Where I am from there is a tremendous amount of islamic people. Probably something close to 50% of the city. In every class we have the teacher and the arabic translator. I couldnt find the article about this because it was years ago. But I think that this is a really good example of cultures being tolerant with one another. In PERSEPOLIS it is a constant change of culture. Islamic, Communism, Democracy, War, etc. The culture changes SO many times throughout the story. And not only that but they fight with one antoher and people are getting killed. But where I am from we have found a medium. There are deffinately racial issues in Dearborn, deffinately. But we aren't killing eachother, our governament make an effort to accomodate these foreigners.
I didn't have an article but take a look at the picture. I see people like this ever single day, all day, anywhere I go. I lived in the city before and after the Arabic/Islamic population arrived. Things most certaintly changed, but I wouldn't nessicarily say it was for better or for worse. Just change.
This is great! Your local community and global community are relates. I'd like to know more about distinctions--did you groups of people seem seperate? Did you notice an overall cohesion in the community?
ReplyDeleteI think accommodation--like a translator--is really valuable. What do you think this kind of accommodation shows or reveals about our country?
Do we see people being accommodated in any of our texts? Do we see equal opportunity?