My ARP is on ethnocentrism, which is when people thinking their culture is superior and others inferior. I can expand this to others fearing or feeling uncomfortable with anything different they’re not used to. I’m not sure exactly what topic I want to do but an interesting topic I could do is based on polygamy. Most people feel extremely odd about this. There is actually a show called Sister Wives. It’s about this guy, Kody Brown, who lives in Utah and has four wives. All together I think he has 16 children but three of them aren’t actually his; they’re from a previous marriage of his latest wife.
This type of stuff made me feel uncomfortable watching it which is weird because two people of the same sex getting married doesn’t bother me but this does. The fact that this guy has four wives and a billion children and they all live together makes me wonder how they are even capable of handling all the jealousy that they have because they do express it during the show. Our society today doesn’t handle homosexuality okay so I wonder if polygamy outweighs it or not. Maybe since we hardly ever see it out in the open it’s not as big as a subject to feel uncomfortable or have a huge impact on people. I believe it's obviously pushing it's limits with marriage and what everyone's definition of marriage is.
Or I could write about cultural differences. My mother is Mexican and my dad is American. Almost all of my mom’s side of the family speaks Spanish and has different values than my dad’s side of the family. Sometimes I feel stuck in the middle but more uncomfortable with my mom’s side of the family because they live in Mexico while I’ve lived my whole life in Ohio. I don’t speak Spanish and I don’t necessarily share all of their ways of living.
Or I could simply do my commonplace paper on high school cliques! We’ve all gone through that, and I know we could relate in some way.
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