Pick one concept from the assigned reading that you found useful or interesting and discuss it.
In this chapter it discusses territory and the use of space, and it got interesting when discussing body territories. It says that body territories are the most private of all our territories.
I can agree it’s about our rights to see how much we can touch others and how much we are restricted to. It states “in comes cultures, practices such as tattooing or nose piercing are encouraged; in others, the yare though to be disgusting.”
This sentence brings up a time when I was in elementary or junior high, my sister and I would beg my dad to let us get our ears pierced but he wouldn’t even hear of it, even letting him know that every other girl in our class had them and all our friends had their ears pierced, he said that they aren’t his daughters so it doesn’t matter, that we are his daughters and we should obey. Upon asking why we couldn’t he said that in bible times, having something pierced meant you were a slave, and that he didn’t want that image with us. My dad being a pastor has brought many of these ideas into my dad’s head and kept his ruling. It can be a cultural thing, piercings are pretty and in India are very popular, but my dad just couldn’t let go of the fact that it had to do with slavery in the Christianity persepctive, and therefore he didn’t want us to.
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