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Final Blog Post

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I chose my topic because I have family that work in the hospital and after talking about wealth disparities in class it made me realize that one medical incident could easily drive an impoverished family into ruin. After looking at a few articles it became obvious that many people of color experienced the problem of lacking healthcare than white people. I decided that to reach my target audience I would inform them of the growing expansion of ACA medicaid available for those who do not have health insurance. Although I sent both authors of the article my factsheet I did not get a response from either of them. Therefore I got no feedback when it came to interpretting and using their article in my project. I only shared my materials on my blog for a handful of reasons. The main reason being that since I didn't get any input from the authors about the article of theirs I am unsure whether the information I used was properly applied. Also, I found it difficult to format my post in a wa...

Slide Show on ACA Medicaid #HDFS280

  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/176jJE64V1kvMLo9tr3h1MVGwtoLrA9NHhEi9g9kd6sE/edit#slide=id.p

Immigration

Nativism and racism are related because when someone is not from your homeland they are seen as different and change. Because of that sense of unknown stereotypical and racist thoughts start to cloud the mind that are absed off of loose assumptions. When someone non-native finds themself in a new area those around them will develop these ideas due to lack of knowledge and it starts to unconciously fester into these false charicatueres around specific races. This then ties to immigration because those who are native to areas liek the US believe that they need to protect their home and that outsiders don't know how things work. Examples of these assumptions are that they won't understand the culture, are coming for personal gain, will end up causing trouble, etc. It is from these fears that immigration policies arrive because we can not be sure what every person's true intentions are, and it is instances like 9/11 where foreigners get visas that makes giving out citizenship s...