Journal 19
3.26.13
Think about the subject of your ethnographic inquiry (what place or community you want to study). Why? What do you hope to learn from your inquiry?
I want to study NFTY because I find it interesting. In NFTY, all the usual “drama” you get from teenagers goes away. In NFTY, nobody judges you. I am curious to know what happens in NFTY that makes people not judge others. I want to know why/ how it’s possible to walk up to someone you’ve never met before, introduce yourself, and then walk around like you’ve been best friends since kindergarten. Why is NFTY such a “comfortable” place to be? Why can’t everywhere else be this way?
I want to study NFTY because I find it interesting. In NFTY, all the usual “drama” you get from teenagers goes away. In NFTY, nobody judges you. I am curious to know what happens in NFTY that makes people not judge others. I want to know why/ how it’s possible to walk up to someone you’ve never met before, introduce yourself, and then walk around like you’ve been best friends since kindergarten. Why is NFTY such a “comfortable” place to be? Why can’t everywhere else be this way?
Reflection
I think that this journal was important because it was really the jumpstart of my paper. Without this journal, I don’t know if my paper would have come out the same way. In a way, I wrote my final paper around this journal.