Space And Space In Nacirema

Experiences of the human race are geographically different for each being since time and space is continually different at each moment of our lives. Each an every single one of us is different by gender, class, race, religion, nationality, age, ethnicity, and etc. but we all are connected through time and space. Doreen Massey states in her podcast that “space is a cut through the myriad stories” which space and time become connected creating a concept called the power of geometry of time-space compression. With my experiences of the local world culture events, culture and geography helped comprehend the relations between cultural norms, space, and power through artwork and story of one person’s life.
Watching the move the “Ode to my Father, …show more content…
We obsess over our beauty and our outward appearance and it is quite true. We see that in our society, and I seen that in the film “Ode to my Father” where the main characters sister is obsessed with her self and her outward appearance. I also seen obsession in the artwork from the Pizzuti Collection, where people are obsessed with the beautiful colors, the uniqueness in the art and just the artwork on the canvas itself. In America, the depiction of Nacirema ideology is seen everywhere you go. It is not only in one culture, but it is across globally where the world shares one common ideology. It is a cultural normality to wake up everyday and spend hours in the “shrine”. Our “rituals” and our “ceremonies” are accepted into our cultural norm because it is what we do as Americans. Americans share this cultural norm with other parts of the world, because we as humans are social interconnected with each other, which help us create our culture. Without our global culture, we would not have a norm to …show more content…
Experiencing the two different cultures shows the dynamics of space in the two cultures. As Massey explains in her podcast of how space is where we create our myriad stories, I definitely experienced a beautifully told story in the film, “Ode to my Father”. As the main character journeys throughout his life, he meets people in the middle of their stories, and where he creates a social connection between spaces. The geographical identity of people is what creates people’s stories as they share their lives with people in “space”. For example, when the main character in the movie leaves to work in Germany, he meets a beautiful girl, which later becomes his wife. This shows an example of social interaction between spaces. We can also see this in the artwork, where the artist portrays space between the different portraits of the people. In order to paint these portraits, the artist had to experience different cultures in different geographic