While I was observing the people that passed by me, I considered as “normal behaviour” any thing that attained to the norms I grew up with, and learned throughout my life. Some of the “normal” behaviours I listed on my log were: a father pushing his twin children on a stroller, a group of teenagers talking and sharing FroYo, a woman walking while listening to music and drinking an iced-coffee, a young man biking on the bike lane, and more. Essentially all the people that most blended in with the crowd. Contrarily, the people I listed as acting “abnormally” were all the individuals that in the crowd of people that populated the street on Thursday afternoon, were most noticeable to my eye, by not behaving in a way that I considered part of the culture specific behaviour I was in. For example, I saw a middle aged woman wearing a winter jacket in a hot summer morning, a young
While I was observing the people that passed by me, I considered as “normal behaviour” any thing that attained to the norms I grew up with, and learned throughout my life. Some of the “normal” behaviours I listed on my log were: a father pushing his twin children on a stroller, a group of teenagers talking and sharing FroYo, a woman walking while listening to music and drinking an iced-coffee, a young man biking on the bike lane, and more. Essentially all the people that most blended in with the crowd. Contrarily, the people I listed as acting “abnormally” were all the individuals that in the crowd of people that populated the street on Thursday afternoon, were most noticeable to my eye, by not behaving in a way that I considered part of the culture specific behaviour I was in. For example, I saw a middle aged woman wearing a winter jacket in a hot summer morning, a young