Victoria Miller’s blog

 I really enjoyed dancing on Wednesday, it was a really great experience and it will be something that I will carry with me for the rest of my life. I am not from around grand rapids and don't really know about what there is to do around here but because of this experience I now know about more activities that I plan to take advantage of in the future. I believe that dance should be taught and done a lot more as just a basic pass time. I used to think that was only something like ballet were you are taught by a dance instructor, you learn a dance, then you preform that dance at a recital. I had never really considered it as something you just do one the streets. It made me really happy to learn that dancing is the most predominant pass time in Cuba, I love dancing and to think it's how a lot of spend their free time it just makes me so happy. 

 I really enjoyed reading both I, Rigoberta Menchu and In the language of memory. They gave me as a reader a very clear image of what the indigenous face and how they live. I am aware that indigenous people face much discrimination and cruelty, however, I was never really aware of how drastic it was. I feel as though the cruelties that the natives face are not vocalized as much as they should be. When I think of the news and discrimination I manly thing of those of Africans decent, the Islamic, and Mexicans. However, there are so many groups that face discrimination out there and it bothers me how little we talk or learn about it. I think back on my grade school to all the moments we talked about discrimination and I remember talking about slavery and all the segregation that the African Americans face for at least a week every year, which in no means is a bad thing, however I only remember talking a about the cruelties the indigenous face ones or twice and the only thing that we t...

 This week I really enjoyed reading I, Rigoberta Menchu. It was both very interesting as well as enlightening as I was shown more about peoples experiences that I never really understood. In I, Rigoberta Menchu we learned about the hard ships that Rigoberta and her community faced. I really enjoyed reading this book because she told use about her culture and explained it as much as she could. I really enjoy reading about other cultures and I find it interesting to look at the similarities and differences between them. I also enjoy learning new things from the culture because some of the believe and practices are more than just that and it's a good way to look at healthier and safer ways to do things. For example, apart of the Quiché Maya's birth ceremony is the isolation of the child and mother for eight days. Rigoberta said that this was so the child could hold on to its purity a little longer and so it can start being acquainted with the world, on top of that it also might h...