ENGCOMP 3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Family Values, Model Minority, Father Knows Best
10 Jun 2018
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English Composition 3
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Dr.Steinberg
Warren Hong
Thinking Critically, Challenging Cultural Myths
In the daunting environment that is college, students have to learn to navigate through different
scenes. Realising the drastic difference between high school and college, students are then faced
with the need to think critically and solving every problem with a different approach. A critical
thinker has the ability to “ imagine and value points of view different from her own”. In addition
to that, he/she then transform the idea in various ways in order to come to a satisfying
conclusion. In association with the context of the course, the idea of being a critical thinker is
closely related to one’s ability to decipher cultural myths and one’s capability to think
alternatively to those exact cultural myths. As readers we are challenged and provoked by those
views that are different with our own. It is only through this process of exploration and
confrontation that we allow ourselves develop into more adept critical thinkers.
Harmony at Home: The myth of the Model Family
As the society transitions from a more traditional view of familyhood to a more modern one, it
brings along structural changes to the way people views each other. This change is essential and
important to examine. As people’s perception of family changes, they bring also the same kind
of forward thinking into their workplace, school, and society as a institution for social
interaction. This view of a harmonious family with a father and a mother, along with two
children is one cultural myth that has prevalent effect on traditional society. As the hierarchy
within a family collapse, this opens up more possibilities of creating new relationships and
interactions with different people. For example, children no longer view their parents with the
same intimidation as children would be in Seventeenth century Connecticut, Massachusetts, and
New Hampshire (Harmony of Home, p.17).
Defining the Myth of the Model Family
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Document Summary
In the daunting environment that is college, students have to learn to navigate through different scenes. Realising the drastic difference between high school and college, students are then faced with the need to think critically and solving every problem with a different approach. A critical thinker has the ability to imagine and value points of view different from her own . In addition to that, he/she then transform the idea in various ways in order to come to a satisfying conclusion. In association with the context of the course, the idea of being a critical thinker is closely related to one"s ability to decipher cultural myths and one"s capability to think alternatively to those exact cultural myths. As readers we are challenged and provoked by those views that are different with our own. It is only through this process of exploration and confrontation that we allow ourselves develop into more adept critical thinkers.
