Caroline Potoclicchio's Resonding Post

Greenstone’s “Learning the Meaning of One” really struck me because I am currently trying to major in psychology, and she touches upon a lot of psychological terms. Her experience as a little girl in middle school was a typical conversation that could occur on any day. One of her friends said, “All Jews are snippy and obnoxious.” Greenstone happened to be Jewish and she got upset and took her anger out on the girl instead of trying to influence a change in her beliefs. However, after studying the psychology of prejudice in college, she understands the difference of in-group and out-group. Being apart of an in group allows you to connect over some similar value or belief while considering all of the people in your group different from one and other. When an in group is looking among people of an out-group, that are not apart of their identity, they will associate those people as all being the same person, just as Greenstones friend did about Jewish people. It is also common within sororities and fraternities. The girls of their own sorority view each other as a diverse group of young ladies but when looking at another sorority that may be a rival they view them all the same, rich, bitches, weird etc. Greenstone goes on to talk about her experiences trying to prevent genocide, and her position at ADL in New Jersey (Anti Defamation League). 

In Attenello’s “Navigating Identity Politics in Activism, she talks about how New Brunswick New Jersey’s population is primarily made up of the Rutgers student population (40,000) and the Latino community of immigrants and illegal immigrants. After posing this fact, she goes into the rape cases that were occurring in New Brunswick. She found that the excerpts about the rape cases primarily focused on the Rutgers women’s students and initiatives were taken to prevent students from being raped, whereas little focus was applied to the Latino women. Lupe “spearheaded” a march for the Mexican community to protest the “marginalization of Latina rape victims.” She discussed how Mexican women are vulnerable when walking home late or early in the morning because they don’t have a safe alternative when it comes to travelling. I thought this point was very interesting and sad at the same time. It is upsetting to me that just because a Latina woman can’t afford to travel, and puts in the effort to walk to work every day, she has the most vulnerability to get raped. I think that in order to prevent rape that is high among certain cities, they should provide a hotline taxi service of volunteers who are willing to pick people up. 

Pruce’s article is actually very similar to Greenstone’s. She talks about her identity as a Jew and the responsibility she felt to prevent genocide, like Hitler’s Holocaust, from happening again. She wanted to “grow up and change the world.” I think that all three of these articles connect well with each other because they all provide insight on each woman’s identity and what they wanted to change among their community and the world. They were active people with goals in reach and they all were able to achieve them.  All three of them majored in women’s studies.