1. Use a personal definition of love an analyze one of the character's definitions of love in "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love." Do they contradict one another? Complement one another? What do you think most contributes to one's worldview in terms of what love is and what we ought to do with it?
I don't know what love is. I've experienced it. I've been in love, but I don't think there is really one definition of love. I've been with people who's definition of love is very different than mine. So, in that sense, I believe that I can identify with Terri. Sometimes love makes people do crazy things. I know I've brought this up before in this blog, and I think too often people use the Biblical definition of love to define what love is. You know, the "love is patient, love is kind..." verse in Corinthians. Movies and songs and books and stories cannot define love. They may glorify it, but they do not define it. I don't think people are capable of defining it. I recently got out of a very serious relationship. I was ready to spend the rest of my life with this boy, and I loved him. But I have a very askew was of showing love. My idea of love is going out to dinner, and grocery shopping together, and scratching my legs when they itch me. And his idea of love was loyalty, and not talking to other people, and texting each other every second. I cannot say what happened, I don't know why our love failed, but it did, and I'm still very much in love with him, and I know he's still in love with me. Sometimes people just fail. Everything fails. I know this is so incoherent, but I have alot to say about this subject. When it comes to what contributes most to how one views love, I believe it's a mixture of things. Religion, socioeconomic status, what your parents taught you, it all comes together. Love is universal and it differs from person to person.
4. Do you think it helps or hinders the social fabric to affirm ethnic differences? Do you think America is a melting pot? Is a quilt a better symbol to capture our diversity?
I think it helps. Appreciating all people from all different backgrounds is what makes America, America. We came to this country based on the idea that we wanted to be different without bounds, and although it was a different freedom (religious), it was still freedom. I very much so think America is a melting pot because people from everywhere come together and become one. It isn't separated, and when being defined as a quilt, I think that still keeps people separated.
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I was very close to posting an answer almost identical to yours for the first question, but I got too upset typing it out so I took a different tack for that story and answered a different question. I never really thought about the fact that songs, movies, poems, etc. don't define love so much as glorify and extol it. That's a really good point. I kind of feel better not. Thanks, haha
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