After reading and understanding the article about identity politics, I identified three

significant information that I would like to talk about. First, I never thought that there were
different groups that were fighting for their ideas and rights. An example of these groups is the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), where they ensure the
educational, social, political rights are equally given to different kinds of color. Second, I always
thought that the church is against the LGBT community, but according to the article, they were
even telling schools to treat the LGBT students fairly and equally, like how they treat the
heterosexuals. Moreover, the LGBT community got more support from the church when Pope
Francis got the position. Lastly, even though I already have the knowledge about this, I find the
paragraph about the ‘perfect world’ very significant because it is really how the world is, even
before. If people who never knew about this would read that paragraph, they would also find it
interesting and would make them realize that the we would never achieve the ‘perfect’ and
‘ideal’ world.

The article may contain a lot of ideas and information, but some are still unclear to me.
First, it was stated that a school isn’t a place or setting where people (students) are taught on
how to think, rather to think for themselves. I didn’t quite get the point of it because I know
that some schools teach the students on how they should think and not how to think for
themselves. Second, the words ‘melting pot’ and ‘tossed salad’ are very unfamiliar to me and it
made me not understand the sentences that included those words. I don’t know if my own
interpretation is correct, but melting pot means “the same” and tossed salad means “all are
different”. Lastly, when the author uses the word ‘academic arena’ in the sentences, I don’t
know what the author is pertaining to. I’m just thinking that the word ‘academic arena’ means
schools or universities so that I could somehow understand each paragraph. However, my own
definition might be incorrect and could make me understand the article the other way around.

I have three questions to ask the author. First, two topics were mainly focused in the
article, LGBT and Immigration, what other issues or topics can you relate to identity politics?
Also, how can you tell whether an issue is really an example of identity politics? Second, it was
stated that the church supported the LGBT community in regards to education, where they are
required to treat them equally and accept them, is it possible for the church to support the
LGBT in other institutions? Especially to those countries that are very religious and still see
homosexuality as a sin. Lastly, since most of the information/experiences was based on the
United States, why didn’t the author include examples of such scenarios in other countries?
This would further help the readers understand on how different countries deal with problems
like immigration and LGBT in terms of identity politics.