I got my books today! I'm very excited to read them! I plan on cracking into at least one of them tonight!!
I did another interview today! Woo!
I was supposed to have a meeting with a couple people from MSU who also feel very strongly about TWLOHA today. We were going to discuss why we felt that way and I was going to get some interviews as well as contact info for others who feel the same way. I got to the Union and found out the meeting was cancelled! Awesome.
Today's class discussion made me think of my philosophy class a lot. What defines a person and who they are and how we come to those conclusions and how a lot of the time the only way we can find to 'define' things is by saying everything that it is not, rather than what it actually is. Yepp.
Personally, if someone told me I was now Canadian I'd be pretty freakin' pissed... even though I love Canada and make a point to go there at least once a year. I'M AN AMERICAN, DAMMIT! AH-MUR-CA! YEAH!!! Even though I'm technically half filipino...
I often wonder what my mom classifies herself as. My mom was born in the Philippines, lived in Italy for 6 years and then lived in Canada for 4 years and then finally moved to the US to be with my dad and became a US citizen. I feel like she changes her 'nationality' to fit her mood for the day....
This is one of the most fascinating topics for me: the conception of the Other. The idea that we identify our self by identifying what we are not. I think that this is going to play a big part in my own research about immigrants in Grand Rapids.
ReplyDeleteI here you on the whole irritation with being called Canadian thing. The question that I get asked most often is "What is your nationality?" I continually have to stop myself from responding "American, what's yours?" lol I believe what they mean is 'ethnicity'.
I suppose that it draws from being a country built on immigration. Everyone is from somewhere else, but here's the kicker. I am part Native American. I was here first lol jk