Identity In The Wizard Of Oz
Name: Asraa Abdulwahab
Class: Worshope
Date:
Basque Cultural Identity 2014 is the 75th anniversary of the classic film adaptation of The Wizard of Oz. One of the most important themes and dialog of this film is “there’s no place like home.” The main character, Dorothy Gale, is magically transported to a different land after a traumatic experience involving a cruel woman and her little dog. While in this new land, called Oz, her mission is to find a wizard to get her back home. After adventures in this new land, she finds out she always had the ability to go home, she just needed to chant and click here heels together. Upon her “arrival” back at her family’s farmhouse in Kansas she relays her experience of this different land and her happiness …show more content…
Therefore, identity could be divided in two three modules, such as individual, group and universal; those are the intersectionality of culture that shape it’s identity. For instance, taking a look at the Basque culture and the way that they defined themselves. Some say that Basques defined them selves by their language, while other say Basque defined them selves by their heritage. Either way the idea of identity is a matter of epistemology, which is how we know what we know as a society and as a culture. In support, Christine E. Sleeter, a president of the National Association for Multicultural Education wrote The Academic and Social Value of Ethnic Studies has stated, “As ethnic studies matured, epistemologies have been developed around the most significant ways to understand and address the concerns of historically marginalized communities” (Pg. 6). This shows that epistemology could be seen as a theory of knowledge and how cultures, subcultures and communities use their knowledge. Theories are also lenses to make to direct our attention to the issues that we have in the society such as ethics Stanley A. Deetz who wrote book that is titled: Democracy of an Age of Corporate Colonization argues that we, as humans, form meanings to the world. Thus, ethics are part of the moral principles to identities and
Class: Worshope
Date:
Basque Cultural Identity 2014 is the 75th anniversary of the classic film adaptation of The Wizard of Oz. One of the most important themes and dialog of this film is “there’s no place like home.” The main character, Dorothy Gale, is magically transported to a different land after a traumatic experience involving a cruel woman and her little dog. While in this new land, called Oz, her mission is to find a wizard to get her back home. After adventures in this new land, she finds out she always had the ability to go home, she just needed to chant and click here heels together. Upon her “arrival” back at her family’s farmhouse in Kansas she relays her experience of this different land and her happiness …show more content…
Therefore, identity could be divided in two three modules, such as individual, group and universal; those are the intersectionality of culture that shape it’s identity. For instance, taking a look at the Basque culture and the way that they defined themselves. Some say that Basques defined them selves by their language, while other say Basque defined them selves by their heritage. Either way the idea of identity is a matter of epistemology, which is how we know what we know as a society and as a culture. In support, Christine E. Sleeter, a president of the National Association for Multicultural Education wrote The Academic and Social Value of Ethnic Studies has stated, “As ethnic studies matured, epistemologies have been developed around the most significant ways to understand and address the concerns of historically marginalized communities” (Pg. 6). This shows that epistemology could be seen as a theory of knowledge and how cultures, subcultures and communities use their knowledge. Theories are also lenses to make to direct our attention to the issues that we have in the society such as ethics Stanley A. Deetz who wrote book that is titled: Democracy of an Age of Corporate Colonization argues that we, as humans, form meanings to the world. Thus, ethics are part of the moral principles to identities and