Images must have captions that clearly explain what the image is trying to

communicate to the reader.

 

Writing/Visual Expectations:

 

Part 1 - Approximately 2 paragraphs. 

Use two unique examples to illustrate the importance of cultural (or other human-kind)

group membership to one's identity - i.e. "Who we are".  Note: One example must be

from research and one example must be about you. 

Cultural groups are important because it can make people to have their values. For

example, Japanese people’s personalities are educated as “the stake that sticks out will get

hammered down” Therefore, although I am in the international school, I still value in humble

when I meet with Japanese people or teachers.

This is the picture of silhouette of Japanese people. As this picture depicts, Japanese people

try not to make one’s existence known, when they are facing with other person and try to be

uniformed with others because they value in humbleness.

Also, human kind groups are important because it can remind one’s duties. Navy defends

nations, doctors heal the sick, and Christians acts as Christ because they know how they know

which groups they belong to and how they should act (“US and Them”).

Part 2 - Approximately 2 to 4 paragraphs. 

Use unique examples to illustrate at least one important positive and one important

negative aspect of our attachment to cultural / H-K groups.    The aspects you choose

should reflect what you believe to be the most important/significant ones. 

A positive aspect about human kind groups is that people can predict other’s actions and

make cautions to oneself. For example, in Japan I saw many teenage people, who were

smoking, with a bike sitting in front of a station at night. Therefore, I stayed away from them

and chose different ways to enter the station.

Human kind group of “doctor” reminds

their actions; provide mental care to patients

Also, human kind group can make people feel comfortable and feel like that they have

supportive power. It is evident by an experiment of obedience; the examiner keeps order

learner to give (fake) electronic shocks to a person who is in other group and see if learners

obey or not. However, the learner obeyed to experimenter when he/she was alone with the

experimenter. On the other hand, when there were two or more experimenters, they disobeyed

(“The Perils of Obedience’s”). Therefore, human kind groups make people have fellowship.

These people try to make others join into their groups to clam against their country. Human

kind group give them more power of action.

This movie resituates what I did in Japan. (Saw those teenagers and went the other way)

A negative aspect of human kind groups is that people sometimes misuse label

others/things. For example, there are two liquids with clear color and one with red. Most of

people drink clear liquids and avoid red one; however, they have decided it just by colors, so

it is possible that one of those clear liquid is an acid and red liquid is harmless red vegetable

dyes (“Labels and Stereotypes”).

In the same theory, when I go to hot spring in Japan, I always see the signboard which

says that “people who have tattoos are not allowed to come in” because we label people who

have tattoos as gangs. However, sometimes, there is an exception that some people who have

tattoos might not be gangs. In this case, it can be concluded that manager of the hot spring has

discriminated those people who are not gangs. Therefore, there is a negative aspect of human-

kind groups.

Almost every public baths have this sign board because they think that people who have

tattoos are gangs, so they believe that other customers will be threatened.

This picture shows two clear and one red liquid. Liquid A is an acid; however, when

people label these, they might avoid Liquid B and choose Liquid A or C.

Part 3 - Approximately 2 paragraphs. 

Use unique examples to explain two reasons for conflict between members of cultural/H-

K groups.  One example needs to come from research and one example must be

personal.  

One reason for conflict between members of cultural groups is because

people do not accept other people who belong in “wrong” human-kind groups.

For example, young man in New York who loved his family had killed other’s

family because he thought that those victims did not belong to his group

which he cared of. (“US and Them”) Also, in Japan, criminal koizumi, who had

killed people who (he thought) killed his dogs, said that those victims were

evils and not even human being. (“Dog lover calls…”)

Also, people came to conflict when one’s values are threatened by others or when people

have different values from others. For example, personally I and my friends value in efforts;

therefore, when we make a great effort on a project and others who did not spend so many

times on it took a same grade, we became so upset because it seems like that our value are

denied or rejected by teachers.

This is a picture of Mr. koizumi who had killed many people because he thought that

those people belonged to different human kind groups.

This picture resituates a scene which I worked hard and took a same grade as student who did not work hard.

Part 4 - A Written Conclusion -  Approximately one-two paragraphs.

This should be the last thing you complete as it will tie together the comments and

images you have used to address the main points above.  You will also want to include

any ideas you have about how conflict can be prevented.  These conclusions should be

consistent with what you have said earlier. 

  Human kind groups are important for one’s identity because it sometimes makes

one’s values and duties. It can make people feel confidence, and by predicting other’s

characteristics through labeling, they can stay away from the troubles. On the other hand,

human –kind groups are misused when people mislabel others/things. Also, it might lead to

the conflicts between human kind groups, as people consider people in other human kind

groups as “outsiders”. Also, many people in a same human kind group respect in same values,

(because human kind groups are making one’s value) then it might lead to a conflict when

their values are denied by others who do not respect same values/ in the different human kind

groups.

However, to prevent the conflict, people should join in many human kind groups.

The extensions of communities make people know or understand critically about others’

values or aspects which they have not value or even have criticized. For example, before, I

thought that those people in Japanese club are frisky when I saw them in the year book.

However, that perception has changed after I joined in Japanese club and saw those members

practicing very hard for the Assembly. Therefore, joining in varieties of human kind groups

might lead to a preventing conflict.

This is a picture of Japanese club in 2007, when I was not in the club. When I saw

this picture, I thought that they do nothing in the club. However, when I join in the club, I

could see that actually, they are working hard.