It takes a Tribe Reading

The reading I chose to do my blog on was the David Berreby, It takes a Tribe reading. I chose this reading because I feel it relates to me the best. A part of the reading that made me laugh was right in the beginning when it says, "they'll talk the way "we" do." Which referred to that it won't be long before you pick up on the accent where you go to school. I laughed at this because when we first moved in to school last fall everybody I talked too picked up on my accent, and was so curious as to where I was from, and about 2/3 weeks into the semester my roommate started talking just like me. So it really is true, you do pick up and start talking like everybody else. A part of the reading that I didn't really enjoy reading was when the author was talking about how in some "tribes" there may be some embarrassment to get in and be accepted. When Mr. Hayden was talking about how he had to do a two-day ritual that included being stripped to his underpants, pelted with eggs, smeared with red dye, and tied to a campus tree. That is horrible do to someone, but at the same time it's just part of getting accepted into something. I am in the process of trying out to be a patriots cheerleader and mostly everybody I've talked too has told me to be ready to have to "make my way" into the squad. It happens to everybody and is part of life.

I enjoyed reading this weeks reading, especially because this particular reading was about college campuses and I felt like I could relate to it.