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Protestors march down Liberty Street at the March Against the Fake National Emergency Monday afternoon.

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The 
Center 
for 
Campus 
Involvement 
hosted 
a 
conversation 
Monday 
night 
on 
professional, 
casual 
and 
romantic 
interracial 
relationships as a part of their 
Hot Topic Series. The event was 
entitled “Unpacking Interracial 
Relationships”. 
CCI 
began 
the series using the funding 
they received from a Diversity, 
Equity and Inclusion grant they 
received to encourage open 
discussions 
about 
common 
issues in the University of 
Michigan community. 
LSA 
junior 
Sunanda 
Adibhatla, 
DEI 
program 
coordinator for CCI and the 
event’s discussion facilitator, 
said she hopes the conversation 
will lead to ideas on how to 
eliminate stigmas surrounding 

minority groups.“
There’s still a lot of tension 
with 
people 
of 
different 
backgrounds,” Adibhatla said. 
“And we have some sort of 
subconscious biases towards 
how we interact with people. 
And the question is, how do 
we eradicate that or at least 
become aware of it? ”CCI 
program advisor Jamie Alt 
said she hoped the event would 
open students’ minds and lead 
to further conversation about 
interracial relationships.“
To be able to expand people’s 
minds about topics that are 
sometimes really challenging 
or give people a sense of fear 
that they can’t talk about that 
because of their identity or 
something,” Alt said. “So just 
trying to break those barriers 
about what it means to talk 
about topics that are around 
diversity, equity and inclusion.”

Attendees 
began 
by 
discussing their own identities 
and how they handle meeting 
new people.LSA junior Divya 
Gumudavelly said she thinks 
about the impact stereotypes 
have on people’s perceptions 
of 
her.“Regardless 
of 
who 
you are or where you come 
from, everyone already has 
a preconception of what you 
might be like based on what 
they see initially.” Gumudavelly 
said. “When I introduce myself, 
even if it is just saying my name 
correctly or people are like, ‘Oh 
your last name is really hard,’ 
just sort of breaking what sort 
of conceptions people have of 
me and to get to know me and 
not go off stereotypes.”
Alt 
responded 
by 
highlighting 
the difference between her and 
Gumudavelly’s 
experiences. 
She said she does not consider 
generalizations people might 
think about her when 
they first meet.
“I don’t ever think 
about a stereotype when 
I meet someone,” Alt said. 
“But that’s probably a lot 
of my privilege as a white 
woman from this country, 
that I just want people to 
think, ‘Oh she was nice.’”
Rackham 
student 
Ismael 
El-Tayuddin 
discussed the importance 
of 
having 
interracial 
relationships 
and 
interacting with people 
from all different cultures 
and 
backgrounds. 
He 
suggested talking with 
a 
close 
friend 
about 
their culture to properly 
understand it and then 
bring this new knowledge 
to all future experiences.
“I think it helps also to 
learn about other cultures 
by proxy,” El-Tayuddin 
said. “So if you have 
someone that you feel 
comfortable talking about 
issues with … you can get 

more information from them so 
when you do go out and interact 
with other people, you kind of 
know how to keep appropriate 
boundaries, what to say and not 
to say and how to be respectful 
towards other people.”
Adibhatla then discussed the 
gap in understanding different 
cultures between generations 
and how someone’s ethnicity is 
not the same as their beliefs.
“I think it is a misconception 
with older generations and 
with people here that values 
equate to culture which equates 
to race,” Adibhatla said. “You 
can find someone who has the 
same background as you and 
the same family traditions but 
has completely different morals 
than you.”
The event concluded by 
discussing what steps should be 
taken moving forward to reduce 
stereotypes and to increase 
open-mindedness on campus. 
El-Tayuddin 
said 
minority 
groups are used to interacting 
with other cultures and having 
interracial relationships. He 
called on white people to make 
the first move and step outside 
of their comfort zones.
“I always hear how American 
culture 
is 
the 
dominant 
culture,” 
El-Tayuddin 
said. 
“Our (minority groups) whole 
lives, we’re used to navigating 
that system and interacting 
with this mainstream culture, 
and then we go home and 
have this culture in our house. 
We’re already bicultural. But 
they’re (white people) in a 
space where they dominate the 
culture and they’re not used to 
having to do something that 
is uncomfortable for them or 
understand someone else. So I 
feel like it’s not really on me. I 
think it has to be more of a step 
on their part.”

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