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 Before the readings, I always affiliated "Care" with how well you treat someone. If someone asks for a favor and you are willing to assist, I feel that it means you care for that person. I never thought about care from the perspective of racism as much until this reading. The way Nieto describes care while connecting the topic of racism and social inequality in a school setting is interesting to me because I came from diverse schools and I felt like our conversations about racism did not make anyone feel guilty for being a certain race like white for example. After the reading, I am looking at the word "care" with more of an open mind now because I honestly never thought about how "care" can be used to describe different scenarios.

 I agree with the perspective of Ginwright and Cammarota in the reading. I agree with the statement about how the urban youth is looked upon as being problematic for the community and I also agree with the fact that it is important to understand the reasoning. Thinking broadly about the problems  and creating programs to assist the youth was a topic I found important as well because it is easy to assign blame to the youth.  Social Justice focuses more on the general opportunities and privileges of a community. An example would be if a white person and African American person was to commit the same crime, but the African American person receives more of a punishment. The roles can also be reversed, but the main idea is that Social Justice revolves around who has what set of privileges. YDEV is more centered on assisting the youth with their growth into becoming adults. YDEV can help kids with social issues at school, problems at home with family and many other areas. In ot...

 Quote 1. " Positive Youth Development is a child-centered and asset-based approach to youth development (Pittman, et al., 2003), with adults acting as facilitators and coaches". This resonates with me because I believe that children should always been surrounded by positive people who will support them. Some children unfortunately are around people who utilize negative reinforcement as discipline and depending on how severe the discipline is, it could be traumatic for the child as well. Quote 2. " Civic Youth Development supports youth as they learn to become democratic citizens, and encourages them to explore social issues that they find meaningful" I find this quote to be important because it supports teaching the youth about social issues. By doing this, we can influence and educate a generation and those children can spread their knowledge when they become adults. This would continue a cycle of social issues being addressed which can help the future understand ...

 Originally I learned about Race when I was in the 4th grade. The topic of race was reintroduced to me heavily during my current college years. The class I was taking was called "Diversity and oppression". This particular experience I will share took place when I was in Highschool. I had a French teacher who was fluent in English and Spanish as well. The majority of the kids in the classroom were Hispanic which meant that we had our own unique dialects. This one particular day the teacher had us read out loud certain French phrases, but our natural Hispanic dialect would make the phrases sound inaccurate which should be normal since we are learning. The teacher then tells us that we are wrong for using those kinds of pronunciations. The French teacher was basically telling us that the Spanish accents we have been using our entire lives because of our family backgrounds was not the correct way to speak. In other words, she felt that she was superior to us. From a certain persp...