Leah Rhine
Education 340
Professor Ambrosetti
30 December 2016
Personal Anecdote Question
“When we understand racism and other forms of discrimination as a systemic problem,
not simply as an individual dislike for a particular group of people, we can better understand the
negative and destructive effects it can have” (Nieto, 2012, p. 65). This is something that I was
very uneducated on until reading Nieto’s work. This is also a misconception that many people
have today. Nieto points out that although individual racism is detrimental and damaging to
people, institutional racism has far worse consequences. Institutional racism, as seen in our
