Assignment 1: Two Cultures Two Dishes
Synopsis:
Your job is to watch two stories from ‘Great Big Story’ on a mix of food and culture. What happens when you are trying to compare two cultures who have discovered an appreciation for another culture’s food?
What to do:
Berlin’s Flying Ramen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0wEQVuHZFI
How Haggis Made It Big in Japan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjNLoDZg1gg
Your job is to watch two stories from ‘Great Big Story’ on a mix of food and culture. What happens when you are trying to compare two cultures who have discovered an appreciation for another culture’s food?
What to do:
- We either will have watched these two videos in class, or you ended up watching them yourself.
- Make some notes for each video that describes what you think the primary culture has taken from embracing this other culture’s food.
- If you have that dish in another country prepared by someone who is not from that country- did you have the original dish, or another version of it? What does cultural influence mean on other cultural traditions for something like food?
Berlin’s Flying Ramen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0wEQVuHZFI
How Haggis Made It Big in Japan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjNLoDZg1gg
Assignment 2: Culture Vulture
Appreciation of a Culture often comes from travel, or having a friend or a family connection to a culture, but in this case, as people who answer to an audience, we are being promoters of a culture not our own. You will take a section of the boards in the hallway and create a masterpiece that showcases a culture of your choosing.
Due: Feb 7
Assignment 3: How Is Canada Culturally Different from the U.S.?
We are often asked, 'what is Canada's culture?' and we usually answer with a series of statements that define Canada by making statements about the U.S. Instead, what I'm asking is for ten statements that can be seen as culturally relevant to Canada's culture.
Assignment 4: Second Draft Needed
You are going to read this article and comment the heck out of it- even give it a grade!