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Mr. Highwater

jonpeitz — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 01:14:07 +0000

Watching the movie in class today, it made me realize the many diffrences on Native American people and the common white americans in the United States these days. It also explained the changes he had gone through. Highwater explained to me how he had been adopted into a fanily with white cultur, in this family everything he had to learn and change to was different and new to him.. He said to adjust to this new way the Americans life went. I think that almost everybody can relate to this in some way or another. Maybe not all adapting to american culture but adapting to some new environment. Lets say your a big time american football player, and you start playing soccer. Right there is totally different atmosphere and culture. How about this, your very first sleepover. You all know that you thought whosever house you where at felt wierd. Maybe the way they ate dinner, how they cooked, and the rules. Enough about that it just popped in my head. Ethnocentrism could occur in a lot of different ways. How about the first day of middle school and you are just doing you. Maybe you are not totally down with the style of the day and got your own thing. People may make fun and you may conform to whats in and loose everything that makes you, you.

The Weeping Camel

jonpeitz — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:14:05 +0000

Jim Crow Exhibit

jonpeitz — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:41:52 +0000

The other day my history class and I visited the Jim crow exhibit. The real exhibit is located on the Ferris States campus, but they brought some of it over to Schoolcraft College for Martin Luther King Day. Before entering the area I figured I would know pretty much everything they had to tell us, I was wrong. It seems like almost everything produced in the time and before the civil rights movement was racist. I also learned that not everything was antiques, things are still being produced today. One example of a new racial “toy” was the ghettopaly. Basically this was a version of monolopy based in the “ghetto” with every racial uncalled for thing you could think of. Besides the new stuff I was looking at the sign in the exhibit that didn’t allow Colors or Jews. I started thinking and thought it was very weird that my grandparents lived during that, and that was not too long ago. Before I end this I want to tell you about the worst thing I saw, it was a mother goose story told to kids, I can’t really repeat it but it was deffinetly racist and x rated.

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jonpeitz — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:32:43 +0000

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