How is your culture portrayed? What sources do you look to, to determine culture? What aspects of culture do you want to explore? What cultural stereotypes do you want to dispel about your own culture?
Ilene
"In a positive sense Americans are portrayed as independent and free to speak their minds and do what they want. In a negative sense we are thought to be fat and rude. I look towards people who are either part of the culture or familiar to with the culture (before coming to Dubai I asked my Arab friend a lot of questions). I would like to explore socializing outside of school both with friends and family. I think Bush made us seem like a very violent country (and yes we did start a war and have a high crime rate)however many of us were very opposed to the war and still are, and many of us work towards and care about creating a less-violent, and safer society."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfUwmD_ZPBk
I feel like this video kinda sums up the American "Dream"..Kelly Clarkson(someone made from no one) singing our national anthem, at our nation's "favorite" pastime.
Bora
"Korea is only one divided country remained in the world now. The world concerns about the issues of nuclear from North Korea, which makes people fear about wars. Since we’ve been separated for a long time, South and North Korea seem to be having two distinguish cultures. North Korea is an isolated country and South Korea tries to open to the world and share cultures with others. Korean food is well known through the countries. Kimchi is one of the well known Korean foods. "
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