Afterword Response

Dodson's Afterword ends up wrapping up the overall topics he focused on throughout the chapters. He words what he stated in previous chapters differently by summing up and analyzing what he thinks might occur in reaction to China's society. I found that the language he used in his Afterword was not very personal, it pretty much focused on China in itself. Dodson's Afterword can relate to the kind of conclusion we are being asked to write for the essay in the way it sums up what was previously discussed and comes up with a general conclusion for the entire piece of writing. It is very similar in that sense, yet the focus on the conclusion of our ethnography seems to me like it is much more personal. We are being asked to not only analyze what we have found within each part of our strand, but to also consider the local and global implications that have resulted from our findings. We don't necessarily have to find a solution to a problem we ran into, but merely examine the effects of what we found and the possible relation it can have personally and globally.