Renato Rosaldo Putting Culture In Motion Summary

Passing Judgment We are living in a society where people will pass judgment upon someone without getting to know them. In Renato Rosaldo’s Article “Putting Culture in Motion”, he starts off with a letter from a heterosexual woman, who has a lady friend who kisses her hello and goodbye. She is now think that the women might be a lesbian. Many European countries kissing someone when they first see you and when they are saying goodbye is a normal thing to do. To assume something about someone before knowing something about who they are is wrong. We need to analyze things and the people around us before we judge them. For decades Americans have been passing judgment upon people without taking the time to get to know who they are as a person.
For example, there was a kid named Trevon Martin who was killed by a man for walking down a street, late at night. In the case of Trayvon martin, martin was killed by a man who suspected him of doing something because he was walking through the neighborhood look at all the houses. Just because someone is looking around while walking outside at night in the dark, does not mean they are doing something wrong. Martin was a young African American boy who was visiting his relatives in a gated community in Sanford, Florida. The night martin was killed he was coming from 7 eleven, with an ice tea and a bag of skittles heading home, when Zimmerman started following him. At first Zimmerman called the police to report that a suspicious man was walking down his street, while he was following him. In the 911 call the officer asked him, “Are you following him?” he responded “yes”, the officer told him, “we don’t need you to do that”. If the police told someone to not follow someone why would that person continue to follow that person do that without intending to do something to that person. Mr. Zimmerman judged on Trevon Martin without knowing what he was doing on that