The Football Game
The crowd was roaring and jubilantly jumping from the intersection that just transpired against TCU. Everyone was ecstatic as students waved their white towels and cheered on our team. The smell of donuts and popcorn filled the air as the game heated up. Waves of yellow and dark red filled the stadium as we composed a Gopher nation. Thousands of people cheered on the Gophers as we went up against the second best college football team, TCU.
Then the crowd commenced to lose hope as the gap widened to three to twenty-three during the third quarter. The people started to get tired, so my friends and I sat down to recover. Suddenly, an exasperated boy two benches behind us yelled, “Hey! Stand up. This is a game, not mosque.” …show more content…
An identity can be defined as the way you dress, what race you are, and where you come from. Once all of those factors are identified then a person knows who they are. Once a person knows who they are, they endeavor to keep that component of them protected. No one wants someone to assail their ethnicity or religion because those traits are a component of who they are. By making a mockery of one’s religion or identity, you are hurting the person as a whole. In Woodward’s text, she verbally expresses identity is the way we dress or where we emanate from. Since our dress is affiliated with the word “mosque,” we knew that the older the student was addressing us. Identity is the way someone understands themselves as well as how other people visually perceive them. I understand myself as a Muslim student who emanated from Kenya. I know it’s a fact that when people see me, they visually perceive me as Muslim. As Woodward states, a person can be distinguished by their appearance; the way you dress comes with a stigma of where you emanate from and your culture. Since the student could not relate to our identities, he assumed we were outside of the social norms of the game. He made judgment based on our exterior, for which I do not blame him because the media plays a role in how Muslims are portrayed. Since football is an American patriotic game, he might have misinterpreted my friends and I sitting as a rude act, and this …show more content…
As Woodward mentions, the media can manipulate the way people are seen into something they are not. In my time in the United States, Muslims have been portrayed in the media as deplorable people. This is a generalization, and the guy who verbally expressed those words might have never met someone from my religion or culture. As Woodward stated that when a person is uncertain about their identity , they feel the need to attack other people ; so maybe that might have been the case with this guy. I felt hurt that the guy made a judgment based on the biased perceptions the media makes about my religion and culture. So by assaulting my culture and religion, you are attacking who I am and the community that I emanate from. This experience has enforced a sense of protectiveness over my identity and those who also identity with me. Since the boy couldn’t identify with me and the culture I come from, that caused difference between us; he felt justified to confront us because we were out of his usual social norm. I felt this is an experience I would never forget but can learn
The crowd was roaring and jubilantly jumping from the intersection that just transpired against TCU. Everyone was ecstatic as students waved their white towels and cheered on our team. The smell of donuts and popcorn filled the air as the game heated up. Waves of yellow and dark red filled the stadium as we composed a Gopher nation. Thousands of people cheered on the Gophers as we went up against the second best college football team, TCU.
Then the crowd commenced to lose hope as the gap widened to three to twenty-three during the third quarter. The people started to get tired, so my friends and I sat down to recover. Suddenly, an exasperated boy two benches behind us yelled, “Hey! Stand up. This is a game, not mosque.” …show more content…
An identity can be defined as the way you dress, what race you are, and where you come from. Once all of those factors are identified then a person knows who they are. Once a person knows who they are, they endeavor to keep that component of them protected. No one wants someone to assail their ethnicity or religion because those traits are a component of who they are. By making a mockery of one’s religion or identity, you are hurting the person as a whole. In Woodward’s text, she verbally expresses identity is the way we dress or where we emanate from. Since our dress is affiliated with the word “mosque,” we knew that the older the student was addressing us. Identity is the way someone understands themselves as well as how other people visually perceive them. I understand myself as a Muslim student who emanated from Kenya. I know it’s a fact that when people see me, they visually perceive me as Muslim. As Woodward states, a person can be distinguished by their appearance; the way you dress comes with a stigma of where you emanate from and your culture. Since the student could not relate to our identities, he assumed we were outside of the social norms of the game. He made judgment based on our exterior, for which I do not blame him because the media plays a role in how Muslims are portrayed. Since football is an American patriotic game, he might have misinterpreted my friends and I sitting as a rude act, and this …show more content…
As Woodward mentions, the media can manipulate the way people are seen into something they are not. In my time in the United States, Muslims have been portrayed in the media as deplorable people. This is a generalization, and the guy who verbally expressed those words might have never met someone from my religion or culture. As Woodward stated that when a person is uncertain about their identity , they feel the need to attack other people ; so maybe that might have been the case with this guy. I felt hurt that the guy made a judgment based on the biased perceptions the media makes about my religion and culture. So by assaulting my culture and religion, you are attacking who I am and the community that I emanate from. This experience has enforced a sense of protectiveness over my identity and those who also identity with me. Since the boy couldn’t identify with me and the culture I come from, that caused difference between us; he felt justified to confront us because we were out of his usual social norm. I felt this is an experience I would never forget but can learn