I believe that society conflicts with itself in the relation of the acceptance of diversity of family composition, and that ethnocentrism and group superiority dominates our communities. For instance, controversy between races and subcultures, and the legalization of same sex marriage is evident throughout the country. I speculate that children are experience a negative peer culture…
The BBC THREE Is Britain Racist? (2015) documentary is an investigation conducted by Mona Chalabi into the degree of racism occurring in British society. Racism is any form of prejudice attitude resulting from the belief that those belonging to another race are inferior compared to oneself (Chandler & Munday, 2011: 349). The documentary suggests that Britain is racist and Chalabi concludes “society has shaped our brains in racist ways whether we realise it or not” (Is Britain Racist, 2015). This…
S. Hodgson argues that our current view of the world is distorted by the ethnocentrism of the west. He uses as evidence the idea of the interrelations of societies throughout the world. What happened in the west is not only their creation, but rather the history of other peoples built together. The same argument stands here. Japan…
An individual does not have to look far to see examples of oppression and discrimination in our society today. According to Frye (1983), “Oppression is a relationship in which the dominant group benefits from the systematic abuse, exploitation, and injustice directed at a subordinate group” (p55). Although many are aware that the problem of oppression exists in society, there are many who believe that the problem is not as profound as it once was, and minimize it. Individuals are aware of…
avoidance, long term orientation and indulgence dimensions. In addition to considering national cultures in management communication, the content should also be friendly to indigenous cultural values such as religion and morality, while also avoiding ethnocentrism (Hynes, 2010, p.…
Automobile Banned Society The automobile has been a part of an American life. Even though the manifest functions of the automobile is just a tool of transportation, latent functions of the automobile such as business and entertainment of automobile became important in American Society. If all cars were banned in the United States, the elimination of the automobile would affect social, cultural, economic arrangements in the American society, and also, some adjustments will be required to…
Similar to the Greeks, they considered alien people and cultures to be uncivilized compared to their own and they exhibited this by addressing all non-romans as barbarians. Such ethnocentrism was common in the ancient world and I think this is what allowed the Western Roman Empire to last as long as it did. The Roman people resisted foreign influences in order to preserve their own culture and institutions but they did not turn a blind…
Crouch writes, “The gospel constantly challenges every human culture with the possibility that we live within misplaced horizons” (p#). God’s forgiveness challenges the world’s inherent ethnocentrism to think of others first. Furthermore, His forgiveness challenges the body of the church to reconcile amongst each other, rather than exalt ourselves. It is written in the Cape Town Commitment that, “Christ is our peace, made peace through the…
Crash is a controversial movie centered around a group of characters who all eventually become connected in some way. The two main themes of the movie are racism, and ethnocentrism. Throughout the course of the movie I noticed many of the characters were exaggerated forms of themselves. For example, Jean Cabot was the rich wife of a politician, and she was essentially every stereotype of a rich white lady you could think of. I found that Officer John Rayan and Anthony were very similar…
The primary documents ‘Christian Missionaries Oppose Removal’ from 1830 and the extract from ‘The Letters and Journals of Samuel Marsden’ from 1814/15 provide crucial insight into the attitudes that the missionaries held towards both Maori and Native Americans (specifically the Cherokees.) In doing this, they successfully reveal some aspects of constructions of ‘race’ in the early nineteenth century. Both documents expose the view that the missionaries held of the indigenous people as ‘savages’…