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As a member of society, culture is everywhere. Sometimes, however, this culture is not always my own. When humans are in such a situation there are only two responses: They can fight and scorn upon the minority of culture that is not their own, or they can embrace it and consider it their own. The first response is called racism, and the second is called cultural empowerment. As a citizen of the US, the land of the free, I go to see that I am of the people who respond with embrace rather than anger; love rather than loath. I want to be a culturally empowered individual, who understands his neighbors better because he has analyzed them from the roots, their culture. To do this, I have taken 4 years of Spanish,. In the class, we do a variety of things like converse, do bookwork, and an occasional project. This Spanish skit was one of those projects, in which we had to do some outside research and do a little culturally empowered thinking to complete. So I went on the net and researched about Latino American skit language. Then I had to make up a dialogue with my group and organize the whole thing into a play that we did in front of the class. It was an exciting experience to try to test out my Spanish in this simulation, because I really got to use it first hand in speech, and in front of an audience even. |
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