ESSAY COVER SHEET AN1001 Anthropology Cultural Diversity in Global Perspective Ethnocentrism in Anthropological perspective - Avatar Joey Tan 12866249 Study Period 51‚ 2014‚ Singapore Ethnocentrism in Anthropological perspective – Avatar The film‚ Avatar‚ is primarily about the two clashing world-views at the core of the relationship between the civilised and the wild. The story’s protagonist is a paraplegic marine‚ Jake Sully‚ who agreed to substitute his deceased twin brother’s place
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their own element means that they can control over it. Then‚ there is the avatar who can control all four elements. The avatar has to maintain the balance in the world. The Avatar: The Last Airbender‚ created by Michael Dante Dimartino and Bryan Konietzko is an American animated television series. It first aired on Nickelodeon back in 2005 and consisted of 61 episodes (each about 22 minutes). In the show‚ Aang‚ the avatar is definitely a hero because he is pretty much follow all the stages of a heroic
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as our storytellers and influence our thoughts and morals. One television show not only acts as one of these modern-myths‚ but reuses some of the same motifs commonly present in past and current mythology: Bryan Konietzko’s and Micheal DiMartino’s Avatar: The Last Airbender. The motif we see in this series is commonly known as “The Monomyth” or “The Hero’s Journey” as originated by Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces. To get an understanding of the presence of the motif in the referred
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Kady Baker 5/6/12 ENG 097 Borleis Which is Better? Original or Sequel? In 2005‚ creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko‚ introduced Avatar: The Last Airbender. They introduced a friendly‚ cheerful‚ and inventive show just for kids that even attracted an older audience. People loved the idea of bending elements‚ the funny characters and when it finally came to an end‚ everyone wanted more. In 2012‚ they made Legend of Korra‚ which takes place in the same universe as Airbender
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in the Avatar State and easily shrugs off Ozai’s counter attack‚ blasting him against a rock with a powerful gust of air. Ozai watches as Aang ascends into the sky and calls forth the elements‚ air‚ fire‚ earth‚ and finally water‚ which revolve in rings around Aang. In Ba Sing Se‚ the Order of the White Lotus is successfully liberating the city. Bumi takes down several Fire Nation tanks and Iroh burns down the Fire Nation flag on the Earth Kingdom palace. Aang‚ possessed by the Avatar State
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perspective‚ even if it is conflicting with moral beliefs. Cultural relativism sees female circumcision of Maasai and Halloween celebration of American as the same – they are both different products from separate socialization. On the other hand‚ ethnocentrism happens when one judges another culture solely using his own values. An ethnocentric individual will judge others negatively using his own standard of culture without practicing cultural relativism. A very simple example would be when an American
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Avatar One of the most interesting aspects of the movie Avatar is the culture that makes it up. The Na’vi is an entirely made up and brand new culture with language‚ norms‚ relationships‚ religion‚ and beliefs. Western civilization tries to move in on their land and their ways‚ believing the Na’vi are savage and primordial who must be living in the past due to their lack of modern technology uses and spending their every day and night in nature. The Na’vi have very close ties to their ancestors
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• Define bias‚ prejudice‚ discrimination‚ and ethnocentrism. • Ethnocentrism an attitude of superiority toward members of other ethnic groups ETHNOCENTRISM: the tendency to believe that one’s ethnic or cultural group is centrally important‚ and that all other groups are measured in relation to one’s own. The ethnocentric individual will judge other groups relative to his or her own particular ethnic group or culture THE PROBLEM: Ethnocentrism leads us to make false assumptions about cultural
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[Online] Retrieved from: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6202-2005Feb7.html [Accessed 21 July 2011] Mission Mobilizer (2011) Why ethnocentrism is bad? [Online] Retrieved from: http://home.snu.edu/~HCULBERT/ethno.htm [Accessed 21 July 2011] Philosophy all about (2011) Ethnocentrism [Online] Retrieved from: http://www.allaboutphilosophy.org/ethnocentrism-faq.htm [Accessed 21 July 2011] Reference for business (2011) Trend in the organizational Change [Online] Retrieved from: http://www.referenceforbusiness
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societies are also a contributor because they aren’t doing anything to stop it from happening. All of these groups are different but work together to make this practice widely accepted and common. To label the Americans views on FGM as ethnocentrism isn’t completely accurate‚ but the intervention to discourage this practice
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