Friday, October 30, 2009
I can not specifically think of one individual person that I have learned something from off the top of my head, but I have had a bit of experience of meeting different people. I've been to many music camps over the summers and there are always people from all over the place. This past summer I went to California Summer Music, and there were people from all over the country and even some from different countries. There were people from New York, New Jersey, Wisconsin, North Carolina, California, Hawaii, Ohio, Texas, and even more places including Japan, Turkey, and China. There usually is a larger asain population at these camps and it is always fun to here someone talking Korean or Japanese to their parents on the phone. I have noticed differences from all of these people. Alot of people laugh the first few times I say ya'll. But then again I thought it was funny when the people from California used "Hella awesome" to describe something. Also, my roomate was from Hawaii and instead of asking a question like " Those are your socks, right?" she would say, "Those are your socks, ya?" By the end of camp, I had northerners saying ya'll and I was saying "ya" at the end of my questions. It is pretty funny how that happens. Also, just the way people think, like their attitudes towards certain things, whether it be political or emotional things, is very different. But I guess one of the things that I have learned not to do is to stereotype. When my roomate said she was from Hawaii, everybody started asking questions like if she danced and wore the grass skirts and coconut bra on the beach and if she surfed. Of course some of these were stupid questions. It is fun to learn about different cultures though. My roomate was so excited when she saw a pinecone, because she had never seen one, and I thought it was really neat that she made daytrips to hike to a volcano. It's just really surprising of what people havn't seen because of where they live, and it makes me wonder what I havn't seen. But through all of our differences, everybody is really similar at music camps because we all have one thing in common....we all love classical music which can be understood by any culture.
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