Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.
— Mahotma Gandhi
Diversity is something that has been implemented in everyday life. This is more prevalent in work life, schools, concerts, the internet, and even the smallest thing as walking down a busy street in New York. When looking in depth to diversity you have to look at the ethnicity. There are so many questions that are asked, but I think the question that most people ask, ” Where are you from?” To explain something of this sort you have to understand the cultural aspect of their origin.
During the next few episodes Kugisaki and Fushiguro face off with the second years from Kyoto’s Jujutsu High. Zen’in Mai was the sibling of one of the second classes,Maki, from there Jujitsu. Todo was one of the deadlier second classes as he won the last year’s challenges. The only way these deadly fights would stop was by the second-year students from Kugisaki school.
Later in the next two episodes, Yoshino gets bullied and wants to make changes to his life. Itadori and ex-salaryman first-grade jujutsu sorcerer, Nanami Kento, join the fight after encountering two cursed spirits. They would finish them with ease, but once that was done Yoshino and Itadori talk as he has an investigation to understand what has happened to him. Yoshino eventually hears him out and becomes friends shortly after. A question that was asked stuck with him during the next episode. If you had to kill a bad sorcerer would you do it? He stated that he still wouldn’t kill that person.
As for episode 6 Itadori’s death affected Gojo, but made his teammates Fushiguro and Nobara depressed. They went through the process of training after. The second years would start bullying them to see how strong they were. Itadori also started his training as he did not lack the experience with hand-to-hand combat, but he did lack the knowledge to control his curse abilities.
Gojo was hit by a surprise attack by a special grade curse spirit by the name of Jogo. At this time he leveled the field with his strength and his ultimate domain that seemed to be more superior to the special grade curse. Gojo was also in the process of teaching Itadori how to properly manage his curse magic. Eventually, Jogo was beheaded and rescued by one of the other special grade curse spirits. Jogo attempted to finish off Itadori, but did not expect Gojo to be as lethal as he was.
The next three episodes start out to be very reasonable till it becomes more of a vendeda against some evil curses. Yuji get the chance to go through a great ordeal when fully joining the jujutsu high school and to finally meet his peers. This inistiation into the school was humorous as he was attacked by one of the lower leveled curses. He was beat to a pulp till he realized that he was strong enought to handle the curse.
Once the test was completed he was given a room and introduced to his peers. Kugizaki Nobara is a straightforward character that seems to be weaker than the other first years, but she makes it up with the insults after meeting her peers. I feel there will be more of her as she seems to have hidden abilities that will help them out in the long run.
With the last episodes comes a strong oppoinent for them and a few other characters. The resurrection of Yuji happens when the curse inside of him takes over as Yuji didn’t want to die, but makes a deal with him. When this happens only a select few now that he has been brought back. In the process of the fights that occured he began training for an event that will be discussed later on in the next following post.
In the first few episodes of this new series that I have been recommended to watch Itoadori Yuji is a high school student with exceptional physical abilities. After his track coach challenged him to competition to try out Yuji shock him with a world record toss of 23 m 12 cm. His grandfather is sick and hospitalized, but within a short time of the start of the series dies.
There are curses that come from pain, sadness, and anger. While saving his classmates Yuji swallows a known powerful curse that can’t be destroyed. He eats 1 of the 18 fingers of this demonic curse. At this time he meets the second main character Satoru Gojo who is a sorcerer at an unknown high school. This organization fights curses.
The next episode talks about how he will be executed since he swallowed this cursed finger as it is prohibited to do such an evil act. Since Yuji is able to control this curse for an unknown reason the higher chain of command allowed him to live. This is because he is the only living being that was able to absorb it without being taken over or killed.
Afro Samurai is about a black lead role by a voice actor Samuel L. Jackson. In the history of anime culture, it has not been a big movement of black lead roles in anime. When I was younger, I found out that this was one of them. Afro Samurai was created back in 2007 as a series on Fandom. Afro saw his father get slaughtered and is seeking revenge. This is what most people in the real world seek as peace when something happens to someone they love.
Within the first episode Afro is seeking the number one headband. As the man that has this slaughtered his father. This is basically how you would go against each boss in the game and the one holding the number one headband is the final boss. With the skills and experience he has learned over the years he had realized that he was off his game or was not capable of handling this until his first few battles. This is in the older Japanese culture and would stem from there historical background.
The series itself is very violent and gory with the background story of a legend who was feared as an ice-cold soul. I could see that he is numb to emotions other than anger and PTSD. Once you see someone you love die it has a major effect on how you perceive the world.
Aloha is a phrase that has a strong meaning to care for our environment and for one another. Some use it to say hello and do not fully understand the cultural background behind the meaning. I want to tell you a little about my past with the Hawaiian culture. I met a friend in the military a few years back, and he married a way that was mixed with Hawaiian. They had a daughter that I was a godfather to. Before this happened I had asked many question about her culture. She explained of there way of life and how they protect their own. They hate outsiders because of how they were slaughtered in the past. Hawaiians have cultural dances, the jobs they work to support they whole family, the chants to there gods, and so much more. I have engulfed a part of my life in there culture for my goddaughter. As of the travel while in the military I had the opportunity to see Waikiki on the island of Oahu.
If you would like to know more about the cultural background visit this website that I was able to grab the broad meaning about aloha: https://www.gohawaii.com/hawaiian-culture
Virtual Reality (VR) is minor advancement in technology, but with this equipment and the developers striving for a stronger need for this allows us to take advantage what it’s capabilities are. VR reminds me of an anime I watched a year ago. It is called Sword Art Online. If in the near future we could develop something that is neurologically strong enough to make our own worlds so that others could compete it would be cool, but one thing I did notice was that this show had there own currency and some connected, because they were not able to move or they were ill. I would love to see this being used for building technology and the in depth look of what everything does with detail. What is your perspective with VR? Why has it become so popular with gamers?
While reading Neuromancer by William Gibson, I came to a similar realization that the world could become more than we predict. I would love to see a world were technology is advanced and we are striving as one species. The simplicity of the idea is just a dream. I’ve wanted a better future with all the tech that could help me prolong my life to see what it becomes. Cyberpunk is like a logical understand of one version of what it could be. Reading this work from Gibson gave me the insight of what you would see on a movie or a TV series. Something that would let the mind expand in the perspective of the WHAT IF. Cyberpunk opened the door to the imaginations of many. Theoretically speaking what if you could take a gander into your future and stay for a day. What would you search for and Why?
Humanity is changing on a yearly basis. People of this world underestimate what could be accomplished in such a short time. Stem cell research just became a thing in the United States after it was banned, but if you take a look into what the potential science and technology discoveries that are in store. It would be the closes thing to humane and less of an effect on humanity.
Then we have the few people that insist that transhumanism is the way of our future. What is transhumanism? It is the belief or theory that the human race can evolve beyond its current physical and mental limitations, especially by means of science and technology. This has many faults, but success that is rendered from the research could build a strong case that would gain more of a following. This goes into body modification with cybernetic upgrades. This would change the course of humanity and not only will people live longer, but pain could be considered obsolete. This would lead into Artificial Intelligence. Which would you prefer if you hand all the knowledge of both transhumanism and stem cell research?
Today I will be talking about cultural appropriation. Cultural appropriation is the act of adopting elements of an outside, often minority culture, including knowledge, practices, and symbols, without understanding or respecting the original culture and context. Can we truly understand when this became a thing or what would be considered cultural appropriation? From my perspective I would rather research if this began with my ethnic group. If not I would preferably understand where it originated from and respect the context. It truly depends on how you look at it. Most would look past something they were taught growing up then seeing someone of a different ethnic group acting as if they created (insert cultural appropriated topic). Now the people that respect these things could protest to get it removed from major media outlets, stores, etc. What is your perspective and/or how do you feel about this topic?
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