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Young Huie, Wing. “We are the Other.” www.wingyounghuie.com,  Wing Young Huie, 2012, https://www.wingyounghuie.com/p709406511



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Wing Young Huie is a photographer who often takes photos in order to show how people and groups are mistreated. He often tries to show and oppose stereotypes. The picture is in a series called "We are the Other" and was published in 2012 through 2013. In the picture above there are two African-American males and they are holdings signs. One of the men is disabled and they are standing in what appears to be a subway. One of the signs read, "People judge others before they get to know them" and the other sign is a drawing of a car and words such as "sub". This picture is referring to the "other" as people who have mental disabilities and how people think down on them do to that. By looking at the bigger argument of this image you discover that Huie is trying to show how mistreated people with disabilities are and how they should be thought of as the same as everyone else because they are. It also brings into account how Americans in general judge on how someone looks and decides whether or not to be friends with them because of that. They also often bring this judgment into seeing if someone is "worthy" or not of certain things. I can relate in a way to this image because I have often dealt with people with disabilities both in my family and outside. For example, when I was a counselor this summer I had a camper with down syndrome. This girl was one of the sweetest campers I have ever had. At first, a couple other campers, who were not in my cabin, tended to stay away from her and judge her per say. Over the course of the week and they got to know the individual, they became good friends. This is even furthering the idea that once you get to know someone that you do not care about what is on the outside but it is what is on the inside that matters.

Both Huie and Margaret Atwood bring up the concept of "other" into their work. They show types of people, women, and people with disabilities, who are looked down upon due to things that are out of their control. They are trying to show that people are the same by exgrating the stereotypes presented in society. Specifically, Huie is showing it directly in how society is today whereas Atwood is showing how women and homosexuals are treated to a further extent. In comparison, they are very different in how they approach the subjects but in the end, they are trying to get the same point across. They are trying to show how judgeful society is and how it should change. In Atwood's writing, she shows the negative aspects to a great extent for women and homosexuals through her writing. 









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  1. Hope's New BlogSeptember 30, 2018 at 1:11 PM

    I really enjoyed reading this blog. I thought you were very impressive in analyzing the photograph being displayed. It is important to do that so readers that possibly have a different perspective than you can understand where your argument is coming from. You did well with explaining what the purpose of this photograph was however, you need to demonstrate that you have a better understanding of "othering" between the two works. Although I somewhat understand what point you were trying to convey, there definitely needed to be more analysis in the second paragraph in order to make your argument more clear.

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 30, 2018 at 1:49 PM

    Okay, so I thought that your introduction of the image and its context was very thorough and effective in leading the audience to your argument about "othering". I definitely agree with your analysis of "othering" in the image and I thought that you explained it well. However, I did think that you could have done a better job at analyzing "othering" in THT, and as a result your comparison would have been more solid. I believe that more evidence from THT would be welcome to help in getting your point across to readers. I also thought that while your evidence of your personal experience counseling at summer camp emphasized your point, it was not necessary to your argument regarding the comparison of othering between these two works.

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