Case Study: Miranda, Kiana & Vanessa

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Running head: Case Study 1 Case Study: Miranda, Kiana, & Vanessa Tamica Dozier PS350 Karen Savarese 2 Case Study Ethnicity plays a major role in many people’s lives, especially children. There are many different ways in which children come to learn about ethnicity and consequently to develop a sense of their own ethnic identity. Parents and the other immediate family members will clearly have a strong influence on children developing ethnic identities. The family is the first experience that most children will have of being a member of an ethnic group and as we know parents can influence their interest and taste and the way children think. How parents act toward ethnicity set the example for how their children will approach ethnicity when given the opportunity to interact with other ethnic groups. We have to teach our children that ethnicity can often have a positive influence, providing us with a sense of belonging and identity and helping us to understand who we are and where we came from. However, it can also play a negative role in creating and sustaining divisions between groups of people that can result in prejudice and discrimination and also conflicts. In the case study with Miranda, Kiana, and Vanessa; I can assume that Miranda family did not communicate with her about the negative behavior that she might encounter from other since she is from a different ethnic group. The reason for my assumption is, Miranda’s reaction towards Kiana and Vanessa refusing to play with her because she is not of the same color. It seems that Miranda did not see color she just saw girls and thought they might be able to play together. Racial and ethnic comments can be hurtful and people tend to use negative racial and ethnic comments because it is
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