Joe Grimm is Editor-In-Residence and Professor at MSU School of betboom sports betting.
A person can learn a lot from just one question. Imagine what 1,000 betboom sports betting can teach.
Students in a Michigan State University journalism class called Bias Busters have now asked -- and answered – 1,000 betboom sports betting. These have become 10 guides in a series designed to increase cultural competence.
Titles include “100 betboom sports betting About Hispanics and Latinos” and “100 betboom sports betting About East Asian Cultures.” Other guides have been betboom sports betting American Jews, gender identity, veterans and Americans.
The students begin by interviewing members of the group they are writing about. For most guides, the students ask people what they wish others knew about them, or what biases they encounter. Theclasses come back with plenty of betboom sports betting and then narrow them down to the 100 best. They are looking for the basic, everyday betboom sports betting that people wonder about. Often, people are afraid to ask betboom sports betting because they don’t want to seem ignorant or insensitive.
So, the students compile the betboom sports betting and then turn to research and experts for answers. Guests have come to the class. Students have visited a mosque, a synagogue and the Chaldean Cultural Center. They have had long interviews with veterans, transgender people and police. Once written, members of the community both locally and nationally check the guides for accuracy. They are then published in print and online editions. Guides have included videos, audio, charts, maps and motion graphics.
We hope that, with biases dispelled and knowledge gaps filled, readers will feel more confident learning more on their own.
Some betboom sports betting surprised us.
Muslim Americans said they felt a barrier when people mispronounced Muslim. We wrote an explanation explaining that and included an audio file so readers could listen. We also used a recording to explain the “Black National Anthem.” African American sources said they hear so many betboom sports betting about their hair that we made a video about that. The guides on immigrants and veterans link to videos of personal stories.
What we learned by seeking answers to 1,000 betboom sports betting
For all the differences that we and others focus on, people are largely alike. All people want respect, freedom and a better life for their children. They want to be safe, clean and healthy. They want fulfilling jobs and loving families. They want to be understood and to be allowed to live as they authentically are.
The more we talk to people who seem different from ourselves, the more it is clear that our similarities outnumber our differences.
(You can find the Bias Busters here: http://amzn.to/1lFt3rf. Ten of the 12 guides have been published by MSU students. New guides planned for 2018 are betboom sports betting police officers, sexual orientation, Chaldean Americans, a double guide betboom sports betting Millennials and Gen X, and human trafficking.)