Wrap Up

1. What is something you learned about another culture this term that surprised or intrigued you?

I think that about every culture that we went over provided a lot of different things that intrigued me. While I looked for videos for cool stuff, I found more information on the music through wiki and some really good sites and sometimes got really caught up in learning and reading that I'd forget that I'm doing it because of an assignment.

2. What is something that you realized about your own culture through our discussions.

I've always just thought that I didn't really have a heritage until about the first week of class. I was never really able to truly find out because I only knew my dad for a summer every year and my grandmother on my mom's side was really eclectic about culture, she used to say that we were a different thing almost every five years; it seemed as though her imagination grew with age. Thanks to this class I've seen that my father has sort of adopted the Native American culture and some how passed it down to me through name.

3. What is something that this course has inspired you to learn more about.

Well, on one of my blog posts for cool stuff I ended up doing something on the zithers and the tremendous similarities and the fact that each country had a version of that same instrument. It boggles me how much of a circle and connection that each country shares.