Personal Awareness and Responsibility
I can work to inform myself about issues surrounding me.
For this assignment, we were to find an article related to social justice and research the topic, then explain why we chose it. For my journal, I chose to write about hate crimes targeting the Asian community in Vancouver to bring awareness to the topic.
I chose this topic as the number of hate crimes and racially motivated attacks against Asians have significantly increased since the COVID-19 pandemic, and want to bring awareness to this topic in order to work towards a more equitable society. I am passionate about this topic as I am directly affected by it, and share many experiences regarding discrimination because of my race and ethnicity.
I feel as if this journal allowed me to fully expand my thoughts and express my feelings towards this topic. I enjoy doing assignments like these, and taking the Social Justice 12 course in general, as it allows me to inform myself on past issues, and how they are still present in our society today.