Thursday, March 31, 2011
"Generalizations"
Why does this word keep getting thrown into conversation? Of course I'm generalizing, this entire class is about studying the generalizations people MADE UP over time to explain our visual and cultural differences. Because of this there will ALWAYS be exceptions to every race or ethnicity classification, ranging from factors like socioeconomic status to geographic location. I suppose if I said middle-class or higher it would have seemed less offensive, but it is really much deeper than that. What I was trying to make apparant is that our problems are NOTHING compared to the problems some humans deal with on daily basis. When's the last time someone you know starved to death? Died of malnutrition? Probably never. In other parts of the world, it is a harsh reality that affects them every time they wake up. And we throw out our food when we're TOO full. Americans worry about Akon's new single, while others worry about the radiation leaking into their soil and poisening their water. Samuel Roux Post #2
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What I would ask us to think about is are generalizations ALWAYS a bad thing? Is it ever productive/useful to make generalizations? What about generalizations that we can back up with scholarly data/evidence? For example, while it is true that not all white people have the same degree of white privilege, it not it accurate to say that all white people do enjoy privileges on the basis of their identification as "white" that people of color do not?
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