Reading multicultural literature is not merely for pleasure, it is also for knowledge and understanding. The knowledge and understanding gained by reading multicultural literature, if read open mindedly, has the potential to close the cultural gaps many people face and bring the world closer together. Determining what multicultural literature will be most beneficial to read to gain knowledge and understanding can be difficult and tedious. Most important is for the literature to be factual in regards to the culture. Reading about the author should tell the authors culture and from where and what time period he or she is from.
Stereotypes lead people to expect certain actions from members of social groups. These stereotype-based expectations may lead to self-fulfilling prophecies, in which one's inaccurate expectations about a person's behavior, through social interaction, prompts that person to act in stereotype-consistent ways, thus confirming one's erroneous expectations and validating the stereotype. (Page 94–97) Often time’s people are fairly ignorant of the customs and
With some many types of religions in our world it is so hard to list them all and tell people about each and everyone. The all have their own beliefs and traditions that they follow and celebrate certain events in their own unique way. Even the way that they pass down information from generation to generation is somewhat similar. It normally begins with storytelling, word of mouth or even reading about the religion and traditions in books. The many different types of religions have many different views on certain things like the afterlife, celebrations, prayers, and place of worship.
He is poking fun at the age old concept of ‘equality,’ one that has inspired wars and movements alike; he accomplishes this by creating a system to make everyone equal, a system that happens to be just as stupid as the idea of ‘total equality.’ Under this system equality is achieved, but it is at the cost of individual freedom and a society full of stupid people, this in-turn creates the situational irony found in the story. The plot of the story itself is a piece of situational irony, however there are many other instances found throughout it, including verbal irony. One specific example of this is when Hazel and George are talking, Vonnegut writes “ ‘I think I’d make a good Handicapper General. (Hazel)’ ‘Good as anybody else,’ said George.” His response to Hazel’s comment is slightly sarcastic, but also ironic, in that she really would be “as good anybody else” because in their society everyone is just as good or bad as everybody else. Another example of this false sense of equality is when George says,
Will A personalised induction will always be more effective? Personalised inductions v generic inductions Why are personalised screeds used? As a hypnotherapist it is important to try and find the most effective way to communicate with your client so they can get the most effective results, so when meeting a client for the first time it is critical to build up a good rapport and gain trust. Everybody has individual characters and personalities with different likes and dislikes. We may come from different cultural backgrounds or have been brought up with different values or perspectives and that is why I feel it would be very useful to find out about their backgrounds, hobbies etc in order to personalise an induction specifically for them.
King notes, “Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality” (King 8). Basically, King is saying that there are two types of laws that society use. One law is considered just because it favors the human beings personality and elevates him morally, while the other law is considered unjust because it demeans human personality.
Storey picks up on Raymond William's view that culture is 'one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language' (Storey; 2000, p1). Raymond William's breaks down the meaning into three broad definitions 'a general process of intellectual, spiritual and aesthetic development, a particular way of life, weather of a people, a period or a group and finally the works and practices of intellectual and especially' (Storey; 2000, p1, 2). I will be using William's second definition of culture as it is one that stands out in the world we live in and is an area which is full of 'popular culture' arguably not so much with the other two definitions as 'Few people would imagine William's first definition when thinking about popular culture' (Storey; 2000, p2). Popular culture can be defined in many ways but storey emphasises that 'popular culture is simply culture which is widely favoured or well liked by many people' (Storey; 2000, p6). Despite all arguments on the definition of popular culture one statement is clear and this is that 'any definition of
One of the important concepts in his understanding of power is the defined word ‘doxa’ which is the combination of both norms and beliefs: the This would be described as a common sense or assumed resort. Bourdieu also uses the term ‘misrecognition’ which is closely resembled to the Marxian ideas of ‘a false conscious’ but working at a level much deeper that passes any intent at conscious influences by a group or several groups. Misrecognition is more of a cultural trend than an ideological trend, mostly because it expresses a set of active social processes that way down the common sense assumptions into the reality of social life and crucially they are born in the middle of culture. All forms of power require structure and culture are in the specific grounds where the conformity is disputed and eventually imbedded between agents, thus creating social indifferences and unequal circumstances. (Such as that with disability) Habitus is utilized
A stereotype is a popular belief about specific types of individuals. The concepts of stereotype and prejudice are often confused with many other different meanings. Stereotypes are standardized and simplified conceptions of groups based on some prior assumptions. When stereotypes persist in the workplace, candidates for promotion may be overlooked, and work teams do not function properly. Stereotypes are not fact, they are just biased opinions people base on each other.
When the word is examined within the context of popular culture, however, it takes on a different definition, far beyond that found in a dictionary. While quantitative factors must inherently play a role in defining ‘popular’, the origins from which these factors stem from must also be considered. Raymond Williams (1983, p.237) provides a concise definition of popular culture as “the culture actually made by the people for themselves”, and thus implies that the term ‘popular’ is better defined by the populace within which the cultural trends exist, rather than by a measure of how many people subscribe to those cultural trends. John Storey (2012, p.9) similarly defines popular culture as “‘authentic’ culture of ‘the people’”, providing a second and comparable view that popular culture is an organic type of culture that is produced by the population, rather than by a selection of larger powers. Working from both Williams’ and Storey’s definitions of popular culture we can deduce that the word ‘popular’, when examined under the lens of popular culture, can be defined as something created by the people for consumption by those the population who created it as a