1. (a) There were many repercussions caused by the construction of the dam. One direct result of building the dam was that it forced the Invisible people to move their home. It also tore down land that the Fierce people had inhabited. This resulted in the Fierce people moving further into the forest. Due to the Fierce people moving further into the forest, the Invisible people had to move further into the forest to hide from the Fierce people. The Invisible people had to leave their sacred stones when they moved. The sacred stones made the Invisible people who they were. By leaving the scared stones behind, they left part of their culture. They left it behind in the sense that they did not have easy access to them because of the Fierce people, but they still had the culture because that was who they were. (b) At first, Bill thought building the dam was necessary in order to take care of his family. He really did not care how the dam would affect the native population. He had the Western view of the situation
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Cultural appropriation (Raiders of the Lost Ark): Cultural appropriation is where one society or culture takes something from a different society or culture and then uses that object for some type of personal gain. This is demonstrated in Raiders of the Lost Ark when Indiana Jones takes the golden idol from the pedestal at the beginning of the movie. Indiana Jones was stopped by an enemy of his and the golden idol is taken from him. If the idol wasn’t taken from him he would have ended up selling it to the museum/school for which he taught. Another example of this is seen when the US military asked Indiana Jones to take the Ark of the Covenant and bring it to them before Hitler got his hands on it. Again Indiana Jones is tasked to find and take another’s cultures sacred object that has been hidden away for thousands of years. Indiana Jones wants people to be able to see this amazing object in a museum but he also wants compensation for finding and taking
Cultural appropriation (Raiders of the Lost Ark): Cultural appropriation is where one society or culture takes something from a different society or culture and then uses that object for some type of personal gain. This is demonstrated in Raiders of the Lost Ark when Indiana Jones takes the golden idol from the pedestal at the beginning of the movie. Indiana Jones was stopped by an enemy of his and the golden idol is taken from him. If the idol wasn’t taken from him he would have ended up selling it to the museum/school for which he taught. Another example of this is seen when the US military asked Indiana Jones to take the Ark of the Covenant and bring it to them before Hitler got his hands on it. Again Indiana Jones is tasked to find and take another’s cultures sacred object that has been hidden away for thousands of years. Indiana Jones wants people to be able to see this amazing object in a museum but he also wants compensation for finding and taking