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No posts for nigh on two weeks and then two of them come in one day. NOT GOOD BLOG MANAGEMENT.
I'm training to do tutoring with an organization that helps immigrants and refugees, and part of the training was watching this one-minute video on the iceberg model of culture. Spoiler: Culture is like an iceberg, with only a small portion visible.
I was telling the ninja girl about this, and the conversation unfolded like this:
Me: Culture is like an iceberg: only a small portion is visible.
Her (sagely): Yes, as with an iceberg, most culture is underwater.
Me (giggling): With climate change, we can expect more and more culture to be underwater. Hey: what if we expanded on this analogy?
Her: Yeah--introduce the Titanic of our assumptions. We think they're unsinkable...
Me (excited): But if they strike the iceberg of culture horizontally across five compartments, each one will fill and send water into the next, and our assumptions will be doomed to sink! IN TWO HOURS! "I wish I'd built you some sounder assumptions, Young Rose."
Her: I wonder which of our ideas will make it onto lifeboats?
Me: Primarily the women-and-children ideas. And primarily ones in first class. Our assumption-ship was so classist.
Her: Think of all the ideas that just fling themselves into the freezing waters of... what do the freezing waters represent in this analogy?
Me: Not sure. But least *some* ideas will make it onto lifeboats. Later, England and the United States can pass laws later to ensure there are enough lifeboats for ALL ideas.
Her: Yes, definitely.
I'm training to do tutoring with an organization that helps immigrants and refugees, and part of the training was watching this one-minute video on the iceberg model of culture. Spoiler: Culture is like an iceberg, with only a small portion visible.
I was telling the ninja girl about this, and the conversation unfolded like this:
Me: Culture is like an iceberg: only a small portion is visible.
Her (sagely): Yes, as with an iceberg, most culture is underwater.
Me (giggling): With climate change, we can expect more and more culture to be underwater. Hey: what if we expanded on this analogy?
Her: Yeah--introduce the Titanic of our assumptions. We think they're unsinkable...
Me (excited): But if they strike the iceberg of culture horizontally across five compartments, each one will fill and send water into the next, and our assumptions will be doomed to sink! IN TWO HOURS! "I wish I'd built you some sounder assumptions, Young Rose."
Her: I wonder which of our ideas will make it onto lifeboats?
Me: Primarily the women-and-children ideas. And primarily ones in first class. Our assumption-ship was so classist.
Her: Think of all the ideas that just fling themselves into the freezing waters of... what do the freezing waters represent in this analogy?
Me: Not sure. But least *some* ideas will make it onto lifeboats. Later, England and the United States can pass laws later to ensure there are enough lifeboats for ALL ideas.
Her: Yes, definitely.
