I hope everyone is in good health.
The reason I am here is because, as you can probably tell from my username, I am an anthropology student, and I go to college in New York. The assignment was to do an ethnography project, which is to study people in a particular place and get to know their behaviors and such things like that and I chose this forum to do my project! The professor said it'd be a little hard to do an ethnography project on an online community, as I am realizing now since I can't really observe people here, but I'm hoping to understand people here the best I can and I was hoping people here would help me by answering any questions I have.
Some background info about myself: I'm 19 and Muslim hijabi, born and raised in New York and parents from Bangladesh. I'm very shy, which is sort of the reason I chose an online community because I have difficulty talking to strangers
but also because I wanted to learn more about my own religion. I'm not majoring in anthropology, this is just an assignment. I don't really know what to major in really
Before I signed up today, I explored the forum on my own for a while and have a few questions.
1 - I know you have to apply to the brothers/sisters section, but why is this? And what are the requirements for acquiring access?
2 - Are there any trouble makers, well I don't know if that's the best word for them..hmm..maybe people that want to argue about the beliefs we hold and how do you deal with them?
3 - Most members are probably Muslim, but what other religions are represented here?
4 - If I wanted to pm someone because I found their posts interesting, is that allowed? Or discouraged if it is someone of the opposite sex?
That's it for now. I probably sound crazy
but I hope I didn't frighten anyone off with all my questions. I am very interested in learning about this community and hope you will aid me in my assignment.
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