Reflection

When I first began this project, I had no knowledge of Nicaragua. All I knew was it was a Spanish speaking country. My goal was to learn about the culture of Nicaragua. I was a little reserved about it because I didn’t know if I would find much information. After completing this project, I can reflect back and say that the Nicaraguan culture is very rich and extensive. My most interesting artifact was the folklore. Folklore isn’t just a story being told. Folklore was a traditional lesson being taught. I really like folklore because it showed me that Nicaraguans were very creative and educated despite not having a lot of traditional schooling.  Most interesting aspect I learned about how truly humble they are.  In my research, I never read statements that commented on that fact. I was able to come to that conclusion based on the actions I read they displayed. I believe in America we put a lot of emphasis on sports. In fact we try to monopolize them, making a dollar with every chance we get.  When researching Nicaraguan baseball, I never read about them using baseball to help build their economy. For most of its history, baseball has been very successful; but that wasn’t incentive for them to use in the economy. I believe Nicaragua’s prioritizes sports as just entertainment and nothing more. I believe it’s important to try to learn about different cultures. In learning about other cultures, I began to see a lot of my prejudgments were wrong. This project motivated me to change those prejudgments. It also made me more open-minded. Further, I think in learning about a culture, it makes a person better rounded. I believe that because after learning about more cultures a person is more knowledge about the world around them. Now, I don’t believe in order to learn about a culture a person has to learn a foreign language. Personally, I love learning languages. If I wanted to learn about a culture I’m more incline to learn the language of that culture first. Learning the language first makes the culture more interesting to me. I am prone to learn more but, of course, that is just my preference.