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    Allegra Hu reflects on her experience in UNIV 2001 and how it pushed her to have deeper conversations about existential topics with friends and family. She discusses how assignments on gender roles, sexuality, racism, and social justice resonated with her personally. The pandemic has made her realize how much she takes for granted in life. One of her favorite videos was Baby X, which supported her view that not assigning gender to children could be beneficial. She also enjoyed preparing a presentation on millennials and religion, through which she gained insight into her own feelings of disconnection from spirituality. Overall, the course helped her broaden her perspective, acknowledge her privilege, and appreciate where she comes from.

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    Allegra Hu reflects on her experience in UNIV 2001 and how it pushed her to have deeper conversations about existential topics with friends and family. She discusses how assignments on gender roles, sexuality, racism, and social justice resonated with her personally. The pandemic has made her realize how much she takes for granted in life. One of her favorite videos was Baby X, which supported her view that not assigning gender to children could be beneficial. She also enjoyed preparing a presentation on millennials and religion, through which she gained insight into her own feelings of disconnection from spirituality. Overall, the course helped her broaden her perspective, acknowledge her privilege, and appreciate where she comes from.

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    Allegra Hu

    Student ID: 1927985

    Dr. Beth Stewart

    April 19th, 2020


    What stuck with me the most throughout my time in UNIV 2001 was how my favorite
    assignments in the class pushed me to start conversations with my friends and family about
    existential topics we usually wouldn’t breach. These topics were presented to us as either
    readings, documentaries, websites, or other various forms of media. The topics that resonated
    with me the most were the ones that I could personally relate to having experienced certain
    degrees of them. This includes themes of gender roles, sexuality, racism, gender-identity,
    privilege, and social justice. The coronavirus pandemic has definitely put things into perspective
    for me, and I’ve been realizing how much I take my life and my privilege for granted. Going
    forward I plan on going into the world with less judgement and more understanding of the people
    around me and what they might be going through. There are definitely silver linings to the
    pandemic but
    One of my favorite videos that we watched was the Baby X video, because I’ve
    constantly wondered what it would be like to raise a child without assigning it any gender. I’ve
    theorized for a while that it would be beneficial for children to not be assigned a gender until
    they hit puberty, and the Baby X video supported that theory. The gender binary is a social
    construct and a prison, designed to reinforce heteronormative gender roles on society. If children
    are taught from a young age that gender doesn’t matter as long as you treat each other with
    respect, then maybe these heternormative ideals will start to crumble.
    My favorite assignment was the millennials & religion presentation that I prepared. In
    order to personally engage with the topic of Millenials & Religion, I decided to interview my
    parents individually to get their stance on religion and spirituality. Although neither of them are
    millennials, talking to them helped me understand why I felt so disconnected from my
    spirituality, a feeling shared by many others in my generation. While getting through Chinua
    Achebe’s ​Things Fall Apart​, I found it difficult to relate to the steadfast faith some of the
    characters had in the religions present in their cultures and lives. ​Things Fall Apart​ conveys a
    direct critique of how the colonizers used the Christian religion to manipulate native peoples into
    subordinacy in order to expand their territory. It made me put into perspective the changes
    humanity has gone through together to get to a point where the majority of future generations
    won’t have faith in religious institutions.
    I am a decently introspective and self-reflective person, but because I spend so much
    energy on resolving things internally, I consequently find it easy to get stuck in a singular
    perspective, and forget about others and the world around me. The documentary “This Changes
    Everything” focuses on broadening the viewers’ perspective by showing individual and unique
    instances of protest against climate change and institutionalized colonialism. Watching “This
    Changes Everything” while the pandemic was happening was interesting timing because of how
    everyone in the world, no matter their social status or geographical location, is being affected.
    It’s really easy, especially in a Utopia like Vancouver, to forget that climate change is already
    affecting the people who can’t protect themselves or leave the affected area due to
    socioeconomic reasons. Vancouver’s homeless problem is the closest look we have into the lives
    of the underprivileged in the city. I definitely feel a lot more self-conscious of my privilege
    whenever I am out and about now.
    Going to such an international school has its benefits, and I have been able to gain
    cross-cultural perspective throughout the entirety of my time at FDU. Conversations that happen
    in class where I got to hear a Korean students’ opinion on American students is something I
    would probably not get to hear unless I asked about it directly. My biggest takeaways from this
    courses include learning how to acknowledge my privilege, not take anything for granted, and to
    appreciate where I’m from and where I’m going! I am excited for the future, and I plan on
    continuing to take care of myself and staying optimistic.

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