Monday, February 2, 2009
Thinking About Baldwin, Thinking About Today
I think that if Bladwin was to experience life now in the US, he would have a different feel for life here. It seems to me that now days people here are not as judgemental as what they have been in the past. I think that people are more accepting of the difference in people now because there are so many people and all of those people have there own differences. Also the people that are still very judgemental, negative or not accepting of those difference are not as liking to voice their opionion out loud or right to the person themselves. I think he would feel more part of America if he had lived here in this time
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Which people? All people? Some people? Which of the differences that Baldwin explores in his essays in Nobody Knows My Name do you see as more generally accepted in our society now than they were in Baldwin's time? And which are not? Can you give me some examples of what you have observed, and relate them to the benchmark that Baldwin provides?
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