MLO 3: Secondary Culture
Outcomes:
3.1 Students describe concepts of culture; and use that understanding in their comparison of the target culture with secondary culture.
3.2 Students will analyze and make connections between the perspectives, ways of thinking, behavioral practices, and cultural products of a secondary culture.
Course Taken:
SPAN 308
3.1.
For my secondary culture course I took SPAN 308: Hist/Cultr Aztlan:SW US. It was a history of Mexican Americans. I figured this part would be important since having grown up in California Mexican culture has had a very big influence on my surroundings. This course allowed me to compare a culture that was relatively isolated until recent centuries like Japan’s to one that has been full of being conquered or moving to new locations. Japan has a very definite culture and distinct taste, but I think it is amazing the influence that Mexican culture has had over here in America. California has definitely taken a huge part of the culture into it and it has definitely made itself known. I have a sample of one of my assignments that goes over a figure in Californian history that has relation to this topic.
3.2.
This course also helped me with my own view of different cultures and concepts. Studying Japanese gives a pretty good opportunity to broaden your mind since it is such a different culture when compared with what we do in America, but then when you add another different culture, like Hispanic, than that gives you the opportunity to get an even broader aspect. Taking this course and seeing it from the perspective of a Mexican American gives you views into the biases and stereotypes on both sides. This course gave me the chance to think critically about what I believed and what the other believes. Not everything taught was without bias, so it was important to analyze and compare cultures more effectively to not be taken by stereotype.
3.1 Students describe concepts of culture; and use that understanding in their comparison of the target culture with secondary culture.
3.2 Students will analyze and make connections between the perspectives, ways of thinking, behavioral practices, and cultural products of a secondary culture.
Course Taken:
SPAN 308
3.1.
For my secondary culture course I took SPAN 308: Hist/Cultr Aztlan:SW US. It was a history of Mexican Americans. I figured this part would be important since having grown up in California Mexican culture has had a very big influence on my surroundings. This course allowed me to compare a culture that was relatively isolated until recent centuries like Japan’s to one that has been full of being conquered or moving to new locations. Japan has a very definite culture and distinct taste, but I think it is amazing the influence that Mexican culture has had over here in America. California has definitely taken a huge part of the culture into it and it has definitely made itself known. I have a sample of one of my assignments that goes over a figure in Californian history that has relation to this topic.
3.2.
This course also helped me with my own view of different cultures and concepts. Studying Japanese gives a pretty good opportunity to broaden your mind since it is such a different culture when compared with what we do in America, but then when you add another different culture, like Hispanic, than that gives you the opportunity to get an even broader aspect. Taking this course and seeing it from the perspective of a Mexican American gives you views into the biases and stereotypes on both sides. This course gave me the chance to think critically about what I believed and what the other believes. Not everything taught was without bias, so it was important to analyze and compare cultures more effectively to not be taken by stereotype.
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