User:ChiZhang

Chi Zhang

First year student, Arts, Vantage Collage, UBC

Email: gegedadajiji@yahoo.com

about

Chinese, World of Warcraft player, Overwatch player, Minecraft player, big fan of Blizzard and E-sports, not a nationalist, traveler, reader more than writer.

Academic Goals and Interest

For one hand, I am pretty interested in social work as I once suffered from depression and social workers in VGH helped me a lot. This experience, therefore, arouses my interest about this job and in a period I almost wanted to major in Social Work. For another hand, I think social science disciplines are really interesting, as almost in daily life, I spend so much time to think, study, and talk about these questions, such as when the information is not freely available in China, how could we identify the authenticity of the gossip? As the real information is always blocked by the Chinese government or even buried deeply beneath a carefully-designed lie.

I hope that I can learn more about anthropology, sociology, and politics to answer these questions. This questions matter as they are from our daily life. I care about humanity and people who are suffering from injustice. I care about political prisoners in China as I think all of us have rights to deliver different opinions, question the authority, and live freely without fear to be imprisoned for no reason.

Hobbies

I am obsessed with video games, especially MMORPG and MOBA just like World of Warcraft, Overwatch, and the Heroes of the Storm. I waste lots of time on it and I would not regret it. Take the example of WoW (World of Warcraft), Blizzard constructs an extraordinary world in this game, which is so exotic. When playing the role in the game, I am a traveler. I like to use sociological, anthropological, or political methodologies to study and think the society and community in this game.

Food security

As Kuhnlein argued in her article “Arctic indigenous peoples experience the nutrition transition with changing dietary patterns and obesity”, usually a dietary change, in which an eating with plenty of protein and small quantities of carbohydrate is transformed into an eating with more sugar and fat, could be considered as having connections with food insecurity. This diet transition is related to less aboriginal living ways, the decline of time used on the earth, and the renouncement of original methods of collecting foodstuff through fishing, hunting and trapping. For instance, as Council of Canadian Academies, in 2014, reported, in the James Bay Area, northern Quebec, a whopping reduction occurred to Cree people’s time used on the earth, which is from almost one half  in 1976-81 to only one in six in 2004-08. As same as Cree people, Usher reported that, in 2002, people living in the Northwest Territories hunted and fished much less, per person, in 1988-97, comparing to the data in 1960-65.

If the society aspect is neglected, which contains thinking of the indigenous’s ideas and cultural values, as Power argued in 2018, and the importance of their traditional foods, as Lambden argued in 2007, Food security research about aboriginal people is not complete