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Diffusionism |
Meant everyone else must learn from the west. - “white man’s burden” was to teach the rest of the world. (Blaut). -Duty to share information with the rest of the world, who then do you share it with? • Is this a story of science, rationality, downloads, uploads, brain surgery, travel? or domination, etc |
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Why is the West ahead of the rest? |
-Depends what parts of society we are viewing in society. -May be ahead in science and medicine but maybe not in a spiritual way. |
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Colonialism |
-Cultural domination and required change. -Civilisation was about commerce and christianity (not just about economics) -Assertion of difference and identity.• Identity (“superior” or “advanced”)• One problem with “first contact” is presumed of isolation |
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Colonialism and universal knowledge |
-Colonialism made the claim that they (colonialists) were more rational in a scientific way and hadmore knowledge and understanding of the universe. -Not subject to dialogue (dialogue is YEAH!). |
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Tropical tourist paradise: Black lady? |
-JAMAICA KINCAID -TONE? ironic and angry. -Says she is lesser and smaller than that on British and english, christian civilisation. -Is a subject person. Feels disempowered against England. |
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“Racism vs racialism” |
-When global and local interact certain groups have more power i.e. white man and black man in Boston. -Think about AGENCY. There are more than one agency in these cases. |
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Colonialism, race and ethnicity: COLONIALISM |
-Important. Is when europeans became aware cultural differences around the world. Can bring oncultural judgments and constructions about race and differences. -Had lots of motives is economic, trade, labour, political, territory, ideological motives. -Colonial representation; hierarchical, religion, knowledge and science, “orientalism”. |
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Colonialism, race and ethnicity: ETHNICITY |
-Intercepts with the idea of identity. Also how others think about us in a culture. -Ethnicity as agency and why we endure some of the situations with live in. -Is a key response tocolonialism and globalisation and well as commodification and appropriation. -Contemporary racism and trying to understand contemporary ethnic conflicts and crisis Genocide/ethnocide Rwanda: strikes home how ethnic and racial battles are real |
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Silent Identities: Children of war |
Ethnicity is about process and interactions.- can be very personal and important in identity.Identity as personal, global and fluid. -Murky area between race, ethnicity and identity.-Identity is a person's self-conception - lots of children fathered to children in the second world war. |
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Cultural Appropriation |
Cultural appropriation is the taking from a culture which is not ones own, of intellectual property,cultural expression or artefacts, history and ways of knowledge -It isn't wrong, because a healthy culture is one that adapts. -Usually comes out a sense of abuse of appropriation(i down know) -Context is important. -The bindi: represents the third eye, roots in hinduism, worn by non hindu woman and man swellthough. |
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Cultural Appropriation and Social Media |
Movements such as #’s. Allows you to get ideas out there. - #reclaimthebindi was a movement started by indian woman to say that we are just as beautifulwhen the media went mad over Vanessa Hudgens wearing the bindi at Coachella.-Same girls that made fun of indians for being brown, now wearing the bindi and celebratingindian culture and showing how cool they look (and indian culture). -Idea of brown versus white |
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Movie on sex tourism “Selling sex in heaven" |
South east asians, sex tourism is large, Philippines -Girls live in hope that a white man will fall in love with her and take her away -Are called bar girls, or waitresses. since prostitution is illegal. Does Mila have agency? is she a victim? do i identify with anyone in the film? |
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‘First Contact’ |
-The idea that people live in isolation -Buys into this idea of “discovery” of a new tribe even though they have been interacting withcommunities for years, just not the western world, Ethnocentrism. |
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Cannibal tours |
-Showing there can never be dialogue between the two cultures. -Is culture a dialogue? |
