C. Baard.

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For the past couple of weeks I have been reflecting on myself and found that my views on the world only formed part of the weight that creates otherness.

To other, means to exclude people who does not fit in the norm of a social group. This relates directly to the fact that I have unconsciously been creating stereotypes that puts people in boxes. I use to view the white culture more dominant than the black culture. I can see now that this stereotype I created minorized black people and this formed part of the white supremacy act.

I came to the realization that my views was completely out of line when I read the pieces of Miner (1956) and Wianana (2005).

First I need to outline the fact of otherness covered by Said (1978) which leads me directly to White Supremacy.

White people are more superior than the black culture. This way of thinking I created otherness towards the black nation.

I can say that I come from a very conservative background therefore I would have never thought that the stereotypes I created and very strongly believed in would ever form part of something as serious as white supremacy. It is now very clear for me that I have a great lack of information due to misinformation. I now realize that the problem does not lie within the black culture but within myself due to a lack of understanding their culture.

Miner (1956) and Wianana (2005) made me look right through my background and right into the truth.

Therefore I want to confess that my creation of stereotypes was incorrect and a result of my roots.

In this reflective blog I show how the stereotypes I created of the black culture leads to otherness.

First of all I show how I came to my stereotypes and now came to the realization that this way of thinking is completely out of line.

This supports my most recent belief that there should me no such thing as white supremacy. It should be so to prevent othering so that all cultures can excel in their own ways.