Cultural identity

Personal response:

"Some Third Culture Kids have nothing beyond their passports to connect them with their home country. TCKs lose and gain from the fact they grow up outside their passport country".

Third culture kids are defined as children’s who have lived in more than 2 countries or 2 different cultures and they are often traveling around the world due to specific reasons like their parent's jobs. When you ask these kids where is home? Or where they feel identified? They will normally not answer and start thinking.

Firstly I would like to say that the first part of this statement is very vague and subjective, mainly because a passport is not the only way to connect someone with a specific culture, this will vague as the statement but it is not, I can make this clearer with an example. If a kid is born for example in Italy he will get that country passport and nationality but he doesn't have only these things to be identified, he will also have all the memories and influences that the culture give to him.

            To clear out the second part of the statement I would like to say that this is completely true because this kids not only gain for being more open-minded and more cultural educated for living in another countries around the world, they also very flexible to adapt to others countries and know a wide varieties of languages. Although they also have a lot of disadvantages for example a baffling sense of belonging and never get used to be in some place or settle down well.

To conclude, I can say that this statement is for one side vague and subjective and in the other side is very rational and make sense. This response make us reflect about the reality that the TCKs are used to live in, and the advantages and disadvantages of being one of them.

Written task 2

John

London, Red Av.


April 17, 632 a.F.


Popé

Savage reservation, New Mexico


Dear Popé,





It has been quite a while since I arrived here to the civilization and let me say it is not as my mother and others used to say. For many of the people living here this is the "perfect society", it has no flaws. This statements are far away from what I've seen so far in London.

Since they are born they are separated into different castes, this castes are divided in how intelligent they will be and what job they will develop in the future: the two top tiers are the alphas and betas not only socially but intellectually and governmental. Alphas tend to be more like leaders of science and others fields, and they are chosen to be world controllers or DHC. Betas do this too, but they are more developed in the artistic area. Then the list is followed by the gammas they are what is used to be called average, they develop office work and others jobs like administrate. The deltas are not totally dumb, but smart enough to do the work that nobody else want to do and for last the epsilons they are semi-retarded, and do mainly cleaning work.

You will certainly ask, how they do too kept under control all the castes? they do a conditioning when they are born, they sleep with recorded propaganda playing under their pillows and by an electroshock system. If they actually manage to rebel to the system, they are taken away to be re-educated, like in the case of my friend Bernard he was threatened to go to Iceland. Oh! I forget to mention they are born throw two different processes depending in which castes they will belong. The alphas and betas are born from a single fertilized egg. But in the case of the remaining castes they go throw the Bokanovsky process in which one egg is fertilized and splitted up into identical genetics copies of the original, this process can be repeated several times making 72 a good average. This is way different from what are we used to see like a normal pregnancy.

When it comes to each day problems, in my point of view they have a very unorthodox way to solve them. They take "soma", this is a hallucinogen drug, this drug create a certain feeling to the person that takes it, they say that is a holiday and depending on how much they take is the time they fall asleep. They say that brings all the advantages of Christianity and alcohol, but none of their defects. When I first hear this I went on rage and destroyed a large amount of "soma" supplies, this is an offence towards our religion they should respect us more. They believe in Ford as their "God" because he is the one that started with the industrialization.

Since they are born they are sort of brain-washed and they think that their civilization is constructed under the values of freedom and happiness, but for what I've been watching this far this is only a mere illusion. I recently talked with Mustapha Mond who is one of the seven world controllers, and what I found would be scary to our society. They make a VPS treatment compulsory, this is a violent passion surrogate. Once a month they flood the whole system with adrenin, it is the complete physiological equivalent of fear and rage. They don't have inconveniences, they prefer to do things comfortably. They say we are claiming the right to be unhappy by don't wanting to be comfort, or wanting things like religion, poetry and danger. I found this the other way around we are born to live with this characteristics and this is the way we are going to mature, and live a more pleasant life. Please tell me what you think about this.








Sincerely,


John




Rationale:

“Brave new world” is a well know novel written by Aldous Huxley, this novel anticipates the development of technology and culture. Describing a utopia, in an ironic and ambiguous way. Every bad thing has been eradicated as well all the danger that surround us now, so everyone is permanently happy although this happiness is achieved by leaving somehow humanity behind, all the cultures, religions and many other things have been erased in order to complete this goal.



Throw this letter written by John “the savage” I will explain the different aspects and qualities of the civilization, compared with the savage reservation in New Mexico. I mainly chose this text type because my intention was that Popé knows the truth about what is going on here, and realise that it is not as perfect as Linda used to say. This letter is mainly informal because John although he read, he did not manage the language that well, so I wanted to give the liberty that he can express in a more smoothly way.

Mindmeister Class Activity

Ob. Mind map in order to stablish relation between the author Oscar Wilde, Aesthetic movement and the first chapter of  "The Picture of Dorian Gray".

Link: http://www.mindmeister.com/414895795

Interactive Oral Activity

Link:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2100715/It-possible-beat-ageing-You-able-change-number-ways-body-youthful-.html

Guided questions:

The beauty depends on age?

Why are these womans arm wrestling?

Is the young woman actually more strong? 

Brave New World and Sir William Shakespeare

Part 1: John the Savage profile

John the Savage lived in the reservation in New Mexico and his parents were Linda and Thomas (Tomakin, that was the name that savages give to him) the DHC, he is barely a savage because he know how to write and read; also that bring him bad consequences, he is discriminated just like his mother Linda.

When Bernard Marx arrives to the reservation he established a conversation with John, and he felt that they were similar in many ways, Bernard decides to take it to the place he lives because he found that the name of his father was similar to the one of the DHC; also going to the place that John always wanted to visit because his mother told him great things about that place.

Part 2: Comparison between Brave New World and The Tempest

John the Savage                              Miranda

Helmotz Watson                             Prospero

Mustapha Mond                             Ariel

To begin with I will compare Miranda from The Tempe sans John the Savage from Brave New World; we can say that both of them kind of live away from the society Miranda lived in an island, because he was exiled with his father Prospero; and John lived in a savage reservation in New Mexico because his mother Linda was abandoned. John lived with his mother at the reservation and he doesn’t know anyone who was civilized, and rejected by the ones that he lived with; Miranda never have seeing a human being apart from Caliban (spirit) and his father.

To continue I will compare Prospero from The Tempest and Mustapha Mond from Brave New World. Prospero is the father of Miranda and the Duke of Milan, and Mustapha Mond is one of the ten world controllers; we can say that both of them were very important and powerful in their society. A point of contrast here is that Prospero lose all his power and importance because he was exiled and in that island only lived him and his daughter.

Finally I will compare Ariel from The Tempest and Helmotz Watson from Brave New World, both of them are secondary characters, but at the same time help to the development of the history. Ariel is one of the two spirits that Prospero live in the island with and he do all the task that Prospero ask to him, and Helmotz have a feeling of discontent with the World State and share this feeling with Bernard Marx.

Imagery of Brave New World

List of words:

Squat grey, cold, enormous, thin light, frozen, pale corpse-coloured rubber, polished tubes, pallid shape.

This description of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre give me a very cold impression of the society in those times. The society on those days obviously was not conscious of the emotional elements or care about the humans feelings, the images that come to my when I read the paragraph are very unemotional and creepy because of words like squat grey and cold, also I think about a laboratory but related with the elements that I talk before.

 To conclude the people on those times we could say that they only care about technological and scientific advances and don’t care about humans emotions or feelings. 

A Contextualised Biography

Aldous Leonard Huxley

    He was born in 26 of July of 1894 near Godalmin, Surrey, England. His parents were Leonard Huxley English school teacher and Julia Arnold, he had three brothers Julia Huxley a half-brother Andrew Huxley they both were outstanding biologists. Aldous third brother named Noel Trevelyan Huxley, who committed suicide after a period of clinical depression. He pulled himself harder because all his family was important and he also wanted to be recognized.

    What we could say about his educational background is that his mother was his teacher, because he was blind, he studied in a school named hillside after hillside Huxley was educated at Eton College, once his eyes recovered he was able to study English literature at Balliol College. 

    Crome Yellow(1921), Antic Hay(1921), Those Barren Leaves(1925), Point Counter Point(1928), Brave New World(1932), Eveless in Gaza(1936) After Many A Summer(1939), Time Must Have a Stop(1944), Ape and Essence(1948), The Genius and the Goddess(1955), Island(1962).

   The events that obviously influenced in Huxley life was the dead of two of his nearest familiars, his nearly blindness leaves him aside from the first world war, the event that obviously change his way of thinking was the early dead of Julia Arnold his mother, when he was only 14 years old.

    Huxley made a request (written) to his wife Laura saying ”LSD, 100g, intramuscular”, she injected him an injection at 11:45am and a second one a few hours letter; he dies aged 69, at 5:20pm on 22 of November of 1963. How Huxley died at the same day that John F. Kennedy.