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Speaking for others…………..

I have lived both in America and Austria for an extended period; I lived in Vienna for a year last year, so I have come across many generalizations about each country from the other. But I do not know if this would be an acceptable example of academic discourse? I think this just plays off of stereotypes and is obviously not given by an expert. But I did attend the University of Vienna were I can be pretty sure it was academic discourse and were the professor would use America and its citizens as examples but who never really been there longer than a vacations worth. Of course Bush and American politics were often the topic of choice and I felt I was being bombarded by misconceptions and stereotypes. It seemed like to me anything that made the U.S look bad was an acceptable piece of evidence, but I actually agreed with most of what was being said, I guess I just did not like the arrogance of how it was being said. This trip down memory lane does not really seem to getting to the point that I was trying to make or answer the posed question.

Take 2: I can’t think right now. Can you have writers block on an in class writing exercise?

Was there ever a time were I witnessed a lecture given by someone about a culture or group of people that the lecturer was not a part of? Or were my people or community ever the subject? I just don’t know. I know I have but I can’t think of one at the moment. The only thing I can think of right now is when politicians talk for poor people, or students or any community there are not a part of. How can a white male who has grown up in an upper middle class environment talk about or think for a lower class family, but then again that is there job. So I give up.