Thursday, March 2, 2017

Xenophobia And Alien Planets?

As you viewed the Alien Planet Projects created by your peers, what did you notice?  How do these projects help us delve into the concept of xenophobia?  Please comment, share, argue, and critique the trends or ideas that you noticed.  Please complete this blog response by Monday, March 6th at 2:30p.m.

25 comments:

  1. I noticed a lot of my peers were very detailed with the science side of planets (gravity, rotation, etc) while I was more fantastical and focused on the species and their culture. I think a lot of the stories were great, although after awhile some became repetitive.

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  2. Most of the presentations that I saw were very open minded in the sense of meeting new life forms, they talked about the cultures of the new species rather than the dangers of them. I think this shows that a lot of people are a lot more open to new ideas and foreign beings than they used to be.

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  3. As I walked around and viewed the Alien Planet Projects created by my peers, I notices that many people had viewed the life forms as creature that have hardly any resemblance to humans as all. The projects help us to delve into the concept of xenophobia because it shows haw the unknown is something that we are all guessing on. I really enjoyed hearing all of the different cultures of these alien planets.

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  4. I noticed some of the projects were made of water, which is interesting. I also noticed how none of the aliens were considered beautiful. They were all ugly and scary creatures. I also noticed how none of them looked like humans. Some of them looked like fish or other animals. I liked how creative everyone was too. It's really challenging to think of a new planet, but I think everyone did great.

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  5. I noticed that most of the aliens were all made up using a program or website. The concept of xenophobia was not really present in the ones I took a look at.

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  6. Thing that I noticed in all the planets were life forms resembling humans and human characteristics. Also most of the planets were round and had traits that seemed familiar and less crazy to humans.

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  7. As I was walking around and looking at others projects, I noticed that many students had created planets nothing like Earth. They used their imagination to create a planet that I couldn't even think of. I really liked the ones that used planet maker and used visuals to help my understanding of their planet. It addresses xenophobia because thinking about these different planets actually existing would scare many different people.

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  8. I noticed that people were really creative and detailed when it came to their planets and life forms. This project helps us realize how people interpret the idea of new life forms differently (life forms looking different, acting different, different characteristics, etc.).

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  9. There were a lot of different versions of planets and they have amazing and very diverse organisms and people. They also had very well descriptive and explanatory ideas and thoughts of the planets people and what they are.

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  10. A lot of the projects had animals that were similar to animals on earth. Also a lot of the animals were not intelligent.

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  11. Each presentation was different in many ways but each one had peaceful and harmful creatures that go against each other. Xenophobia was shown with how people think of other creatures that would be foreign to us. Reading stories and watching shows in class helped make students in this class become more creative with this project.

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  12. I noticed that there were a lot of different life forms and that they had a lot of characteristics to them. Also the planets were a lot like earth with the climate and what kinds of things like plants were on the earth.

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  13. I noticed that many of the planets used ideas from what we currently see on earth, or based off of human beliefs or cultures. This explores xenophobia because many of us could not imagine life forms that were not human-like or earth-like, but a distinct lack of xenophobia was found in the fact that we thought creatures that looked like animals or had uncanny human features could also be an intelligent and advanced race. I wonder if 'Muse' inspired people to view animals from earth as possible sentient life forms for their planets.

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  14. When i was walking around the room and looking at other projects I had realized people had made planet a lot different then earth. I liked this because this showed there creativity and making things that people could of never thought of. Xenophobia really connects to this because if people ever saw a planet like this it would scare them which is how that would connect.

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  15. I really enjoyed the drawings of species that people made it made me super happy, all very open to different things to see peoples perspective on the future was super cool.

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  16. A lot of the presentations that I saw were very creative with the new life forms. They went into detail about the cultures and backgrounds of the creatures, and you could tell that a lot of people really got into it and enjoyed creating these characters. This project has helped us with the concept of Xenophobia, and has made us be more open, and not afraid of the unknown.

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  17. I noticed that many of the projects were very thorough. Many projects went into great detail about the life on the planet and how different life forms interacted with each other. From what I saw, I didn't think that many of these projects displayed xenophobia. One common trend that I saw was that people had planets that weren't spherical. Some were different land masses that were connected by small land bridges or something like that.

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  18. As walking around, looking at everyones project I noticed that the main focus on a lot of the projects was the life forms. All of them were extremely well thought out and unique. The projects helped with the concept of xenophobia by forcing us to head into the unknown with our own planets & experience it ourselves. A lot of the physical forms were so different. The idea of meeting a lot of them could be scary for some people because there isn't a lot of knowledge about them. This also displays xenophobia.

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  19. In a lot of the presentations I liked how people made sure that all the planets were nothing like earth and that all the creatures on these planets were all diverse

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  20. There were some planets that I wouldn't want to visit and may just be because it is unknown to me. So Xenophobia can effect you without you even seeing it coming

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  21. I noticed that there were many different point of views on plants each with a different ideas on what a foreign planet and the inhabitant would look like. Very fun to look at.

    Absent.

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  22. I was not in class on Friday, but what I can guess is that the aliens would make people xenophobic, along with any other life forms.

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  23. *Absent*
    I wasn't in class the day the projects were viewed, however, I can imagine everyone's different perspective of alien life showed a full range of xenophobia. How everyone imagines alien life forms can represent on the person's levels of xenophobia.

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  24. the alien plant project was a good activity to see other classmates perspectives on what they think alien life form would look like. In my opinion, our species shouldn't think of a scary, black with red eyes monster that is paranormal when they here "Alien." I saw this come up in our project even that when we were asked to create or draw and alien species, it came out to be a scary black and tall paranormal creature. Our species should be a little more reasonable. Aliens would probably look somewhat similar to ourselves, or maybe and alien could just be a plant or a bacteria. who knows. But overall, this helped us see ideas about how we think and alien/planet may be like.

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  25. I noticed a lot of humanoid life forms, I noticed a lot of earth-similar planets, with landmasses and seas and the works. However, the creativity on some projects was exceptional. For example, Grace created a planet inhabited by giant "bug boys" that I thought was very well thought out. From the atmosphere having higher CO2 content, (which is essential to support insect life of that size) to the advanced societal structure and hierarchy, it was clear she did a lot of research. It's also interesting to think about how these life forms would be perceived by people on earth. Personally, I hate insects. I'm disgusted by them. I think it would be hard for me to interact with a giant insect, no matter how sentient it is.

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