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where they pretend to be something than they are in order to understand another culture of people. One person that comes to mind is the explorer Richard Burton who would
often disguise himself in order to find out more about forbidden cultures and practices. But, generally speaking we do not see people moving away from their inherent culture to secretly
observe another. Anthropologists search out other cultures and the practices of other cultures, but they do so from an outsider perspective, not a secretive position that allows them to truly
become a part of the culture and learn of the culture. In John Howard Griffins book "Black Like Me" we do see a man who disguises himself as a black
man in order to observe and learn about the black culture. In the following paper we examine his work as it presents us with a picture of how blacks were
treated by the white citizens of the United States. Black Like Me The first thing that this particular reader found so fascinating when examining Griffins life and work
was that although he came from the South his experiences out in the world were such that black no longer had any connotation concerning American blacks. He was almost immune
to the color of anyones skin due to the fact that he had worked, as a medic, with so many different skin types and cultures that black did not mean
the same for him as it would for the typical American Southerner. This is perhaps the most powerful aspect of the book for it presents us with a writer who
is completely unbiased and completely objective in his observations. He is not looking at American Blacks so much as he is looking at one culture of people. In addition,
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