Week 12- Posting 12

My understanding of the word "rhetoric" is that it's some one's point of view and our opinions. I think that rhetoric constitutes more than just the things we say. The way a person acts and dresses also constitutes our personal views even if we don't realize it. Although, I don't think a person's views should solely taken from the way a person looks or talks, we sometimes sub-consciously make assumptions about people. In American society, I most commonly hear rhetoric being used on the street. Just walking down the street you can over hear conversations and it's easy to pick on their point of view about certain things. For instance, someone talking politics and how they feel about them. I think rhetoric is used equally in a positive and a negative way, it just depends on the subject and how strongly the person feels about that subject. I think the rhetoric that coincides with my subculture would be other peoples views on the subculture. For example, how an outsider feels about the group. I plan on using rhetoric in my mini-ethnography by taking the readers through my research process and how telling them my thoughts and feelings about the steps that I took. I'll also include some the subculture's member's feelings and thoughts about their subculture.