Instead of telling you all about the usual demographics, I'll just go ahead and skip to the quirky side of me!
- Love art of any form, every form (doesn't mean I'm good at it or anything!)
- Love languages
- Don't like chocolate
- Very passionate in Bilingual/Bicultural Education
- Wish I can teach all grade levels, all ages because in the end, I want to make a difference not only to little people, but people of all sizes :) I want to make a difference to the world.
- LOVE to joke
- Open minded
- Last but not least, I love Crowd Lu 盧廣仲. He's my favorite artist! <3
Okay, now the demographics:
- Name: Shawn
- Age: 12
- Ethnicity: Taiwanese (Just you case you didn't know: I don't speak Thai as that is spoken in Thailand and Taiwan is it's own little cute country island next to China)
- College: What's that?
- Major: Bilingual/Bicultural Elementary Education
- Height: 24 inches
- Weight: 3295285782034820 lbs. (Yes, I go by pounds because I'm not very familiar with kg... although I think my roommate is around 49 kg.)
- There should be more demographics... but I'll stop there because my fingers are tired..... not really
I am creating this blog for one of my classes that is a TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) class called Cross-cultural Issues in TESOL :: Examining cross-cultural practices in the context of translingualism.
My expectations for this class is for me to have a better understanding of how culture influences non-american students to act in classrooms and how families might/might not be involved.
I want to learn how to talk about a culture without sounding racist or stereotypical.
The last sentence I wrote in the previous paragraph is actually making me ponder... The reason is because what if I do talk about culture not in an offensive way, but other people take it offensively? I look forward to Dr. Seloni's response if we ever mention this. If not, I will definitely bring this up to class!
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Thanks for this creative post, Shawn. I am happy to hear that you are interested in exploring and understanding the non-essentialist, non-racist, non-stereotypical aspects of culture. Most often we tend to make sweeping generalizations ( and sound patronizing) about one's culture because we approach the notion of culture from a systemic and structural perspective where we associate culture with nationality and static products associated with that nationality. Part of the problem is that this does not allow us to see the critical aspects such as the hybridity of ideologies and identities, and more importantly it does not allow us to see the historical struggles that many oppressed groups experience. We are in fact all unique in our own cultural identity. But...I'll stop there and leave you with some food for thought until we meet next time.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Dr. Seloni, for your comment!
DeleteWith the hybridity of ideologies and identities, it seems like cultures can be similar to one another. With this kind of mindset, not only can I bring different cultures exposures into my classroom, but similarities between cultures too!