Oral Traditions and Smartphones
How might growing up with the language of tap dance change how one thinks about the world?
Growing up with the language of tap dance could change how you see the world, express yourself and carrying on traditions. Tap dancing is an art form that allows you to express yourself through movement and your body, even allowing you to create music, rhythm, and songs just from your steps. This can help you see the world in a different way, valuing traditions and arts more than things like material possessions. Tap dancers see arts as having more value than material possessions because of their deeper meaning and longstanding traditions
What sonic, spoken, or even silent “languages” do you possess, and how do they change the ways you think?
The main spoken languages that I grew up speaking is English, and without me even realizing shaped my perspective on life and how I see things in the world. It also gave subconscious bias and ideas that shaped who I am drastically, just because I spoke the language. Another spoken language I speak is Tagalog, which incorporates some words from English and Spanish as well. This makes it much easier to learn, while still keeping some of the complex ideas that come from the English language. For example, if I had learned Tagalog before I learned English I would see the world differently and if I grew up in the Philippines, I would have different values.