In the reading, "It Takes a Tribe" David Berreby was explaining to his readers of how colleges do certain traditions that some of us may value them while others wouldn't seem to think it isn't as important to them. What was interesting about this reading was that Berreby is absolutely right. We as the people may not know it, but we form our groups everyday based on our beliefs and what we value. He gave an example of a college campus and how we have many communities and groups. We are one solid community because we all attending the same college but within our community we have the different majors you can choose to study, and further into that we have the different sections of that major to solely focus on. With that there are many of us who feel the same way on certain things and come together because we have a common interest and value that interest. One thing that Berreby said that caught my attention was when he said, "A college campus is full of people inventing a sense of "us" and a sense of "them".( Berreby-120) When he said this I believed that he was trying to say to his readers that if you believe in something or value what is stands for then you will feel part of that community. As well as not only you but others will feel the same way about it as well which will make you to us.
I think you make a lot of good points in your post. "It Takes a Tribe," definitely describes how the college community comes together and forms tribes based on values and what we believe in. Like you said we are separated by different majors, but we are able to create a "sense of us" as well as a "sense of them." Overall I agree with you as well as David Berreby, when is comes to creating an overall sense of "we," among a college campus.
ReplyDeleteI agree with everything that you wrote. I think that it is so true that on a college campus there is a sense of us and them. As much as we try to avoid it, it's a part of life and there is no way around it.
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