How does ethnnocentricity cause conflict?

The British ethnocentric and bias view of the First Australians caused conflict between the two cultures because the British didn’t comprehend the aborigine’s lifestyle. When the first fleet arrived, the colonizers were very narrow minded of how different the Aboriginals were compared to them. The English referred to them as uncivilized people. When the 2 groups faced one another, no violence occurred, the Aboriginals greeted the British with positivity. They danced and it was like a play ground encounter. Although the Australians welcomed the British with acceptance, they still viewed their culture as primitive and savage. They recognized them to be a passive and unsophisticated race. The British viewed the Aboriginals as animals, who can’t own any land. They didn’t consider the Aboriginals as real people. But in order to gain and colonize Australian, they had to build a fairly good relationship with the natives. They even brought some back to England to get them to adapt to their culture, but when some refused to stay and travelled back to Australia to continue their lifestyle, one of the British government officials wrote in their obituary, repetitively calling them savage and barbarians who can not be ‘helped’. A few years later, the relationship between the two cultures crashed. The British colony was starting to spread out, grabbing the best farmland they could. They removed the Aboriginals crops, which consisted of yams, and replaced them corn which was a more cherished food source in their culture. This made the Aborigines quite angry and upset, leading to a war to get revenge. A war over farmland was not the only struggle that occurred, more conflict aroused when the British yearned to put an end to the Aboriginal race. Targeting the primary source of population – women and their children. In then end, the aboriginals were established as ‘uncivilized’ and ‘destructive’ individuals who needed to be saved from themselves. Ethnocentricity causes you not to comprehend nor appreciate another cultures. It causes you to become so absorbed in your own society, you can’t take time to understand others. The British labelled the aborigines and commented that they weren’t equal to the Englishmen. The dispute between the Aboriginals and the British were mainly due to the misbehaviour and violence of several British. The Aboriginals were nothing but friendly and peaceful towards the British, they just refused to acknowledge the different backgrounds and take them into consideration.

Julius Caesar Performance

For our Julius Caesar unit, we have to do a performance about one of the significant acts in the play. I have chosen to do a duet with Lara and we will be doing Act 2 Scene 2 lines: 58 - 105.

Lara: Decius

Shaz: Caesar

CONTEXT:

In the passage we have just chosen, Calpurnia, Caesar's wife, has just told Caesar about the terrifying dream she had just had about him going to the capitol and is begging him not to go. But once he is persuaded, Decius comes along and twists her dream around to flatter him into going to the capitol.

This is a significant passage because, it's leading up to Caesar's death. It shows the conspirators determination to have their plan go all as planned and get him to the Senate House. And by doing that it exposes the two sides of Caesar; Private and Public. In public he portrays himself as this Hubris person, who isn't afraid of anything and says that danger should fear him, but when it comes to his private self, he is shown as this character who is gullible and falls for flattery and who is slightly afraid. He is also characterizes as vulnerable because he is praised by Decius's interpretation of the dream. As well in the passage we have chosen, it brings out the imagery of blood. Symbolizing life and death. It also portrays the theme of Fate vs. Freewill. Fate and death being Calpurnia's dream and Freewill and life being Decius's interpretation.

Learner's Profile

Profile 'L', Gestalt

I am a gestalt thinking with an 'L' learning profile. Gestalt thinkers like to think about the big picture. They look for similarities and they are free with feelings. Gestalt thinkers are more musical and they enjoy having a visualization. When doing a task they are very tactical and intuitive. Being an 'L' profile, I learn best through movements and by focusing on the whole picture. So by doing activities that involve moments and getting up and round, I am more likely to understand better. I prefer working in smaller groups because it allows me to interact with the people apart of the group and it allows me to more social and to get to know the people in my class better. But by being spilt into smaller groups, it also helps when everyone participates because then all the stress disappears because all heads are working together. By splitting into smaller groups we are able to talk about the bigger idea of the whole task and gather information from one another and answer any burning questions. Another way I learn better is by seeing examples because, it allows me to get a better idea of how the end product is supposed to look. As well it gives me a guiding path. Knowing the characteristics of my learning profile, I need to be surrounded by people who wont stress me out, because having this learning profile has a disadvantage when under stress because there's a lack of access to the dominant hemisphere with sensory input. I can also benefit from sitting near the front, somewhere where I can process internally. Also to help me succeed, before a quiz I should perhaps do thinking caps, to calm my nervous to help me do better because when under stress I have trouble concentrating. I would like my teachers to know that sometimes when I'm put on the spot, I tend to make things a lot harder on myself and make things more complicated then they actually are. Also I enjoy a little movement and getting up from time to time during class because if I'm sitting down for too long, I tend to space out and not concentrate as well as I'm supposed too.

Learning about these learner's profiles have really helped me to understand who I am as a person.