Today in class we discussed Chapter 3 from the Halverson and Collins text. I really enjoy how offended people got over a simple "generalization" if you will. I place quotation marks there because they "generalized" about computer users being messy. Now computer users basically makes up a large majority of the middle-class and upper population, thus not really making it offensive but an opinion sort of. But I don't see how that's offensive. People are naturally messy and have to learn how to clean up after themselves. Case in point: As a child you don't have to learn how to make a mess, but you do have to learn how to clean it up.
So, new thinking I took from this...tolerance. Everyone always wants to put up a defense and I think it's important to teach students differences of opinions, what generalizations are and how they ARE used in society and then take it a step further and discuss why they are there and how we can change those. As a future teacher, I plan to teach this as a part of culture and stereotypes in my Spanish and ESL classes.
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