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Blog Prompt:

How did switching genres from academic paper to podcast allow you to think in a different way about the subject of your paper?  How did it allow you to use language differently?

IT switches your thinking because when you are interviewing someone, you can get their perspective and you can see if they agree with you on what you are thinking. another way it made me think differently is that I felt like I understood some new information from the person I was interviewing because when I asked them the question, they provided a lot of detail after the question which helped me realize even more information too.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Zg1nskdBnJj4hJJMYUASlSBUbGm7wVAG

 

 

1. Do you know the authors Kenji Yoshino and Kwame Anthony Appiah?
2. do you think people have 2 identities in todays world? If so, explain?
3. if you think people have 2 identities, why do they do that
4. What do you know about Assimilation and covering?

After listening to the podcast assigned to your group, write a post evaluating both the presentation–volume, modulation (speed and variation in tone), articulation (clear pronunciation), etc.–and the content.  For the content, keep in mind the rules from “10 Ways to Have a Better Conversation.”  Does the interviewer use open-ended questions?  Does the interviewer listen to the interviewee and respond to what Duhigg has said?  Is it a conversation?

I really like this podcast because these 2 people work really well together. The sound i can hear clearly and both people both speak very well. The reader uses great questions and they are both listening and the interviewee answers the questions very well.

After reading Gay in Emerging and Appiah in Week 10, choose one or the other for your paper/podcast.  Then write the following blog post: Does this author (Gay or Appiah) see a problem in the pressures people feel to conform to expectations?  How is the way this author sees the problem similar to Yoshino?

One of the problems was in the article of Appiah proposed was that a young movie director (who was black) thought the movie script wasn’t black enough “a young black director who’d grown up in a New York City housing project. Mr. Rich apparently worried that the script wasn’t “black enough” and proposed turning the protagonist’s father, a schoolteacher, into a garbage man. which means there is a problem with people trying to meet expectations.

 

What does Yoshino see as the problem and why is it problematic?  What solutions does he offer?

Covering is one of the major problems because people go through a lot and they get based of their skin color etc… which was on of the major problems

“Defining terms is an important part of academic writing” (Barrios 548). After reading Yoshino 538-547, locate a sentence or sentences where Yoshino defines his key terms:  covering, assimilation, and authenticity.  Quote from Yoshino, including the page number, and then analyze his strategy for defining each terms.  For example, in Language Matters at the end of the Yoshino reading, the editor of Emergingsuggests that Yoshino might use a dictionary definition, might cite an authority, or might offer an example (Barrios 548).  If not one of these, what other strategy does he use in his definition?

What Yashino says about assimilation is that “I recognize the value of assimilation, which is often necessary to fluid social interactions, to peaceful coexistence, and even dialogue through which difference is valued.” ( Yashino 540) What he is explaining is that people need to see the dark side of assimilation, so we can know what is going in the world today.

what Yashino expresss about covering is he says that it is race, sex, religion, etc.. “Everyone covers. To cover is to tone down a disfavored identity to fit into the mainstream. In our diverse society, all of us are outside the mainstream in some way… every reader of this book has covered, whether consciously or not, and sometimes at significant personal cost.”

 

 

 

No Prompt, so just stating important facts on the Yashino video

 

Kenji Yoshino describes the difference between passing and covering, and how companies will sometimes employ a myopic form of diversity inclusion that necessitates the abandonment of one’s identity. Too often, “diversity” means showing up to work sans one’s identity. This inauthenticity robs people of their sense of self. In order to define “authenticity,” Roosevelt wasn’t trying to pass as someone without a disability. He was simply hiding the part of himself he felt opened him up to judgement. Yoshino explains that we do the same thing in our own lives each and every day. As part of the “Uncovering Talent” study, 61% of people surveyed by Yoshino reported covering

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ozz_5Uy8VCX89MGhugZQZnakOMzZJecs

Where do you see stumbling blocks for readers who might want to listen to this writer, but may be offended or put off? How could the writer “soften” these stumbling blocks? Should they?

Maybe some of the stumbling blocks in this article was that she said her friend Gina wasn’t there anymore. “My friend Gina is dead. I had just talked to her that morning in art class. We laughed together, we sang together, we smiled together. We will never do that again.” This may be offending to some people in a way because it may be a little “too much” for the reader and make them un-easy. And also, the writer mentioned a name, and that make people feel offended if they know who was mentioned in the article. This is a very traumatizing moment for these kids at the school, so it may be hard for them to “soften” these stumbling blocks, but maybe in a way be less descriptive and don’t say names of the people who died in this fatal attack, but there aren’t much ways they can soften these stumbling blocks.