hello my name is Gaby Sandoval and I
have module 14 which talks about the
narrative paradigm today I will be
talking about what the narrative
paradigm is and how it's affected me in
my personal life so the narrative
paradigm was conceptualized by Walter
Fisher and the definition is that the
paradigm claims that all meaningful
communication occurs via
storytelling or reporting of events
so ever since Aristotle
rhetoric had been analyzed in terms of
rationality and logic it was all about
persuasion using logic and it was
systematic
Fisher claims that we are
storytelling beings he actually went as
far as to say that we're homo narrans which means storytelling beings
rather than Homo sapiens which means
rational beings so the narrative
paradigm is basically the opposite of
the rational paradigm and it says that
people are essentially rational whereas
the narrative paradigm states that
people are storytellers Fisher thought
your history your biography and your
character is what determined what is a
good reason to make a decision or
to be persuaded rationality defined by
Fisher was based on coherence and
fidelity he said that rationality isn't
discovered it's constructed by the
decisions we make so how it's affected
me and my personal life a little
background story we moved here from
Chicago with no family we didn't have anybody
everybody stayed in Chicago
but we did have family in Mexico so it
was just the five of us my close family
moved here back then until this day
Mexico has been potrayed as this
horrible dangerous drug infested place
when in reality those people that
actually say those things have never
been there or experienced the culture
and the people
so being mexican-american myself it kind
of made me sad and upset to see that my
country was being portrayed around the
world as this dangerous horrible place
when in reality
that's not what it is and it's not what
it was so we moved here and my
grandmother lived in Mexico but because
of the media and everybody close friends
telling us that Mexico was back we
didn't go to Mexico for like ten years
and we missed out on a lot especially
with my grandmother she ended up passing
away in Mexico and we didn't get to
spend the last moments with her but
honestly when me and my family
go to Mexico we feel at home it's very
welcoming the people there just the
culture is completely different over
there they're a collectivistic society
whereas here we're more individualistic
the reasons we go there is because we
don't want to lose our culture and we
want to keep learning about where we
come from where our family comes from
although it's dangerous in some parts
like any other place any other country
we have good reasons to go there such as seeing family learning about our heritage
by going to museums and you know just
traveling around Mexico and also just
experiencing the culture whether it's
speaking in our mother tongue or eating
great food it really makes me makes me
and my family feel one with our culture
identity
so overall Mexico is just it's always
been this place where we create great
memories with family and we all
experience new things new places in
conclusion the story of Mexico just
shows that our decisions are based on
context and story so I hope by me
telling you my story of how Mexico is
not this dangerous scary place that
people make it out to be it's actually
really amazing and you'll definitely
make some good memories so by listening
to my story I hope that it's persuaded
you to go and actually try and find out
yourself overall
we know that stories stick with people and
persuade people just as much if not more
than logic thank you for watching
