Advanced Mastery: intro to anthropology :)

F) I realized that Anthropology is used in my everyday life. Without anthropology we probably would not have come as far as we have today. While taking this course i have found my self thinking oh ya i learned about that in anthro the other day. In school i noticed it the most. I think that the concepts of anthro are so brilliant, of we didnt study people, other cultures, and ways of life, nothing would ever work out it seems. No one would ever be able to understand another society/culture, and we probably would not be even as advanced technologically either. I think that one of the best ways to learn is by comparing with other people. Because of the fact that we somewhat understood other cultures in other countries, we have been able to advance our technology, help them if needed, help ourselves, and become "allies." ( if u you will) Also i think that people would be so much more judgemental and close minded. Anthropology allows us to get insite into other countries, or even the way that people think that are different then others. For example, not only can we understand more about gender/sex, which is a huge issue here in our own country, but also about life, traditions, rules, power, ethnography, etc... in other countries and cultures. Throughout the course of this semester i have learned so much reguarding other cultures and have become much more aware of things that are going on and more open minded to things that i have not yet learned about. It is not fair to be bias against things that one is unaware of, this is one of the things i learned through this class that i thought was really so important to understand and do.

G) One of the things that i have noticed about anthtopology that i think is a major weakness is the fact that it is really hard to disreguard your own culture when learning and studing about another. It is just our human nature, and the way we were taught (our culture) to believe what we were taught our whole lives. It is difficult not to have biases. For example, it would be very hard to go to another country that believes that eating dogs, cats, hourses, etc... is ok and done on a regular basis. Being an anthropologist and studing this would be so difficult i think. Here we strongly believe that eating your house pets is not at all an ok thing to do, let alone good tasting. If it was me in this situation i dont think i could eat something like that just because of the culture that i was raised in, i would feel so bad that i was eating a dog or cat, a pet!!! Even for an professional anthropologist i think that this would be an extremley hard thing to just accept and be open minded to. On the other hand anthro has so many strengths. We learn so so much about other cultures and ways of life. In order for us to grow better as a person and a country we need to learn, no just about ourselves, but about other ways of life and thoughts, perceptions, rules, and cultures; and anthropology gives us the tools that we need to succede in this.

H) i used wikipedia, and what i have really learned from this class.