NY Trip reflection:1/21/2019 a. I like The Band’s Visit, especially it’s production and how it transition from one person’s story to another. I like how that the musical portrays the similarities between the culture- represented by how the main character is able to sing some Egyptian music. The fact that two groups of people are able to have such good conversations even when they meet for the first time is really shocking to me as the Middle Eastern culture is being publicly viewed as reserved. The Middle Eastern music was really intriguing since I personally rarely heard of that kind of music. It sounds mysterious yet really emotionally provoking.
b. The UN’s visit gave me a basic understanding of how such a powerful organization works. I am really interested in international relations as well as Model UN so the tour there let me see how people worked in reality. The briefing was really informative that it provided many aspects that I did not know. For example, how small the mission group is but how large the danger is in the world. c. 2. I asked a lot of questions about the immigrants and German culture in general since they really interest me. I answered questions that the tour guide in UN asked since I knew most of the answers. However, I did not actively engage during the briefing. d. I think I definitely learned more about the immigrant life in the U.S., particularly in New York that I started to pay attention on how cultures, even immigrant cultures, which I thought would be more separate, actually intersect. For example, the German immigrants actually had a competitive relationship with Jewish immigrants and lived close to Chinese immigrants. The most important thing that I gained was that through negotiations and a series of other methods, countries, or cultures, are able to form agreements and work together or live together. Cultural conflicts do exist and result in terrible consequences. Therefore, countries help each others and that is the beauty of humanity. I think global studies have goals to understand the world and that’s how they all relate to each other.
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