Tuesday, May 18, 2010

I guess this is okay?

My Thesis course this semester is all about understanding culture. Our first paper was about the ethnography of our school and how we view each race/ethnicity. We were supposed to think about how we view each of these groups and to give our own cultural viewpoints, not textbook answers.

Here's the ethnography of my school:



This sounds like an easy task but I struggled. I felt very stereotypical with my descriptions. I know that was the point of this paper but it still felt weird.




3 comments:

Katie said...

its hard not to sound bad when you are writing about those topics

Anonymous said...

I think that 0.6% Asian is the little kindergartener - I see him at recess:) j.L.

Natalie said...

Yeah, that's a hard one. There's not really a way to sound good.