ASSIGNEMNTS/KEVEIN

Title of the source for the Research-Driven Critique Essay

I’m not a fake Canadian

Deconstruct the Source

Write a one-paragraph summary. Answer questions based on your source.

Summary

Li Charmaine Anne, a Chinese by heritage and a Canadian under citizenship, where she grew up and paid her taxes, presents the stereotypes and resultant discrimination and the negative emotive roles of stereotypes concerning people of colour. She explains how odd it seems to people that she is Canadian yet Chinese by her appearance. The origin of such a perspective could be drawn from the fact that most of the Canadian public figures and famous people are whites. To this extend, to people, she appears as a fake Canadian. Such as discrimination and stereotyping seem to follow her up as she tours the majority of the European countries. For example, she misses sunscreens meant for her skin because they have whitening, ideal for white ladies, and a male sunscreen. Her friend, an Indo-Canadian who travels to Asian countries, receives the same perspective and stereotyping. To Charmaine, the world has been shaped to accept the white organization and discriminate against people of colour. A white man can book a ticket and travel anywhere without questioning and assumptions about their heritage, but that is not the case for people of colour. She resonates with Kevin Oldfield on minimal privileges for the people of colour and factors in money, level of education, and western European heritage.

Write a paragraph that answers the following questions

If you're using a Narrative: 

What makes the narrative seem truthful, important, and relevant? Why should the narrative matter to other people today?

What voice or perspective does the narrative allow us to hear that is perhaps often hidden? Moreover, what do you think are some other possible perspectives on the same issue/problem raised in the narrative? In other words, how would the same experience/issue/problem look from a different perspective?

The narrative based on the heritage of the author and her citizenship could be truthful. She sites well-known or expected and experienced scenarios in the world for people of colour. Being a person of colour does not make anyone less of a human being; the origin of the stereotypes, discrimination, and resultant minimal privileges can only be dealt with through social and public sensitization. Its significant for everyone else out there since the discrimination of the people of colour has been with us for more than five centuries or more; people of colour have been second-class citizens if not slaves, and this has to end immediately. Often, we read these stories in the writer's voice; this diminishes our ability to understand what it is like to be in the writer's situation. Her narrative compels her audience to become her and involves the audience by mentioning many places that the majority identify. This narrative thus becomes self convicting rather than educative. By setting three different perspectives on the same article, she expresses her Indo-Canadian friends, her Chinese friends, and the people she meets during her travels, and her identity. Slowly and gradually, it gravels onto us readers falling in either of the mentioned categories of perspectives.

Academic Integrity

For each of the three scenarios below, identify whether the action is acceptable or unacceptable, and give the reason why.

Scenario 1

You copy a paragraph or an image from an Internet source and paste it into your COMM 171 essay.

Is this action acceptable or unacceptable? Why?

This action is unacceptable because it is an academic offence under plagiarism. The image is another person's original work that has been submitted for grading as mine. The correct way to do this is to cite the image or the text before citing it properly. Alternatively, the ideas in the paragraph of an image can be paraphrased and appropriately cited or used for analysis with the correct citation.

Scenario 2

You and your friend complete an essay that your instructor said must be done independently, and each of you submits it as your own work in different sections of COMM 171. Is this action acceptable or unacceptable? Why?

This action is unacceptable because the instructions were based on independent work; thus, consulting and doing it with someone else can be viewed as cheating which is an academic offence. The lack of academic integrity could lead to the suspension or termination of an academic study.

Scenario 3

You conduct research on a topic and paraphrase it in your COMM 171 essay by using your own words and a unique sentence structure. You use synonyms where possible. You include an in-text citation and a reference list entry. Is this action acceptable or unacceptable? Why?

This action is acceptable because it is the correct way of doing a research paper, especially when using other sources of information. The approach also supports the originality of the research paper and shows respect to the author. Citing sources is also a sign of interest, capability, and curiosity.

Keep a record of your research

List 2 sources of each type.

Newspaper and Magazine Sources

· Source 1:   Wang, S., Chen, X., Li, Y., Luu, C., Yan, R., & Madrisotti, F. (2021). ‘I'm more afraid of racism than of the virus!’: racism awareness and resistance among Chinese migrants and their descendants in France during the Covid-19 pandemic. European Societies, 23(sup1), S721-S742. Retrieved from: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616696.2020.1836384

· Relevance: The current state of affairs across the world it has been highly impacted by the coronavirus. The origin of the virus is that China and Chinese people who fall under the bracket of people of colour have been perceived as carriers worldwide. It is discrimination, and it is scarier than the virus itself.

· Source 2: Patel, E. (2019). Who Counts as a Person of Color? Retrieved from: https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/conversations-diversity/who-counts-person-color 

· Relevance: The source is relevant because it helps answer the questions relating to the challenges faced by people of colour.

Videos/Images

· Source 1: NowThis World. (2016, February 10). What Discrimination Looks Like In America. YouTube.  https://youtu.be/qwIjKuitlu8  

· Relevance: People of colour, especially blacks in the USA, have been victims of discrimination and resultant violence against them for centuries. The idea of racism remains a problem, and the public needs sensitization against such trends.

· Source 2: ABC News (Australia). (2017, December 6). It's Not A Race: Unpacking People of Colour (POC). YouTube.  https://youtu.be/CO4g9v1K7vw  

· Relevance: The inferiority complex associated with people of colour often hits hard on the women who have been subject to a culture of hegemony, especially in groups or different cultures.

Library and/or Database Sources

· Source 1: Salter, F. K. (2017). On genetic interests: Family, ethnicity, and humanity in an age of mass migration. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

· Relevance: The source is relevant because it brings a broader picture of the relationship between family, humanity, and ethnicity.

· Source 2: Heider, D. (2014). White news: Why local news programs don't cover people of color. Routledge.

· Relevance: The people of colour have been viewed as a commodity, such that if their products, such as shows, do not fetch good profits, they are not aired. Such a scenario is discrimination.

Annotated Bibliography

Source 1

APA entry:

 Charmaine Anne, L. (2020, June 17). I’m not a fake Canadian. THIS (Online), Retrieved from 

APA entry: Patel, E. (2019). Who Counts as a Person of Color? Retrieved from: https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/conversations-diversity/who-counts-person-color

Annotation: Patel is trying to ask the audience about how the portrayals of people of colour become a representative. The author wants the audience to understand the person or people who have the power to represent. Perhaps, there are voices, which are heard and magnified.