About Me
Experience
This blog is meant for the Global Initiatives Program at my school, which I take as connecting us to the rest of the world and broader issues, cultures, and peoples. My posts will vary in theme but will be grounded in global or local topics centered around humans and our role in the world and with each other. As a person with many interests, this blog will attempt to reflect that and how complex the modern world is. Enjoy!
- Languages: fully Competent at English, intermediate at Spanish and French, beginner at Japanese
- Global-related classes: Introduction to Japanese Language and Culture (GOA), Globalization and Human Rights, International Relations, Spanish IV, AP English Lit and Comp: City of Angels, Economics, Film History, World Cultures: India, AP United States History, Contemporary Ethical Issues, English: Global Voices, AP English Lang and Comp, and Perspectives on Modern World History
- GIP Travel Abroad: Cambodia and Vietnam: http://polygipvietnamcambodia.blogspot.com
This blog is meant for the Global Initiatives Program at my school, which I take as connecting us to the rest of the world and broader issues, cultures, and peoples. My posts will vary in theme but will be grounded in global or local topics centered around humans and our role in the world and with each other. As a person with many interests, this blog will attempt to reflect that and how complex the modern world is. Enjoy!
My Intentions
When I attempt to look at my blog as an outsider, I see a lot of themes that may seem pretty controversial and bordering politically incorrect: topics such as race, religion, mass shootings, China, QAnon, the Holocaust, global warming, and others which are ripe with terrible perceptions and division. But, unlike Dave Chappelle, I'm attempting to deconstruct and confront rather than propel. My posts look at my learning of how varying modern times are and how odd the influx of non-analog ideas and perceptions has made our lives. Our thoughts are more meta than ever. Everyone can view practically any information freely. We consume thousands of ideas every day, so life is simply more complicated today for a modern human being than it ever has been for anyone before. Whether we like it or not, our world and our interconnectedness are grounded in the knowledge spread by the media companies, governments, professors, and celebrities of the past and now also by people, companies, and forums that are products of the internet. I know I have been greatly influenced by the internet and the millions of websites, video games, publications, and personalities that have come with it. My thoughts and topics of interest may border some heavy and touchy subjects, but in the end, I genuinely want the best for everybody. I believe I'm a humanist through and through. I wish for a better world without so much strife and especially hate and distrust, yet, I know that if the issues are only being discussed by the sects fighting in them, our global society will have trouble progressing. But, to unionize, we must first deal with others' divisions and prevent them from pushing the rest of us apart. I love this world. I love this universe. And I want to experience what we have in store for it. Living is and will be painful, but life is beautiful.