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Answer to Question 1:
The strategies to mend social divisions and challenge racial, gender and sexual inequalities cannot work in isolation (Smith et al., 2016). They must be operated at various societal levels such as:
Strategies at Community Level: organizing a rebuilding or clean up campaign to eliminate vandalism or erase racist graffiti, and simultaneously, putting up ‘hate free zones’ in public areas (Came et al., 2018).
Strategies at Neighborhood Level: forming a committee to welcome everyone who moves into the neighborhood and sending representatives of the committee to the new person’s place with a fruit basket or flowers.
Strategies at School Level: forming a diversity task force or club, conducting field trip to places showing struggles from the past against racism, including anti-racism education in the school’s curriculum, and developing intercultural relationships by recognizing the culture of other ethnic groups (McLeod et al., 2016).
Strategies at Media Level: writing letters to the editors when the media coverage is biased or completely absent.
Strategies at Workplace Level: actively recruiting and hiring an ethnically and racially diverse workforce including managers, executives, and board members.
Answer to Question 2:
Any person has certain skills and interests that he or she already have that they could use to contribute to the changes they would like to see in society. For me, I can bring the change by operating at the following two levels:
At Community Level: I can donate blood and register to be an organ donor. Since I am an animal lover, I can donate cat and dog food to shelters. I believe in collective effort so I can a handwritten note or an encouraging message to someone who is going through difficult times. Similarly, I can babysit for a single parent.
At Workplace Level: I can also kick start change within my company by supporting the personal philanthropic ventures of the employees in the form of paid time off. I can organization team charitable events too.
Work Cited
Came, Heather, and Derek Griffith. "Tackling racism as a “wicked” public health problem: Enabling allies in anti-racism praxis." Social Science & Medicine 199 (2018): 181-188.
McLeod, Branden A., Jasmine Gilmore, and Joseph T. Jones. "Solutions to Structural Racism: One Organization's Community-Engaged Approach in the Aftermath of Civil Unrest." Social work 62.1 (2016): 77-79.
Smith, Jason A., and Bhoomi K. Thakore, eds. Race and contention in twenty-first century US media. Routledge, 2016.
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