As you well know, all of my college courses are very different from what I learned in high school. One class in particular is a challenge to grasp the main idea of the class because it is about culture. Culture seems so basic. Like all the different races, colors, genders, and sexual identity that makes up humans. It gives the society culture. But just 3 weeks into this course I am realizing it is way more than that. It's not just the people who make up culture. It is all the objects that make culture and we (the subjects) that interpret what they mean to us. The way that I started off college added to the culture here. I was scared without you. The things I was seeing just wasn't what I wanted it to be. I saw all the people and the gopher wear as a new world to me. They were all signs to me. Everything I saw around me was just so different. I didn't want to be here, as you well know, but it was because of the way I was seeing and viewing the new world. This was my position. I only looked at it as being torture. However, after being in this class for just one day I realized I just needed to open my eyes and start being more accepting of the new culture. So as you can see, culture is not just the people. It is the gopher sweatshirts, the gold, the maroon, the mascot and that is what I was seeing when I wanted to be seeing red and white. But I'm over it now :) Every new situation that I am put through just makes the culture here seem so different. Every person is unique and different. It isn't just the cookie cutter world of suburbia life. It's the real world now.
I love how you brought in the idea that culture is so much more than just race or religion, etc. I too came to the class thinking these would be the only topics we were going to learn about. Instead, as you stated, we have learned about objects and us as subjects taking everything in. Culture is clothing, friends, hairstyles and so much more. This class has enlightened me in the sense that I never before looked at all of these things as a big part of culture. Understanding this has opened my eyes to why people are perhaps who they are and has so far made me even more accepting of differences in our world. I love that we are beginning to understand the world through this class and can't wait to learn more!
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