Talias Concerns 3rd blog

My first meeting of Talia, a young woman from Argentina it was met with a lot of energy and enthusiasm. My first interest was getting to know her and how her own culture played a part of who she was and how she got to who she was as well.

You see when I got into talking to her I became further intrigued with her ideas of religion playing a major role in her family and surroundings, despite the fact that she didn't subscribe to the same dogmatic practices that they all did.

Firstly her family and region in Argentina are relatively catholic in nature. They have strict rules in the religion that should be followed in order to avoid cultural back lash. So when I got to talking to her she first brought up the idea of her being a witch. Which is frowned upon initially however she also got into different sexualities as well. Both Polygamous as well as pansexual.

So despite feeling pressure from family and her social structures she manages to quietly hide her identity and still actively practice without feeling shame and guilt. As the overall project for this blog is for beliefs different from my own, I decided to focus on the cultural aspect and how it effected her polygamous ideals.

She brought up the fact that she does have to hide a lot of what she does as where she is from it's frowned upon to have multiple sexual partners. She feels that if she were to actively open up about those things without being under handed, in her own words, that she might end up disappearing or being shamed by her family to keep it under wraps and to try to change her. So she simply hides it.

While in America that is becoming more and more widely accepted these days, in Argentina especially under the new regime of power they have been put under she feels increasingly oppressed by these ideals that are being forced country wide. From anti-abortion laws to laws that fully support straight monogamy. However this wasn't the case until a few years ago, similar to the Trump administration actively doing similar actions, it was a very accepting country, to a country that quickly went into fear for her own life.

She told me a story of a man named Santiago Maldonado who had gone missing after an indigenous peoples march and said his disappearance was being covered up by the government. She felt that if something happened to someone like that who was a citizen everyone should aspire to be, what would happen to someone like her? 

2nd blog

First I would like to outline the ethics of this interview. I will be using a different name for the interviewee, as well as not give specific location nor attempt to bring harm in any way, physically, mentally, or socially to this person. I will protect their identity and portray their culture and ideals as much as I possibly can and as objectively as I possibly can.

I will review chapter 2 of Strangers in Their Own Land, “One Thing Good,” where Horschild speaks with an older man. His name is Lee Sherman, age 82, who played for the Dallas Texans. Sport player to environmental enthusiast who supported the EPA and had a strong hatred towards federal taxes. One of which he would actively fight against when he made a democratic shift in the late 2000's. 

Some of the questions I wanted to ask in my interviews would be, What their cultural heritage is? What are their beliefs now in terms of personal identity, how did they come to find their ideals? Also how does their social culture effect them and their beliefs as they stand now? As well as other questions that may arise during the interview. 

First Blog

My name is Atria Wulf,

The purpose of this blog is to introduce the coming project of stepping into someone elses shoes as it were. I will be finding someone whose culture and beliefs are different from my own especially politically and ideologically. I will be attempting to view things from their side of the world, and see who they are.

My first task is simply to describe someone who did it before hand. Today I will be reviewing the writing "Strangers In Their Own Land" by Arlie Russell, for examples on how to do this assignment  and comparing how he set out to do something similarly.


Arlie Russell had gone out with a mission in mind. That mission being to take record of indigenous cultures that were threatened by extinction due to the post colonialist industrial world. He saw it as an important mission due to the fact that it was important if not able to save the work, but rather immortalize it through recording and preservation of thorough documentation of these tribal networks. This is, in a way, helping the culture survive, and gain further understanding of humans social identities. while doing this he focused on the underlying morals and beliefs of peoples through their emotional values.


Hochschild, Arlier R. Strangers in their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American right. SI New Press, 2018 Print.