Blog Post 14 (04/17/22)

 Hello, 

This week we discussed MENA experiences through podcasts, videos, and articles. 

After watching the first video by Unicef about a young Syrian refugee, it is understood she has been through a lot but has a positive outlook on life. She explains her story about fleeing, traveling, swimming, and watching others and even family pass away from or during this experience. Letting the audience know she is affected by this but somehow still smiling and looking into her future. She is able to attend schooling and receive an education. She wants to become an english teacher when she grows older and views herself as a strong individual. In this you see resilience and resistance for women and young girls. I am sure she was raised by a strong women to become a strong women. 

After watching the second video by Times about a young Muslim girl in America, she also shows resilience and resistance. This is shown in everything she starts learning to do in America. It begins with a catholic school, playing sports, and having other ethnic friends. It ends with a powerful statement of her wanting to grow in education and being part of a protest. All of the following are things she would not be able to continue to do growing up in Syria. She explains how she has feminist thoughts and how it would not be okay to address them in her home country or even with her father who grew up in that strict way and continues to live his life in such a manor. Most everything improved as she moved yet she became terrified when Donald Trump was elected president. He wanted to ban the racial and ethnic groups to push them out of America or the society built. Luckily she is strong and so is America for pushing and protesting these thoughts. 


Reference List:

Atkins, N.D. (2021). HDFS 280: Defining Family & Diversity [Lecture notes Week 5]. Retrieved from                       http://mycourses.purdue.edu

  Awad, Kia-Keating, M., & Amer, M. M. (2019). A Model of Cumulative Racial-Ethnic Trauma Among Americans of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) Descent. The American Psychologist, 74(1), 76–87. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000344

Sensoy, & DiAngelo, R. J. (2017). Is everyone really equal? : an introduction to key concepts in social         justice education (Second edition.). Teachers College Press.

TEDtalksDirector. (2016, March 15). What it's like to be a Muslim in america | dalia mogahed. YouTube. Retrieved April 13, 2022, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzkFoetp-_M

TheNewYorkTimes. (2017, July 18). From Aleppo to la: Coming of age as a Muslim girl in America | op-docs | The New York Times. YouTube. Retrieved April 13, 2022, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR3SRYA7r8g

UNICEFUSA. (2016, November 28). Hiba's story: Ten-year-old Syrian refugee | Unicef USA. YouTube. Retrieved April 13, 2022, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QVmXX62_H0


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