Journal #16 5/12/06
Read the following quote and respond by either analyzing what is being said or reflecting personally through your own experience. Please use the SAT Word of the Day in your answer.
Word of the Day:
Ambiguous (am BIG yoo us)--open to more than one interpretation
Examples:
Quote:
To the people here, we are outsiders. Foreigners.
Word of the Day:
Ambiguous (am BIG yoo us)--open to more than one interpretation
Examples:
- His eyes were an ambiguous color; some thought they were brown and some thought they were green.
- Her explanation was ambiguous at best; I still don’t know if her car ran out of gas, or if the battery died.
Quote: To the people here, we are outsiders. Foreigners.
Roberto Clemente
posted by Mark Rounds at 7:58 AM
10 Comments:
I'm thinking that this quote has an ambiguous undertone to it. Mr. Pirate Clemente here is from Peurto Rico so that kind of makes him an outsider. Plus he played for an American team back in the fifties when there was still always some small amount of racial conflict if you weren't white. Maybe he's speaking from a different stand point though. I think he means that he was an outsider of every state that he played in during his career and that this quote is directed towards his fellow team members. Go Pirates! ARRR..!
that people who are not the same they are outsiders. people who are different from the rest of the world are outsiders too. but to me i have Ambiguous thoughts and they are outsiders to me.
The ambiguous people of America do not understand change so they might think that foreigners are people who aren't from here
MONISHA NEWBON
ambiguous is the im supposed to say in this comment and i just said it!
not everyone in america has gone to a different location other than where they live. they are not used to seeing different people because they stayed here for quite some time!
the reason Clemente has this veiw because he is ambiguous. we are foreigners to the man of this land. the man of this land is all those who inhabit it.
This quote is very ambiguous, but the message is fairly obvious. Wherever his team went, he must've felt that the people viewed him as an outsider or a foreigner because of his ethnicity. It's hard to go to new places where your racial backround is used as a basis for judgement.
i think people need to be ambiguous an dwhat they think or say. roberto clemente feels that to people here we are outsiders and foreigners and that's how they basically see us. the only thing we can do is try to prove them wrong.
i think this statement is ambiguous and there it two different ways to understand that statement one is that we a humans are foreigners.or we as un natives are foreigners. i thinkk that the last one is what i think this mesage is saying.
to others that come to our coutry we are the outsiders and foreigners and vise versa i deem that the people of the US should have a Ambiguous look when it come to other people of the would
I BELIEVE THAT THIS QUOTE SHOWS HOW AMERICANS ARE NOT THAT AMBIGUOUS TO OTHER PEOPLE OUTSIDE OF THEIR NORMAL PERSONAS. MANY IMMIGRANTS FEEL THAT EVEN THOUGH ALL OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WERE ONCE IMMIGRANTS, THAT THEY ARE STILL SEEN AS FOREIGNERS NO MATTER WHAT.
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