In the book "A Raisin in the Sun" Beneatha assimilates but hates when it is pointed out. Mama points out how she assimilates, even though it was not a direct quote actually saying something like "Beneatha u are assimilating!" it had the idea if Beneatha assimilations.
In my past I have always assimilate, hell I assimilate now. So I think of myself as a nerd, not technically a school nerd but more like a computer nerd. As I grew with the gaming community i started assimilating the ideas of a gamer;I wanted to first be a programmer and now a Gaming designer. It shows that i started picking up ideas from the company behind these games and what they do for a living. I start to ponder as they assimilate their ideas to my mind through these games, like wouldn't it just be amazing if I had a game i worked on in the shops around the world, it just amazing how the gaming community works. I love to think about things like this because maybe one day i can a assimilate certain ideas into the community as well.
Thing about Assimilation , it can be viewed in different ways, as long as something is being spread or being absorbed. Eric Liu a "Assimilationist" rather said. Assimilationist being rather specific about what he's assimilating to. By assimilationist i am referring to a person who advocate or participates in racial or cultural integration. Eric Liu, a Chinese American, who assimilated towards the white people and then started assimilating the traits and culture to the whites to the people he knew. Like Eric Liu said assimilation is "... a(n) act of creation as much as destruction."
Do you agree or disagree with Liu?
ReplyDelete@Perry I very much agree with Liu, the concept that he has about how as we assimilate we destroy yet create. I just find it interesting. It gets you thinking if people assimilate as they do today , what will our world be about 100 years from now. How will the society of that generation be like, new religions, new looks, etc.?
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