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During this unit we learned about our individuality and how it individual develop an in our society. We were also taught about how people are treated in our culture based on their life styles. In this unit we spoke about many different things such as; power, privilege and what social justice advocates are. Understanding these things will help you become a better peer educator, which is why we were taught them. These understand what these things are don’t just help us with peer educating, it helps us understand our society as well. Privilege is when certain people have special rights or an advantage over something. This something could be many different types of things such as court cases, being pulled over, or walking into the store and no …show more content…

A person who is a social justice advocate fights for the rights of people. For example, you see a male in the middle of the streets being treated poorly by their significant other. A lot of people would just sit there and watch and say “He is a man he can handle himself.” or just not care because it’s a women doing the act. A social justice advocate would stand up for that person because they obviously cannot do it themselves. I thought this was interesting because the way our speaker spoke about it made it seem so awesome and it is natural. Truth be told it isn’t because people assumes that since it’s not their problem they don’t want to get involved or they could make it worse. Those people are call bystanders and what they are doing is called the bystander effect. Social advocates have the power to be able to fight for others and they are fighting for the privilege of others. This tied together so well with this unit. I hope to one day have the guts to be able to walk up to someone who needs help and help stop that …show more content…

When dealing with students you are going to meet a lot of different types of kids who feel differently towards certain things. You will encounter students talking to other students with disrespect based on their social background. This is where you have to step in and “fight” for that person who is being talked down against and also educate the student on why they shouldn’t talk to other people like this. Understanding why people think the way they do towards another person for their culture can help you stop them from thinking that way and possibly causing less problems in the future. This is why I think peer educator should also be social justice

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