Do you like Tricks?

This week in class we played a card game. The goal was that everyone was supposed to be in a group and they all put in a card and someone would win(having a trick). The games started of easy enough in your starting groups. The only difficult part of it was that we werent able to talk. Our teaacher actualy tricked us though. He gave every group a different set of instruuctions. So at one table they might have been told that a diamond beat out a spade and different rules along those lines. Needless to say this caused cconflict at many tables. Some students would get angry others just kinda went with the flow. I just went with the flow, but I was totaly confused on what the hell was going on.

This game applies to cultures around the world. A good example my teacher gave us was that in japan the people really dont just flat out say no. People will get bugged by cultural differences. I went to New Zeland and it drove me nuts that anytime I oredered a lemonade it was actually a sprite. This game proves that its frustrating to adapt to a lifestyle that is different thatn on we have grown up with all our lives. These things in culutres though is what makes them unique and the American culture has unique things to it to. Needles to say it always starts of frustratin to adapt especially if their is a language barrier.

A Bronx Tale

This week in class we watched "A Bronx Tale". The movie really demonstrated how the world around us can be made up of multiple groups. The Italians and Blacks were couldnt agree with eachother. The movie allso showed us how people tried to live and survive in the city. They had to respect the mobsters or gangs in their neightborhood. They knew the dangers if they didnt. The main mobster, Sonny, talks about how people can earn  respect. There is the meathod of fear and the meathod of love. I felt that sonny did have both, but I think fear is going to be the more powerful way to gain it. Violence seemed to be the main way to gain that fear and therefore, gain that respect. The movie was good and it really has alot of things to show about how the world around us works.

Abandon ship

This week in class we did an activity called abandon ship. We had 16 people assigned roles amd sit in a boat outline on the floor. Then we had to kick out 7 people because the boat would sick with anymore than 9. It seemed like it was basically survival of the fitest originaly, but a few of the poeple we kicked off didnt seem like proper fits. We kicked off a sailor becuase he had a shaddy background. It did start off like survival of the fittest, but we got rid of a couple of young vapable hands only to keep a guy whose hands were unusable. 

This activity was based off a true story. It seems awful, but when it came down to it, it what was neccesary to survie. I do feel that if I or anyone else was actualy in this position that we would kick people off. The idea of sacrificing one life to save multiple. I have no doubt that anyone in this situation would follow the idea of surviaval of the fitest. I also believe some morals would kick in. For example in our activity we didnt kick off the pregnant lady or or husband because its wrong to leave a pregnant woman to die or single. This activity really makes you wonder what would you do and how would you bear it if you had to throw people overboard to save your life.

Canibalism. Is it really that wrong or are we just breaking a norm?

So of course canabalism is not a widely accepted thing by society. Yet from time to time you can hear stories about peole who resort to hit to stay alive. I had read about one such story durring the oregon trail times and now most recently the story of the survivors of f-227. 

Now under no normal day means do we want to hear, see, or partake in canabalism. Frankly it goes against every social norm that we have. But when it comes down to it we would probably do it if it ment your survival. The survivors of f-227 had to do this. Now it is disgusting meat is meat. We dont think anything of killing animals, but when its a human its completly different. Im not saying by any means that canabalism is socaily acceptable, but if it has to be done to live I'm sure anyone would do it.