Volleyball

Throughout high school I played volleyball. I played on my school team all four years, earning team captain as a senior. I played for a club team by the name of club w in the winters and went to tournaments with teams from all across the country. My volleyball experiences will stick with me for a long time, but I want to continue them here. There is a club volleyball team here as well but I already missed the callouts, there is intramural sand volleyball and regular intramural volleyball. I am thinking about joining one of these sports but I am not sure what to expect, or who to put on my team. I think that I would like to play regardless of what happens, but I am not too sure what my plans or intentions are. The callouts end tomorrow so I need to make a quick decision. If you had read my previous post you would know that I am having a chemistry deficient night, and my mind immediately starts to wander once I trudge back over to the chemistry tab on my internet. I am having a much easier time posting about things that I am actually interested in and am actually thinking about.

My kryptonite, chemistry is just not consistent

I have always excelled in my math and science courses. Whether it be physics, geometry, biology, calculus, or anything else I have taken. All these came easy for me and seemed natural, except for one course. The dreaded chemistry course had been the most difficult for me to fight through in high school. And now as I sit here doing my week’s homework; finishing up Calculus II homework confidently, checking off my English 106 homework as I type, and progressing through my other classes with not too many problems, knock on wood. Finally, I sit down to finish off the workload and find myself staring at the screen just wondering about what the heck is going on with the sig figs and conversions in my chemistry course. Math and physics conversions are no problem, but there is something different about the content in chemistry. I feel as though I do not remember a thing from high school. The ways that things are done in chemistry just seem backwards and incorrect. So, I thought a quick blog about my struggling chemistry skills would free up some memory of my previous knowledge of what I am supposed to be doing, but no dice so far. Back to my kryptonite, chemistry.

Globalisation Doesn't Mean Similarity

According to me, culture is of the most important things that keep every single nation or community,different from each other. It's the culture that gives an identity to a group of people. I don't think that culture around the world are becoming more homogenous. Learning about someone's culture doesn't mean that we are tying our cultures and making them alike. Values of different cultures give an extensive approach , attitude , perspective to think and see things in diverse way. For example, cooking the same dish in four different ways for four different chefs. We learn different things from different cultures . If we want to expand our work in a some other country , we first have to learn the ethics and culture of that place. If due to globalisation cultures were becoming identical then what's the need to learn anything about that place? This is the first question that comes to mind if we talk about these three words together : Culture ,Globalisation and Homogeneity. Every place on this earth is not the same and has varied types of resourses. Every community use their natural resources differently. The other community learns some skill and try to use these skills with their own resources. Learning about different skills opens a large variety of opportunities and possibilities. We can use the same technology in a differrent way in a poles apart places.

Homogenous Culture

Personally, I believe that the cultures around the world are becoming more acclimated with each other and interacting these days more than ever in history. The obvious reason for this would be the technology that is becoming much more accessible to all countries and cultures. This technology makes it so much easier for our culture to interact with other people and societies across the globe. Yes, our cultures are becoming closer, but in very few ways are we becoming homogenous. People and the way the act and think are becoming much more alike due to the amount of cultures, ideas, and beliefs that they are exposed to, but their basic, important, and deeply rooted values are present at all times. The beliefs of other cultures do not change and these cultures are still present. Any person of any religious, ethnic, or other background can become part of a certain culture, I think that people are seeing all of this diversity in the different cultures and assuming that we are becoming one huge, global, culture.

Homogeneous culture

Recently, the idea of homogeneous cultures have come into play; people are beginning to think that we are creating a global homogeneous culture. I agree to an extent, but there is definitely still a variety of cultures. With advancements of technology, communicating with people around the world has become easier; people from all over are now sharing their cultures with others. The communication has made it easier to see similarities in all the cultures, and has started to form a new, world wide, homogeneous culture. However, if you zoom-in and start to analyze values and beliefs, it becomes apparent that we don't have a homogeneous culture. Instead, we have a global community made up of multiple cultures. This is how I view Purdue’s community. Everyone is very open minded, and has many similarities. But each club, organization, Greek house, or co-op has is its own community forming its own culture. All the different cultures come together to make Purdue’s community, just as it does on the global scale.

Week 1

The first week of classes I think has at least one moment that just makes the student feel about an inch big...whether it's a social situation or an experience in a course. Mine came when I walked in two minutes late to my Calc 161 lecture. There were no seats left, and the professor continued on with his lecture completely unsympathetically. After standing for 50 minutes holding my notebook up, and uncomfortably scribbling notes down, not really even following all of what I was writing down, I felt about an inch big, and like it would actually convenience someone if I simply gave up on my math class.

But, in striking contrast to that, I know that each time I come to Comm 106, a recitation, or back to McCutcheon, I'm going to run into a familiar face and feel confident. I think we all feel like we struggle to some extent socially at college, because we go from situations where we are very confident, and have many circles of friends & support we can count on to starting at '0' or with a few friends on campus for some. This honestly doesn't matter that much, but it can make a difference with how confident we are going into our day, and even in how we're going to approach the work and activities of the day.

Some would argue that cultures around the world are becoming more homogeneous, especially given current globalization trends. Do you agree? Why or why

In general, I would have to disagree with those making the argument that the world's cultures are becoming more homogeneous. I believe that technology does connect us as a global family more than ever before, and that certainly gives us ways to find similarities and common ground with those from different cultures than our own. But, I must say that in the same exact way, that contact with those from differing cultures than our own helps us see our differences. I have on a soccer ball that I brought home from France with the inscription "Nos differences nous unisse" - meaning "our differences unite us." To me, this rings true as to what comes out of the contact we have with those with differing viewpoints, from different cultures, and having had differing experiences than our own. Our natural instinct as human beings is not to try and make ourselves as those who are different than us when we encounter them. I feel that the role of such encounters should be to expand our minds and our understanding so that we are open to what can be learned from our differences, and find common ground, not to change our way of life so that it aligns with that of someone entirely different.

Here's a sample Post!

Bla bla bla... I'm going to label this post with "Jayne" because I want it to be counted toward my English 106i course credit. I can add other labels if I want, but I have to have at least the course label in order to receive credit.