Eggs and Truckers

I first enjoyed the talkings on making someone's culture seem odd. The first was about the dad making eggs. It is interesting to gain a different perspective on something you are accumstomed to in your every day life. Something as simple as making eggs can be turned into a classification of ranks and into an overly glamorized way of preparing a meal. The other was about the Nacirema and how we as Americans worship something, we believe to be an every day event, as simple as bathing rituals. Not all cultures would find this as an important thing to do every day, yet we find it a necessity or else we are considered 'dirty.'
I also didn't think about how we make assumptions and those can change. I thought about Rick Zollo and his interaction with the truckers. "You'll need to admit your possible biases about your topic and look at how other researchers have written about it." (Sunstein, Chiseri-Strater 26) He went in with a limited knowledge about the truckers and came out more on their side. He heard first hand accounts of how truckers have been mistreated. It makes me think about projects assigned to me in my Landscape Architecture studio. I come up with an idea for my project and my professor then gives me input on my design. I like the first design best and don't want to change it. But I know to better come up with a solution, I should compile all that I learn from mistakes and previous designs into the best final design