This activity was one in which I had to
pretend that I was a tourist in my own Country. I have to admit that it was
very difficult to me because nothing was different the day I picked to be a
tourist but my will to complete this mission. Since I wanted to feel a little
atmosphere I went to the shopping to see how Puerto Ricans do their shopping a
common Saturday in Barceloneta’s Outlets.
I decided to put aside who I really am in
order to think about everything I saw and experienced as a tourist would. It
was a strange feeling sometimes to judge and prejudice about Puerto Ricans without
feeling tied to the people but at the end I could complete this task and I had
some observations as a tourist during that day. I did the observations with the
perception I had about Puerto Ricans during my internal journey as a tourist.
With those observations and experiences I
can say that some of the stereotypes given to Puerto Ricans are true but others
are not. Different people can have different perceptions toward Puerto Ricans
depending on the certain experiences and moments they had when they visit the
country or by what they have heard from other people.
I believe that every time a same tourist
comes to Puerto Rico, he or she can change their opinion toward certain aspects
of Puerto Ricans such as their humor, personality, and customs, among others.
From what I could perceive as a tourist, Puerto Ricans have a large variety of
those characteristics and that makes it almost impossible to characterize them
in a general way.
This activity helped me to understand how
we can set a series of prejudgments toward people of another country and I know
that it will also help me to be more open minded at the moment of visit another
place.
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| Barceloneta's Outlets |
Hi Stephanie, can you change the font letter color to black? I can't read this yellow. I hope you are feeling better.
ReplyDeleteYou really knew how to do this activity because you enjoy your day as a tourist plus at the same time went shopping which is something every women love to do... very wise ha ha. I agree with you a lot when you say that "Puerto Ricans have a large variety of those characteristics and that makes it almost impossible to characterize them in a general way". We are unique and difficult to be stereotyped.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on the difficulty that is to take our own feeling aside and kind of "judge" puertorricans as a tourist. Puertorricans are so different from one another. We can fit the stereotype, but just as same we can also differ from it. This also goes for everyone around the world. So, like you said, I think we as tourist or local people we should just admire and accept everyone because categorizing them into the stereotypes isn't going to lead to anything positive.
ReplyDeleteI think you chose a really nice place to do this activity! I believe that everybody is such a different individual that generalization and characterization of people from a specific place would be a vague description.
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