Accordion to 12AP

In the article "Body Rituals among the Nacirema", the author makes fun of Americans' use of medicine and bathrooms by describing it as a "body rituals" of a native tribe. It also shows how some of the things that people do don't really make sense when looked at from out of context. The article really made me wonder what other "normal" things are actually useless and weird when out of context. After thinking about it, I was able to come up with a familiar example, and I think it should be described in the same way Miner did. A long time ago, an interesting tribe was created on Earth, they were spread out into every corner of the world but no one knows about them. They have many unusual traditions that they don't notice themselves. Most of the times, these traditions are harmless or insignificant, but one of those traditions have changed the way they think about appearance since they were kids. This ritual usually starts on the third birthday

At the start of the week, we had to write down a time when another person or I changed other people's behaviors just by entering a situation. I wasn't really able to come up with anything that significant because there is no stereotype associated with Asians that involves violence, unlike the ones described in "Just Walk On By" against African Americans. Most stereotypes associated with Asians are related to being good at math and having strict parents which don't really make people scared of Asians, especially on the streets. However, I thought about it a bit more and I finally recalled the times I changed the way people acted and it happened in the sketchiest place in the world: Troy High boy's bathrooms(especially the second-floor ones). Now you may be wondering why the Troy High boy's bathrooms are sketchy, let me give you a quick tour. When you first walk into the bathroom, you immediately smell a "comforting" tutti-frutti flavor; then, y

In Tannen's article "There Is No Unmarked Women", the author argues that men can make unmarked choices while women cannot make a choice without telling others about their personalities or other features. I think that the second part of that argument is correct because women tend to spend more time to get ready so they can accurately represent themselves in the appropriate clothes, makeup, etc. However, the first part of the argument made me wonder if there is really an unmarked case for males. In the passage, the author viewed the men's clothing and hairstyle as usual and unmarked in the conference room; they all wore similar clothes and shoes while the women wore very different outfits. I believe that this viewpoint is created because the author is a woman and she is viewing the women's outfits as an insider while viewing the men's outfits as an outsider.  When the author looks at the women's outfits, she was able to recognize the different styles of c