Growing up in a African American household where the ratio of women to men was 3:1, you learn a thing or two about superstition. I remember while sweeping the floor in my kitchen running the broom accidentally across my mother’s foot and her taking the broom out of my hand to spit on it. In the book, Intercultural Communication (pg.17) superstitions are described as customs that are labels superstitions because it is believed these types of practices influence a course of events. For example, according to Jandt's (pg. 17) Superstition are only a small part of culture but certainly an interesting part. I believe that things like superstition can give a person culture identity.
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OMG growing up in an African American house hold i heard all kind of superstitions! The sad thing about it was that when i was younger i really used to think they were true, and it would scare me because i would just be sitting around waiting for all of these superstitions to come true.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the both of you about superstitions. Growing up as a Latino, we are told to be obedient or the cucui would come and get as at night. Another folk lore superstition in the Latin culture is the story of La Llorena. It is believed we hear her crying for her children whom she killed by drowning them in areas that have bodies of water.
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