Blog Post 2: February 15th 2022
Do you feel that your identity (gender, race/ethnicity, family, culture, age, rural/urban upbringing, etc.) has influenced your educational journey and your mindset? My family is from Bosnia, and they ran from the war in the 90's (about around the time I was born). We got the papers signed to opt-in to the refugee program a number of countries were offering and we ended up in the U.S., AZ specifically. At the time, my family only had quite literally the clothes we were wearing, no English, no connections. My parents worked hard to get us to a middle-class style of living and as such I was raised in not poverty, but not much better standards of living. The reason I'm typing this is that a big part of being raised by a family who worked hard to get you the opportunities for success ties that success to the expectation of hard work(fixed mindset I think). Thus, I grew up influenced in the necessity of needing a good education for success in life over anything else. This has had...