Under the Sea vs. Land

Have you ever wondered what people think of American society? This week we read and analyzed "Nacirema." This is about a group of people with strange traditions, which we finally figured out was exactly what we take part in our everyday lives. Nacirema is American backwards. This essay was particular interesting because when I read it, it sounded like crazy people that lived when the Mayans or Incas were around. There are so many things that are strange to other cultures and when you list this things out of context they are strange to us.

Similar to Nacirema is The Little Mermaid. Ariel is a mermaid and is fascinated with humans and our "stuff." She goes up to the shore and asks Scuddles, a pelican, what all these items that hae finds in a boat are. Scuddles gives her answers but they are all wrong; he calls a fork a "doodle-hopper" and a smoking pipe a music instrument. This items that she finds are extremely random and mean nothing to her life "Under the Sea." (Spoiler alert) When Ariel turns into a human she makes a fool of herself with the "doodle-hopper," also known as a fork, she starts fixing her hair with the fork and Prince Eric looks at her with a confused look. If an alien or mermaid watched you brush your teeth it would look like you are putting horse hair in your mouth with blue goo.

On a daily basis we do some pretty weird stuff that is just apart of our routine. How do these routines look to a mermaid?