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In 2019, research company Onepoll led a survey regarding the travel habits of Americans. They found that eleven percent of their survey respondents had not stepped foot outside of the state in which they were born. On top of this, fifty percent had travelled to fewer than ten states throughout their lives. As someone who was lucky enough to grow up going on many road trips and exploring large swaths of the country, this figure surprised me. Not having travelled does not mean that you do not have the desire to do so. In fact, the same poll showed that nearly eighty percent of respondents wished to travel more that they do currently. These people are not at all narrow minded, they do not have the means to broaden their horizons in this way. The financial and even physical strain of travelling is simply too much for many people.

One thing that I have seen consistently since moving to Portland, Oregon from Kansas is that my friends and colleagues have a great number of ideas about the Midwest and its inhabitants, many ideas that do not align with my personal experience experiences. Some are generally true, some are mildly offensive, and some are downright absurd. I decided to interview ten people including friends, coworkers, classmates, and a stranger about their experiences with and their notions of Middle America and the men and woman who grow so much of their food.

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Of the people I interviewed, five were from California, four came from Portland or elsewhere in Oregon, and one was from Washington. All were in their early to mid twenties and ideologically, they all shared similar political and social beliefs to my own. I encouraged productive dialogue and asked each of them a similar set of questions:

Among everybody I spoke with, the Midwest is synonymous with farmland and quaint rural farming communities. Sprawling fields of wheat, corn, and soy, forests, and plains stretching into the horizon with nothing but a lone windmill interrupting the endless landscape were called to mind. A couple of people mentioned cattle and one named a sports team. None of them were wrong, these are things that I too associate with my home. I was however surprised that no one thought of Chicago, the third largest city in the country by population, or any of the other cities that rival those found on the east and west coasts. Similarly, no one mentioned barbeque or any of the other foods that I cherish from home.

This shocked me. I am not Christian nor do I identify as conservative but so many of my close friends and family are. The responses that I received made me consider how many points of view a have little to ow contact with and how different each persons perspective really is. Every person that I spoke to was surprised when I told them that only thirty nine percent of adults in the Midwest identify as Republicans compared to forty three percent for Democrats and that less that half of voters in Kansas were registered with the Republican party. They were also surprised to learn that, statistically, Kansas has a higher non-white population than either Oregon or California.

I did not want this experiment to be at all preachy or antagonistic and I was very pleased with the conversations that I had. I hope that sharing my experiences made those I spoke with consider their points of view but I also wanted to be challenged on preconceived notions that I held as well. I did not want this experiment to be at all preachy or antagonistic and I was very pleased with the conversations that I had. When I asked about something they think is commonly misunderstood, everybody had an answer.

A few were upset by the bad rep that California has to some Oregonians. They argued that California has an influx of transplants as well and that many are forced out of the state due to rising costs, they wished that Oregon was more welcoming. One, a purple belted Jiu-Jitsu student, told me that he hears many criticisms of their decision to not attend college and to instead pursue another interest. His decision says nothing about his intelligence, only of his motivations. I listened to someone explain that many Asians are not considered to be people of colour and often are excluded in relevant conversations on the matter. A communications major explained that he has rarely tells people what he studies because so many look down on the subject for being vapid and unimportant.

I strive to be as open-minded as possible but most of the complaints that I heard had never occurred to me as being a problem. How many of my understanding are ungrounded and how many unintentionally hurtful? If you can think of something, I would like you to share something about you that is often misunderstood. What needs further understanding and what ideas do you think should be challenged?

Hocus Pocus is a movie about three sister witches in Salem, Massachusetts that have been resurrected after three hundred years on Halloween night. Sarah Sanderson is one of the witches, played by Sarah Jessica Parker, who las long white-blonde hair. She is the youngest sister and has a goofy, giddy attitude. She and her sister Mary take a backseat and obediently follow their oldest sister Winifred while they craft a wicked plan to catch children and harvest their youth. The sisters are eventually stopped by the same trio of cunning teenagers, who accidentally resurrected the sisters in the first place, just before sunrise on November 1st. The movie ends happily with the good triumphing over evil and Binx, the cursed guardian of the Sisters who happens to be a cat, finally being able to rejoin his sister in the afterlife.

In this movie, Sarah seems to have two different personality types that contradict each other: childish and overly sexual. Being the youngest sister, Sarah serves as a kind of comic relief by being goofy, childish, nave, and gullible. This can be seen in instances like the rain scene or amok the scene.

At one point during the term, our weekly course texts were a series of videos that detailed different tips, tricks, and methods to analyze sources of information. I found that week to be a learning moment for myself because I had never received any kind of formal teaching on these ideas before. Those texts helped me analyze sources and other pieces of information not only for this class but for my other classes as well. Heck, I even used some of these tips while doing some research for my job.

Babel is an American drama film that features four stories of characters in different places around the world such as Morrocco, USA, Mexico, and Japan. The four stories are interrelated, being connected to an incident to an American couple in Morrocco. In the movie, there is a Japanese actress named Rinko Kikuchi who plays Chieko, one of the four people affected by the incident. Chieko is a deaf-mute teenage girl who is struggling with the loss of her mother due to suicide. She also has a broken relationship with her father. All of these factors contribute to her troubled personality by often getting angry and doing reckless things.

Throughout the movie, she tries to seduce many guys by exposing her body. For example, she tries to get her dentist to touch her inappropriately, flashes a group of boys at her school, and takes off her clothes for a detective who is trying to ask her questions. She is rejected every time, causing her to continue her sexual advances. The movie shows that we live in a disconnected world where people speak different languages and have contrasting beliefs, causing problems of understanding and communicating. Chieko, struggling to communicate due to her inability to speak, chooses to use her body as a form of communication. However, her frequent sexual advances overshadow her struggles of not being able to express her anger and frustration to people in words.

For more than a year I have been a strict vegetarian. Though I have turned back and forth from eating and not eating meat and dairy my whole life, I now feel I am committed to this lifestyle of advocacy for animal rights. It has been a slow and challenging process for me, but worth the benefits the Earth and animals receive from my actions. This past year of being fully committed to a vegetarian lifestyle has exposed me to many aspects about vegetarians and vegans that I had never considered in the past. For one, I have gained a whole new love for fruits and vegetables, but I have also noticed just how few of us there are. Even though awareness and accessibility of a vegan diet has gained popularity the majority of people still eat meat, advocate for an omnivorous diet, and actively criticize those who do not. My curiosity about why people are so supportive of meat and dairy industries has grown a lot over the past year, and has become exponential these past few months.

The question that stirs around in my mind after viewing this video and looking at a gigantic naked picture of Alicia: how effective is this kind of campaigning? According to on an article written by L. Grauerholz, it seems that it is not very effective. Unfortunately, only four percent of animal commercial imagery is arguing against meat products. A lot of this imagery uses disturbing images like PETA does in the Alicia Silverstone video showing the mistreatment of animals in commercial farms. It seems this scares people more than convinces them to steer clear of meat because this message is so abrasive. Most animal imagery is catered towards meat eaters and pet owners and either see an animal as a tool or as meet, rarely as an equal. [6]

The problem with the general negative representation of vegetarians and vegans in the media stems from the long time stereotypical depiction of this lifestyle, and the little air time positive aspects of veganism has in the media. It is astounding how a diet that could stop the painful murdering of millions of animals, reduce a huge amount of greenhouse gas emissions, and advocate for healthier eating is so hugely criticized in the media. I have concluded this is largely rooted the history of our society. We have been eating meat for so long, and the industrialization of meat production is actually relatively young, but it has been incredibly damaging. Many people do not realize this, that is why advocating against meat-eating must be made fun of or seen as extreme too often. There have been an increasing number of documentaries, research, and popular media that aims to raise awareness of the terrible conditions animals are under and the issues it is causing for the planet. Though awareness is continuing to grow as concerns for the planet and our health grow, but there is a long way to go before a meat-less diet is status quo. During the course of this class I realized this is the case for many groups of people in popular media. A report I was introduced to written by Dr. Stacy L. Smith and many others outlined the portrayals of gender, race, and LGBT status in 700 of the most popular films from 2007 to 2014. In their analysis, the researchers found that over all that many minorities, females, and members of the LGBT community face immense underrepresentation in these films. Very few star, hire, or create members of these underrepresented community. This seems to have a negative impact on society as a whole by creating a divide between cultures that is not necessarily always there in reality. Popular Culture has given me a much deeper insight into the underrepresentation of many groups including ethnic minorities, LGBTQ community, and vegetarians. I hope to continue working on my critical thinking skills online, and advocating for representation of all race, ethnicities, sexual orientations, and even diets. [7]

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