Blog 8 John Wang

Looking back at my first blog I still agree with what I said.  I would add that in a nation there will always be groups of people who are oppressed and want change. I assume the question “Where

do you and your community fit in all we have learned so far?” refers to our classroom community. Our classroom community is but a microcosm of a real community but it does exhibit some of the same characteristics. In real communities, besides the people in power, people have to demand to be heard to be heard. The same is true in our classroom community.

 In response to “Propose a project you feel is vital into the positive imagination of this community.” I will propose a project with strenuous physical activity. People always have said actions speak louder than words and that adversity reveals a person’s true character. In the classroom we sit behind social facades despite our efforts to be open, but in that very attempt to be open, we are acting. There’s no real adversity in our classroom, sure there are some edgy questions, but that’s all. We can only form a community as deep as our knowledge of each other. If it’s built on surface level projections of ourselves, that’s all we’ll have. Maybe we don’t want to know that much more of each other. Maybe there are things about our true character that only we know about and don’t want others to see. Maybe we prefer who we want to be and who we want others to see over who we are and maybe that’s the only way communities can and know how to function. I think it would be interesting to look into each others' eyes during torturous physical activity that breaks us down to the core of who we are. That’s where we’ll catch a glimpse of who will have integrity, who will do just enough to get by, who is compassionate, who is a leader, who is a teacher, who is a whiner, who is unpleasant, who is a friend, etc.