Last week we read the Nacirema article which was very eye-opening and quite misleading, which was the whole point of the article. We were asked to think of a similar example of something familiar to us described to the point where it was practically unrecognizable. Initially, the first example I thought of (I had read it somewhere before) was the movie where it starts off with a scene of a big family; a mother, a father who had just left, and several children. In the first few minutes, the mother and all but one of the children are brutally murdered, leaving the father devastated when he sees the carnage and his sole surviving son. Fast-forwarding a couple of years, despite establishing hard rules for his son’s safety, his son was kidnapped and held in inhumane conditions. The father does not give up and embarks on a long and challenging journey to find his son again, which he eventually does after facing many difficulties on the way. This movie is called Finding Nemo.
Another example that I could think of is how some individuals will willingly make a dish for consumption using ingredients harvested from cattle – the rich-in nutrients liquid intended for infants of this species – as well as extracting the pulp from a special type of rigid grass. From this there are many variations of the dish, my personal favourite is to combine it with special leaves ground up traditionally by granite stones into a fine powder. Individuals must, unfortunately, wait several hours to consume this dish and must endure the brutal torture of placing said dish into a special bunker, which controls the environment and manipulates the state of matter of the dish into the intended state. Only after a couple of hours can you enjoy the matcha ice cream that you very much deserve.