Barriers

So as a recap, there were many conflicts happening throughout the episode. In the end Kelley was voted out because Dale had an immunity idol. The blue team won the immunity mud challenge and rice was running extremely scarce because people kept eating their supplies even though they weren’t winning challenges and getting more( josh and reed thought they should ration the food).

So a couple of barriers have hit the show so far, one between Dale and Kelley. Dale called Kelley a “bossy bitch”, even though she was his daughter. The name calling alone is a barrier in my eyes but I think deeper than that he was gender stereotyping her. If a man on the show was being bossy, like Jeremy or Jon, they were being proactive and aggressive like they should but if a girl is acting as such she is considered bossy and quite possibly unfriendly.

Another concept that came into was Ethnocentrism which is a belief that your culture is superior to others; Jeremy indirectly did that in almost every episode. We all know Jeremy is a firefighter, he takes his job very seriously and to heart; He believed that just because Keith was a firefighter he could trust him. He also expects the same from others when concerning him, “trust me I’m a firefighter”. So Jeremy’s ethnocentrism is constantly in the way of him seeing who is really a threat and who he needs to pull closer, it’s almost like he chooses a new person to target for a new reason every episode.

Lastly, I wanted to talk about Jon and Jacklyn. They were very close this episode, pulling each other close and trying to create alliances with other group members. They were basically lying to both groups, stringing them along until they made their final choice. In this situation the five big personality traits (extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness’, emotional stability, openness to experience played a big role in how well Jon and Jacklyn were perceived by others, they excelled in having all the categories in their favor making their two man group very successful. I think others were attracted to their ability to make a team work.