Wednesday, December 17, 2008
What is the What Question Three
Do you think that focusing on the refugees as separate groups (ie: young or old, christian or muslim, male or female) reduces or intensifies the understanding of their plight? by viewing Lost Boys vs Lost Girls, for example, do we minimize the experience of one group to allow ourselves to fully actualize the trials of the other?
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Oh-that is a good one.
As a resident multitasker my life exists on categories and compartmentalization. Some might say this is a positive but lately in psychological circles it is being viewed as a negative because "they" claim it is impossible to do two cognitive things at one time. Blarney I say.
What this has to do with the groups and "what is the what" is that I do think my understanding of each group is intensified when I can isolate them. Although, there is something to be said for being able to compare seperate/diverse groups as well.
i guess the best way to look at it is like going to a party. you will appreciate and remember the party as a whole, a collective emotional/stimulatory experience. but the best parties are those when you connect with individuals throughout, picking up different pieces along the way and putting them together. personally, i am learning more by focusing on achak's story than i would by reading a history book that covered the same events in a broader sense...
i can't multitask to save my life, and i doubt that "they" would consider me a positive example of much, ha.
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