Nacirema and Turning Points

One, after the English class with the Nacirema society, I felt like a total idiot for not cluing in. I am not sure if I was not reading attentively enough or if it was just totally over my head. I understand that the article was a mockery of the extremities of the American society and ridiculing what they hold dear NOW and I was getting the hints that yes it was familiar to some of the North American values but I was either too tired or too stupid to entirely understand the concept that it was the american society. Plus never in my life have I ever read things backwards in hoping that it would reveal something. I am sorry that I do not look at an article and grab a mirror and see how it looks backwards. How others came across that so easily made me wonder why in elementary school my teachers felt the need to forget that little detail. I did not understand how the article related to Religious Studies but I understand the purpose of looking closely at a text. Journalism was important this week because with the journalism task I was worried on how to write a great piece without putting in too many quotes. I am glad that Michael Camp decided that he would explain to the class which details he would find important. The story is clearly more important that each little quote that the person I was interviewing, even though i am now finding it difficult to determine which quotes are the most important due to the fact that looking at all the quotes seem meaninful to me.