Divided We Concure

Cellphones, radio , and computers are among the most commonly spoken about and used ICT’s in the world. From them the idea of poverty and the digital divided have been stimulated and influenced in a good way by the idea of getting technology to help these third world coutries . this is being done by using these cellphones and radios to gain access to the information thatthey may not have access to otherwise. For example on article thatwe ahd to read in my class wentinto detail about how in Africa ,the people use cellphnes as a banking system so as to gain acess to money without having to walkinglong  distances to the building  of the bank which could take hours or event days depending on the distance. it can also be a means of  purchasing items no matter where in the world they are . Another way ws by helping them not only gain acess to the materials such as computer but by giving them the options to actually learn how to use the technology in the proper way. However the idea of just providng coumputer because they country doesn’t not have any doesn’t always help the situation either. This is true because by throwing technology at these people but not teaching them how to use it causes them to resent the technolgy and not accept it in to the culture that they are accustomed to. I addtion to that the technolgy isnot always provided in a lauguage thatis under stood by certain people , meaning that they are not able to comprehend any of the information that they are given because they can;t read andunder stand it. what needs to be taken into account is that the idea of whattype of culture are we dealling with?arethey easily persueded? whattype of access do they have ? Is  it all monetary access? I f given the opportunity to gain that acess would they accept it?  These are things that need to be know.

AMERICA

In the third rotationof my FYS class we addressed the idea of understanding what America is and what or who is to be defined as an American. By the end of the  this rotation i found that the idea of America and being being american hard to grasp. as a person born in america i define myself as an american because i was born here. however what about those that have migrated here over the course of the last 3 hundreed years and consider american as their home and consider themselves Americans even though they were not born here. Through our discussions and debates about the reading that were provided in the class the idea of America and Americans being defined as one specific thing or idea. while hearing the ideas of all of the people in my class i found tha the more we spoke on the subject the less tanagible the ideas of america really was to us. In the stories we had to to read while in the clas such as ” My Lucy Friend that smells like corn” and “Bar-B-Que” , it speakes about the young girls from other countries that have to adjust to the life of living in America. Whether that would be the idea of having barbie doll like everyone else or watching as you parents struggle to be like everyone else and providing for a family on a budget that is not enough. In  the story Mericans it speaks about how the idea of being associated with older traditions is seen as a burden beecause it is not wanted because thechildren in the story wan to be seen as Mexican American but not as just Mexicans