Tik Tok

I find it really odd that in some cultures 33 and a half minutes late is considered socially acceptable. In class, the teacher asked what you consider late. Some people said 15 minutes, some said 10 minutes. I said 1 minute. If i tell someoe to meet me a the mall at 5, if they're not there at 5, they're late. Doesn't mean i make a big deal about it, but they're late. In the article we read in class, the boy who went to a class had other students coming in and out whenever they want. I find that rude if someone leaves a class early just because its respectful to listen in class. Also if i came in an hour late to class, it would be awkward walking in with everyone looking at you like you're a foreigner. Also, if you walk in late, you most likely missed information same with leaving early. I don't see how it's socially accpetable to be late to anything.

Culture Shock

The card game we played was a great expirement to find out how different people adjust to different ways of life. It was like every table was another society and we had become acostomed to our "laws" even if we all didnt agree in the begining, we all had enough time to play our games that it was no problem to play without talking. But when we were put in the position to switch, we had a lot of arguments because its like going to a new country and trying to communicate in a different language. When we had someone come to our table, theu just got mad because their rules were different than ours. They had a culture shock and didn't know how to handle it without screaming. It's simmilar to Sal's story about the bathrooms in Japan. If we had more time to introduce our newcomer to our society, they would have had to adjust. Sal had to adjust to the bathrooms in Japan, because if you gotta go, you gotta go.
- J

Sonny

This week we watched a movie about an Italian naighborhood and how everyone in the neighborhood is influenced by one main character, Sonny. The other main character, Collodro, or as society has named him, C, has been greatly influenced by everyone. He was influenced by everyone except for the ones he should look up to most, his parents. His parents forbid himn to see sonny because of his reputation and C's father said, "People dont look up to him, they fear him". That seemed apparent in the begining of the movie, but then i realized that sonny genuinely cared about C. I am influenced by many different people too. My friends help me pick out cloths to wear, places to go, things to do, and i go with them. But everyone does. It takes one person to lead a bunch of people.

Abandoned Ship

In the activity, we were very focused on what someone's title was to determine their fate on the ship. The people who had a title that proves that they have experience, stayed. The macrosociological aspect of this was that we are all high school students trying to figure out who needed to stay on the ship. The microsociological aspect was everyone's individial role. My role was the Traveling Poet. That was just my title; in the description, it said that i spend a lot of time by myself on the carribean. So i would have been helpful on the ship because of prior experiences. Everyone was so concerned about what everyone's title was, they never took time to dig deep into people's discriptions.