heck ya dude

Jordan Nicholes
5/17/10
Summary
After re- reading Cynthia Selfe’s essay over again I think that the message that Selfe is trying to get across is that that Americans are selfish people and don’t care for other people and only think about themselves. Although this may be a true fact I think that it is unreasonable to say that all Americans act this way or think this way. America is the land of the free and the home of the brave so Selfe is entitled to think what she wants but I can’t say that I agree with a lot of what she is saying. On page 304 Selfe states that, “ "Unfortunately, if Americans have no collective imaginary context for, or historical experience of, a real global village, nor do they have any real experience with an undifferentiated land of opportunity. Our cultural experience, indeed, tells us something very different-that America is the land of opportunity only for some people." I don’t think that Selfe should be able to generalize Americans in such ways. I think that she thinks that she is a lot better than the people in America and that Americans should think and be more like her. She also states on page 294,” "One of the most popular narratives Americans tell ourselves about computers is that technology will help us create a global village in which the people of the world are all connected-communicating with one another and cooperating for the commonweal....This story, as you can imagine, is appealing at a romantic level to many Americans. It is also, quite terrifying. Becoming just another member of the tribe, just another citizen of the global village, suggests the possibility that Americans could be asked to relinquish their current privileged status in the world." I don’t really understand this. We try to be as one and become united but it never works and never will work. Everyone and everything we always be different in some ways.