Blog 12

My understanding of the word rhetoric is it is a way of speaking well, being persuasive, and using symbols and ideas in your writing. rhetoric can be used in both a positive and negative way. In a positive way it can be used if someone were to address a classroom about a specific topic and listen to their opinions making connections between the argument and the audience. He never attacked his audience. A negative way of being rhetoric is to attack the audience's opinion demanding that you are right and they are wrong. I think there is a lot of negative rhetoric in my subculture. Religion is a very touchy topic and when people have a specific religion they believe in, the majority of the time they are very strong in believing their views are right and everyone else's views are wrong. In most cases, on the topic of religion, people are attacked for believing the "wrong" thing, rather than understanding the others views. That is definitely something I could bring up in my mini-ethnography because it is something dealt with almost every time you ever question someones faith in being a Christian. I am going to assume that Christianity is the most popular religion in America. When questioning someones faith, or saying that you think it's ridiculous and you don't believe you are immediately attacked and looked down upon. At least I think that is usually the case, but not always. This is definitely something new I can think about for my project!