This last week in class we talked about monochronic time and polychromic time. We started discussing which countries were classified under each time. You don’t ever really think about things like these until they are brought up. The United States is classified under polychromic time. It’s funny that after this class I noticed how much that is true. We cannot even drive here without trying to operate our cell phones, check our hair, do our makeup, change the song on the radio and cuss out the person who cut us off all at the same time. I feel everyone is so impatient and everything has to be done all at once here. Then I realized this place could probably be a lot less stressed out if we would just take the time and do things the right, and safe, way.
We also started talking about racism, othering, discrimination, prejudice and all the things that go hand in hand with these topics. There is a lot of hate in the United States and other countries and there is so many different things that people are like the ones that I just named. I don’t get how people can hate someone or some race so bad when they don’t even know their backgrounds and who they truly are! It’s like when people see people with tattoos and automatically think that they are bad people and mean and disrespectful which most of the time isn’t true. Just because people like to express themselves differently or look different doesn’t give other people the right to judge. You may have your own personal opinions but those are your opinions, not a universal opinion! The video we are watching is one that is kind of hard to watch at moments. Not that they show what happened but listening to how these people were tortured because they were different is horrifying. It’s something that you never want to hear happening in your hometown.
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