Shows
Hypothetical:
Student/Employer: What is your favorite show on netflix.
How would you represent yourself in this situation?
Use a show that represents your culture on that streaming platform
You have a work party/friendsgiving/potluck, wyd?
bringing a delicious ethnic food
You have a work desk, wyd?
representing and putting a flag, putting something symbol to the region your from, etc
How can you compare cultures through shows
Hispanics: have a streaming platform for tela novelas, bollywood dramas, etc
Q: your at a restaurant with your grad school or work friends, you see steak tartare...how will you represent yourself
Comparing it to kibbeh nayye and talking about the similarities and differences of how its made between west culture v swana cultures who do eat it
How can you compare cultures through dance
Depending on ethicity, you can talk about dabke and zaffeh or attan or (insert traditional dance here) v mariache v the ethnicity you are talking to
What is a somewhat commonly known streaming platform for some of the "swana" identities
Shahid
co-worker is drinking coffee, wyd?
answers can vary: tell them about Philz, show them the little Swana coffee cups, maybe even bring them to work
there is a common phrase in your swana dialect, that is easy to say and can tell your work mates or school mates to do and theyll remember it
"yalla" (arabic), "ajle kon" (farsi) ", etc
Name 3 famous SWANA poets that people tend to use in their everyday lives
Answers may vary, but some include: Gibran Khalil Gibran, Mahmoud Darwish, Rumi