One of the ideas that stood out to me was the importance of having more than one perspective. As noted from Adichie’s ted talk, having had only heard one story about a foreign place/identity is dangerous as it can induce negative stereotyping. This reminds me of a time when I had to do research on Cuba for a theatre design assignment. One of the things our professor mentioned was the dangers of collecting surface level research and his reasoning being that having surface level understanding on a foreign topic only leads to stereotyping instead of a deeper understanding of the political context and the text as a whole. As someone who lived in the US, understanding the political sentiment of Cuban people after the revolution would require more effort to acquire due to my own political biases and past experiences. So, when talking to a Cuban friend of mine on what her thoughts on the revolution were, I was quite surprised at how different it was from the conclusion I drew from my research.
Issues that have been impacting my life and the ones around me mainly revolve around environmental issues. One of the pressing issues that affects the agriculture community in California is the State’s distribution of water. Now a tactic that the State Government has had for many years is to take water from Northern California and send it down to the South. The south is in need of water as they do not get enough to support themselves, but the issue is a bit larger and encompuses the states refusal to create more reservoirs to store water to be used during the dryer months. But the main issue is that the focus is uneven and falls heavily on the side of sending it to the south instead of distributing it evenly so farmers in all regions but mainly central and southern california have the proper amount of water to grow their crops. California is one of the leading states in the production and exporting of agriculture products due to our vast and wide scale of geological environments, but ...
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