Left Hand Experiment: Chamberlain College Of Nursing
Left Hand Experiment
Tiffany Brown
Chamberlain College of Nursing
Left Hand Experiment Growing up a right handed person was never a second thought for me. It was just something I was born with and began training my daily actions with this natural born skill. I was taught like most children to eat with my right hand, how to hold my tooth brush and easily brush my teeth with my right hand. It was and is easy for me to write my name, sharpen my pencils in grade school, and to perform quick and easy day to day tasks with my well-practiced right-handedness. This week, on Thursday I tied this hand up and made it impossible to use my right hand for ANYTHING. Not having my skillful right hand made for one challenging day, which …show more content…
I believe that white Christians are his right hand and the rest of the world is his left hand. He grew up in a time where being white was everything and he was able to go about his day to day life with an advantage so to speak. I say this because like the right-handed person the United States was configured to favor the white man. Then all of a sudden cultural diversity became so major here in the States and people had to adapt to Indian Doctors, African American’s succeeding, Women Working, Muslim’s, Homosexuals walking with their partner’s freely. For me, I see him hiding in his apartment not exploring these different cultures, not learning to use his left …show more content…
We are so quick to become frustrated with the person in line at the pencil sharpener because they always take so long. Well, that is because that sharpener is made for people who are right handed. My family feels offended when my nieces other family won’t come to our barbeques, that is because they don’t drink or eat pork. These little things that bother us as individuals can be worked out if we took the time to talk to people in other cultures or even people that are just different from us. Engage in conversations; learn different views from people, and what their struggle is like. Go into these conversations with an open mind and open
Tiffany Brown
Chamberlain College of Nursing
Left Hand Experiment Growing up a right handed person was never a second thought for me. It was just something I was born with and began training my daily actions with this natural born skill. I was taught like most children to eat with my right hand, how to hold my tooth brush and easily brush my teeth with my right hand. It was and is easy for me to write my name, sharpen my pencils in grade school, and to perform quick and easy day to day tasks with my well-practiced right-handedness. This week, on Thursday I tied this hand up and made it impossible to use my right hand for ANYTHING. Not having my skillful right hand made for one challenging day, which …show more content…
I believe that white Christians are his right hand and the rest of the world is his left hand. He grew up in a time where being white was everything and he was able to go about his day to day life with an advantage so to speak. I say this because like the right-handed person the United States was configured to favor the white man. Then all of a sudden cultural diversity became so major here in the States and people had to adapt to Indian Doctors, African American’s succeeding, Women Working, Muslim’s, Homosexuals walking with their partner’s freely. For me, I see him hiding in his apartment not exploring these different cultures, not learning to use his left …show more content…
We are so quick to become frustrated with the person in line at the pencil sharpener because they always take so long. Well, that is because that sharpener is made for people who are right handed. My family feels offended when my nieces other family won’t come to our barbeques, that is because they don’t drink or eat pork. These little things that bother us as individuals can be worked out if we took the time to talk to people in other cultures or even people that are just different from us. Engage in conversations; learn different views from people, and what their struggle is like. Go into these conversations with an open mind and open