Anthropological Looking Glass

In the essay, "The Anthropological looking Glass" by Nancy Scheper-Hughes, the author enters an Irish village, dubbing it "Ballybran", and conducts analysis and investigation among the people in the village and writes a book on what she sees. The way she wrote the book however was for not just fellow anthropologists to read, but the village people as well. They do not take kindly to the way she presented them because of many truths she reveals to them and each other and could have also lead to a few stereotypes. The perception that Scheper-Hughes gives of their village could in a way had become a stereotype in itself for readers outside the village in other countries of what they could think is a typical Irish village all because of a simple miscommunication.
In the essay by Amy Tan "The Language of Discretion", she writes up many points time and time again how a stereotype can give one culture and/or people an image hard to erase. A stereotype is an oversimplified opinion or image that one will give or form about another. For an
The Ballybran people did not take it such because of how she wrote about them to begin with. She assumed they would understand when the understanding was lost and they took it another way, messing up more of the language between the two. Of course, this does not necessarily cause a stereotype so much as the language barrier between two different perspectives. What she brought out for them, as the affection was not taken as such. Now technically, there is not a "language barrier" for the fact that they both can speak English, but even in the United States, miscommunication can occur simply because whatever was said to one will be told another completely different. This is how even rumors can spread around as mentioned in the paragraph before, except in a different format than a