Explain why?Immigrants; it's not directly onshore and it's a place to put them in limbo. What do you think the statue is thinking? Why?She feels like immigrants are trash. She's scoffing and lifting her dress so that they don't touch the bottom. What is ironic—perhaps even hypocritical—about her reaction…Explain.It's ironic that she would feel that after the “we are a nation of...” spiel, and hypocritical because we are a nation built on immigrants.
Reaction Paper In his article Body Rituals among the Nacirema, Miner effectively convinces his reader of the ridiculous nature of America’s obsession with the body’s health and visual appeal by allowing his readers to form an opinion about themselves without realizing they are their own subject. At first glance the reader may be convinced he is reading about magical beliefs and extreme practices of a little know civilization. Miner effectively employs an academic tone as he opens the paper with “[t]he anthropologist has become so familiar with the diversity of ways in which different peoples behave in similar situations that he is not apt to be surprised by even the most exotic customs.” Miner continues to use this tone throughout the article. Furthermore his statement “[t]he rites are normally only discussed with children… I was able, however, to establish sufficient rapport with the natives to examine these shrines and to have the rituals described to me” shows superior attitude to place his reader on the level of a scholar observing a native (Miner 503). Still even an inexperienced evaluator soon realizes the connection between the Nacirema and the United States.
I guess this was Miners way of expressing how other cultures look and think of Americans. Miner uses many different phrases and symbols to represent basic everyday items or actions. Such as when he uses the word “shrine” to represent a private rooms in a house, in this case the bathroom. He implies that Naciremas wake up every morning and uses the shrine room as a secret area to expose their true self’s and uses these “potions”
Analysis of Riverside City Campus "The fundamental belief underlying the whole system appears to be that the human body is ugly and that its natural tendency is to debility and disease. Incarcerated in such a body, man's only hope is to avert these characteristics through the use of the powerful influences of ritual and ceremony." This was said by Bromislaw Malinowski, a British anthropologist, in Horace Miner's essay," Body Ritual among the Nacirema." In the essay, Miner shows the reader how an outsider views American culture, through sociological concepts of ethnocentrism and values. James M. Henslin, defines "ethnocentrism" as "the use of one's own culture as a yardstick for judging the ways of other individuals or societies, generally
I was unfamiliar with the words “dysconscious racism” from the book. I decided to do a research on dysconscious racism. The way Roppollo describes the American culture makes sense. Typical Americans usually think the scenes that involve drugs, unprotected sex, gang activity are normal. What is worse is that Indians who were the first nations that lived in America don’t have problems with the
Mariellyce Smith Principles of sociology 2000 Week Eleven: Individual Work March 20th 2014 Abstract My paper will discuss Public opinion and propaganda ... approaches to functionalism, conflict theory, symbolic interactionism, and exchange theory. Sociologists Alfred and Elizabeth Lee (1939) found that propaganda relies on seven basic techniques, which they termed “tricks of the trade.” To be effective, the techniques should be subtle, with the audience unaware that their minds and emotions are being manipulated. If propaganda is effective, people will not know why they support something, but they’ll fervently defend it. Becoming familiar with these techniques can help you keep your mind and emotions from being manipulated. Name calling: This techniques aims to arouse opposing to the competing product, candidate, or policy by associating it with negative images.
The Eye of the Beholder Horace Miner's "Body Ritual among the Nacirema" focuses on the different aspects of the Nacirema culture in regards to the way its inhabitants view their bodies and overall physical appearance. In the passage Miner wastes no time in explaining the unique yet questionable rituals conducted by members of the Nacirema tribe. He also blatantly utilizes a sense of satire to express his own disapproval of the daily practices of a tribe very similar to the American people of the nineteen fifties. In an attempt to sum up his writing, it is safe to say that Americans are thought of to be disgusted by the human body and will go through extremely odd measures to correct its flaws. In the passage, Miner uses satire to deliver
Synthetic Paper Rahm Emmanuel statement In the Denver Post, David harsanyi (columnist) responded on “Rahm Emmanuel statement”. There is no question that the “Rahm Emmanuel Statement” raised a number of people eyebrows. Is the word “Retarded” as bad as using the “N-word”? How would one put it in to play or comprise the depth of how the words are used? White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's verbal indiscretion referring to some liberal activists as "f**king retarded” has shined a spotlight on just how certain the R-word is in American conversation, and how offensive it can be for millions of Americans.
Throughout the novel, the significance of ones name is exposed to the readers as we find that a name can confuse oneself of which culture he or she belongs to, help one assimilate to a different or new culture, and finally reassure oneself of his or her cultural identity. Gogol finds it difficult to distinguish his identity, as his name is neither American nor Bengali; Sonia adapts to the American culture while still maintaining her Bengali ways; and Ashima is certain of her identity as an Indian woman, as she assimilates well to the American culture without leaving her Bengali traditions behind. The protagonist, Gogol is a first-generation American born from Bengali immigrants. He struggles identifying with his name, especially growing up when all he wants to do is fit in and gain acceptance from his peers. Natalie Friedman, author of From Hybrids to Tourists stated, “the protagonist of the contemporary immigrant novel—whether an immigrant or a child born to immigrants—is more concerned with his or her dual identity as it manifests itself in America and in the shrinking global community.” He finds it exceptionally hard to accept his unique name, as he
Nationality Stereotypes A stereotype is a fixed set of ideas that is generally held about the characteristics of a particular type of person which are wrongly believed to be shared by all the people of that type. In my opinion it is a dangerous thing to judge about a people or a group of people by existing stereotypes but nevertheless a certain stereotype does exist. There are experimental ways of investigating stereotypes. One of the most obvious is to ask a group of people what trades characterize the British, the Russians, the Americans. Results of such studies of the whole agree well with what might have been expected.