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Re: Being "ethnicized"
Harriet Whitehead (whitehea@WSUAIX.CSC.WSU.EDU)
Thu, 15 Dec 1994 07:33:15 -31802
Cliff Sloane asks - re my story about the skinned chicken breasts -
whether four years later my own grocery shopping habits have changed (or
remain changed) as a result of this insight. Good Question, Cliff!
Those habits converted back. After gaining 18 lb in the first year back,
I took to skinning my own chicken breasts. Hey, what can I say?
The most enduring psychological mark left by my New Guinea experience is
the perception of Americans as stingy and distrustful and a limited but
sincere attempt on my part to (a) be less so myself, and (b) communicate
this insight to others.
Harriet Whitehead
Anthro, WSU
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