Okay so we saved the best for last and did our conversation show it. Who woulda thunk it that a little question like "What is culture?" could get us talking about apes in some forest?
Luckily, we had the power to focus (sometimes) and this is what I got from Dr. Essed's presentation...
• Culture is not static, shared, no complete consensus. There is continuity and change
What’s a national culture?
• You must know a culture in order to be critical of it.
• Question groupings
• Use variety of perspectives: race, class, physical ability, resource access, what causes privilege
What do I do if I am not in a minority group?
Question:
Why would you challenge norms?
Humans have
1. Access to an imagination
imagination brings sense of HOPE: imagining a future or alternative
• Sense of community & belonging (it is always imagined it does not exist)
• Empathy: the ability to imagine yourself in the situation of another
• Common Humanity: realize you have more commonality than differences
2. The ability to change (be conscious about change, to understand that as humans we are incomplete. We can allow other to change.)
3. The opportunity for Continuous/life long learning
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