Sunday, November 30, 2008

Cultural Extinction


I did not really know what I wanted to write my paper on for a while and it was a real struggle for me to find something to focus on. I felt anything I was chosen would make me sound like racist cause I was not exactly sure what the paper was asking me what to write about. Then I sat down and really thought what the paper was asking for. Once I figured that out I had to find a topic I was interesting and how I wanted to approach it. It was a struggle for a long time for me to find a topic I wanted to focus on until I visited the Museum of Natural History. As I was walking through the museum I found a an exhibit on cultural extinction. I found this real interesting on how other people are destroying people and there cultural completely. The group of people I found to be real interesting where the indigenous people of west Siberia the Khanty - Mansi people. I am going to focus on how oil drilling that started about fifty years ago. These people have died in a short period of time at least two-thirds of people have been killed from the many effects of the oil drilling. I find this to be very shocking that a cultural can be completely lost to benefit other people's consumer needs. I am writing to all people espically students. Students tend to have the loudest and most active voice when comes to protesting and making a change. I also would like to see posted in an internaional news because people all over the world are using this oil and are not paying attention to the people they are killing off. Siberia is not just land where people are sent for imprisonment but actually people live and strive off this land and use it for it's best abilities but at the same time they see everything getting taken away from them.

2 comments:

Doctor X said...

good topic. and great photo.

DarkSkyLady said...

That photo is amazing! You could spend so much time interpreting that picture! Your topic is really good. You'll do a good job. You find interesting sources.