Bonjour all. Happy Thursday!
I hope you are enjoying reading Incantation. So far, feedback has been pretty good, which is encouraging. Now, as you continue to read, I want you to think about culture. What is culture? How do we create it? Is culture nececssary to our existence as humans? Does culture only exist when dealing with ethnicities?
What is necessary for a people to maintain their identity, their culture, and their nation? Now put yourself in a situation similar to Estrella and the other Hidden Jews, where to expose yourself for who you really are could mean imprisonment or, more likely, death? What would it take?
Lastly, I want you to think and give examples of minority groups in the United States who have maintained their unique cultures and have had to do so in a clandestine way. What are some of the things these people have had to do to maintain their cultural identities?
Although I graded the last blog in a very, very liberal fashion, I feel that the quality of the posts were substandard. Yes, this writing is very low-stakes (as I have said before), but that doesn't mean you should sacrifice quality. Think and put time into your response. Remember, your brain is like a muscle....the more you use it, the stronger it becomes. Don't have a weak brain.
