21ви Октомври 2024, Понеделник

Thinking about how I am seen by the English, but also how I see them 

Bought a book written by an Englilsh anthropologist hoping that it will help me with the deep dive into Englishness. 

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Compiling a Vocabulary of Bulgarianness and Englishness 
ATTACH VISUALS 

БГ 

Аналог - плочи, снимки  - Analog - records, photography 
Английски стил в БГ - столовете на баба - English style in my Grandma's house - the striped chairs 
Баби - забрадки - Grandmas with headscarves and cardigans 
Балет - Ballet 
Борци - естетика  - Wreslers - Bulgarian mafia - aesthetics
Джентълмен - Men are more gentlemanly -they get off public transport before a woman and turn around to give them their hand 
Домати - розови етс. - Pink tomatoes 
Език - азбука - пишеща машина - преводи - Star Wars  - Language 
Комунизъм - чавдарче, пионерче, манифестации - Communism - manifestations (demonstrations?) 
Middle class - 
Семейство - FAMILY 
Светлина - майстора - light - 'The Master' 
София - расте но не старее , Бояна, филмов център - Sofia, Boyana, film centre where my dad worked  
Tенис - Tennis - auntie - Bulgarian champion, glamorous, 'western' 
Училище - school - 
Фолклор - кукери, маски - folklore - kukeri, masks, folk traditions, pagan 
Футбол  - football - Levski Sofia 
Цигани - Clashing patterns - Roma - clashing patterns, country style, linoleum 

UK 

Alien 
Architecture - houses 
Bags on the floor - the opposite of Bulgaria! bags on the floor are bad luck 
Bank holiday
Builders 
Cold 
Class is 
Festival
Freedom 
Gardens 
Gentleman 
Guinness  
Junk food 
News 
Newspapers 
Popcorn - eating and drinking in cinema 
Park
Picnic 
Pints 
Posh - public school, money, unattainable
Pub - alright love 
Rain 
Raving 
School Uniform
Toilets
Waterproofs 
Overly polite 
Saying sorry 
Passive aggressiveness 
Eton Mess 
Jelly 
Jellied eel 
Spotted dick
 

READ 

Goffman - The Presentation of Self 

If unacquainted with the individual, observers can glean clues from his conduct and appearance which allow them to apply their previous experience with individuals roughly similar to the one before them or, more important, to apply untested stereotypes to him. They can also assume from past experience that only individuals of a partic ular kind are likely to be found in a given social setting. (beginning) 

- the idea of going totally against the expected - Borat!!! 

'Sometimes the individual will act in a thoroughly calculating manner, expressing himself in a given way solely in order to give the kind of impression to others that is likely to evoke from them a specific response he is concern ed to obtain.' - p. 13 

- Blending in - trying to merge with

Veruschka - 

"Rather, each participant is expected to suppress his immediate heartfelt feelings, convey ing a view of the situation which he feels the others will be able to find at least temporarily acceptable" p. 14 

"social characteristics"

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Watch 

bell hooks - cannot separate the messag4e from the messenger  

*bell hooks* new favourite person!!! 



Hooks identified the role played by the media and within education in the construction of a white-supremacist-capitalist-patriarchy.

БЕЛ ХУКС - BELL HOOKS - 

Complex 'The Bells' - Sofia 
Bels & Belin 

- more linguisting associations - 

*** Think about interviews*** 

Make a recording introducing yourself 

Address the W5 (who, where, when, what, why). Listen to your interview several times over several days. Ask yourself: Why have I chosen to focus on these things and not others?  What does this say about me and my performance of self (see Goffman’s ‘presentation of self’)? How might I present myself differently? Why might I wish to do this? Reflect on this experience and the insights you’ve gained in your blog.  If appropriate, you may choose to upload your audio recording and/or quote parts in your post. 

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Cross-cutting competencies

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