Today we had to bring our pictures as we were babies, than we exchanged them with other classmates .We gave our perception about the person who was on the picture. Thanks to that exercise I have learned how the PRECEPTIONS works, we need to: 1-select,2-organize and 3-give it meaning. It was very interesting experience because we not only learned something but also it made all people laughing.
The ethnocentrism is the belief that one culture is superior to everyone else. Extremism is when we start to look down at other cultures like: KKK, NAZIS etc. There are many people who still belief in stereotypes and for most of the time they are closed minded by the religion, life style or other aspects. I have learned the definition of communication which is “The sharing+ creating of meaning through human symbolic interactions”. We are meaning making machines and some people belief that the only meaning that life has is the only meaning you assigned to it. Meaning causes turmoil which is; giving the wrong meanings or stress etc. I have also learned about Psychological Perspectives, Social perspectives, Pragmatic perspectives and Cultural Studies.
After all we made groups and we decided what about our final presentation is going to be about. I happy about with whom I will be working because we have the same idea of the topic and I think we understand each other well.