When I first started reading about the contact zone, I immediately thought of it in a negative sense.  A contact zone makes me think of fighting and aggression, rather than just a place where cultures are mixed.  After our class discussion, I began to think of the contact zone as neutral.  If the two sides do not accept each other it will be seen as negative, but if they can live in harmony together, then the relationship is positive.  I have experienced many different contact zones throughout my life.  I grew up in a very diverse school district, teaching me the importance of learning about other people and their cultures.  Over the years it has become part of my nature to accept people for who they are and I am interested to learn about other people’s cultures.  I have also learned th

Kate Weiler

The Child in the Basement: Socioeconomic Inequality and Silence

Growing up as a military child, my life and my identity are the product of contact zones. Contact zones within the various countries I’ve lived in, within the countless schools I’ve attended, and even within military bases themselves. However, one of the most prominent and distinct contact zones was definitely the one I experienced in Armenia.

Growing up as a military child, my life and my identity are the product of contact zones. Contact zones within the various countries I’ve lived in, within the countless schools I’ve attended, and even within military bases themselves. However, one of the most prominent and distinct contact zones was definitely the one I experienced in Armenia.

The embodiment of guilt in “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” is very interesting to me because I have always had trouble with feeling overly guilty for small actions that in my mind my parents would disapprove of. So what If the world operated without guilt? Would I have the majority of the problems I have today? Ursula Le Guin has decided that guilt is what keeps the world from being a blissful place and in my personal account with the priest guilt was the guiding force.

Princess Jefferson

Through The Looking Glass

My identity has been shaped since my junior year in high school, in Houston, Texas. I was “privileged” to take part in a news segment that was intended to be on cultural diversity within the classroom. Instead this segment turned into one of the most emotional raw cut videos you will ever see. https://www.facebook.com/IsiahCareyFOX26/videos/1174317212590718/.