Jerry Vallejo
EDU-210
JANURARY 26, 2013
JULIE BLAIR
As the years go by generations change and different styles are in and out and sometimes the things from the past are they things of the present. Myself being out of school four years now it has astonished me how different this generation of student is because as I started looking for places to observe it took me a while to actually find a location with a diverse population and interaction especially with the culture established in West Phoenix. In my observations at the mall I noticed attitudes to be normal for students of ages ranging from thirteen to eighteen years of age like some being disrespectful to others or making face to others at the mall that they didn’t like. There were groups of four or five students made up of both male and female; some consisted of just males and others of just female students. There were some students that were just paired up as well and some looked to be couples.
Conversations seem to me most about what had happened at school and what their plans were for the weekend and many of them were actually texting each other and laughing even though they were next to each other, this made me think about the future of actually interacting with someone. Many of them were talking about going to a party or going out to a club with friends. You did here what is most common the judging of people in the mall, comments like “What is she wearing”, “Did you hear that Eduardo, cheated on his girlfriend”, “Dang, That girl is fine”, and the occasional “what is your number”. I have come to the conclusion that things haven’t changed that much. I heard new terminology like whip, scoop , in a minute , etc… , I could not understand the meanings to these and was confused as I overheard a young male tell his buddies if they wanted to go out this weekend because his parents were out of town and were going to leave “whip” and they could use it. The thoughts that came to my find weren’t what I thought so I had to consult with my high school sister to learn that “whip” means car. The same went for scoop and it sounded even weird when I heard something about scooping up a person in the weekend, which scoop means picking up.
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