1. Powerful Individuals: This is same in every culture and not only that, its the same back in time and even now. There is always going to be people that are rich and the people that are poor. The society has several shines in their house showing that those people are the rich, and then the poor imitates the rich by making pottery plaques to there walls like shines. Individuals can really take what power they have and show it as much as they can.
2. Medicine Men: Well Medicine men isn't a word you hear everyday, and if so its not very popular because it has to do with a type of cure or medicine, but see there medicine is ritual and magical like a witch doctors helper. Medicine men are the practitioners, not just practitioners but the most powerful ones. They don't give the clients what they need, but they are the ones that choose the ingredients.
3. Paraphernalia: This caught my eye when reading, because no matter where you are or whatever country your in, there will always be some paraphernalia . In this case it doesn't have to do with drugs like here in American or just having any paraphernalia in general. The medicine men or practitioners, have impressive set, consisting of variety of auger, awl, probes, and prods. These items are used for exorcism of the evils.
4. Latipso: This was a very unique word that came across this story. This is one ceremony that I think would get every ones attention and this is why. A ceremony that's harsh, that it is phenomenal that a fair proportion of really sick natives. See once you join you, don't ever come back out. Children would try and avoid the situation of going in the temple where the ceremony was preformed, because even children would never come back out, these people know if they are going, they are going to die.
5. Listener: The first thing that came to mind was wow, what a good listener, oh but I was all wrong. A witch doctor, which kept me reading because this story keeps getting deeper into the witch doctor, magical rituals, etc. They are the only witch doctor that can exorcise the devil. They need one because Nacirema believed that parents would bewitch there own children. Well this wouldn't happen if they didn't do secret body rituals.
Part B:
Powerful Individuals are everywhere
in America theirs also Rich and the Poor. Here in the America will have the
rich wearing jewelry, buying luxury cars, wearing expensive brand names… Etc.
For the lower class you will have people to imitate jewelry, name brands,
shoes. That’s in every culture; I feel the same but in a different way.
The feeling when I read about the
medicine men made me think different about what they do, because he makes the
medicine to cure the sick that are needed, but doesn’t provide the medicine for
their clients. In others terms he doesn’t give the medicine in person.
Paraphernalia makes me a little
disturb, because all the devices they are use and what is it for. All I know
that the device are used for making medicine, but how do they use these
devices? This is a question that should be answer.
This Latipso temple sets off the
feeling of sadness, because not only do adults die in this temple from sick
evil possessions, but also children, because of their parents.
The Listener makes me feel nervous
to where I’m on my toes, only because he is or she is the witch doctor, who is
the only one that can exorcise the devil. This is a nervous but intense
feeling
The powerful individuals is one
that might be ethnocentrism, to some people, but what I’m trying to get my
point cross is that no matter what country or tribe, there will always be rich
and a poor, is some type of way. This is only word exhibit that I choose. In
any of my words there is one word that could be judgmental because I’m am comparing
our rich and the poor in America to the tribes Nacerima. There are 4 of my
words that are free from bias. Powerful individual is bias because I compared
in contrasted, because I’m agreeing with how they live.
Powerful Individual is the word I
keep and this is the reason why: Powerful Individual is an appropriate word,
because we could be using the rich and the poor, which will cause bad conflict.
Powerful Individual is the nicer way to explain the rich and the poor, there’s
nothing bad about saying Powerful Individual
From my judgment some cultural will take it offensive,
because they are not use the way we talk or put our words. Yes, because there
are different ways to avoid using personal culture, or the word we say and that’s
trying different speaking methods.
It's clear from your second post that you didn't read the part of the assignment that revealed the secret of the Nacerima. Horace Miner was writing about the American culture (rearrange the letters to get "Nacerima"). So, how do you feel about your choice of words given that you were actually describing the American culture?
ReplyDeleteActually, I thought you were pretty unbiased about your choice of words, though perhaps it is because you tended to choose nouns instead of adjectives. Overall, you did a good job of trying to avoid bias from the onset.
Other than missing the American/Nacerima connection in the assignment, good job.
"the powerful individuals is one that might be ethnocentrism, to some people, but what I’m trying to get my point cross is that no matter what country or tribe, there will always be rich and a poor"
ReplyDeleteGood explanation on trying to distinguish between what can be interpreted as ethnocentrism. It is true, that typically in almost any culture you will find social class, therefore ethnocentrism can be depleted if taken by a more general perspective.