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Apr. 19th, 2010 04:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kat8cha/insert snooty middle class educated white girl complaint here
I'm just...
Grah.
If I don't rip the skins off my classmates and fricassee them by the end of the semester I WILL DESERVE A PRIZE.
I was actually not pissed off with them last Wednesday. Why? Because we talked about Sundiata. Sundiata is NOT a story I expect people to know. Hell, my mom doesn't know it. I know it because I've taken African History, I've taken anthropology classes and I'm INTERESTED in this type of stuff. So it's not something I expect people to know. (However, if I was ever allowed to design some sort of middle school/high school Black History Month book list... Sundiata would be on it.)
I was pissed at them last Monday because... dammit, TRICKSTER tales. How do you not know these? How have you not read Anansi before? How do you not know Brer Rabbit?!I was also kind of -_- about there being no Coyote or Loki or something in there. I'd have picked Coyote over Brer Rabbit.
We started on Things Fall Apart today. And just... wow. Wow people.
First off, a FAULT should not go under a 'non-heroic trait'. What have we learned about HEROES in HERO STORIES this semester? One thing we should have learned is that THEY ALL HAVE FAULTS. All of them. So while Okonkwo's temper and pride aren't exactly stellar personality traits they ARE heroic.
I kind of wanted to strangle my teacher + the class for listing these are unheroic traits.
I also wanted to strangle them because they were like 'we can't list those as a FATAL flaw, we don't know that much yet!' ...and I wanted to say something along the lines of 'you don't, I DO'.
And then they got all hung up on polygamy. I swear there is just SOMETHING in the goddamn Puritan undercurrent of America that makes us FASCINATED with sexual scandal. We hate it but we love it. OMG THAT PERSON HAS MORE THAN ONE WIFE. ISN'T THAT STRANGE AND EXOTIC. Let's talk about that! And question it!
And totally not understand the culture behind it! At all!
I'm just...
Grah.
If I don't rip the skins off my classmates and fricassee them by the end of the semester I WILL DESERVE A PRIZE.
I was actually not pissed off with them last Wednesday. Why? Because we talked about Sundiata. Sundiata is NOT a story I expect people to know. Hell, my mom doesn't know it. I know it because I've taken African History, I've taken anthropology classes and I'm INTERESTED in this type of stuff. So it's not something I expect people to know. (However, if I was ever allowed to design some sort of middle school/high school Black History Month book list... Sundiata would be on it.)
I was pissed at them last Monday because... dammit, TRICKSTER tales. How do you not know these? How have you not read Anansi before? How do you not know Brer Rabbit?!
We started on Things Fall Apart today. And just... wow. Wow people.
First off, a FAULT should not go under a 'non-heroic trait'. What have we learned about HEROES in HERO STORIES this semester? One thing we should have learned is that THEY ALL HAVE FAULTS. All of them. So while Okonkwo's temper and pride aren't exactly stellar personality traits they ARE heroic.
I kind of wanted to strangle my teacher + the class for listing these are unheroic traits.
I also wanted to strangle them because they were like 'we can't list those as a FATAL flaw, we don't know that much yet!' ...and I wanted to say something along the lines of 'you don't, I DO'.
And then they got all hung up on polygamy. I swear there is just SOMETHING in the goddamn Puritan undercurrent of America that makes us FASCINATED with sexual scandal. We hate it but we love it. OMG THAT PERSON HAS MORE THAN ONE WIFE. ISN'T THAT STRANGE AND EXOTIC. Let's talk about that! And question it!
And totally not understand the culture behind it! At all!
