Otherness

are more respected. People of other races have to deal with these problems in their daily life. Within the book Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde she talks about the importance of anger, poetry, and “the erotic” in contesting these privileges and “otherness”. These privileges that white people get results in a lot…

Starting as early as the fifteenth century, European powers had been extending their reach all over the world and “discovering” new lands. However, to their dismay, these lands were already inhabited by countless groups of indigenous peoples. It did not take long for the colonizers to utilize these groups by enslavement and taking their resources and land. This practice of colonialism carried on throughout the centuries until breaking up in the mid twentieth century. As a result of such…

people to better cope with the vast quantity of information they are constantly being bombarded with at any given moment." (page 5) stereotypical thinking is a natural way of how people make judgments about others and how they label and identify otherness, or anyone that is different from themselves. Deskins elaborates more about the stereotypes in videogames which he considers it as "dynamic element which allows people to pretend to be a different person." (page 4) Although stereotypes help the…

Journal: Multicultural Awareness This journal will discuss my multicultural awareness and explain the results of my multicultural assessment. It will then journey through my realization of other and explains the impact it had on my cultural beliefs. Lastly, it will contain my counselor identity and the changes I plan to implement as a result of my self – assessment. Multicultural Self-Assessment After I completed the multicultural self-assessment, I realized that I should be more aware of the…

persecuted and hunted for two months. It was the largest genocide since World War II. Between April 6 and July 4, more than 800,000 Tutsis had been shot, hacked to death with machetes, or beaten to death, based on only their ethnic background, or their ‘otherness’. According to Paul Rusesabagina, author of the autobiography An Ordinary Man, as well as multiple other texts, the ‘others’ have always faced scrutiny and persecution, simply based on their differences. However, some stories,…

Racism has been defined in many ways from judgements and prejudices to actions on racial superiority. While there are many discussions on racism, its’ roots, and the implications on the lived circumstance of those in today’s society, I believe one prominent, modern Africana philosopher has a grasp like no other on the topic. Lewis Gordon describes racism and its dimensions in this quote. “Racism, properly understood, is a denial of the humanity of a group of human beings either on the basis of…

it might not be a very expensive bed that everyone would think when referring to “the best bed”, but through the idea and incorporation of Duffy’s imagination it would be a whole different story. In the poem the invisible world or the “World of otherness” would be the imaginations of Duffy, as Duffy describes the second best bed as the symbol of Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway’s love, through the imagination of beautiful and romantic sceneries such as "forests, castles, torchlight, clifftops, seas…

Ward frames the mollies as a cultural group that is othered from his audience, one so degenerate that it raises questions of sliding social virtues, contributing to the moral panic that would help to sell his writing. In order to emphasize the otherness and unnaturalness of the mollies and their behavior, Ward utilizes multiple references and comparisons to nature, animals, and the natural order in a rhyming poem that concludes the article.…

Two of the greatest French existential writers were the colleagues and lovers Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. The two existentialists had an open relationship for most of their lives. They would often read each other’s writings and were influenced by each other, helping them come to conclusions about different topics. Both writers were atheists, putting more power in man’s hands, than in the hands of higher beings. Jean-Paul Sartre writes about how existence precedes essence or…

Ernesto Pujol’s journal discusses his art exhibition called Whiteness, where it revolves around the culture of whiteness and the thought process of being a white subject. The exhibition opened at the Foire Internationale d'art moderne et Contemporain in Paris in September 1999, and at Linda Kirkland Gallery in New York in October. It features an interesting assortment of objects joined together like Nazi porcelain dishes and bronzed, enameled, American baby boys' boots on a faux Victorian shelf,…