Sunday, March 7, 2010
ISCORE
I thought that ISCORE was an awesome experience. I attended the opening speaker session. The Dean of the College of Design spoke and talked about bridges. He talked about how we need to bridge things in our lives together and how everyone and every culture has something that bridges us to them. Reassuring the fact that we are all people and that we are all equals even though we live and act in different ways. He is orginally from Mexico and it gave a nice look into their culture and he shared some cool facts and pictures of Mexico. I also attended Hannah's session on Latinos in America. I thought this session was really relative to my life back home because we have so many Latinos. It is so important and we try and step back and look at things from their point of view. We must realize they look at things just like we do and they have viable opinions as well. I think all the culture's of Latinos are very interesting and I would like to do mroe research myself. ISCORE was very interesting and I will definitely attend again next year! I think it was really eye opening and really got me thinking about being more aware of other cultures.
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I agree Hannah did a great job presenting at ISCORE last week and her topic was very important in our culture. Iowa, atleast the area where I was from, has a lot of immigrants from Mexico that did not earn the Latino culture many points with people from my area. The bad part is these stereotypes can easily cross boundaries and be projected on people who don't deserve them (not that anyone does really). It's important think about how we can build that bridge like your speaker talked about and look at the links we share instead of the differences we have.
ReplyDeleteI also agree, Hannah did an amaaazing job and her session was very eye opening. I think it was great the way her facts and videos made us think beyond the stereotypes! This type of stuff is something we all need to be more aware of.
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