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    advantage to be white over many other ethnicities. As illustrated in the video, the man was serving his goods to all Caucasian men and women but as soon as a women wearing hijab entered the bakery his guards went up with refusing to serve her. His ethnocentrism was depicted as he spoke to her in an attitude showing superiority of his culture and values compared to the women. Something as little as white people immediately being served and given the importance of a customer is a significant…

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    they’ve been seen, are devastating to entire populations of people when they do not fit into the dominant group’s definition of what it is to be human. Even the existence of such a definition can create extreme divides between groups leading to ethnocentrism. This, in turn, usually leads to mistreatment of the group viewed as inferior and occasionally genocide. Setting humans at the top of the evolutionary chain and comparing all other species to us promotes the idea that all species are moving…

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    Emotion In Anthropology

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    anthropologists may explain an emotion in a succinct but encompassing way – the kind of information deemed most useful. By treating it as ethnography, it also puts Western culture on the same level of analysis as other cultures which rids potential ethnocentrism as well as provides the opportunity to scrutinise the practice of anthropology thoroughly with our own knowledge of our culture. In this chapter, Lindholm (2007) outlines lucidly love in relation to religious ideas of chastity, the…

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    • Individualism vs. Collectivism a) Todd has been taken to Puro’s Aunts house, in which they insist on Todd staying instead of a hotel. Todd is greeted with a friendly welcome and his bags are taken inside the house. Todd proceeds to sit down with Puro and his aunt and is asked many personal questions. Puros aunt asks Todd about his father’s occupation and if Todd was married or had a girlfriend. Todd appears uncomfortable with all of the questions and states that his last relationship recently…

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    is ideas of cultural relativism and equality is what drove Boas to become known across the world. Being brought up in a time of cultural suppression that opposed freethinking individuals greatly contributed to Boas’s thinking towards racism and ethnocentrism. Strongly believing in the ideas of human rights and equal rights, Boas often undertook many projects to confront these issues. His ideals that surrounded him in his childhood home carried his drive for equality even into his last…

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    Chapter 4 Developing Diversity Consciousness: Stepping Outside of Ourselves Stepping outside of ourselves helps to increase awareness and understanding (Butcher, 2015) reports, that it enables you to see through other’s eyes. Also, he encourages us to put ourselves in other people’s shoes. This will in turn give us the ability to view experiences through different perspectives. In addition, while bringing awareness to our own perspectives. Many times we may interpret or draw a conclusion using…

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    One of the best ways for professionals to build their cultural agility is to take the Cultural Agility Self-Assessment (CASA). CASA is a self-discovery tool which designed to help professionals to discover their cross-cultural agility and how to develop these competencies. It assesses all the twelve dimensions in the cultural agility competency framework. After taking CASA, I was able to identify my strengths and vulnerabilities in my core competencies. Here are my results: Competencies…

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    In “Listening with Imagination: Is Music Representational?” Kendall Walton asks the question: “If music can be nudged so easily into obvious representationality, can we be confident that without the nudge it is not representational at all?”1 The answer that Walton gives, and one that parallels the question of the combination of music and video, is that music is expressive. The expressiveness of music makes it susceptible to “...being made explicitly representational.”2 Although Walton does…

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    criminal behavior (2103. p 87). This practice may work to facilitate law enforcement, however, law enforcement officer(s) must be well trained on what are “characteristics of criminal behavior” and must not be biased by stereotypes, prejudice, ethnocentrism etc., (not have any rooted prejudices against a particular ethnicity, subculture or group of people) because these pernicious stumbling blocks will blind their decision making process and interfere with cultural self-enrichment. The Supreme…

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    “The White Man’s Burden” by Rudyard Kipling was wrote in 1899 to promote imperialism. Rudyard Kipling states “send forth the best ye breed,” talking about white men. He is saying that White men are the best breed, or the best of humankind. It is a poem written in encouragement of the European sense of superiority over other races. In “The White Man’s Burden.” Rudyard Kipling is describing what his opinion of the burden of a white man is. He describes the intelligence of a white man being that…

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