The Black Experience Assignment #3

Courtney Eggleston
Assignment #3

1. If you could contribute 5-10 things to a time capsule that was responsible for summarizing our culture what would they be?
-I would contribute: iPhone, Fashion Magazine, Coca Cola with My Name on it, local Newspaper, Gallon of Gas, Pair of Jordan’s and a TV with pre-downloaded 90’s cartoons.

2. If you had to immediately leave where ever it is that you live and you could only take 5 items with you, what would they be? -I would take my iPhone, Laptop, Photo Album, favorite Victoria Secret sweatshirt and my baby book.

3. List 10 things that define your personal culture? -Dance, Track, Shopping, I live by: if you never know if today is your last day why not live it like your last, technology, Hispanic food, Reggaeton, Meringe, and Bachata Music, and being based on family.

4. List differences between the culture you experienced in High School and the culture you experience here? -In High School until now the only thing that is really different about the culture is now people are older. My high school had a lot of diversity and so does central. But what I can say is here at Central the culture of dress in totally different. In high school everyone dressed the same but here now in college everyone does their own thing.

5. How is the culture in Durham different from your home town? If you are from Durham, how does the culture on campus differ from the culture at home?
-Here in Durham everything is so different than in Raleigh. Durham is very urban and there are so many different people that you meet. But the culture here is very old school to me but back home most of Raleigh is modernized.

6. Do you think some cultural traits are more important than others? What do you think is the most important cultural trait in defining generations? -I don’t think that some really any cultural traits are more important than others I feel as though they are all equal. I think the unity of everyone is one of the most important trait to define genenerations.