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"White" is "Normal"

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I too, like Addie, have realized that the cyber world has a lack of diversity. I believe there was an experiment done through Google where they would do a search of things on google such as "beautiful women" and, when searching through images it would consist of mainly white women. That right there proves that the cyber world is geared toward a certain type of person (white, male, upper/middle class) like most things are.


I do have many different intersectionalities and I believe it is very important to be aware of them and to be recognized from them. Referencing back to Maria Fernandez's reading, when intersectionalities are ignored, the people that belong to those categories are ultimately ignored as well.

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