Friday we all attended ISCORE, Iowa State Conference on Race and Ethnicity. I attended two sessions, the presentation on Latinos/as in America, and the 'What are you'?, presentation. Both presentations were awesome. The session on Latinos/as in America focused on the inequality and some of the hate towards this massive group of people. They also hit on how the media in multiple cases was stretching the truth to give immigrants a worse name. The second focused on the fact that many people are mixed race and may associate with more than one race, but they are often asked to pick one. They did a survey that I thought was pretty neat and you could take a lot from where they asked people to classify 6 people just off of appearance. They all said they were each only of one race, which may be due to the fact that we are used to picking only one. I just thought it was interesting to go and here some points of view that we might now otherwise get all the time. ISCORE was a great success!
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