I believe that I can relate to the personal perspective of this question by addressing my own personal background.  Through determining the social construction of cultural knowledge, I would like to apply it to my own personal history and then tie it in with the article we have written by Rodriguez. I grew up in Romania for seven years of my life before I came to America.  Life in Romania was very different and much harder then it is here in America.  After a couple of years here in America I have noticed that the cultural aspects of Americans are much different then those of the Romanians.  And I have grown to know that they are both very unique.  From my personal background I know how it is to be from a different culture and live in a strange land.  Many people give you funny looks or they treat you mean because they think you’re not as good as them.  It can be very challenging at times being from a different culture.  But I’m proud of who I am and I respect my culture very much.  I know from my beginning years that I learned a lot of stuff from my parents and family.  You didn’t learn everything from school.  As a little kid I had to work the land and I barely had any time for play.  And then coming here was much different and was very odd to me at first.  I can say that through my experiences I have grown to love both cultures very much.  As Rodriguez has shown in his article he is upset because he lost his Spanish heritage.  And Rodriguez mainly blames this on his parents.  Rodriguez wants the best of both worlds.  In his article he says “I became the prized student anxious and eager to learn. Too eager, too anxious” he wanted to be the best at everything that had to do with education, and he believed that if he had both Spanish and American traits he would be more educated.  And that has to do with the social construction of cultural knowledge.  He wanted to be educated by his parents about his Spanish heritage because that was the only way that he could get it.  So he was upset with his parents for not doing this for him.  He wanted to be educated about his culture.
 Through the exercises that we practiced with Scott Parker I have learned a lot about the social construction of cultural knowledge.  I learned that just by the way you carry yourself, or by the status that you act, people can tell a lot about you.  Just by the way that you act people will treat you a certain way.  For example if I am of high status and I meet a person I would like to communicate and get to know the person, but if the person is of low status he wouldn’t want to communicate with me therefore I would leave the person and not be myself around them.  So just by the way that a person acts you learn about the social construction of cultural knowledge.  The artistic perspective of the social construction of cultural knowledge can be well seen in the movie “Smoke Signals.”
We see in this movie that the Indians believe that they are alone and have nothing to do with the rest of the world.  We can give an example of this when we see that the boys leave on a journey and the girls ask them “did you bring your passport.”  This is a very good example of how they believe they are apart from the world and it is like going totally into a strange land for them.  The artistic perspective that we have learned both through Scott Parker and the movie show us that the social construction of cultural knowledge can be set apart from others from the first word or first glance of the eye.  We can tell a lot about people just form the first look, and I believe that is wrong.  A person is not made up of just their looks, you can only judge a person when you know what they have inside.
  The historical perspective shown to us through the art history presentation shows us that we can tell a lot a picture just from the bare colors we see on the page.  As we have seen through the presentation a picture can be described in many words.  A picture has many features and many characteristics that can only be seen if you look very carefully.  A picture can a lot about a culture, and the social construction of cultural knowledge can been seen through a picture.
 All of these characteristics determine the social construction of cultural knowledge.  We see that the personal perspective given to us by Rodriguez is a very good example of how it determines the social construction of cultural knowledge.  The artistic perspective through the presentation of Scott Parker and the movie “Smoke Signals.”  And the historical perspective through the art history presentation given to us by Mark.  I believe that without all of these three perspectives that I have described above, the social construction of cultural knowledge would not be complete.