Our class trip to the MSU Museum was very enlightening into the Latino and Mali African cultures. The Latino exhibit did an excellent job at exploring accomplished scholars that are underrepresented in the Latino culture. One of the story’s that stands out in my mind is Cristina Garcia’s. She speaks of her Cuban identity and her displacement and loss of cultural memory due to her move to America. This was common in the stories that I read in this exhibit. Sandra Cisneros made it a point not to allow the disconnect of her culture to happen which is why she incorporates her native language in her books, a way to hold onto both cultures. The Mali exhibit “Our Journeys/Our Stories was extremely moving. This exhibit highlighted true to life photography of the Experiences held by these Mali children. This exhibit addressed issues pertaining to ageism, gender, stereotypes, language, prejudice, poverty, identity and religion. The most motivating thing about this exhibit was the opening quote “We must stop thinking that everything must arrive on a wave from the west, and realize that we are capable of creating an image of our own that can rise its own wave in the opposite direction” Alioune Ba This truly provided me with an insight into their culture.
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This program and experience sound really amazing. Theres the saying, "Don't judge someone until you've walked a mile in their shoes" and this seems like it really sums up this program. Obviosuly you did not do this for an extensive amount of time like those that really have the disabilities do, but it is still a great way to begin to understand the struggles they face. Programs like this would be beneficial for students to help teach awareness of others. One thing I would be concerned about is those students with these disabilities percieving this as mockery. I could see someone very upset because someone that was fortunate enough to be fully able to do something was trying to imitate their disability. This program also reminds me of the shows you see on television where people dress up in fat suits and walk around in public places to see how others react, and then do it again without the fat suit. If done in the correct, educational way I definately think this would be great, but it could also fail and really offend someone.
sorry that post was supposed to go under your post called "A Day In the Life of a Disability"
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