(Pag. 40 Par. 2-3) African children and adolescents are often presented with false characterizations and propaganda in the wider global media claiming falsehoods about Africa, such as that it is an entirely diseased, impoverished, or void of long-term sustainability for life. In a truly multicultural education system would require that African children and adolescents are provided with the oral and published tools and ideas to dispute such misinformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I agree with this statement wholeheartedly and having done research before on African countries for another course, it\u2019s extremely strange that Africa is portrayed so libelously by the world\u2019s mass media when it was so easy for me to find out even just local town politics of a given African country from the front-page results of Google. There becomes a point in which an idea becomes so increasingly ridiculous that one must actively defend themselves against it, and this is clearly one of those times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I think the biggest thing I can relate to is the identity reductionism that ultimately takes place in the United States no matter what one may try to do. Ultimately, in the eyes of almost all others, I will always be firstly a transgender woman, then anything else that I truly am. Of course, the largest difference is that sometimes people can\u2019t tell that I am transgender, but unfortunately that is rare and more than anything when I start speaking I see people\u2019s expressions change and often the largest thing I get is confusion to whether I\u2019m committing fraud when they see my name compared to my voice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n