Week 2

This week in class on Tuesday we first talked about our ancestors, and some of our family history. It was interesting to hear some of my classmates’ stories. I think it was good for all of us to find out a little more about our family history. Then we talked about monochromic time and polychromic time. Monochromic time is more schedules, and calendar so very sticking to times, and a schedule. Polychromic is more multi talking, nothing is set in stone, and family comes first. Say if a culture is more polychromic and you have a doctor’s appointment a two your show up at two the doctor might not be there until later if he had to do something with his family. Also they say in the US at school and work we’re monochromic, and then when we go home we are more polychromic because then we can multi task more often than not. Then at the end of class we talked about some of the things we thought that people should know about coming to North Dakota. Our class came up with many things including sports, oilfield, food, and language differences.

On Thursday we started out talking about othering which is like discrimination, or prejudice which is judging someone before you know them. It is the mentality of you vs. them.  We talked about things from our reading including whiteness, Latinos vs. Blacks, and stereotypes with language. Whiteness is the privileges that you gain from your skin color being white, and is also a social structure. The Latinos, and the Blacks supposedly to not get along because the Latinos are soon to pass them for the largest minority on the US. Also because they believe the Latinos skin color is closer to white which they believe makes a difference. They don’t seem to get along even though a lot of the time they can find common ground on being discriminated against. Then stereotypes in language the big one we talked about was people with accents. How a lot of the time someone with a southern drawl you think to be uneducated. Then at the end of class we started a movie on hate crimes. The one we got through was on Shepard who was a student at UW which I knew some about since I am from Wyoming. I think it was terrible what happened to him, and hope as a people we can stop hating each other for being different.