Have you ever felt like you were an outsider, or maybe somewhere where you weren't sure if you belonged? There are times in everyone's life when they face drastic alterations in their life styles. The way that people would go about telling others about it is in the form of an auto ethnography. Auto ethnographic text is one that, people undertake to describe themselves in ways that engage with representations others have made of them. (Pratt 445). They many times involve two lifestyles that clash and with it one person will either adapt and assimilate into society, or remain an outsider. An ethnographic text is a integral part of the contact zone, which is a social space where cultures meet, clash, and grapple with each other. They many times involve two lifestyles that clash and

For example hermaphrodites, or herms, who possess one testis and one ovary, the Merms, who have testis and some aspects of the female genitalia but no ovaries, and the Fems, who have ovaries and some aspects of the male genitalia but lacks testes may feel like outsiders. (Sterling 21) The definition of Hermaphroditism, is when an animal has both testicular and ovarian tissues. Sometimes tone gonad becomes a testis while the other becomes an ovary, and sometimes the gonads become a combination of ovaries and testes, containing a mixture of male and female components.

social fact and a social construction. That is, since people still act as if races exist,

ideas of male and female. In the idealized, Platonic, biological world, human beings are

Our society for some reason doesn't want to see more than two races in the world; white and black. Why would they want to identify other races? Unless there is a benefit to the white man, they would prefer not to deal with anymore cultural differences than they have to. Today's society is still blinded by racism and prejudice and it seems to be slowly creeping towards those of mixed and multiple races. Often times on applications for schooling and employment, only the four basic races in the world; Asian, White, Black, and Hispanic. I hardly see a section for islanders, mixed races, and multiple races.

urine and semen to the outside world. They also have well-known secondary sexual

chromosomes, ovaries, all of the internal plumbing to transport urine and ova to the

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