Cultural hegemony

and his supporters, who acknowledged the students’ concerns to be legitimate and promised dialogue, satisfied the majority of the students. The remaining students looking to reinvigorate the movement however began developing new tactics, and as a result the hunger strike commenced on May 13th. This was two days prior to the visit by Mikhail Gorbachev to China, which was the first visit to China by a Soviet leader in twenty years and signaled possible normalization of relations between the two…

Dillabough and Kennelly (2010) examine marginalized youth’s “accounts of peer rivalry, their subcultural affiliations and gendered experiences of urban exclusion” (p.107). My discussion will focus on youth identities and practices. Examining the youth at margins, I would refer the urban youth as a lost generation. The poor and historically oppressed group are subjected to a ghetto education and denied of a decent education. The question is how adapting street attitude conflates with the…

foreign groups of individuals are integrated into American society. Many individuals label America as a “melting pot;” however, the nation cannot be given this “nickname” because when people assimilate into American culture, they must abandon their own cultural customs and conform entirely to their “new” society rather than cherishing them. An extremely controversial idea is whether this Americanization is destructive or beneficial. “Aria,” by Richard Rodriguez, is a narrative of a Spanish boy…

This report is a critique on article “Millennials: The Me Me Me Generation” written by Joel Stein published in TIME on May 9, 2013. The article is a wide explanation of the age, Millennials, the offspring of baby boomers and people born from 1982 to 2000. This article carries a huge information related to millennials’ nature, religion, comparison to other nation’s millennials and age groups, their political participa-tions, their careers, family relations, their behaviour and relation with…

The video on careers in anthropology highlighted the great diversity within the field that many people may be unaware of. While years ago most anthropologists were employed by colleges and universities, recently more and more anthropologists are being placed in other positions as there are not enough opportunities in institutions of education for all of the anthropologists that are being trained. These jobs include many positions that involve working with governments of every level, working in…

that varied answers could be right for different people? Specifically, is morality relative or objective? Cultural relativism and objective moral theory are two opposing arguments that deliver explanations as to what describes a conduct as right or wrong. Accordingly, this essay will examine the differences between both theories to decide which of these two positions is better and why. Cultural relativism is the stance that moral proposals do not reflect objective and/or universal truths but…

As I compare myself to my 65 year-old father, I have noticed some striking differences based on our generations, a type of birth cohort which is named and typified. My father is a part of the Baby Boomers generation who benefits the greatest financially, where that generation is most affluent, whereas the millennials are the poorest because we are inheriting all the debt from older generations. I think it is interesting to see how the brain thinks differently between a younger and older…

Du Huailiang: Adultery That Brought Disaster At the end of the case of “Du Huailiang: Adultery That Brought Disaster,” two characters are punished. The murder Du Huailiang was beheaded even though his paramour Ms. Li was strangled. Why did Ms. Li receive this particular punishment although she did not partake in the crime itself? The answer is simple: Ms. Li committed adultery, a crime which was considered immoral during Qing Dynasty. Today, people are likely to believe that Ms. Li’s sentencing…

How the movie The Anthropologist applies to what we learned about the new and old ways that we've have approached and done ethnographies in old methods and new methods can be seen throughout the movie in the ways that the main anthropologist functioned in all the places that she traveled. One of the “old school ethnography” methods that I could see within the movie that was being displayed was Historical Particularism which is creating a understanding of their history before deep immersion into…

In their article in the New York Times, Todd Buchholz and Victoria Buchholz argue that Americans are somehow failing as a group. The so-called "Generation Y" is becoming complacent, not working toward making their lives (and the country) better off. The article is certainly intended to capture its audience's attention, with the title "The Go-Nowhere Generation. In it, they use hard data from the Pew Research Center and studies conducted at universities, among others. More interestingly, perhaps,…