A thought

I want to post on the blog my thoughts for the TOK presentation today on cultural bias, i dont mean to bash any of it because it was very entertaining however i was thinking about it a few hours later and this is what i came up with

The presentation showed that each cultural group will show somewhat of a bias towards a particular way of knowing, area of knowledge etc.....however the blatant stereotypes that supposedly represented each contestants culture i thought were borderline racist...and not very good at showing a "cultural bias" For example, Sarah and Keanes characters were both black, yet sarahs character was OF COURSE pregnant, had a gold mouthpiece and did not speak with correct grammar, and keanes character only liked basketball and didnt care much for anything else, namely school. I wasnt sure if they accurately portrayed what black culture not only represents, but what their bias' would be, since they portrayed stereotypes we see at NC everyday. I believe that if you were to present a project on cultural bias it would be incredibly difficult because of that little thing called personal perspective. I believe that cultural bias occurs when people move beyond their own cultural group into another with a certain idea or knowledge that does not necessarily match up with the conventions of that cultural group. However, isnt my idea, your idea, and the group who presented today ideas on what cultural bias is...susceptible to cultural bias, in fact, any "universal" idea of what cultural bias is, is suspectible to cultural bias... i think that the group today could not move beyond their OWN cultural bias and establish what the cultural bias would be for another cultural group and thats why blatant stereotypes were shown

Hopefully someone can enlighten me or give their own opinion, although that probably wont happen because no one reads the previous post they just post their own thought like im doing now, so Mr. Perkins since your the only one who WILL read this, thank you very much, and again to everyone i dont mean to target this presentation, this was just something i thought about afterwards....

Fair Sharing

We all grew up with at least a little sense that 'sharing is caring.' We were scolded when we didn't share crayons during pre-K and learned (hopefully early on) that to be selfish is to be left a very lonely, dissatisfied individual. While I agree that the sharing lesson is valuable for any young child to learn, I have to ask: where is the border between caring sharing and utter invasion of personal property? This is a border that I believe some people in our modern society may have wandered over. Yes, there are numerous paths that I could take in order to discuss this, but for the purpose of not writing a 2 page blog post I will focus on the issue of health care. This is an issue that is being fully attacked by current presidential candidates. The general consensus is that health care has, for many Americans, become too expensive to handle comfortably. The debate, however, is how to solve these "high costs." I admit that I haven't exactly been following Clinton's policy on health care, but I am very familiar with Obama's (seeing as you can't listen to the radio anymore without hearing one of his campaign promises). He promises a seemingly incredible health care plan: one that costs only $2,500 for the average family. This may seem unbelievably cheap, but we have to remember one thing: this is NOT the full cost of this health care plan. Everyone will be expected to pay taxes to benefit the "common good" regardless of whether or not they actually want the federal health care plan. We are, essentially, all sharing to an extreme that will leave us all with one flat, inflexible mold that we must fit. This, I believe, is where another playground moral comes in: fairness. In a competition, is the victor expected to share his trophy with the losers? Naturally not. He (or she) has worked hard and has reaped the benefits of that hard work. He put in effort, time, and pain to reach the level that he is at. His reward is his and his alone. The majority of athletes will agree with this school of thought. Why, then, do some Americans regard money so loosely? Shouldn't a hardworking, successful individual be allowed to be successful? Should he have to pass out his "trophy" to those who were not able to make as much money as he was? Is fairness allowing everyone to get his or her own morsel or is it allowing anyone who can to be successful in his own right? This is a decision that you have to make on your own...