Louis C.K. always gets it right!

I figured the best topic on which to write was the SCD from this past weekend.  Personally I was proud of mine.

First off, if no one has ever heard of the comedian Louis C.K. I recommend you watch some of his stand-up.  He's very objectionable, but also hilarious...and right!  I started my SCD with a quote that I'd like everyone to consider.  He says of minorities and majorities: "You could take a white guy to Africa and he’d be like, ‘Look at all the minorities around here! I’m the only majority!’”  That's what I was thinking about as I was watching Up the Yangtze.  I was disgusted by the campy ways in which the white tourists participated in an otherwise rich culture and the comment from the woman about Bo Yu Chen's being "obtrusive" was presumptuous.  And it's also what I like to call the "White Guy" attitude.

The way in which the tourists interacted with those on the boat demonstrated ignorance, but if we're considering representation and misrepresentation I have to wonder if Chang wanted to construct American's in this fashion.  Julia Anna Cooper wrote that there was yet to be an authentic portrait of the African American--I feel the same can be said for all cultures across the globe.  I didn't participate in any of the campy crap while I was on a cruise liner through mexico.  I'm not trying to say this to sound cocky; I'm saying this to point out that no two people are the same which means no two people behave in the same ways.  Continuing my point into the next post!