#challengeyourbias

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Post by Jenny Youn

🡆“Did Obama allow a 'back door' to citizenship through DACA?”,

🡆”These young Hispanics who can’t vote are encouraging those who can — but to what end?” ,

🡆Idaho DACA students: “School Staff Slammed For Dressing Up As Mexicans And ‘MAGA’ Wall For Halloween”.

✓✓These are actual news headlines when you search DACA students on the search engine. What kind of connotation is media trying to portray here?

✓✓Try to search DACA students and click NEWS. Is there a certain ethnic group that media is presenting the most? What are the pictures they have chosen to represent the news?

Within the news article, it included the US president’s tweet about DACA:

"Democrats are doing nothing for DACA - just interested in politics. DACA activists and Hispanics will go hard against Dems, will start "falling in love" with Republicans and their President! We are about RESULTS,".

✓✓Within such examples, please take a moment and think what kind of ethnicity group you thought about instantly and what words you could connect to referencing to the DACA news article.

All of these are examples of how easy it is for media to create the confirmation bias (the tendency to interpret new evidence as confirmation of one's existing beliefs or theories) by deciding who they are going to underrepresent, mispresent, and not present it at all.

Media plays a great role as well as making an impact in regards to making issues, educate the public, and bring the attention. When such powerful group disregards small voices, the chance of the majority of groups listening or even an interest in looking for the truth is rare to none. 

Although according to https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1054139X17300514, over 11.7 million people are in urgent need of immigration policies, such as DACA to be evidence-based, the media’s portrayal of limited groups, the creation of confirmation bias through negative connotation, other Non-Latino DACA students are even less heard, or even sometimes looks invisible in the society.

📷: The above picture is my real life friend, non-Latino immigrant, whose her sister is currently a DACA student; her sister almost lost her DACA privileges because her community was lacking attention from the public, underrepresented, which lead to lack of resources. 

#ChallengeYourBias #DACA #Media #immigrant #socialissues

Citation:

Hardiman, J. (2018, November 04). ​School Staff Slammed For Dressing Up As Mexicans And 'MAGA' Wall For Halloween. Retrieved from http://www.ladbible.com/news/news-school-staff-slammed-for-dressing-up-as-mexicans-and-maga-wall-20181104

Kessler, G. (2017, September 07). Did Obama allow a 'back door' to citizenship through DACA? Retrieved from https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/09/07/did-obama-allow-a-backdoor-to-citizenship-through-daca/?noredirect=on

Lowry, B. (n.d.). Trump urges Missouri supporters to back Josh Hawley 'because you're voting for me'. Retrieved from https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article218799850.html

Melo, J., & Sudhinaraset, M., Ph.D. (2017, March 27). The Influence of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals on Undocumented Asian and Pacific Islander Young Adults: Through a Social Determinants of Health Lens. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1054139X17300514

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Rumsha Masood:

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“It just would be a tragedy beyond compare if these young people were deported. They are the ones who can be the leaders of tomorrow and can shape America to be a better place.” Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus president Rep Judy Chu said that to the Los Angeles Times. Above, Min Su Kang spoke in a rally in front of the White House. Many Asian Americans gathered for a rally in front of the White House August of 2017 to defend DACA from being taken away. It is important to represent these Asian Americans under DACA because they represent and shape America’s future. #ChallengeYourBias #DACA #AsianAmericans

R. (2017, September 04). Asian Americans Stand Up to Defend DACA. AsAmNews. Retrieved from

https://asamnews.com/2017/09/03/asian-americans-stand-up-to-defend-daca/

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Rumsha Masood: 

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Junsoo Lee is one of 192,000 undocumented Korean Americans, which makes up the 8th most largest undocumented population in the United States. Lee gave the speech “Here to Stay” on January 14, 2017 a week before Donald Trump’s inauguration at Washington DC. Many people do not think of Korean Americans when they think of DACA. Korean Americans are underrepresented when it comes to media about DACA. 

Ga Young Chung. (2017). At the Crossroads of Change: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, Undocumented Korean Americans’ Political Participation, and Upcoming Challenges. Asian American Policy Review, 27, 65–71. Retrieved from

http://aapr.hkspublications.org/2017/06/22/daca/

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Tobee S:

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In 1880 to 1924 America advocated as a “team player” accepting people from all over the world. Immigration has been a debatable topic since then because over time society has formed a bias by associating the Dreamers and the DACA program to Latino Immigrants. Media plays a huge role in how we view certain programs and people.But when we look at this chart by Eugene Scott author of “Dreamers’ aren’t just coming from Latin America”. The United States Citizenship and Immigration service shows that recipients of DACA all come from a diverse community which includes individuals from Asia, Europe, and the Caribbean. “Tens of thousands of young people from South Korea, the Philippines, India, Jamaica, Tobago, Poland and Pakistan arrived in the United States as minors and have been protected from the threat of deportation since DACA was established in 2012.” -Scott. News literacy is important because we need to do more research and use skills such as critical thinking and analyzing to judge the reliability of the source before making a decision about how we feel about the topic. Especially since media gives us our news and we consume and create our own interpretation of what we see. Some individuals can even create a negative stereotype towards immigrants before understanding the situation. This chart also challenged my bias by showing the demographics of these recipients and showing Dreamers from other countries other than Mexico.

Scott, E. (2017, September 07). 'Dreamers' aren't just coming from Latin America. Retrieved from

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/09/07/dreamers-arent-just-coming-from-latin-america/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d4abe38ad2c

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Patricia Marin: 

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Related to confirmation bias in 21st century literacies, immigrant students that apply for DACA are majority from a Latinx background however there is few research done on Middle Eastern students. News sources or search engines such as Google and Fox News can affect the way a person correlates race and DACA status. A few thousand students come from the Middle East and apply for DACA status in order to live progressive lives in the United States. However, the United States stigma of Muslim nations and stereotypes of terrorism has impacted the support for these students.  Rather than focusing on how to help and best assist these students, the society focuses on the past terrorist attacks that DO NOT identify a whole section of the world. Tying it back into confirmation bias once again, society ignores the information that casts doubt on Middle Eastern groups not being terrorist or Muslim extremist. Therefore, these students who left these war ridden countries are looking for opportunities and sanctuary in the United States not discrimination.

Cumoletti, J. B. (2018, January 24). Middle Eastern and North African Immigrants in the United States. Retrieved November 08, 2018, from https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/middle-eastern-and-north-african-immigrants-united-states

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Tobee S: 

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Denea Joseph was 7 years old when she immigrated from Belize. Joseph is a recipient of DACA and states “For 16 years I’ve called America home,” says Joseph, now 24 and a graduate of UCLA. “It’s where I grew up, shared classrooms with American children, and gave back through civic engagement, advocacy and organizing. The only thing I lack is a piece of paper that would allow me to contribute and live according to my full potential”.

According to confirmation bias, we tend to connect DACA recipients to individuals who are Latino. Denea Joseph is DACA recipient who is Haitian. DACA recipients are all around us and they contribute to our society and our country in ways we don’t see. 

Article from Donna M. Owens

DACA And Black Americans: An Immigration Nightmare. (2018, November 7). Retrieved from

https://www.essence.com/magazine/daca-black-americans-october-2018-essence/

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Patricia M. 

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According to news literacies, society promotes a bias towards unauthorized immigrants and which ethnic groups we impose negative stereotypes on. The articles and news stories the population sees through their trusted news broadcasting program supplies them with confirmation bias towards immigrants. Society imposes negative stereotypes, such as criminals, job stealing, taking government resources, onto Latinx immigrants much having to do with how they enter the country. A majority of Latinx immigrants enter the United States on foot with the help of a “coyote” whereas most Asian immigrants travel with tourist or work visas and overstay their visit.

The short documentary by SupChina, an independent digital media company whose goal is to globally inform and entertain an audience of future leaders and influencers, covers the story of Antonio and his DACA status. Antonio is an Chinese-American young adult who was brought to the United States by his mother when he was 10 years old. The video’s purpose is to disrupt the confirmation bias that people may have about what DACA students look like and how they are affected by their status.

“I think being a Dreamer coming from Chinese background or Asian-American background its very different. It's very specific to the population of Dreamers that’s going on out there. I think when we look at and when I see the riots and protests going on there’s a lot of support going on to the Latino community, which I think is great but I think to be a Dreamer growing up to be someone who didn’t really have anyone to talk to about it or see other people in my situation who looked like me made me, kind of discouraged me from being as open about it as maybe someone else might be [Latino].”

Antonio expresses his concern of being an Asian American DACA student and feeling that he did not have anyone to turn to with a similar situation. He appreciates the support that Latinx communities are receiving with the DACA policy reform yet feels excluded from this fight.

[SupChina]. (2018, Feb 22). The DACA crisis and Asian Americans: One New Yorker’s story [Video File]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB-NID66eMU