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Empathetic Effort is one’s willingness to put in effort and time into feeling empathy and argue people’s empathy experience by how much effort they exert. Karina Schumann explains how mindset can define how one feels empathy towards another in certain situations. For someone with a fixed mindset, it is going to be difficult for them to experience empathy in situations. Since people with fixed mindset have difficulty grasping the concept of an experience that happened to someone else, people with…

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Jamison shows empathy throughout the reading by looking past the surface level understanding of how people suffer from Morgellons. Jamison is able to see the world through the patients’ perspectives and understand that people may not believe in their condition, but Jamison does. Though most doctors diagnose people with Morgellons as “Delusions of parasitosis” (DOP), Jamison doesn’t doubt their pain compared to a world that refuses to accept their suffer. Throughout the reading, Jamison talks about her experience and conversations…

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In the text, “The Sexual Assault Epidemic That No One Is Talking About” by Aviva Stahl, the author is telling stories about Iffat and the multiple assaults they encountered being a Muslim woman wearing a Hijab in public. In the text it says, “Across Europe and other parts of the Global North, research gas consistently shown that women are the primary victims of the Islamophobic discrimination as well as violent attacks.”(331) Women are often viewed as weak and unlikely to…

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In the text, Valasquez-Manoff explains how race is looked at differently in Hawaii compared to the mainland. In Hawaii there is a large amount of diversity, with a bigger population of people who have moved there from different places around the world. “The campus was clearly diverse, but I quickly realized the assumption underlying my fieldwork was fatally flawed. Here I was trying to discern ancestry, but how was I to know anyone’s background just by looking, particularly in a…

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