Thursday, February 18, 2010
The Oregon Trail
I found this article to be very interesting. I'd never analyzed the game before because it's such a classic and so nastalgic for me. Also, I don't know a whole lot about what life was like for people who made this treck on the Oregon Trail. It's interesting to think about the different roles men and women had during their journey, and how that could be repersented in the game. Maybe if they come out with a third edition of the game there will be more women's roles. For example, you could boost moral by sewing a flag for the wagon or maybe one night you freeze to death because nobody went out and collected fire wood! :) The author uses the term "superficial multiculturalism" in the article. I really like this term because it's something that exsits. I feel as though sometimes people are trying so hard to not be predjiduce that they stop percieving things for what they really are. Racism and sexism exsit both today and in the past, if we don't at least acknowledge this, it will continue or get worse.
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