The results of my test were that I associate Asian Americans with foreigners and European American as from America. I am not at all surprised by these findings because most people that I have met of Asian American descent are foreigners and those that I have met from European descent have mostly been born and raised in America. Starting from birth my mother was a foreigner she was born in the Philippines and moved here in her early 30’s. Even though my mother was from a different country she spoke perfect english. However, I still new she was a foreigner. Most people that she associated herself with were also foreigners and Asian Americans. They had their own food from their culture, their own songs from their culture and even their own jokes from their homeland. This immersion into the Asian American culture has caused me to believe that those who are Asian American are foreigners because most of the people that I had been around that were Asian American were people who had emigrated here from another country. The opposite is to be said about European Americans. The area that I lived in was primarily of European American descent and from hearing their stories they had multiple generations of family that were from America. These stories have caused me to believe that those of European descent had always lived in America. The test is a pretty good way to test your biased and how you associate things that are foreign with things that are Asian American. However, the method that they used is slightly flawed. Just because it may take you a little longer to associate two pictures together doesn’t mean you don’t associate them together. I knew what answer I wanted to do most of the time however, I couldn’t press the right key sometimes so due to this error it seemed that I associated two things together faster than others. Also when they started changing which letters associated with which race or if they were foreign or American I would get confused because the answers had changed and I was associating each answer with a letter. Other than this part for the most part the test is pretty accurate and shows immediate reactions to pictures. This test could be helpful to promote civil rights and civil liberties because it can show us where our biased views may lie but it can be improved. This test would be more effective though if there was some free response questions to show how the individual thinks opposed to just showing how the individual reacts.This would be useful in showing an individual's thought process and will cause them to be less confused when they change which keys are associated with which answers. For example it can show a foreigner an American and ask where people think that individual is from and why they think that. In conclusion, this test is pretty good and showing initial reaction to pictures and how we may associate them. However, there is still room for improvement to more accurately depict the way that users who take the test think.
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