My name is Holly Hobson. This fall semester of 2000, I am taking a course in World Music with Professor De Jong. This is actually the second time that I have elected to take Prof. De Jong's class, because each semester she teaches something new. In all of the classes she teaches about music from around the world, she stresses the importance of looking in on any given culture with an open mind and to try not to judge the people of the culture.
All cultures are different.
All people are different. And because of this all people believe in different things. And it is a great challange to approach a culture other than one's own and learn about it from the native's prospective. Of course we all were unsure as to what she meant, but we were to find someone, or a group of people from a culture other than our own and interview that person or group and write about them. I had no idea how to approach a stranger, let alone how to ask them to let me interview them.