"culture is ordinary"

it's ordinary to be different - agree or disagree.

when i read this piece, i wasn't at all clear on what it meant. still in a fog from the long weekend, it took a few more reads and a glass of iced tea to finally concentrate on williams' words (no, i'm not a caffiene junkie). and then i realized that williams was commenting on how culture, your environment while you shape and grow throughout your adolescent years, shapes the journeys we all take, which may all end up to be rather similar in the end.

but to my first comment - let me cite the reading:
"The questions I ask about our culture are questions about our general and common purposes, yet also questions about deep personal meanings. Culture is ordinary, in every society and in every mind." - Raymond Williams, "Culture is Ordinary"

think about the questions you ask yourselves about purpose. the questions are similar but the answers are always different. for example, what is your purpose in coming to kutztown? how will these classes enlighten your academic resume and thought processes? we may all ask ourselves these questions yet the answers will always be different. so is it ordinary to be different?

i thought the article was very thought provoking and made me raise a lot of questions about my own culture and how it has affected me, growing up first in philadelphia, then in abington, and finally finishing my adolescent years in ambler, pa?

i wasn't a very big fan of williams' writing style. i agree with caitlin - it sounded too dreamy and unrealistic to be true and definitely made me feel unfocused.

since this isn't actually formal, i don't have to write a formal conclusion, which is nice because i really don't like those very much, because i hate the idea of having to conclude an idea instead of being able to continue to expand and grow from it. so, please feel free to leave comments of concern, grammar corrections, etc. .. and i'll see you all in class tomorrow!