Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Culture is Ordinary Response

I agree in what he says about the culture. I believe that the culture a person grows up in is very ordinary to them. This is because it is the only culture they know well and what they see happening is the "norm" in their eyes. Williams chooses to use examples in his own life to support his ideas and what he saw on that train ride was something he was familiar with. I believe he uses the word ordinary as opposed to unfamiliar or even extraordinary. Something that is ordinary to you would feel odd but it wouldn't feel extra special etiher because your culture is what you see and live with in your everyday life. That doesn't mean your culture is not extraordinary to someone else, does it?

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