I Say ‘Toh-ma-tow,’ You Say ‘Huh?’

Posted on April 21, 2006 by Michael Froomkin

Over at ‘Inside Higher Ed’ (a publication with an increasingly odd identity itself), Jewish in Polynesia describes the problem (eh?) of the absence of familiar stereotypes.

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One Response to I Say ‘Toh-ma-tow,’ You Say ‘Huh?’

  1. Seth Edenbaum says:
    April 22, 2006 at 11:44 am

    Does this confuse you?

    A great deal of my Introduction to Cultural Anthropology course involves getting students to rethink ideas of race and ethnicity in light of the anthropological concept of culture. However, I feel very uncomfortable asking my students to objectify themselves in class by asking them “as an Asian, how do you feel about this?” or lecturing my African-American students about supposedly innate black athletic ability. On the mainland I solved this problem by objectifying myself and examining, for instance, stereotypes about Jews.

    the logic is simple enough.

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