Cultural Survival

“The Dumbest Generation” The debate among generations of who is more intellectual is neverending. Blame for downfalls and shortcomings is passed around and is currently landing on one topic; technology is making the Millennials dumb, the dumbest generation to date. However, this is based on a very narrow scope on intelligence along with unjust comparisons. Generation Y is not the dumbest generation, Adaptations are just being made in how we intake and project information. As decades have…

Unity in Diversity For a second I was not a teenager, not a female, not a friend of all, not a species. To simply put it, I was just a student eager to learn the mathematical discipline. I entered the O.Henry middle school classroom as sound introduced itself as a symphony of chatter and shuffling. I began to sit by the young male, his skin on the other side of the spectrum. He aggressively sighed. “I don’t sit by your kind” he scoffed. My mind ran at an accelerated pace as I rummaged in my…

a biscuit is described as a cookie. Theoretical Perspectives on Audiences: British Cultural Studies: In the 1950’s the British cultural studies were directed by Richard Hoggart, Raymond Williams and Stuart Hall. The studies were based on a response to the Marxist theory it added race, gender, cultural history, and popular culture as areas of study (Gasher et al., 2012). The theory of the British Cultural studies was expanded on behalf of the Marxist theory. When observing the audience,…

Do the Right Thing is a film that challenges the concept of morality. As the name suggests, many of the characters in it struggle to figure out what the right thing is. The film leaves it as ambiguous to what the right thing is. And because there were so many different people trying to figure out what it meant to do the right thing, everyone arrived at different conclusions to what it is. The answer to how Mookie knows what the right thing is is that he really does not know. Throughout the film,…

The article by Clifford Geertz of “Common Sense as a Cultural System” causes a reader to understand and re-evaluate what for most is a simple thought process in which many people have to react to a given situation. Clifford Geertz takes this principle of human consciousness and researches the deeper understanding of this social construct. Geertz uses many examples to demonstrate the relevance of common sense, one of the main examples he uses to explore common sense is through the use of an…

The world of Pojman On behalf of Pojman and his interpretation of universal moral principles “The individual realizes his personality through his culture, hence respect for individual differences entails a respect for cultural differences” The executive board of the American Anthropological Association (69) The executive board of the American Anthropological Association proposal was meant to acknowledge moral diversity in different cultures around the world. This fragment was part of an…

For the sake of my argument, A Bame. Nsamenang and Erick Erickson’s theories will be used in the following essay. With Erik Erickson representing the westernised culture around development and B Nsamaneng will represent the more cultural aspect of development as a human being. Eurocentric or a westernised culture can be defined as the focus or more narrow sized lens of the world based on European culture, history and values as being used as the universal standing of the world – excluding the…

yearly from 9 million to 15 million since the introduction of the Integrated Resorts as reported by Singapore Tourism Board (STB). Thailand, a developing country, depends on tourism sector to generate national revenue. The country is rich in its cultural history since Ancient Siam which arouse the curiosity of travellers. Today, Thailand is one of the country that tourist would visit to explore…

During the Qing Dynasty, many rebellions were started. Having numerous rebellions during the Qing Dynasty caused many Chinese to suffer. After the Qing Dynasty ended, China went under Communist rule was supposed to improve the Chinese lifestyle. It was soon realized that Communist rule wasn’t much better than the Qing Dynasty due to the amount of intense labor everyone had to experience. Which means that both the Qing Dynasty and Communist rule failed at creating a peaceful lifestyle for the…

Cultural Revolution Tsun Hin Ng 9E Introduction The Cultural Revolution was a movement that took place in China during 1966 to 1976 aiming to cancel traditional thoughts and practices such as confucianism and to strengthen the thoughts of communism. He also aimed to have a fair and equal community amongst the people. Background Information – Before the Revolution Before the Cultural Revolution, Mao launched a movement called the ‘Great Leap Forward’. This movement aimed on industrialising…