Monday, March 23, 2009

A few community ideas

This paper could go in many directions. I have many ideas of the types of communities I would be interested in researching, all of them different from each other. I started off brainstorming and this is what I came up with. One culture that is still prevalent in the world, but one that you don’t hear too much about is the Australian Aborigines. The Australian Outback is such a dangerous place to live, so desolate and dry, and yet this community of people are a living tradition here. It’s not necessarily the group of people that I am frightened by, but almost bewildered by, that they are able to thrive as a culture in the Outback. Another idea I was thinking about (and also discussing with another classmate) was focusing a paper on a group of socialites such as The Real Housewives of Orange County. We love to envy them, but is there an underlying truth about their lives in reality? We only know what we’ve seen on television and the tabloids, and this can be related back to our last paper discussing stereotypes. My last idea is to possibly explore a darker community, such as Neo-Nazis or White Supremists in America. It seems as though discrimination has died down, yet groups like these are everywhere. You may not see them on the streets, but are they still killing?

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