Part A
Task 1
Something I found interesting in the preparation material Perspectives Magazine was in the article The Day I Became Black by Willem Reerink. Reerink tells us about the day he told his class that his mother was African-American and how his peers reacted. I was surprised by their reaction; they looked at him in a very different way and he said he felt he had dropped their esteem. They also started looking at him as “black”, which doesn´t really make any sense because he is not black. They call him black because of his nationality which doesn´t have anything to do with his skin colour, really. But moving on, I think that it´s wrong to treat someone differently because of their nationality and heritage. Willem´s classmates started …show more content…
They give names based on a special event or happening in a person´s life or something that that person has does that separates them from the others in the tribe. For example, in the movie Dances with Wolves the protagonist, a white, American man, gets his Indian name, which in English means Dances with Wolves, by a Native-American tribe because he was seen playing with wolves. In the newspaper article “Native American Heritage Month” we read that Randi Sunray’s Indian name is Ahaun Tone Gope, after her ancestor chief, which translates to “Struck across the forehead with a hatchet by the enemy”. This again refers to a dramatic event in the life of her ancestor chief who literally was struck across the forehead with a hatchet by the enemy in a battle against the …show more content…
Our culture is constantly changing and developing as we learn new things and ideas, and new cultures are forming. Our culture now is very different from what it was like a century ago, or even a decade, because of the new ideas we learn and the new people with different ways of thinking. But if we are not aware of it, our cultures will become more and more alike. We will lose our identity, and will all be walking around like clones, with the same exact opinions and preferences. Our culture is one of the dearest thing we obsess. Furthermore, we would have less to learn about each other, and meeting new people would be boring, because we would be so similar. I think that an Earth without culture, heritage and diversity would be a very boring one, and not an Earth I would like to
Task 1
Something I found interesting in the preparation material Perspectives Magazine was in the article The Day I Became Black by Willem Reerink. Reerink tells us about the day he told his class that his mother was African-American and how his peers reacted. I was surprised by their reaction; they looked at him in a very different way and he said he felt he had dropped their esteem. They also started looking at him as “black”, which doesn´t really make any sense because he is not black. They call him black because of his nationality which doesn´t have anything to do with his skin colour, really. But moving on, I think that it´s wrong to treat someone differently because of their nationality and heritage. Willem´s classmates started …show more content…
They give names based on a special event or happening in a person´s life or something that that person has does that separates them from the others in the tribe. For example, in the movie Dances with Wolves the protagonist, a white, American man, gets his Indian name, which in English means Dances with Wolves, by a Native-American tribe because he was seen playing with wolves. In the newspaper article “Native American Heritage Month” we read that Randi Sunray’s Indian name is Ahaun Tone Gope, after her ancestor chief, which translates to “Struck across the forehead with a hatchet by the enemy”. This again refers to a dramatic event in the life of her ancestor chief who literally was struck across the forehead with a hatchet by the enemy in a battle against the …show more content…
Our culture is constantly changing and developing as we learn new things and ideas, and new cultures are forming. Our culture now is very different from what it was like a century ago, or even a decade, because of the new ideas we learn and the new people with different ways of thinking. But if we are not aware of it, our cultures will become more and more alike. We will lose our identity, and will all be walking around like clones, with the same exact opinions and preferences. Our culture is one of the dearest thing we obsess. Furthermore, we would have less to learn about each other, and meeting new people would be boring, because we would be so similar. I think that an Earth without culture, heritage and diversity would be a very boring one, and not an Earth I would like to