User:Dbrown26/sandbox

Microaggression
Microaggressions can present themselves in both verbal and nonverbal ways. They can appear throughout the media, schools, historical monuments, and much more. Overall, microaggressions are extremely harmful to people of color and can cause racial exhaustion. Sue et al. (2019) shares how constant discrimination can cause stress and suggests using strategies that focus on coping mechanisms to protect the personal well-being of the individual. Exposure to these microaggressions causes harm to people of color. Therefore, the country needs to break down these aggressions and determine their commonality .Opponents to the importance in the education of microaggressions equate the behavior with encounters of rudeness that everyone experiences.

Sue et al. (2019) proposes microintervention as a manageable solution to address microagressions which promote both self-coping and allyship from White Americans. Common responses to microaggressions by people of color include acts of giving up, passivity, hurtful responses to an aggressor, deflection, and attempts to positively educate the aggressor. Researchers suggest that in order for microintervention to be effective, one must make the microaggression and aggressor known, reduce the microaggression, educate the aggressor on their behavior, and get support from outside resources. Allies and bystanders may have a greater influence when responding to an aggressor with microinterventions than the individual facing aggression themselves. Sue et al. (2019) urges people of color to selectively chose when to use micorinterventions as an effort to lower stress. It is also recommended that anyone using these methods consider the present environment before responding to an aggressor to prevent a harmful situation that can potentially worsen microaggressions. Sue et al. (2019) suggests adapting specific microinterventions to fit each situation while remaining aware of the consequences that may follow to reduce negative results from the intervention itself.

Reference
Sue, D. W., Alsaidi, S., Awad, M. N., Glaeser, E., Calle, C. Z., & Mendez, N. (2019). Disarming racial microaggressions: Microintervention strategies for targets, White allies, and bystanders. American Psychologist, 74(1), 128.