Seminar Reflection
Reactions:
In this seminar a few comments and ideas were really interesting and they really stood out to me. One was the idea that if the world and the people in it became the same, culture identity would be lost and it could be really damaging. This was one of Gordon’s views and personally I agree 100%. There is a quote in the text, which I feel shapes this perspective: “But deeper than mere goods, it is the souls that are mingling.” This quote helps to explain my point of view because I think that independent culture is very important because it helps define who we are. Cultures are what make us different and I feel it would be fine to live all together but it would be another matter to live all together and be exactly the same in ethnicity and in our ways of living. I 100% support the idea of the world living together as one with a huge variety of different ethnicities as long as the cultures of those ethnicities were not forgotten and ignored. This comment made me realize how important cultures are. It made me realize that cultures make the world unique.
Detailed Response:
Question: What is Ayer trying to say about identity in a globalized world?
Personally, I think the main message he is trying to convey about identity in a globalized world is that people’s identities are becoming more and more diverse and more and more mixed together. This read talks about how different identities like races, are being mixed and passed around. For example, in this read it says: “I wake up to the sound of my Japanese clock radio, put on a T-shirt sent to me by an uncle in Nigeria and walk out to the street, past German cars, to my office.” This quote shows how different cultures are inter-mingling in America.
In another example, it says: “I am Chinese because I live in San Francisco, a Chinese city. I became Irish in America. I became Portuguese in America. ” This is an example of people’s identities becoming diverse and mixed. I feel that Ayer is trying to convey that people’s identities change because the world is changing and because the world is becoming more and more populated with different cultures. It would be possible for people to start losing the sense of their own identities because of the world becoming filled with different cultures.
Connections:
One idea in this seminar was the idea that if someone was born in a certain place but now lives in another place are they the race of where they were born or where they live? For example, if someone was born in Alaska and has an ethnicity of German, but lives in New York, are they Alaskan or are they German? I can personally connect this thought to an experience of my own. I was born and raised in Maui, Hawaii but I am half Hungarian and half Italian. I now live in Colorado and my friends here consider me Hawaiian because I was born and raised there. So are I Hawaiian, Italian and Hungarian or am I just Hungarian and Italian?
Lori’s Choice Question:
My political cartoon is a picture of Uncle Sam asking a camel, in the middle of a dessert, where McDonalds is. The point of the cartoon is to show how much globalization has spread throughout the world. It is supposed to convey how much globalization is spreading through so many countries in a humorous way. My cartoon uses symbolization by using Uncle Sam to represent the US and by using a camel and a pyramid to represent a dessert.
Reactions:
In this seminar a few comments and ideas were really interesting and they really stood out to me. One was the idea that if the world and the people in it became the same, culture identity would be lost and it could be really damaging. This was one of Gordon’s views and personally I agree 100%. There is a quote in the text, which I feel shapes this perspective: “But deeper than mere goods, it is the souls that are mingling.” This quote helps to explain my point of view because I think that independent culture is very important because it helps define who we are. Cultures are what make us different and I feel it would be fine to live all together but it would be another matter to live all together and be exactly the same in ethnicity and in our ways of living. I 100% support the idea of the world living together as one with a huge variety of different ethnicities as long as the cultures of those ethnicities were not forgotten and ignored. This comment made me realize how important cultures are. It made me realize that cultures make the world unique.
Detailed Response:
Question: What is Ayer trying to say about identity in a globalized world?
Personally, I think the main message he is trying to convey about identity in a globalized world is that people’s identities are becoming more and more diverse and more and more mixed together. This read talks about how different identities like races, are being mixed and passed around. For example, in this read it says: “I wake up to the sound of my Japanese clock radio, put on a T-shirt sent to me by an uncle in Nigeria and walk out to the street, past German cars, to my office.” This quote shows how different cultures are inter-mingling in America.
In another example, it says: “I am Chinese because I live in San Francisco, a Chinese city. I became Irish in America. I became Portuguese in America. ” This is an example of people’s identities becoming diverse and mixed. I feel that Ayer is trying to convey that people’s identities change because the world is changing and because the world is becoming more and more populated with different cultures. It would be possible for people to start losing the sense of their own identities because of the world becoming filled with different cultures.
Connections:
One idea in this seminar was the idea that if someone was born in a certain place but now lives in another place are they the race of where they were born or where they live? For example, if someone was born in Alaska and has an ethnicity of German, but lives in New York, are they Alaskan or are they German? I can personally connect this thought to an experience of my own. I was born and raised in Maui, Hawaii but I am half Hungarian and half Italian. I now live in Colorado and my friends here consider me Hawaiian because I was born and raised there. So are I Hawaiian, Italian and Hungarian or am I just Hungarian and Italian?
Lori’s Choice Question:
My political cartoon is a picture of Uncle Sam asking a camel, in the middle of a dessert, where McDonalds is. The point of the cartoon is to show how much globalization has spread throughout the world. It is supposed to convey how much globalization is spreading through so many countries in a humorous way. My cartoon uses symbolization by using Uncle Sam to represent the US and by using a camel and a pyramid to represent a dessert.