my way of thinking on culture and diversity even more. My wife was raised to be a very closed minded individual and only associate with people of her race. She expressed to me when reading some of the post how far she has come froma narrow minded person. We all can continue to learn new ways of thinking and step outside of your box when it comes to a new culture. I am glad I took this class and have a better way of thinking. Timmy Collapse Mark as Read RE: FINAL WEEK OF GRADED CLASS DISCUSSIONS! Nicholas Matzenbacher Email this Author10/16/2014 4:16:21 PM Hello Professor- I have really enjoyed this course! I found it very interesting, educating, interactive, attention-getting, and helped inform me. Like I have said in many post before, I'm form a small town, rural, and country community so I have never really ever experienced diversity as well as know much other cultures because I have never really seen it, been around it, or experienced it before. This course has really helped inform and educate me on cultural diversity in all parts of our everyday life's. One of my parts of this course would have to be it's method of teaching. We not only got to learn, but it was as interactive, strong communication, and laid back course. It made me feel like I was sitting in class still learning, and no other online class as made me feel that way. Great job Professor Morgan! I also really enjoyed it when it came to discussions and communicating with classmates. Everyone got to speak their minds, learn from one another, and be ourselves. I know the two classmates that I related to, communicated the most, and shared a lot of similarities with were Timmy and Kristen. But I really enjoyed reading and communicating with everyone in the course. I felt like I connected with people who I had similarities with more, but I still feel like I tried connecting with all the classmates in some way or another (or at least I hope so). Personally, I have always enjoyed communicating with others who I don't always agree with so I can hear their points of view, think about their view, and then learn from it. Overall, I really enjoyed this course and would highly recommend it to others. Thanks for educating me, especially in a subject that I needed to learn and be informed about. Collapse Mark as Read RE: Appreciating our DifferencesDonna Tizzano Email this Author 10/12/2014 5:36:34 PM Modified:10/12/2014