I currently have a palad expander in my mouth, and am required to wear elastics around the clock. I am lucky enough not to have braces. Yet. May 17, I will be getting them put on. Not that I don't want straight teeth, but who decided it matters? I mean, if we were all to have the teeth we have and not worry about it, braces would be unnecessary.
In Social Studies class one day, we read about A tribe of people called the Nacirema people. We sat there and listened to all the weird things that they do. Apparently, everyday the men cut their faces with small knives. Also, around once a month, the women bake their heads in small ovens. Most children were subjected to a cruel form of torture that consisted of places liberal mamount of metal in the childs mouth. After listening to about three pages of the weirdest rituals ever, it was revealed to us that Nacirema is American backwards (they were not real), and everything we were lead to believe that they did was what we do, but explained differently. The metal-in-mouth thing was braces (that's why I thought of it). The men cutting their faces in shaving, and the women baking their heads is when they go to the hair salon and sit under those funny little head do-dopps. Weird, huh?
I suppose some of the things we do to ourselves are extremely weird. Ah well, what am I supposed to do?
~Isabel
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That Nacirema thing made me fall out of my seat. It's so true! We are such a strange race of intelligent animals, aren't we?
ReplyDeleteI know, when I heard that, I was so confused, but then it made sense. We are quite strange, and you and I are even stranger than most.
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