IAT Test

Your data suggest a slight automatic preference for Young compared to Old.

I dont get the point of this, nor do i agree with it. I prefer young people when i am looking to hang out and relax or do something. I prefer old people when i am looking for criticism, and for advice. I can learn alot more from "old people" than i can from young. I do not prefer one or the other at all.

Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for European American compared to African American.

This was a weird one. As bad as it sounds, i found myself linking the bad things to black people and the good things to white. I do not consider myself a racist whatsoever, and i treat black people as the same as i would anyone, but i found myself thinking with the stereotypes. That was an eye opening test.

Your data suggest a strong association of Black Americans with Weapons compared to White Americans.

I could have predicted the turnout of this test. Once again as bad as it sounds, i linked the weapons to the black people and the harmless items to the white. I found myself once again quickly going with the stereotype, and when i think about it, i think the point of this test was not to show everyone who is racist and who is not, but to show that people think with stereotype on impulse. It does not make people bad people if they think on impulse, it just shows the bad things society has taught people to think.

Blog 07/03/09

Everchanging

I think the parts that really jump out at me are the parts where he talks about being unsure, and scared of change, and when he says "we make the same mistakes, were always hanging on, break the promises were always leaning on, all this time spent waking up." I think that means that people make mistakes, and often the same mistake, but we spend so much time dwelling instead of changing and moving on. The song is called Everchanging and the title hints what the song entails. It talks about changes, and being stuck on the obstacles, and being hurt, but i take a lot more away than that. I interpret this song as more of a release from the stress of change. and that no matter what changes, and what stays the same, that you cant dwell on the stress of change.

In the face of change,that's when she turned to me and said:"I'm not sure anymore..."And there, amidst the waves and the cloudless skies...That blanket, the year before...I watch my life wash ashore.

Have you ever been a part of something that you thought would never end?And then, of course, it did.Have you ever felt the weight inside you,pulling away inside your skin?Then something had to give...

And now the lines are drawn...Is this feeling gone?The best parts of this have come and gone and now that is all that this is.With the reasons clear,We'll spend another year...Without direction,full of fear,but now things will be different.

There's nothing simple when it comes to you and I...Always something in this everchanging life;and there probably always will.Now that time is getting harder to come by,the same arguments are always on our minds,killed this slowly fading lights.

And now the lines are drawn,is this feeling gone?The best parts of this have come and gone,and now that is all that this is.And with the reasons clear,we'll spend another year...Without direction,full of fear,but now things will be different...

And now something, has kept me here too long...And you can't leave me, if I'm already gone And now something, has kept me here too long...And you can't leave me, if I'm already gone...Well something, has kept me here to long, and you can't leave me, if I'm already gone...

And we make the same mistakes; we're always hanging on.Break the promises we're always leaning on.All this time spent waking up...Now keep this line open to get this call from you,speak the words that keep me coming back to you...

Now this time it's all different...And now something has kept me here too long,and now I'm gone...