Civil and Environmental Engineering 3327A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Grocery Store, Vehicle Insurance, Stereotype
16 Sep 2019
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Presentation from western engineers in action about what they do. People assume that b/c she"s from nigeria, she"s poor. People assume that b/c she"s from nigeria, she"s in need. She mentioned that she was also stereotyping other people when she lived in mexico. She read american psycho and it gave the portrayal that all american men were crazy. Learning lesson: people tend to make the assumption that becuase someone"s from some place, that they embody the commonalities of that plac. Subject: all bilateral aid to africa should stop. "is a certain set of unequal relationships, between metropole (parent/mother state) and colony and b/w colonists and the indigenous population" That might have been one of the coolest videos i"ve ever seen. A lot of the names of african nations today are the names of what will become countries. They though they were helping the indigenous populations. Africa was divided up by european colonial powers.
