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Reflective Essay: Does Language Create Reality?

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One of the main themes that I caught during this week of studies was that language does create reality. Language also creates gender, which poses a problem for some people. Language also does seclude people as well, for example, when someone says “Ladies and Gentleman” before an act, they are secluding people who do not prefer to label themselves as a lady or gentleman. Language is a very powerful tool if it is used correctly, and from what I have gained from this week is that we still have some obstacles to tackle before language is fully inclusive for everyone. From this week there was a major thing that I did not agree with, and it was how the class was labeling people as “cisgender” from just looking at a picture. When we were looking at the Google images of families, college students, and Americans, people automatically stereotyped them as cisgender. I believe that that is a wrong mindset that a lot of the class had, because there are some people who don’t want to constantly flaunt their identity to everyone. I just found it very ironic that were were putting people into boxes, instead of pointing out the actual obvious in the pictures. I thought the intention of this discussion was great, but the way people were assuming was something that I did not enjoy. …show more content…

Speaking for is when there is someone who is not present, and you want to speak for a minority, even if you are not part of the minority. An example of this would be if I was to speak to people about why black lives matter. Speaking with is when you are part of the same cluster of people and you want to help with the conversation that is at hand. An example of this would be a group of people share same experiences, and they all contribute to the same

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