Patrick Keller

HR Stienburg article

To be completely honest I really have no idea why this was included in the course. The connection between Barbies and the scripture is already shaky, but I have absolutely no clue what this has to do with studying Appalachia. My best theory would be that people from Appalachia do not conform to society’s ideas on how people should look, act, live and that they are unfairly compared to things like barbies. this could negatively affect the stereo types of the region. When a young girl looks at a barbie she sees perfection and any part of her that doesn’t look exactly like the barbie she hates. This could be the way Appalachia feels about the rest of society. As a result of living in harsh conditions the Appalachians have sometimes a rougher appearance and maybe do not have the big house boats and cars that “barbie” ( the rest of society) has and this could cause them to feel inferior or even be embarrassed about their heritage. The point is is that being a “Barbie” or living the life of a barbie is impossible, the barbie itself is a Utopia that is not feasible in real life.

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A book people may want to use critical discourse analysis on is Mien Kamph. This was brought to my mind after watching the movie “Operation Finale” today about the capture of Adolf Eichmann the quote on quote “architect of the final solution”. I think that the holocaust was probably the worst manifestation of racism in history and it was partially caused by this book so I think it would be worth using critical discourse analysis on so it does not happen again. For example critical discourse analysis studies the behaviors of groups as a whole. The discourse at the time was very negative in the Nazi Party. This was a result of antisemitism being spread by unstable leaders this just goes to show that individuals can indeed affect a groups tendencies towards racism. The groups discourse once established was very limited and censored. For example the Nazi party would hold rallies where there really was no discourse and was just antisemitic rants by the leaders of the party so when discourse breaks down in a group and everything becomes one sided there is a high likelihood that the groups will start to breed racism when it comes to issues of race.

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I think that frost described the situation best in a modern sense. He said that it isn’t necessarily that the people are rugged and inhospitable, it the land that is inhospitable and the land that has made the people of Appalachia a strong, resilient and independent people (Frost 311). The other side of this sword is that because of the lack of communication the society seems backward and stuck in time to many on the outside, and sometimes we even forget they exist, for example frost said “These people form an element unaccounted for by the census, unreckoned with in all our inventories of natural resources.” This is especially relevant because of the last election, Trump had promised to bring power back to the forgotten people, the coal miners, loggers and people of Appalachia and the people certainly spoke. It surprised a large segment of the population that such a large segment of society could just simply be forgotten. The independence that Mountain people have developed negative connotation in modern society. The people seem standoffish and harsh and are not friendly to outsiders. The other paper by Harney explains some of the more historical aspects of why Appalachians are the way they are and why certain things like blood feuds still exist today  however for the purposes of this prompt I think that Frost Goes more in depth with the modern perception of Appalachians

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