After the Nacirema exercise, please answer the following:
1. What happened yesterday? Why couldn't we recognize our own culture? yesterday, i was tricked by the reading and the presentation into relating the "culture" to some barbaric tribe. i don't think that we could recognize our culture because of the way that it was presented to us. the association of words with pictures skewed our thinking
2. What does your answer say about the the strengths and weaknesses of the Social Sciences like Psychology, Sociology and Anthropology? the social science are weak in the respect that conclusions are based on the way that they are viewed. there can be very different results if the research is viewed in a different context and by different people. the fact that we tend to criticize cultures that we are unfamiliar with shows that we a a judging people.
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Andrew: I am glad that you attempted to answer the question, but maybe include the specific words used by the author that led us astray.
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