I thought this was a very interesting article, considering we had talked previously in prior class periods about how the news can spread false information and shape what we believe. I agree with the author in the sense that much of the information out there today is tainted by people's view's and personal beliefs. All of these concepts discussed in the beginning of the article are very relevant to most individuals in today's society because people are either believing what they want to or because everyone else is believing it to so it must have some depth and truth to it. But that is not always the case.
In my household, I was always brought up to believe what I wanted to believe based on what I thought was right. My parent's never really instilled in me their own personal beliefs because they did not want me to believe something just because they did. But for the longest time I believed for the longest time that people from Virginia had really strong southern accents and talked extremely slow because of where I grew up. I grew up in New Jersey and my family is all from Long Island and I have just always believed when I got to college here that everyone was going to talk with strong southern accents. This was definitely due to the Bandwagon effect where all of my friends had told me that and we all believed it and all of my realitives always said people spoke like that in the South. But when I got to JMU I was completely wrong and most people sound like me and have the same misconception about people from Jersey and New York having extremely strong accents and talking really fast.
I think that having a Department of Facts could potentially be a great idea because it would help distinguish the nonsense from the credible source. But then again it comes down to, who is this person to tell me what is right and wrong? I think that it would make a lot of mad and upset but would be very useful to sort out and get rid of all the crappy information there is out there.
--Colleen
I think its great your parent instilled the belief for you to believe what you thought was right. I gives you a sense of identity and allows you to find out who your are. However, I LMBO off to the virgian accent, only cause I went to college in Pennslyvania before coming to JMU and it seems all people who live North of VA have the same idea that we talk slow with accents. Glad you traveled south to become educated that not all Virginia's talk that way.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny you mentioned the thing about the accents because I can't tell you how many times people from up north have asked me about mine. I grew up an hour and a half south of JMU and I have been asked if I was a farmer and if I can tell how bad my accent is, and I personally don't think I have much of an accent at all. But I assume that everyone from up north has a think accent as well so I guess I am just as guilty.
ReplyDeleteI used to have an accent but 4 years in PA caused me to get rid of mine pretty quickly..
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