PHIL 2480 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Keep America Beautiful, Ecosophy, Iron Eyes Cody
5 Mar 2015
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In order to see if we can learn from other cultures must accept what privileges we have living the western traditions. Must come to terms with the realities of racism and colonialism. Inform the western traditions and how they communicate/deal with other traditions. Racism: acknowledging that races exist and then utilizing them to create a hierarchy. Certain races have certain traits that make them somehow superior to others. Colonialism: system of beliefs and concepts that are used to justify the practices of colonization. Two frameworks that have normally been adopted in western world when talking about other cultures. Expressed or exhibited in and through the environment. Disproportionate placing of structures and facilities that diminish environmental quality of a space based on the ethnicity of the local population. Multiple expressions of racism tend to reinforce each other. Impacts what we know and how we know it. Persistent refusal of non-natives to listen and learn from ecological wisdom of.
