Ok, so it was just fine. I actually thought it was pretty facinating.
My mom and 2 little brothers came. Though I don't think the boys found this experience very enlightening. They hardly know English, so all they could use was the pictures and my mom's kind of vague descriptions. I thought the one wall with the pictures of people and all the races "in them" (I guess you could say that) was the coolest. Especially the one picture of the girl who was part Chinese/Japanese and European. She had blonde hair and light skin, but her eyes were kind of Asian-ly slanted. I thought that was cool. Then there was all this other stuff about "inventing white" and things on how race seems to affect employment and housing and a whole lot of other stuff. Then this thing with these college students of all these different races. That portion of the exibit was about censuses counting races. Like, long (ish) ago when, when taking censuses was door-to-door and people determined the races by just looking. So, the T-shirts had things like, on the Asian girls', for example: "1960 - Japanese; 1980 - Korean; 1990 - Asian", showing what people would've counted them as in those time periods. I thought that was pretty awesome.
My point of view?? Well, yeah, it was all totally interesting. And I learned a lot of interesting things. And I got out of the house for once. I was sort of hoping that I would see someone I know (not anyone in particular...) there, but I guess not. Oh, well. I had fun.
 AquilaTheEagle161 · Tue Jan 16, 2007 @ 01:19am · 0 Comments |
