Universal Cultures

My definition of the habitus is you . In that sense of how you carry yourself in society, how you were growing up and what your family situation is. It's just how you grew up and turned into what you are today. Habitus is a new concept to me, but it makes sense when you think about it, the idea that habitus is just a sense of you, and it changes between class structure and between people. The one thing in Pierre Bourdieu reading Outline of a Theory of Practice  (1972) that stood out to me was the idea that it's "impossible for all  members of the same class ... to have had the same experiences, in the same order, it is certain that each member of the same class is more likely than any member of another class to have been confronted with the situations most frequent for the members of that class." While it's possible to have the same experiences, it's certainly not the same for every person.  Coming out as pansexual and genderqueer didn't offer me the ...

The first thing you notice about this poem is its layout, beginning with a traditional three line left-aligned stanza. Lin then breaks free from the norm with a roughly right-aligned stanza. The layout controls the rhythm, as it moves from slower paced to faster and rambling where the lines drift away from stanza structure, to slower again with a final five line stanza which concludes in a single word. It also provides visual interest and draws the reader's eye across the page, making it easier to read. With varying levels of enthusiasm for poetry, we both felt that the layout was really interesting and added a lot to our experience of the poem. A lot of the understanding of the poem relies on cultural knowledge such as Qipao (a traditional Chinese dress with many Asian variations), xi-fan (a rice dish) and names of the movie characters. As Western readers we initially could not draw much concrete meaning from the poem, however after some research we gained greater unders...