Mimicry

Since talking about the topics in class, I haven’t been able to stop noticing conformity – change is behavior that is consistent with the behavior of others – and mimicry – the mimicking of actions and/or behaviors of others – everywhere I go. I knew the phenomena were common, but I wasn’t prepared for how often I would be noticing these behaviors. No longer can I complete even the simplest of tasks without noticing how all of the individuals – myself included – take actions based on the…

The characters that reject the notion of mimicry, Christophine and Amélie, are the characters that are triumphant. The ‘new colonizer’, as theorised by Moira Ferguson, no longer has power over them and ‘the text covertly intimates that the African-Caribbean communities drove out the English and White creoles’. They have found the power of resistance in their difference. David Murray has said that, ‘if one aspect of the project of western civilization was to make the inferior others, by…

Consequently, these western ideologies in the form of oral narratives are adopted by the tribes of the deep woods and are disseminated in the form of legends, fairy tales, bed time stories the inscription of which are found on the walls but regarded as inferior to the authenticity of Phantom’s precious library and all the relics collected by the Phantomic line down through the ages. The narrative myths, the folklores, the legends of the tribes become subservient to his narratorial authority,…

Foucault. His theory is expounded in his books, Nation and Narration (1990) and The Location of Culture (1994). He, a diasporic person like Edward Said and Gayatri Spivak has popularized postcolonial theory by giving new terms such as, Hybridity, Mimicry, The other, etc. to it. His contribution to postcolonial studies is noteworthy…

The article is directly used by Burling to illustrate the difference between imitation and mimicry (Chapter 4: The Mind and Language). Burling also endorses the main point of the article that imitation is the reason for Chimpanzee behavior. Summary of the Article The article begins by explaining the myriad ways that behavior among chimpanzees…

Antoinette ‘belongs to no one and belongs nowhere’ and as she does not fall into the category of the coloniser or the colonised, she attempts to mimic both. She cannot be accepted into either the black or white society, as symbolically shown when Tia steals her dress, and she is forced to fit into one that ‘tore as [she] forced it on’ (p. 11), and again when Rochester notices that the white dress he ‘had admired […] had slipped untidily over one shoulder and seemed too large for her.’ (p. 80)…

followers whose confederates show pleasant emotion feel more pleasant emotion, while followers whose confederates show unpleasant emotion also tend to have an unpleasant emotion. Wherein, the confederate of the study is a complete stranger. Just like in mimicry, as operationalized by congruent emotional displays, are…

by visual models as well as humans. The monkeys learned by seeing food that they want just by seeing it once understand that it is food and are drawn to it later. Humans gain new habits by seeing a person first doing habits and they are drawn to.”Mimicry in humans reflects social cues.” The author's findings suggest that the brain relies on social…

Films that feature highly active bodies are often discussed in various areas of scholarship as having the ability to evoke kinaesthetic empathy in their audience. Kinesthesia is often informed by senses including vision, hearing, muscle tension and body position, it refers to sensations experienced in relation to movement and position (Dee and Reason, 18). Thus, kinesthetic empathy refers to a participation in this from an audience, empathy being the process of projecting the self on to the…

I learned that when it seems like babies are copying what you are doing, an example being sticking out their tongue, they are copying you but they do not know they are doing it. That is called unconscious mimicry. Crying is the key to a baby’s survival. It is the only way they can get someone’s attention to do something for them since they cannot do things for themselves. An interesting fact was that at three weeks old baby’s most active muscles are the ones that control their eye, however they…