I'm like my family in every aspect of my habits and personality. My mom, dad, and sister all share the same qualities all together but we dont each have the same qualities. My parents think my personality is spacial because even at a very young age i was very sociable and welcoming. When i was in day care the school and chosen to use me to introduce all the new kids so that they felt welcome. I also was always able to intrigue and communicate with adults at an early age and was another level of my acceptance of all different types of people. Their aren't any parts of my parents personalities that i wouldn't want because any negatively perceived elements are apart of how that type of personality learns. It is impossible to go against nature and nurture because it's how a person deals with those constants that define their personality. So to go against it would make you anti social as that is the only way against nature and nurture, ignoring them .

Mr. Smith- i didn't do this blog earlier because i am a space head

any who here's what i owe you

A "new" water in my life is the effects of artificial reality and the disconnect from face to face social experiences. Now i'm not saying its not their in our lives, but it is dramatically less than how the whole world used to be. Back in the day lets say 200 hundred years ago their were social forums where people used to converse, meet up, and even trade, but as that had evolved civilization created technology which became the start of a lot of new water. If i want to have fun with my friends- we dont go outside and everything seems artificial. the only options you really have is video games, computers, and tv. there seems to be a screen between all interaction now. plays are now movies, txt screens become the face of your friends when you converse, and playing a game of pick up basketball turned into halo on xbox with a mic as your only connection to your friends.

Navigation through this water is hard since hoping on the band wagon and giving into how interaction works now a days. I highly enjoy my time with friends conversing and interacting, but it just feels weird not being able to see the person as an individual interating with you. communication is just what you say or how you say it, it's your expressions, body language, and being without the option of turning your friends "off" through what ever screen your using.

the american values that i embrace is equality (like everyone is really equal lol), freedom (not like we're that free but at least we're better off than everyone else), majority rule (society gets what it wants wheather minorities do or dont.....basically i dont care if im against the majority only because i know life goes on). I have my own set of values and they are all inherreted by individual situations, but i always accept new insight from wise people that know how to give it. Im content with living my own life by my rules until i die---thats how i find my happiness----doing things my way while accepting new ideas to add to my repitoire.

Infantilize

Infantilization occurs in America's business marketing techniques. It's used to make people feel good about a decision, but only because the person was being treated like a child. A good example is how most girls sweet talk their dogs with the over exaggerated positives tones. Infantilization negatively effects society because it takes the mutual respect away from relationships. I know i feel disrespected when im at Stevenson and am not aloud to be responsible for myself as a 17 year old and am treated like i was 10, yet at the same time it is expected from me to handle any given situation better than most other students because i do go to Stevenson. how does that make any sense? one example brought up in class is the fact that im not aloud to eat, drink, or go to the bathroom without permission. When in your life that you've ever been in an enviroment when you were older than 10 and had to ask to be allowed to go to the bathroom- or even to go get a drink? Now i don't mean asking where the bathroom is, im talking about asking for permission for you to leave and go handle your bodily functions that you've been able to deal with since around 3 or 4 after potty training.

One other Stevenson infantilization problem i have is the dress code- your'e not allowed to wear anything inappropriate yet high school students conversations include things way worse than anything i've ever seen on a t- shirt. just another time where your treated like a child only months before leaving to live on your own and go to college.

Bronx Tale Post

The reality of the neighborhood is socially constructed because a persons position of power in the neighborhood directly relates to theirs friend group and occupation. It can be seen through out the movie that C's father was below Sonny's class level because he was a bus driver and didn't make near the money Sonny made. On a social level C's father was also below Sonny because he controlled the neighborhood. His words also thus ring louder to the intermediate public, and when he says, "the working man is a chump", and he himself doesn't work, people tend to believe him. Now because everyone takes his word for true the social status he has decided now becomes reality to everyone in the neighborhood. This correlates to the fact that Sonny's word always goes because the position of power he is in. Sonny runs the bar's illegal gambling scene and is the head man in charge of the localized mafia.

Sonny says in the movie that he'd rather be feared than loved, but since he doesn't trust anyone he relies completely on the fact that people fear him. This fear forces the other people in the neighborhood to follow the game as Sonny plays it. For instance, when the biker gang came into their town Sonny took care of them by locking them in the bar after they disrespected him and proceeded by beating all the bikers up and then making sure that they would never forget who did that to them. This was force being used to enforce Sonny's rules. Basically everyone tried to stay out of Sonny's way because in turn Sonny kept the neighborhood safe from out of towner's looking for trouble. He would also crack down on anyone in the neighborhood that acted poorly by disrespecting them and or threating to hurt them. Over time the neighborhood probably let Sonny take over generally because there was no one to protect them, and in return they wouldn't rat on anyone that "rolled" with Sonny.

The racism in the story was also a social construct because the group of friends C hung out with all hated the black people only a couple blocks down. At the time most people were racist ( on both sides, white and black), and C's friends would act out to harm them. Since it was acceptable in the neighborhood to not like black people it is a social construct. Luckily in most situations C didn't do the damage his friends would, so in a way he was defying the social construct, but he did so covertly. An example of this is when he was supposed to be beating up the bike rider, who unknowingly was Jane's brother, he was just "acting" and wasn't doing any harm. If a person would have gone to the black side of town the same views vice versa would have been present. This can be seen after the big fire and all the black people are yelling and taunting C before he runs back home.

this weekend i had a very eye opening experience. During my experience things just started to click- what i mean is that connections were being made and they made sense. Basically human survival is dependent upon human interaction, which is based on communication- verbally, physically, and emotionally. Everything that a person thinks they know really is not anything more than that persons perspective. that perspective becomes reality to whoever is seeing or feeling from that vantage point. Everything looks simple if you only have one way of looking at it- but the unbelievable truth is that every human being has their own perspective and it deserves just as much value, if not more, than your own views and opinions because of the thought diversity.
It came full circle with empathy being the capability to share and understand others emotions and feelings- that this sole idea creates the need for communication and empathy expands your understanding of how the world really works.
My statements have more meaning too if you believe life is not about a destination but really a journey- and what you learn along the journey is what really matters- learning comes from understanding - understanding comes from multiple perspectives-

I was thinking about our socio imaginations and the connection between perception and reality. Our socio imagination is really just a bent reality to convince our selves that there is a common sense answer to everytihng, but there isn't. Does this mean when you bend other peoples perceptions of reality, like lying or having an alibi (boat example in class), that you are influencing other peoples socio imaginations?

Silence is like a mirror for thought, all it does is reflect the light shown upon it.