Furthermore‚ considering the instability of culture and the historical events that reinforce this idea‚ the seemingly inevitable act of cultural appropriation can be constructive to society. What many do not realize is that appropriation allows people to learn more about another culture: “When we attack people for stepping outside their own cultural experiences‚ we hinder our ability to develop empathy and cross-cultural understanding” (Cathy‚ 2015). Cultural adoption brings new changes and possibilities
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“The Dinner Party” by Mona Gardner 1 The country is India. A colonial official and his wife are giving a large dinner party. They are seated with their guests —army officers‚ and government attache´s with their wives‚ and a visiting American naturalist —in their spacious dining room. It has a bare marble floor‚ open rafters‚ and wide glass doors opening onto a veranda. 2 A spirited discussion springs up between a young girl who insists that women have outgrown the jumping-on-a-chair-at-the-sight-of-a-mouse
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Extension English Assignment – Appropriation texts of ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ and ‘Ten Things I Hate About You’ “Appropriation has merit in exposing the influence of context in maintaining or changing cultural values” With the practice of taking older texts and transforming characters‚ plots‚ themes and situations‚ they are able to be translated into a more modern context in which younger generations are able to understand. But inevitably when an appropriation is viewed‚ we are aware that values
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Most think that cultural appropriation only happens to African Americans‚ Asians‚ or anyone that isn’t white. But that’s highly untrue. In fact‚ the LGBTQA community is often misrepresented in the media. Maybe not as often‚ but‚ they are. For example‚ this article on the Huffington Post‚ Jules Horowitz‚ a transgender himself‚ explains that transpeople need to be involved in telling trans-stories. Hollywood has only really put one famous Transperson in the centre of the media when it comes to acting
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Many people who are guilty to cultural appropriation are not aware that they have crossed the boundary‚ and are not longer appreciating the culture. Imitating traits of a minority or part of a minority’s culture for one’s own personal gain‚ is not appreciation—it is appropriation. Appropriation is considered offensive‚ as rude as Draco Malfoy is to his Muggle-born peers. If it is for one’s own personal agenda‚ for
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Twitter is a social media platform where people can tweet about their lives and read about the news all over the world. In the story “Twitterholics Anonymous‚” author Mona Eltahawy says that she loves and hates Twitter even though it has become an important part of her job as a reporter. Twitter has become essential for people to find new ideas‚ but to some it is becoming an unhealthy obsession. Author Eltahawy brings up how social media sites like Twitter are good for people because it gives them
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A snake is on my foot‚ help!That is probably what most people would do if they had a snake on their foot‚ but this isn’t the case for a dinner party hostess in the short story “The Dinner Party‚” written by Mona Gardner. In this story‚ a British woman puts on a dinner party. There arouses a conversation about males being better than females. The colonel states that females scream in scary situations and men don’t. This was an argument that could be backed up by evidence until a small boy was asked
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things- it can also be somewhat destructive in terms of copyright and appropriation. In this day in age where the world is full of so many diverse styles of artists‚ the entire new age art industry is being challenged with the simple statement: “everything has been done”. Due to this unfortunately true fact that relevance in the art industry is loosely based on the creation of “new”‚ never-been-done-before work‚ “appropriation art” has become an interesting new form of work that many artists and
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article titled “To the New Culture Cops‚ Everything is Appropriation” she discusses her view on cultural appropriation and how it hurts diversity‚ art and ignores history. Young gives examples of incidents where artists incorporate elements of other cultures in their artwork and receive backlash as a result. Weather it be a tribute‚ historically accurate or a harmless work of art it seems that artists are being accused of cultural appropriation as soon as they step out of their own cultural experience
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“Grater Divide (2002)” is a sculpture created by Mona Hatoum that is currently exhibited in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. The sculpture is made of mild steel and is 203.8cm x 304.8cm and is in the shape of a room divider. However when one takes a closer look it is obvious that the separate panels are meant to represent an oversized cheese grater. The physical familiarity of the sculpture is not comforting to the viewer but instead unsettling. (Hatoum 1998) This sense of alienation that the viewer
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