I would now like you to return to your blog 8 entry and discuss a situation when you have been seen as the other--when your sex, race, habits, tastes etc. have clearly made somebody react negatively toward you and turn you into "the other" for them. Discuss the experience in detail and what you thought about the person as well as about yourself after this experience.
I probably was seen as “the other” with my friends as they would love to talk about other people and put them names and stuff like that and the sad part of it is that I was kind of part of it. When they talked about someone and said like: “she is so stupid” I would feel bad and think to myself “just leave her alone” because it was something that they would talk about every day and it turned out as something annoying. So, in other words, I was seen as “the other” indirectly because of being with my friends turning out to be a part of it. Another of these situations was when I would have to talk or deal with someone that I really didn’t get along with being this, “the superficial person that loved to give attention all the time”, since in reality I would’ve wanted to ask him/her why was she/he acting that way, but of course I wouldn’t do it because it would probably turn out as something offensive and be misinterpreted turning out as probably something judgmental.
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