In my research community, solidarity looks like each of us relating to the shared experience and shouldering the work in a way that is feasible and distributed equally. For example, we have data cleaning for a survey that we are using as practice for our study, and splitting sections of it is crucial to keeping it from getting overwhelming for our research cohort of eight people. When assignments are due, our solidarity is most evident in how we come together and manage to get through it despite the tediousness of it all.
In the Muslim community, solidarity appears to be related through shared experiences such as attending Mosques, celebrating holidays, and perspectives growing up Muslim in the United States. It becomes evident in the face of Islamophobia- we have had a few Muslim speakers present and speak , and their experiences, while isolated, are extremely similar. The discrimination that they have faced solely due to their religious identity has a shared pattern of outrageous comments based on incorrect assumptions due to their religion and how they present themselves, and fear for safety doing day to day tasks.
Our research this week includes learning how to recode data variables and conduct statistical analysis through SPSS with a mini-survey that we created as practice before doing it on the real survey data from our project.
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