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Your forum post should be at least 200 words. Please respond to one classmate with 100 words. 

For this forum, I'd like to get you started on thinking about the topic of your final project. It is not due until Dec 5th, but it is not too early to try to brainstorm your topic and ethnographic fieldwork.

Full instructions on how to do the fieldwork project are posted on Moodle under the "Final Project Instructions" last week, but to summarize, this is a 10-page fieldwork-based study of a cultural group or cultural phenomenon in which you act as a participant observer of the group  (you cannot be a part of the group, however).  You can endeavor to participate along with the group while you are studying it (i.e., participant observation), but I don't want it to be a group that you already know well.  This will give you a chance to get to know and study something new.

For example, past projects have included studies of sorority life at Woodbury, studio culture on campus (architecture or fashion design, e.g.), the life of local homeless people, Armenian weddings, fieldwork about where students work, such as Home Depot, and so on. The topic just needs to be one where you can observe and talk to people in the ethnographic tradition to paint a picture of their life as it is lived.  Remember, this will be a group, or sub-culture, of which you are not already a part (i.e., a new group to you).

So, the Forum for this week is to post some ideas about what you might do for your final project. I will review them and give you feedback about the feasibility or appropriateness of the project. Who knows, maybe some of you have common interests and you can get together and do the project as a group. I do not have a problem with group projects, though I do expect them to be longer 12 to 15 pages, since there are more people participating. The group members share the final grade. (3 people per group, at most).

Some topic that I thought of are:

Hackers

Youtubers (vlogger)

But you can choose anything

Classmate writing

My final project is about the culture of Chinese architecture. The topic for now is “The Effects of Modern Architecture on China’s Cultural Identity”. The reason I am choice this because I found today most modern buildings in China are being constructed without incorporating any traditional Chinese architectural culture in their design. Modern architecture is having negative effects on the culture of China and influences the lives of Chinese people in a negative way and it makes them feel uncomfortable. Culture of a country is one of its most important treasures, one that can never be replaced. If a country is losing its culture, it loses its identity and life. Because China is considered the largest construction site in the world today, more value is being placed on economy than on culture. It now seems more important to build faster, cheaper, uncomfortable buildings than to preserve culture. China’s cultural identity might be suffering because of the encroachment of modern architecture and very little is being done about it. If China can raise awareness about the importance of culture to architecture, then future Chinese architects can design buildings that incorporate traditional Chinese architectural culture and perhaps stop China from losing some of its cultural identity.

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