emphasise the importance of the group. However this can be criticized as being to over simplistic and ignoring individual and cultural differences. Ethnocentrism is the use of our own ethnic/cultural group as the basis for judgement about other groups. Eurocentrism is when Psychologists place emphasis on European theories/ideas at the expense of those of other cultures. They assume that Western concepts are superior to those of others‚ so as a result Western research is applied to other cultures‚ and is seen
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concept of skin bleaching in Africa and its devastating health implications. Clinics in Dermatology‚ 26‚ 27–29 Hall‚ R. E. (1995). The Color Complex: The Bleaching Syndrome. Race‚ Gender‚ & Class‚ 2(2)‚ 99-109. Hall‚ R. E. (2009). Implications of Eurocentrism for Social Work Education: Trivialization vis-Ã -vis Skin Color. Asian Social Work and Policy Review‚ 3(3)‚ 175-186. Lewis‚ K. M.‚ Robkin‚ N.‚ Gaska‚ K.‚ & Njoki‚ L. C. (2011). Investigating Motivations for Women ’s Skin Bleaching in Tanzania.
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alcohol to cope with their abuse. Many committed suicide because of their experiences. Residential schools destroyed cultures in attempts to assimilate first nations into the modern world. These schools are a direct example of globalization and eurocentrism. The aspect of globalization emphasized is missionary. Because the young First Nations were forced to adopt a new religion. A whole generation of Canadian First Nations quality of life was lowered. Government funded residential schools left
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Contents 1. Doreen Pope 2. Education: Doing bad and feeling good 3. Dance cards 4. Language and literature 5. Inflation DOREEN POPE by Mary Loudon (The Independent Magazine‚ 20 August 1994) 1. Practically no one reading this will have heard of Miss Pope. Her greatness is not obvious and it has never been documented‚ but she is my hero nevertheless. This year she retires after a lifetime’s teaching‚ the last 25 years of which has been spent as a junior-school headmistress
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AT – Coloniality ------------ AT: Mignolo Mignolo assumes preexisting binaries and dichotomies which don’t exist- this guts solvency Michaelsen and Shershow 7 (Scott Michaelsen and Scott Cutler Shershow‚ Professor of English at Michigan State and Professor of English at UC Davis “Rethinking Border Thinking”‚ [http://saq.dukejournals.org/content/106/1/39.full.pdf+html] From this welter of definition‚ we observe‚ first‚ that for Mignolo border ¶ thinking emerges out of an assumed dichotomy.
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In Carolyn Dean’s “The Trouble with (the Term) Art” (2006)‚ the author explores the significance of the word art itself and dives into the deeper meaning of not only what art is‚ but when a piece can be labeled as art. Carolyn Dean successfully accomplishes her goal of providing readers with knowledge about the consequences of identifying art‚ where such a notion did or did not occur. Although Dean is pretty opinionated throughout the article‚ she backs up all of her thoughts by providing ample amounts
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J.M. Blaut said that “eurocentrism is quite simply the colonizer’s model of the world.” The ideas that Blaut talks about are encompassed throughout the several different short stories that were read throughout this unit. In “Kura‚” by Patricia Grace‚ Kate takes her little sister‚ Riripeti‚ to school. There she and her culture are both consistently mistreated and considered inferior to the Western culture. In “Homeless” by Ovo Adagha‚ the native people of Nigeria are exploited by the previous
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Post-colonial Theory What it is: • the study of interactions between European nations and the societies they colonized; • an examination of the impact of the European conquest‚ colonisation and domination of non-European lands‚ peoples‚ and cultures; • an analysis of the inherent ideas of European superiority over non-European peoples and cultures; • an analysis of the role of representation in installing and perpetuating such notions. From the point of view of colonised
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Bibliography: Blaut‚ James M.‚ ‘Environmentalism and Eurocentrism’‚ Geographical Review‚ 89: 3 (1999)‚ pp. 391-408. Blaut‚ James M.‚ The Colonizer’s Model of the World: Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History. New York & London: Guilford Press‚ 1993. Conrad‚ Geoffrey W.‚ & Demarest‚ Arthur A.‚ Religion
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What we previously know or believe greatly impacts how we view the world and the visual culture that surrounds us. John Berger argues in the first chapter of his work written in 1972 entitled “Ways of Seeing”‚ that art “embodies a [different and unique] way of seeing” and an artist’s perspective of the truth may not necessarily correlate with what actually occurred. Whilst viewers may assume that what they are seeing within an artwork is historically and culturally accurate‚ the reality is that they
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