CRI343H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Butter Chicken, Culture Of The United Kingdom, One Story
9 Jan 2018
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Week 7: culture and the issue of orientalism. Changes in cjs not automatic, colonizers could not fully eliminate previous cjs in north america: always struggle, power dynamic, resistance to keep cjs, resistance amongst settlers as well. Even people who should be upholding western views sometimes don"t agree: challenges modernization/orthodox approach; history not linear, difficult to make generalizations about the indigenous, many groups and tribes and bands. We also talked about similarities/difference between pre-colonial africa and. Ontario culture and bc culture: cultures have all developed in interaction, no pure picture as to what culture is. This can be in some sense a positive image. " when he was a kid he used to find portrayal of people as exotic. Even these positive images are still problematic and inaccurate: the objective of orientalism: the way we acquire the knowledge is not objective, it is highly motivated.
