Close your eyes and imagine Afghanistan. If you’re exposed to as much media as most, images of war and fighting probably pop to mind. But a white horse?
More and more projects like this NPR one keep showing up on my radar. Benjamin Rasmussen, a photographer, sets out to capture photos of the side of Afghanistan we don’t think about, the beauty. Every time I see one of these projects, it resets my internal faith in humanity a little bit. So enjoy.
Actually the post was inspired by a similar post on http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/ where Occidental College PhD and Oklahoma native Lisa Wade literally wades into our relationship with cultural norms. Some time ago, she posited a similar exercise. Imagine Muslim women. Her guess was that the black burka pops right into mind (Google muslim women and you’ll see) and she talked about the feelings that evokes after seeing it time after time after time. But how about these women?
An astronaut? a family fighting? Women in college? All Muslim women.
Well, breaking stereotypes is a fun exercise. Now back to my nerdy IT group.
Great post and good reminder!
ReplyDeleteAlso, why is "French Canada" a tag on this post? Is this a subversive scheme?