Ethnography+2

Ethnography Reading p.27-47
Ethnographers are the people that want to learn more about a specific culture and how people within the culture learn the traditions and where people place themselves in that group. Something that interested me was that ethnographers have to study more complex things like problem solving and practical intelligence in order to then go into a specific culture. An issue of this reading may be that ethnographers may enter a culture just for the meaning of studying the culture but you really have to have more. While in a culture you need to be open minded because as we all should know from our recent CLUE project that every culture is different. Another issue may be that when studying someone you have to know what types of questions to ask and how to phrase them so they aren't biased or just offending. This issue would effect the culture and the ethnographer themselves because this would effect the data being collected and the way that the culture would look onto this ethnographer. Something that also interested me was that humans and turtles have the natural response to see things only in their way of looking at it. I believe this is true and in that aspect for some people it can be really hard to look at someone and really understand maybe what they're going through or even just what they're saying. This goes with the saying that you don't really know how it feel unless it happens to you. In this reading I found myself more confused than in the first reading. It seemed to jump around a lot more to different topics.