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Prejudice.
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Holy crap, I haven’t been online lately. First post ever on tckid! LOL.
Anyways, I have been dying to catch up with people here. Damn you stupid timezones! Everyone’s online when I’m not xD Actually, it’s just that it’s been busy. I have been doing photography and english projects on prejudice. I think I’ve told Brice about that. Like, 2 weeks ago, maybe? Anyways, I posted cause I need help. I was thinking maybe this is the opportunity to tell my school about TCKs. Just maybe. I’ve decided to tie in my photography media campaign project with my english project on themes and artwork. I’m supposed to create a piece of art that has a theme that we’ve found in the 6 novels were studying within this 4 months. I decided to use “To Kill a Mockingbird”’s prejudice theme. And I so badly wanna put TCK stuff in it. I dunno how though. HELP!! Haha.
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November 28th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
Oh, that question is for Uncle Dan… wait till he comes online.
I know what you mean about time zones - argh! Haha and yes, I remember you said you were working on your photography project weeks ago!
LOL, welcome to the procrastination club. I’m a senior member.
On your project, I remember the theme of the book being mostly racial segregation, so why not use the element of prejudice and alienation, and point out the similarities that TCKs have … the feelings of not belonging anywhere, and so on.
What kind of pictures can you use and do you have any ideas so far?
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November 28th, 2007 at 3:52 pm
LOL I finally made time to go on this! SHOCK RIGHT?! Hahaha. Yes, yes I made some time. Y’all TCKs like me should feel special ^^ I think I’ve finally figured out when to go online.
LOL anyways, yeah, the theme is racial segregation. I think it was banned in the US for some time cause of the racial content. I’m not sure if that’s true, but I heard somewhere.
Anyways, pics? Uhhh, almost any kinda pic that could put the point across, as long as it’s not sooo offensive since it’s gonna be posted round my HS.
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November 28th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
hell kristine! nice to ‘hear’ you again! yes, sadly we have abandoned facebook for tckid! brice and dan have stolen the cool kids, yet again, and moved the party elsewhere! hahahahahahaha!
ok, my suggestion is that you use the boo radley storyline to showcase prejudice based on something that is not as obvious as race. folks were scared of boo, they thought him creepy, (if i remember right, i read this in high school, like 15 years ago…). basically folks were scared of him because they didn’t know him and he didn’t look and sound like them. or he didn’t do the things that they considered to be “normal practice”. they didn’t “get” him so they shunned him.
that is easy to tie into tck themes, a lot of us have spoken about going back to our passport countries and not feeling like we fit in or having others treat us differently because we didn’t speak the language/had a weird accent/ didn’t dress like the locals, basically they did not “get” us and thus pre-judged us. you can find a lot on that theme on the facebook group. if not, i know i have a lot of experiences i could share in that vein for me, personally, that is the worst part about being tck, the way folks will judge you on some superficial bullshit. like your accent. i mean its an accent for crying out loud, it does not mean i think you are less than me, where did you even get that from??!! sorry, let me not rant.
even when not in our passport countries, a lot of us have spoken of how folks just glaze over when we start explaining where we are from, or accuse us of bragging, that sort of thing. some of us are told we are trying to be western (this is supposed to be an insult, a negative thing) stuff like that and lots of tcks have even kept their stories to themselves for fear of being judged. i think this fits in very nicely with the boo radley storyline.
you know, i have just written all of this and suddenly i am not 100% sure boo radley is from ‘to kill a mockingbird’. he is, right? i hope so, otherwise i got nothin’!
can you tell how lazy i am? i’m just going to post this without even googling it to make sure boo is part of this book. oh well…
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November 28th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
Warona!! Hi
And yes, Boo Radley is in To Kill a Mockingbird lol.
Yeah and you know what Warona, that makes sense, all of what you said. Now I only need photo ideas.
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November 28th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
Thanks btw
:D
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November 29th, 2007 at 8:35 am
For photo ideas… Dramatic pose is better than subtle, because you’re trying to tell a story through pictures, right?
Now I don’t know your options, but I think it’d be interesting to keep captions to a relative minimum, and just illustrate through dramatic color and pose contrast in your photos.
Now, having still not read the book, I can only tell you that in a scene of prejudice, try to single out Boo as very alone, and different.
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December 1st, 2007 at 10:58 pm
agree with all the above–good little speech there, Warona!
for me, I am much more comfortable with people who don’t speak English as their first language, and with people who are not of American or European descent (ie Caucasian). Call me racist, I don’t care. If Boo was a TCK in high school today he would hang out with the ‘rejects’, the racial minority, the social pariahs, etc. that’s not too hard to do through photography–obvious integration with people not a person’s status, color, language, or background, and segregation from people of the person’s status, color, language, background, etc.
See, in North America, mostly you find jocks with jocks (just took a trip back to high school, and that’s not a nice trip for me), prissy girls with the like, smokers and druggies, skaters, intellectuals (ok geeks/dweebs). To tell the truth, I didn’t fit into any of them–I was in a North American public school for only my grade 12 year (ok, I spend half a year in public school in grade 5) and I bounced around so much that I eventually gave up and wrote songs and stories during lunch break. And I made sure I had no spares.
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