ANTB21H3 Lecture Notes - Accent Reduction, Cultural Imperialism
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Ritual creating social worlds, authority: e. g. Obama"s inauguration = highly ritualized race/ethnicity marked categories of ethnicity: marked (e. g. home language, and unmarked (e. g. whiteness in canada) everyone is supposed to know. The media rule in large scale interactions: central to enabling interaction imagined community will arise from this. Globalization cultural imperialism: homogenizing the world. Ability to use open force on other subjects, often resistant, to concede to the desires or intentions of the powerful subjects and organization. E. g. g20 summit in toronto: consent. Ability to gain consent of other subjects to act in accordance with the norms amenable to central, powerful subjects and organization. E. g. speeding on a highway but only to a certain speed because you don"t want to get punished so you monitor yourself = consent. E. g. residential school and the decision by state of canada that 1st nation of people should only speak english.
