https://padlet.com/stephanie_gilbe/Soc5 en-us 2017-09-11 17:02:29 UTC 2022-02-14 17:47:58 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/stephanie_gilbe/Soc5/wish/2046785956 The author describes his own perspective of ethnocentrism and how it affected him with his “foreign name” and even goes on to show the lack of diversity when it comes to the results of the ethnical test that showed how unfavorable it was to have a more foreign name in the societal system when it came to things like getting a job and how employers and professors often differentiated between more typical American names and favoring them which contributes to how a lot of immigrants feel pressured to change their name.]]> 2022-02-14 17:25:38 UTC https://padlet.com/stephanie_gilbe/Soc5/wish/2046785956 ella_eimer_2022 https://padlet.com/stephanie_gilbe/Soc5/wish/2046804486 Within the article, the author talked about their own experience with ethnocentrism particularly for having a more ethnic sounding name instead of an “American sounding” name, like Mark. One study stated that in the early 20th century, native-born sons of immigrant fathers who were given an ethnic sounding name made $50 to $100 less per year on average than those with “American sounding” names. This was a representation of 2 to 5 percent of their annual earnings simply over a name. In 2016, a study was conducted which found that within the years of 1900-1930 over 77% of immigrants changed their names to a more basic name to fit in with the norms. ]]> 2022-02-14 17:33:23 UTC https://padlet.com/stephanie_gilbe/Soc5/wish/2046804486 https://padlet.com/stephanie_gilbe/Soc5/wish/2046818218 Cultural relativism was shown towards the bottom of the article when it states, “Once immigrant groups establish themselves in new countries, they feel they have room to celebrate the people who helped bring them to where they are now.” They started to believe the idea that their beliefs, values, and practices should now be understood based on that person's own culture because they had been within a new country for a while now so they shouldn’t be judged against the criteria of another. Specifically as discussed in the article, they changed their name back to their immigrant roots as to show who they really are and that they don’t have to change their name to sound more American just because they’re living in America, and it would be easier for others to understand.]]> 2022-02-14 17:39:26 UTC https://padlet.com/stephanie_gilbe/Soc5/wish/2046818218 https://padlet.com/stephanie_gilbe/Soc5/wish/2046819745 The article is mainly focused on ethnocentrism. As stated in the article, “As is typical of trolley-problem studies, a majority of subjects said they’d pull the level, but the name of the individual played a role in the decision.” This tells us that as humans, we either expose our hatred or care for a human due to their name. Peoples names can reflect who they are and what their culture is. The article supported with a statistic of, “ The shares of participants who decided to sacrifice the white Mark and Asian Mark were about 68 percent to 70 percent, respectively; subjects were more likely to divert the train to hit Xian, which they chose to do 78 percent of the time.” The ethnocentrism of this, is people judged Xian because of his name, when Mark was celebrating the same culture, but was judged differently because of his name. ]]> 2022-02-14 17:40:06 UTC https://padlet.com/stephanie_gilbe/Soc5/wish/2046819745 https://padlet.com/stephanie_gilbe/Soc5/wish/2046833537 In the article, the author talks about a study from 2016 that talks about how immigrants from 1900-1930, frequently felt pressured to change their own first name when moving to another country. “at any given time between 1900 and
1930,” about 77 percent of immigrants had an American-sounding rst name, and it was the norm for them to have dropped their original name within a year of entering the U.S” This is an example of ethnocentrism because people felt pressured to change there name because it wasn’t normal to the other society. ]]> 2022-02-14 17:45:57 UTC https://padlet.com/stephanie_gilbe/Soc5/wish/2046833537