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: Practicing Awareness of Microaggressions

Blog Assignment: Practicing Awareness of Microaggressions Describe at least one example of a microaggression which you detected this week or remember from another time. In what context did the microaggression happen? What did you think and feel when you observed the microaggression or when you found yourself as the target of a microaggression? Generally speaking, foremost as learned, a microaggression is the casual degradation or persecution of a given downgraded group. I have been able to detect an example of microaggression that was based on race. Unfortunately, Racism is still an ongoing menace in our societies. For one thing, I live in North Carolina, a small-town that is primarily populated by persons from the White race and sometimes individuals from the White race in my area do act as though they are superior to any group that is different, this is the name of the South prejudice and Racism. To make a long story short, one of my White equals invited me to a Spring Festiv...