It's all one circle

I think that the most surprising thing to me was the native American culture and how much sense it makes, and how so many other cultures are so very very familiar. There are so many cultures that have similarity's that are half way around the world from each other. This fascinated me and surprised me a lot. Also, I had no idea that the rest of the world knew so much of American culture. At one point I came across a dancing Jail in the Philippines to Michael Jackson's thriller. All in all though I think that the similarity's were quite fascinating, and I truly enjoyed looking at the different blogs to see how other people could contribute to the class.

One thing that truly saddened me about my culture is how iconic we are and how much we value outer beauty, and in my personal experience not get together enough. I mean yes, one could go to a club, but it's not the same as Grecian dancing, or folk dancing. Basically I think that Americans tend to want the individuality so bad that we forget that we are all together on this planet. (Try going to PostSecret, and one will witness the loneliness as one of the keys to many a secret)
During the presentations today, I was truly disappointed that I could not hear the Rachmaninoff piece. I had seen Sara in the hall and she had been so excited about this piece that she had discovered through the projects, that I'm now bound and determined to find that recording and hear it on my own.
All in all though, I really enjoyed the course, and the presentations of the country's, than later the slide shows were really really cool, especially with the artifacts. I truly hope that in the future I can get to travel and experience at least some of what Dr. Weeks did on his travels.