Cultural hegemony

The world people live in today is made up of different cultures co-existing with one another. The interactions between human beings of diverse backgrounds have made the world smaller as cultures blend every day. Various factors, such political, cultural, business, and environmental conditions, influence people to permanently settle in a different community. On the brighter side, individuals have been able to exchange their languages and ideas on making the world a better place. However,…

Freedom and safety are two luxuries humans value immensely. Of the two, Freedom is more important than safety. Tiananmen Square, “The Hunger games” and The Ukrainian Revolution validate why is it better to be free than safe. Tiananmen Square was an event that happened June of 1989 in Beijing, China. Students gathered at Tiananmen Square to mourn the death of Hu Yaobang and to protest an array of problems such as political corruption and the lack of civil liberties. Because the people of China…

would be terribly boring if we all agreed on the same things. What is considered to be right and wrong merely depends on society and cultural beliefs. With that being said, what may be correct in the moral aspect for one, may be totally despicable for another individual. This way of thinking correlates to relativism. There are several different types of relativism. Cultural relativism, descriptive ethical relativism, and normative relativism. There are many situations in which relativism and…

meant race mixing or cultural blending. Americans have tried to abstain from adjusting cultural ways by not associating with other races. As Rodriquez points out, “race mixture has not been a point of pride in America” (89). Although Americans acknowledge the variety of ethnic groups, they prefer to stand by their own. Americans resist assimilation because they…

The fourth of June 1989 marks the day known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre. This absolute injustice was started by a group of university students that exposed deep splits into China’s political leadership. The Government enforcing military rule on the countries capital tried to forcefully suppress the protests. The protesters called for government liability, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and the restoration of workers' power over industry. These young and unarmed activists occupied…

George Sand’s Indiana and Mikhail Lermontov’s A Hero of Our Time interrogate the conflict between individual and collective identity in the nineteenth century through presenting the individual as a site of ambiguity and hybridity that disrupts the supposed coherence and homogeneity of the collective identities cultivated by national and colonial power relations. Collective identity attempts to bound and border individuals within binary categories, presenting groups defined by national, ethnic,…

Ruth Benedict (1934) stated it best when she stated, “the concept of the normal is properly a variant of the concept of the good. It is that which society has approved.” Moral absolutism is the ethical belief that there are absolute standards against which moral questions can be judged, and that certain actions are right or wrong, regardless of the context of the act. Moral relativism is when there are deep and widespread moral disagreements across different societies, and these disagreements…

The Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989 marked a significant time in Chinese history. On April 15th, students from Beijing University gathered in Tiananmen Square to mark the death of Chinese leader Hu Yaobang. The students protested and demonstrated for reform against corruption and inflation, asking that the government listen to their ideas. Several members of the Chinese government, including Deng Xiaoping (current leader of China), assumed that the protesters were attempting to overthrow the…

detrimental and impossible to accomplish, illustrates Robert King in his article “Should English Be the Law?” (537). The article, "Debate: Multiculturalism vs. Assimilation”, defines assimilation as the “consistent integration whereby members of an ethno-cultural group (such as immigrants, or…

The Tiananmen Square protests was caused by many factors that were present after Mao Zedong’s death. The failed Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution left China in a devastated state with economic and social problems in part to the failure of Communism. The Communist Party still stayed strong throughout these crises although they resulted in more deaths than the Soviet Union and the Nazi regime’s atrocities. The party elected Deng Xiaoping, who was left to lift the country back up.…