Prejudices

In the last class, we watched a video about how Hollywood discribes Arab people.

When I watched it, I was surprised and a little bit shocked, because I have never thought about the fact.
What I was most surprised is that in the movie of Disney, there is the words like if you don't like people's face , you cut their ears.
I have never thought about this song deeply. Actually, I like this movie and when I was a small child I often watch it, but I have never realized that I recieved a kind of prejudices about Arab people from the movie.

After I enterd ICU, I'm careful about a prejudice, but I realized that  I still have some prejudices.
It is difficult for me to realize them by myself, so I'm  happy to take the last class.

Today's class

Today, I watched two videos and though about race in the class.

Rab showed us two interesting videos from Youtube, and it was really good example for essay.
First one was really good, even if all players played different songs, but it composed one good song.
On the other hand, second one which all people sing same song was not so good.
As he said, I also think same thing can be said to my essay.
I cited from some books, but the qualities are not same and used them just for it fitted to my essay.

After that, we discuss about race.
We observed a lot of pictures of people and though how can I separate them to 5 groups.
It was difficult to do it, because, for example, I can not say the Latin peoples and people of the Middle Est as white people.

I feel that next topic of my essay will be difficult...

Let's be friends with Google doc

First, I'm not good at using computers.
I can not understand well how to use ZOTERO and evernotes yet.
Besides, I do not get used to using Google doc....

However, I realized I should get used it in order to study effectively in ICU.
Google doc is really useful for us, because it gives us enough time  to think about friend's essay.
When I read my friend's printed essay, I always can not have enough time to check all grammars and I check only its contents.
However, in the case of Google doc, I check friend's essay on the internet, so I read it alone in my home and I can have enough time to read it well.
I also can edit it easily, so it is useful for me to point out mistakes and to comment.

Therefore, I should share my essay on the Google doc with my friends and I'll try it.

pre-CWT

I forgot when was the class, but in the class, I took pre-CWT.
I like writing and I usually do not think writing test is difficult for me, but this time it was a little bit difficult for me.

The reason was that I realized I did not understand about Fisher well.
I could not analyze the situation by using Fisher's insistence.
Therefore, I had to read my text book again!
It was good for me to make sure the contents of the text, but I thought that I should have understood properly before pretest.

Funny and fearful videos

Yesterday...actually, it was not yesterday,because I forgot to write blog for a long time! Sorry!
However, now I can realize that how this blogs are useful for us.
I can write my this blog, because my friend's blog helps me remember what we did in the class.

"Yesterday", I watched some videos which told us what perception is like.
They were so funny for me, especially video of susi, but at the same time, I was fearful.
I like them very much , but I think they may give a wrong image about Japan to foreign people.
Even if there is notes in the first page(?), but most of us did not realize it.
Therefore, I was worried about them now.
 If I have a chance, I would like to show these videos to my foreign friends  and ask them how do they feel about them.

Anyway, these videos were really good example for perception.