I total agree with you about how a lot of people do not seem to care about this devastating catastrophe and continue their lives like nothing has happened to me. I think one of the factors that makes people more ignorant or be careless to this tragic disaster is that people cannot find any relationship with their lives. To people, this is just an incident that happened in different country and they think they are not related in anyways. I think this is true for everybody. We are prone to not remember what is happening out there unless we see, feel and experience. We always think that there are other things that be have to worry about to make my life better. We worry about what is around us and what seems to be connected and what would affect my life. So for some of us, just looking what is on the media might touch our emotions and feels for couple of minutes but its very hard for us to think about this incident and do something for the people, who are suffering now.
Sometimes we have a hard time accepting these data and statistic. Come on, 300,000 people died from this single incident. That’s like having all the people from this campus get killed. Sometimes these statistics are numbers are so massive that it is so hard to believe this to be true. Personally I do not even know how to react to this incident. I mean, I know that there are many people killed and suffering from this but it’s really hard to put myself in their situation. If we understood and felt what is it to be like the people suffering, we would not be sitting here worrying about our tests. We would be running around to do something to help Haitians.
This is same for every other topic. When we had a lecture about the slaves and coco planting, Most of us felt guilty to eat chocolates for that moment. I was even disgust to see some people eating the second piece of chocolate. But few days later I have found myself enjoying chocolate without even remembering how I felt before. I think it is really hard to share other’s suffering or even remember how they feel. In all, it is almost impossible to put ourselves in their shoes. Then, what are we suppose to do? Do we simply ignore what is happening out there and carry on with our lives? Or do we simply struggle from the guilt everyday? I think very best thing we could do is living our lives up to the full values and use whatever we are given to the people, who are less fortunate than us.

I total agree with you about how a lot of people don’t seem to care about this devastating catastrophe and continue their lives like nothing has happened to me. I think one of the factors that makes people more ignorant or be careless to this tragic disaster is that people can’t find any relationship with their lives. To people, this is just an incident that happened in different country and they think they are not related in anyways. I think this is true for everybody. We are prone to not remember what is happening out there unless we see, feel and experience. We always think that there are other things that be have to worry about to make my life better. We worry about what is around us and what seems to be connected and what would affect my life. So for some of us, just looking what is on the media might touch our emotions and feels for couple of minutes but its very hard for us to think about this incident and do something for the people, who are suffering now.
Sometimes we have a hard time accepting these data and statistic. Come on, 300,000 people died from this single incident. That’s like having all the people from this campus get killed. Sometimes these statistics are numbers are so massive that it is so hard to believe this to be true. Personally I don’t even know how to react to this incident. I mean, I know that there are many people killed and suffering from this but it’s really hard to put myself in their situation. If we understood and felt what is it to be like the people suffering, we wouldn’t be sitting here worrying about our tests. We would be running around to do something to help Haitians.
This is same for every other topic. When we had a lecture about the slaves and coco planting, Most of us felt guilty to eat chocolates for that moment. I was even disgust to see some people eating the second piece of chocolate. But few days later I have found myself enjoying chocolate without even remembering how I felt before. I think it is really hard to share other’s suffering or even remember how they feel. In all, it is almost impossible to put ourselves in their shoes. Then, what are we suppose to do? Do we simply ignore what is happening out there and carry on with our lives? Or do we simply struggle from the guilt everyday? I think very best thing we could do is living our lives up to the full values and use whatever we are given to the people, who are less fortunate than us.

I total agree with you about how a lot of people do not seem to care about this devastating catastrophe and continue their lives like nothing has happened to me. I think one of the factors that makes people more ignorant or be careless to this tragic disaster is that people cannot find any relationship with their lives. To people, this is just an incident that happened in different country and they think they are not related in anyways. I think this is true for everybody. We are prone to not remember what is happening out there unless we see, feel and experience. We always think that there are other things that be have to worry about to make my life better. We worry about what is around us and what seems to be connected and what would affect my life. So for some of us, just looking what is on the media might touch our emotions and feels for couple of minutes but its very hard for us to think about this incident and do something for the people, who are suffering now.Sometimes we have a hard time accepting these data and statistic. Come on, 300,000 people died from this single incident. That’s like having all the people from this campus get killed. Sometimes these statistics are numbers are so massive that it is so hard to believe this to be true. Personally I do not even know how to react to this incident. I mean, I know that there are many people killed and suffering from this but it’s really hard to put myself in their situation. If we understood and felt what is it to be like the people suffering, we would not be sitting here worrying about our tests. We would be running around to do something to help Haitians.This is same for every other topic. When we had a lecture about the slaves and coco planting, Most of us felt guilty to eat chocolates for that moment. I was even disgust to see some people eating the second piece of chocolate. But few days later I have found myself enjoying chocolate without even remembering how I felt before. I think it is really hard to share other’s suffering or even remember how they feel. In all, it is almost impossible to put ourselves in their shoes. Then, what are we suppose to do? Do we simply ignore what is happening out there and carry on with our lives? Or do we simply struggle from the guilt everyday? I think very best thing we could do is living our lives up to the full values and use whatever we are given to the people, who are less fortunate than us.

I total agree with you about how a lot of people do not seem to care about this devastating catastrophe and continue their lives like nothing has happened to me. I think one of the factors that makes people more ignorant or be careless to this tragic disaster is that people cannot find any relationship with their lives. To people, this is just an incident that happened in different country and they think they are not related in anyways. I think this is true for everybody. We are prone to not remember what is happening out there unless we see, feel and experience. We always think that there are other things that be have to worry about to make my life better. We worry about what is around us and what seems to be connected and what would affect my life. So for some of us, just looking what is on the media might touch our emotions and feels for couple of minutes but its very hard for us to think about this incident and do something for the people, who are suffering now.
Sometimes we have a hard time accepting these data and statistic. Come on, 300,000 people died from this single incident. That’s like having all the people from this campus get killed. Sometimes these statistics are numbers are so massive that it is so hard to believe this to be true. Personally I do not even know how to react to this incident. I mean, I know that there are many people killed and suffering from this but it’s really hard to put myself in their situation. If we understood and felt what is it to be like the people suffering, we would not be sitting here worrying about our tests. We would be running around to do something to help Haitians.
This is same for every other topic. When we had a lecture about the slaves and coco planting, Most of us felt guilty to eat chocolates for that moment. I was even disgust to see some people eating the second piece of chocolate. But few days later I have found myself enjoying chocolate without even remembering how I felt before. I think it is really hard to share other’s suffering or even remember how they feel. In all, it is almost impossible to put ourselves in their shoes. Then, what are we suppose to do? Do we simply ignore what is happening out there and carry on with our lives? Or do we simply struggle from the guilt everyday? I think very best thing we could do is living our lives up to the full values and use whatever we are given to the people, who are less fortunate than us.

I total agree with you about how a lot of people do not seem to care about this devastating catastrophe and continue their lives like nothing has happened to me. I think one of the factors that makes people more ignorant or be careless to this tragic disaster is that people cannot find any relationship with their lives. To people, this is just an incident that happened in different country and they think they are not related in anyways. I think this is true for everybody. We are prone to not remember what is happening out there unless we see, feel and experience. We always think that there are other things that be have to worry about to make my life better. We worry about what is around us and what seems to be connected and what would affect my life. So for some of us, just looking what is on the media might touch our emotions and feels for couple of minutes but its very hard for us to think about this incident and do something for the people, who are suffering now.
Sometimes we have a hard time accepting these data and statistic. Come on, 300,000 people died from this single incident. That’s like having all the people from this campus get killed. Sometimes these statistics are numbers are so massive that it is so hard to believe this to be true. Personally I do not even know how to react to this incident. I mean, I know that there are many people killed and suffering from this but it’s really hard to put myself in their situation. If we understood and felt what is it to be like the people suffering, we would not be sitting here worrying about our tests. We would be running around to do something to help Haitians.
This is same for every other topic. When we had a lecture about the slaves and coco planting, Most of us felt guilty to eat chocolates for that moment. I was even disgust to see some people eating the second piece of chocolate. But few days later I have found myself enjoying chocolate without even remembering how I felt before. I think it is really hard to share other’s suffering or even remember how they feel. In all, it is almost impossible to put ourselves in their shoes. Then, what are we suppose to do? Do we simply ignore what is happening out there and carry on with our lives? Or do we simply struggle from the guilt everyday? I think very best thing we could do is living our lives up to the full values and use whatever we are given to the people, who are less fortunate than us.

I total agree with you about how a lot of people don’t seem to care about this devastating catastrophe and continue their lives like nothing has happened to me. I think one of the factors that makes people more ignorant or be careless to this tragic disaster is that people can’t find any relationship with their lives. To people, this is just an incident that happened in different country and they think they are not related in anyways. I think this is true for everybody. We are prone to not remember what is happening out there unless we see, feel and experience. We always think that there are other things that be have to worry about to make my life better. We worry about what is around us and what seems to be connected and what would affect my life. So for some of us, just looking what is on the media might touch our emotions and feels for couple of minutes but its very hard for us to think about this incident and do something for the people, who are suffering now.
Sometimes we have a hard time accepting these data and statistic. Come on, 300,000 people died from this single incident. That’s like having all the people from this campus get killed. Sometimes these statistics are numbers are so massive that it is so hard to believe this to be true. Personally I don’t even know how to react to this incident. I mean, I know that there are many people killed and suffering from this but it’s really hard to put myself in their situation. If we understood and felt what is it to be like the people suffering, we wouldn’t be sitting here worrying about our tests. We would be running around to do something to help Haitians.
This is same for every other topic. When we had a lecture about the slaves and coco planting, Most of us felt guilty to eat chocolates for that moment. I was even disgust to see some people eating the second piece of chocolate. But few days later I have found myself enjoying chocolate without even remembering how I felt before. I think it is really hard to share other’s suffering or even remember how they feel. In all, it is almost impossible to put ourselves in their shoes. Then, what are we suppose to do? Do we simply ignore what is happening out there and carry on with our lives? Or do we simply struggle from the guilt everyday? I think very best thing we could do is living our lives up to the full values and use whatever we are given to the people, who are less fortunate than us.

As Axg5068 mentioned before, some people are missing the point that Sam said. This lecture was to enlighten us by allowing us to look though the ‘different lens.’ He was trying to show us how many Americans view Islamic Arabs as extremist and radicals. He is simply presenting the title ‘Christian Invaders’ as an example that other Arabic people could Americans as. Regardless of what Christians or other Americans actually are, people who are exposed to one sided view will always think in a certain way with misunderstandings. So for Muslims, they could think that all the Americans are Christian invaders who came to Middle Eastern countries to take their resources if they were only exposed to biased information.
Another point that a lot of people missed was that a lot of ideas that he said in the class is not real ideas that Sam actually believes. As Sam said in the very at the end of the lecture, he as a sociologist understands what others can think and where these ideas and conflicts are coming from. The things that he said in the class was not necessary all his ideas beliefs. He was just throwing ideas from all the perspective to show us what it is to see the world by wearing different lens. So when Sam mentioned about Christian Invaders he was really trying to show how ethnocentrism has blinded many of us from seeing how some people can view Americans as Christian Invaders. So, when I saw how some people were sickened by how Sam was talking about Christians, I could see how ethnocentrism is controlling our thoughts. I mean what is it such a big deal that Sam or other people think? Some people don’t even know why they are so upset about this issue. It’s not like somebody directly insult Christianity. Sam just said things that some people ‘think’. I mean, who are we to say that those ideas about Christian Invaders are wrong and should fix those ideas? On the other hand another idea came up to my mind. If some of us care so much about our reputation about our religion or country, have we as Americans have felt anything about how some Muslims are viewed as extremists? I am pretty sure that there are some Muslims that are as upset as us being ‘Invaders.’ You see what I mean this is ethnocentrism. Without us knowing why we are upset about this subject, we are already justifying our emotion and ideas. If we are thinking that “We are always right” or “We would never be like that if I were to be in that situation” than I think it's good time for us think how Ethnocentrism has messed up our ideas.

I have seen so many comments about how people are shocked and surprised to see this video but I think this is kind of expected. I think I was just a combination of two major aspects in Japanese culture: pornography and video games. This not only ignores women’s but it also destroys ones morality. I mean this games is pretty much telling everyone that one should do whatever they sexual desires tell them to do. This is what all the animals expect humans pretty much do. They follow their instinct without their consciousness. They just act what their hormones tell them to do. We are different. Our conscious control our body to make us distinct from other animals. ‘
Japan is really open to sexual activities and many Japanese are generally more accepting to pornography (I think they call it adult videos in Japan). We can compare how much people spend money on pornography. In Japan, media is definitely influenced by the pornography and we can not deny the fact that it is major aspect of Japanese culture. Another major role that is contributing Japanese cultural aspect is the video games. In terms of economy, people spend tons of money to play games. They have developed many game tools (Wii, Xbox, etc) that people of all ages could enjoy. So game makers definitely researched to find aspects that more number of game players would be satisfies. So game programmer decided to combined pornography and video games to satisfy game players. Statistically speaking, there are more males playing games. So, game makers introduced new genre that most males are obsessed with: Sex. It became another source to fulfill their sexual fantasies.
People (same for all the video game players) like to experience the new things and their fantasies through their games. I am not saying that curiosity towards things that are new is bad. I am saying if that curiosity has wrong purpose than it is very problematic. It will be really problematic if video games are dealing with something that people would never do in real life. Raping and murdering is the worst thing a human could ever do. But in many video games people are performing such action to ‘experience new things’. Worst thing is that some people do not realize what they are doing in the game reflect real society. As I mentioned before video games and pornography is another tools to satisfy their “fantasy”. When people are expose to these ‘Fantasies’ for long time they forget what is real not real. Imagine kids or other young people, who do not have good sense of moral values are exposed to these games. It will not only destroy their moral values but it will also lessen their judgments. Imagine how much ‘rape game’ will affect people.

Personally, this whole situation about dealing with this problem is so ridiculous. If some people are upset by seeing this term in the census I want ask them what is it such a big deal to use this term in census. I mean I see African Americans say this word everyday and every time when ever they meet another African Americans. Every African Americans address themselves as ‘Negro’ when they are around African Americans. If they are labeling themselves as ‘Negro’ why is it so wrong to label them census? I am not ignoring the fact that this word was originated from social conflict through out the history. I am simply addressing how complicated to identify individual in satisfactory manner. As one of the interviewer said this issue of identifying individual is not just simple as just choosing one racial background that one likes to be called. It is really hard to define individual’s background without discriminating or ignoring the heritage. White people have always tried to identify people of colors in a way that they would not upset but there are so many variety and preferences that white people just get overwhelm by this issue. These issues it can be quite bother some too. I mean, if you were to identify people of color accurately in census, researcher had to use the term that has been used to recognize African American for long periods of the time. Where some people become upset to use this term or not this term has to be there to accurately describe. I really this process of accurately describing racial or ethnical background is there for greater goods. It is not big of a deal that what there has been in a past. Now is the time to move on to improve what has been done wrong. The way the word ‘negro’ should used to bring greater good to African Americans. The bottom line is that the issue from the census is just not necessary. As it was mentioned in the video, I think greater good that comes out of the census is overshadowed by this particular issue. The purpose of the census was to help people by recognizing the statistics of the population proportion not to harm anyone. So when the researchers or people who made this census put the word ‘Negro’ or ‘Hispanic’ they wanted to make sure that certain race group are accurately described. As some people said in the video the termed ‘Negro’ is still used with older generation of African Americans and I think is appropriated and accurate to describe African Americans. I understand how this word has been used in terms to put down African Americans in the past but if this word is used to bring greater good to African Americans, I think this should not cause such issues and problems.

I think that the idea of male domination has taken a major role in think topic. As Sam said these ideas have been in our society for such a long time that we don’t even recognize why we are acting in such a way. I mean I didn’t know why people (Including myself) felt weird to talk about this topic. (I didn’t even know why there was a uproar why this topic was brought up). Anyway, then I started asking myself why can’t we talk about thinks that are not supposed to be said. I mean who even come up with this idea anyway? After asking these questions I realized how people like to think and act what others have told them to think and I starting to understand how this topic is related. Most of us are raised in a way that we don’t talk about this topic in such a open matter. We are always told not to talk about women’s menstrual cycles because we are educated that it is rude to talk about it. We were taught that not talking about menstrual cycle was just another manner that must be kept all the time. However now I see how this ‘manners’ are another standard set by other people.
Then I asked myself a same question that you mentioned in your video. Are men less educated to be discuss about thins topic? I think that men are educated fairly enough about a women’s menstrual cycle but I don’t think that these education about biological system affects any men’s opinion on this topic. I mean we men have basic ideas of what women go through but we don’t necessarily understand what the menstrual cycle is unless we experience it. This is like white people do have a sense of what racism and discrimination are but they don’t necessarily truly understand what people of color have been through. The only way that white people can fully understand what people of color been through will be being in a same position as people of color were. There is no way that one understands somebody else’s problems unless one is in same position.
One way that one can understand other’s problems and conflicts will be discussing about problems. This is not only a good way to solve the misunderstandings about the problem but it is also great way to get better ideas of one’s problems. I think Sam already knew how talking and discussing about the fact that people are ashamed to talk about (or not used to talk about) is a great way to solve the conflicts. I think that is the reason that Sam likes to bring up this topic constantly regardless of how people think about this topic.