Biases Reflection

I am Abdullah Hani Ismail, an Egyptian- Canadian that lives in Cairo. Even though I was born in Egypt I have strong roots in Canada as a lot of my family lives there. First of all being raised by two people that lives most of their lives outside of Egypt (Dad – Switzerland, Mom – Canada) certainly came to my benefit, as I believe that they planted both Egyptian values and foreign values. Some of my friends believe that I am the least Egyptian of them just because I have two passports and what I try to explain is that I was born and raised in Cairo and the color of my passport is not who I am. I would like to think that I am more Egyptian than I am Canadian because this is the country that I lived in most of my life. It is like the video we saw in class on Trevor Noah he said that he is not trying to take away their “Frenchness” and he stated people could be dual citizens. When I go to visit Canada I am immediately an Egyptian even though I have the passport. When I speak they tend to say that I have an accent and some people are even surprised that I speak English even though I know that the education I had in school is better that what they had. Trying to explain to them what an international school is, is always a hassle because they don’t believe that our first language in school is actually English.  I realized that the biases that occur to me on a daily basis is my friends not recognizing that we are the same amount of Egyptian even though we have different passports. I also learned that my identity is who I am to myself because no one knows the whole me except for me and that is why identity is an intriguing topic. The first quiz I tried was the Race quiz and according to the quiz my responses suggested a moderate automatic preference for European Americans over African Americans. When I found this out I was quite surprised as I though I was neutral about the Race topic but I felt that there might have been a slight difficulty when the good and the African Americans were paired up together. I honestly don’t know if it was me or if the quiz tricked me by changing the keys but hopefully I am not biased towards any race. The second quiz I took was the Career and Gender quiz and according to the quiz my responses suggested a slight automatic association for Male with Career and Female with Family. Honestly I thought that this particular quiz would have a different result. I thought I would have a strong automatic association for Male with Career and Female with Family because my mom has been a stay at home mom for as long as I can remember while my dad was always at work. When I think about my biases I might actually have a couple of them. First of all I have a tendency to remember my choices, decisions, and advice as better than they actually were. I don’t know why I do this maybe its because of my ego. Secondly I think that those future probabilities are altered by past events, when in reality they are unchanged. I have always had this problem because it makes the person think too much into things.