Universalism

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is a multithreaded, Bildungsroman novel. It tells the story of a young Afghan boy Amir, whose closest friend is Hassan. The plot of the novel focuses greatly on number of events, like political and cultural situation in Afghanistan or relationships between Amir and his father, Baba. The novel has been praised for its role in understanding the complex nature of Afghanistan by Western audience. According to former Afghan ambassador in The United States, Said…

perspective intermingled with Hellenistic Judaism, and a school of thought that Judaism had something to offer to all of humanity, was developed. In fact, Alexander was viewed as having generated brought about a form of basic globalization and universalism. With regard to education, Greek was the medium that was utilized, and to that end, different cultural perspectives changed to one universal one. A number of people began to view themselves as citizens of the world (that is to say, the world…

model is focus oriented as it tells us about what is on people’s mind and in their sight. It describes an logical organization and framework of their behaviour which can be seen in the dimensions like specific-diffuse, internal-external direction, universalism-particularism, and we can see relationships in individualism-collectivism, achievement-ascription, neutral-affective. On the other hand, Hofstede describes about values present in people and its effect on their behaviour. Therefore, the…

Eyes,” tries to challenge the traditional “Western feminist” discourse on women in the third world. Mohanty’s purpose is not to question the knowledge and value of Western feminist writings on women in the third world, but to uncover ethnocentric universalism (presuppositions and implicit principles). She claims that women in the third world are portrayed as sharing a homogeneous oppression. Instead, she asks Western feminists to take into account the complex interaction between social,…

The confrontation against otherness, that is to say with someone who is different from us, places us instinctively in a situation of intolerance because acknowledging that someone else is right would be lived as a kind of humiliation since it would mean that I'm wrong. However, it also appears obvious to defend tolerance as a result of the mistakes from the different wars of religion. It is in this perspective that John Locke wrote his Letter on Tolerance, and I am going to try to analyse it.…

within national border and seeks allegiance to the humanity at large which makes the essence of international identity. Nussbaum’s idea of Cosmopolitanism is although criticized on the grounds that nationality and patriotism cannot be substituted by universalism and that it is difficult to imagine others. However Amartya Sen supports Nussbaum’s stand: “The importance of Nussbaum's focus on world citizenship lies in correcting a serious neglect—that of the interest of people who are not related…

Molson Coors values their universalism approach to respecting each and every employee while being honest with each other and working as a whole. Molson Coors also values themselves to being creative in everything they do in order to have more of a creative advantage while excelling…

As globalization develop rapidly, the society difference is more and more noticeable to people nowadays, especially the difference related to attitude towards gender. Facing different views about gender, some people use his or her own standard to judge the phenomenon that shows up in the societies with different contexts. However, society might be more complicated than one thought and gender problems may be more complex under different context; to understand those problems better, one should put…

at money and success as equals. He list four values in which the “American Dream” causes people to believe that they must have these value in order to be successful (Akers et al. 2017). The four values are achievement orientation, individualism, universalism, and fetishism or money. These four value orientations are conducive to criminal behavior. Robert Agnew (2010) also revised and made his own version of general stain theory that consists of three key parts which are failure…

In this day, abstinence only sex-ed programs are the only thing available to most kids. I am here to advocate for comprehensive sexuality education programs rather than abstinence (no sex until marriage) only programs. To correctly argue my point, one has to have a basic understanding of what is happening in schools today. Currently, at least in Texas, there is no well-taught comprehensive sexuality education, and sometimes there is no sex-ed at all. This is a problem because if students don’t…