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Bi-Weekly Reading Paper 5

Bi-Weekly Reading Paper 5

Q #5 – Chapters 9 (Popular Culture and IC), 10 (Culture, Communication, and Intercultural Relationships) and chapter 18 “I am not Jamal,” Ch 29 “Creating a family across race and gender borders” from Our Voices. The reading (ch. 29) pays critical attention to struggles, hardships, and ‘paradox’ people in intercultural/interracial relationships (all kinds of human relationships – friendship, romantic relationship, family relationship, etc.) face. What is such struggle, hardship, or ‘paradox’ you find yourself dealing with in your life? Does your struggle have anything to do with stereotypes or stereotypical understanding of the different culture/people? Describe it briefly (explain what aspects of it make it as such) and explain how you have dealt with.

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In today’s world, we all work and study with people who do not share our own cultural values and norms. I am a Somali Muslim woman who studies and works in USA and often I realize people staring at me or looking at me with a quizzical expression. To be completely honest, I never experienced much racist or sexist behavior against me. However, there is this one single instance where an old Caucasian man asked me not to wear my hijab to work.