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My name is Sokhna, from West Africa Senegal. As part of Africa, Senegal, like other country from there care a lot of cultures. We hold on to our cultures and its part of what shapes us, me. In Senegal where the population is mostly Muslim, culture and religion are what influence my life. French culture also plays a lot in my life since we were colonized by them. I don’t even speak my language well; it has to be a lot mixed with French. It is kind of confusing because we combine three different cultures but it is sometime helpful and it help a lot when I came to this country. My goals in life are to try to understand everyone’s culture and behavior from different space because it makes it easier to live socially within a community.

 As we can see in the article we study in class, “Invitation to Sociology” by Peter L. Berger, and as we discuss in class we sometime think that we know things by reading the newspaper and watching a magazine. A lot of people ask me if I live in a jungle since I’m Africa. Last Thursday in my English literature class, one of my classmates was giving the example that in Africa people don’t were proper like him but use leaves instead. After the professor explains him, he seemed to be more interested in discovering how Africa is really. What Berger explains in his article that “…with the shock may go to not only disapproval or disgust but a sense of excitement that things can really be that different from what they are at home.”

If we consider the video we watched about technology and phone, we can that study that even though we are together, and we aren’t together.  I see more about what she telling about being “alone together” when after I get home. I enter the house and see that they all busy texting, playing or being on Facebook while in the living room trying to watch T.V.

I’m more like Comte, I believe in positivism meaning that it is very important to base on the scientific method. After studying the scientific method in my previous class, I use it to experiment why in my country most of the houses have only one household who do all the spending even though there are other adult we earn money but refuses to buy food or any bill in the house. After my study I understand that it is cultural thing that the older sublime should always take care of everyone within a family. I have found that the only way we can get rid of that is to start dividing family into smaller so each one is going to take care themselves.