This week we spent more time looking at indigenous people. We watched a film about Pine Ridge, SD. On that reservation they live from Government paycheck to Government paycheck. They live off of food that is very unhealthy for them and most of them spend their money on alcohol. It frustrates me that they can’t do anything for themselves because they need the money to get a vehicle to be able to transport themselves to a job off the reservation.
I have mixed feelings about this situation. On one side of the situation they wanted to be treated as equals but they are not even trying to do anything about it but on the other hand if I was put on a little patch of land with no jobs available and no way to get to a job off of my given land I would probably give up too.
The other thing that we watched this week was about food and how different countries have different customs and how we wouldn’t imagine eating some of the things that other countries eat on an everyday basis. One of the thing that interested me the most was how people in the UK think that the combination of peanut butter and jelly is one of the oddest combinations. That is something that is so normal for us that it is different to hear that some people have never heard of it.
The other thing that interested me was the spitting in the cup experiment. I, as well as most of the other people in the experiment would never re-drink my own spit. When that guy that was asking them all the questions said that the spit was something that came out of their mouths it made me realize that a lot of people are like that including me. The sight of some things make us thing that it won’t be any good.
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