Airplanes

I also questioned and wondered that Andrea. It seemed like in someways the two ideas were very contradicting to eachother.
In Thursday's class the Alexie poem "Airplane" really made me do some thinking. It made sense to me when Alexie says "Up here, where no Indian was ever meant to be" that he feels like he does not fit in in the modern world and he wants to go home. Later at the end of the poem when he talks about everyone coming home I felt confused. It was like he was saying that traveling and learning new cultures is not a good thing and that we should just all go home to our original homes. For many of us that is now impossible. We really are a multicultural culture now. There are rare people that are pure bread so to say, so I do not see how anyone could really return to their home because many of us have such a mix in us. In a way it makes traveling and exploring new cultures seem like a bad thing because the result is always change. This could also be seen in Loewen. Loewen talks about how Lewis and Clark and some explorers were at peace with the Indians at first and had not completely set out to change them, but then they quickly started describing them as savages. It seems that when one culture invades another a change and mix of culture is unavoidable and I am not really sure how I feel about this.