Civic Myths through Immigrant Voices

Plato's Caves ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190936983.003.0004 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 133-158

Author(s):

Rebecca LeMoine

Keyword(s):

Cross Cultural ◽

National Origin ◽

Cultural Engagement ◽

Central Argument ◽

And Gender ◽

The Voice

This chapter examines the treatment of foreigners in Plato’s Menexenus. The Menexenus appears to offer some of the most striking evidence of Platonic xenophobia, as it features Socrates delivering a mock funeral oration that glorifies Athens’s exclusion of foreigners. When readers play along, however, with Socrates’ exhortation to imagine the oration through the voice of its alleged author, Aspasia, Pericles’ foreign mistress, the oration becomes ironic or dissonant. This dissonance arises in part because Aspasia, a foreigner, speaks disparagingly of foreigners. Yet it also arises because Aspasia is the metic mother of an Athenian citizen, even though her speech praises the pure-blooded, autochthonous nature of Athenians. This chapter thus expands on the central argument that cross-cultural engagement exposes contradictions in the civic beliefs of Athenians by showing how the intersection of national origin and gender can magnify this effect.

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Media use and gender relationship to the nightmare protection hypothesis: A cross-cultural analysis.

Dreaming ◽

10.1037/drm0000066 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 28 (2) ◽

pp. 169-192 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jayne Gackenbach ◽

Yue Yu ◽

Ming-Ni Lee

Keyword(s):

Media Use ◽

Cultural Analysis ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

And Gender ◽

Cross Cultural Analysis

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Cultural Diversity and Critical Dietetics: A Scholarship of Cross-Cultural Engagement

Critical Dietetics ◽

10.32920/cd.v3i2.1002 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 23-31

Author(s):

Craig Alan Hassel

Keyword(s):

Ways Of Knowing ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Knowledge Systems ◽

Human Society ◽

Health Issues ◽

Post Colonial ◽

Cultural Engagement ◽

Cultural Perspectives ◽

Culturally Different ◽

Classical Chinese Medicine

As every human society has developed its own ways of knowing nature in order to survive, dietitians can benefit from an emerging scholarship of “cross-cultural engagement” (CCE). CCE asks dietitians to move beyond the orthodoxy of their academic training by temporarily experiencing culturally diverse knowledge systems, inhabiting different background assumptions and presuppositions of how the world works. Although this practice may seem de- stabilizing, it allows for significant outcomes not afforded by conventional dietetics scholarship. First, culturally different knowledge systems including those of Africa, Ayurveda, classical Chinese medicine and indigenous societies become more empathetically understood, minimizing the distortions created when forcing conformity with biomedical paradigms. This lessens potential for erroneous interpretations. Second, implicit background assumptions of the dietetics profession become more apparent, enabling a more critical appraisal of its underlying epistemology. Third, new forms of post-colonial intercultural inquiry can begin to develop over time as dietetics professionals develop capacities to reframe food and health issues from different cultural perspectives. CCE scholarship offers dietetics professionals a means to more fully appreciate knowledge assets that lie beyond professionally maintained parameters of truth, and a practice for challenging and moving boundaries of credibility.

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Cross-Cultural Differences in Strategies of Peer Persuasion of Hebrew-Speaking and Arabic-Speaking Children

Journal of Cognition and Culture ◽

10.1163/15685373-12340089 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 20 (3-4) ◽

pp. 355-372

Author(s):

Rachel Karniol

Keyword(s):

Cultural Differences ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Communication Styles ◽

Language Group ◽

Participant Gender ◽

Cross Cultural Differences ◽

Female Peer ◽

And Gender ◽

Arabic Speaking ◽

Main Effects

Abstract The purpose of the current research was to examine strategies of persuasion used by Arabic-speaking and Hebrew-speaking boys and girls to determine the relative contributions of culture and gender in determining communication styles. Children were asked to write a letter to a male or female peer asking for a gender-stereotyped or a gender-neutral gift. Four meta-categories were identified: formality, self-focus, other-focus, and gift-focus. For each meta-category except gift-focus, there were significant main effects and interactions. Language group was significant for formality and other-focus but not for self-focus. Importantly, there were several interactions between participant gender, target gender, and gender-stereotypy of gift, but these did not interact with language group. The results were discussed in the context of children’s socialization to the ethos of musayara and dugri in Arabic-speaking and Hebrew-speaking culture.

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The voice of others: Identity, alterity and gender normativity among gay men in Israel

Language in Society ◽

10.1017/s0047404512000048 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 41 (2) ◽

pp. 187-211 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Erez Levon

Keyword(s):

Lived Experience ◽

Gay Men ◽

Macro Level ◽

Male Sexuality ◽

Gay Identity ◽

Social Categories ◽

Gay Male ◽

And Gender ◽

The Relationship ◽

The Voice

AbstractThis article presents an analysis of a slang variety, called oxtšit, as it is described and used by a cohort of gay men in Israel. Unlike many previous analyses of gay slang, I argue that the men described do not use the variety to help construct and affirm an alternative gay identity, but rather that they use it as a form of in-group mockery through which normative and nonnormative articulations of Israeli gay male sexuality are delineated. It is suggested that this discussion has implications for sociolinguistic understandings of “groupness” more broadly, and particularly the relationship between macro-level social categories (like “gay”) and individual lived experience. (Gay slang, Israel, vari-directional voicing, identity/alterity)*

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Perception of human ecology: cross-cultural and gender comparisons

Journal of Environmental Psychology ◽

10.1016/s0272-4944(02)00083-x ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 23 (1) ◽

pp. 89-101 ◽

Cited By ~ 94

Author(s):

Anna D Eisler ◽

Hannes Eisler ◽

Mitsuo Yoshida

Keyword(s):

Human Ecology ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Gender Comparisons ◽

And Gender

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“Toxic Masculinity” in the age of #MeToo: ritual, morality and gender archetypes across cultures

Society and Business Review ◽

10.1108/sbr-07-2018-0070 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 13 (3) ◽

pp. 274-286 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Samuel Paul Louis Veissière

Keyword(s):

Design Methodology ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Moral Panics ◽

Content Type ◽

Ideal Types ◽

Biological Sex ◽

Starting Point ◽

And Gender ◽

Gender Archetypes ◽

Cultural Shifts

Purpose This paper aims to take the “toxic masculinity” (TM) trope as a starting point to examine recent cultural shifts in common assumptions about gender, morality and relations between the sexes. TM is a transculturally widespread archetype or moral trope about the kind of man one should not be. Design/methodology/approach The author revisits his earlier fieldwork on transnational sexualities against a broader analysis of the historical, ethnographic and evolutionary record. The author describes the broad cross-cultural recurrence of similar ideal types of men and women (good and bad) and the rituals through which they are culturally encouraged and avoided. Findings The author argues that the TM trope is normatively useful if and only if it is presented alongside a nuanced spectrum of other gender archetypes (positive and negative) and discussed in the context of human universality and evolved complementariness between the sexes. Social implications The author concludes by discussing stoic virtue models for the initiation of boys and argues that they are compatible with the normative commitments of inclusive societies that recognize gender fluidity along the biological sex spectrum. Originality/value The author makes a case for the importance of strong gender roles and the rites and rituals through which they are cultivated as an antidote to current moral panics about oppression and victimhood.

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Germanness or Rights? Second Generation Young Adults and Citizenship in Contemporary Germany

German Politics & Society ◽

10.3167/gps.2013.310204 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 31 (2) ◽

pp. 30-48 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Daniel Williams

Keyword(s):

Young Adults ◽

Young Adult ◽

Second Generation ◽

Cultural Practices ◽

National Origin ◽

National Belonging ◽

Citizenship Status ◽

Transnational Ties ◽

And Gender ◽

Adult Immigrants

Scholarship on citizenship-in its definition as nationality or formal membership in the state-has been both the basis for evaluating and comparing national citizenships as "ethnocultural" or "civic," and used to imply the meaning of citizenship to prospective citizens, particularly immigrants and non-citizen residents. Doing so ignores a perspective on citizenship "from below," and oversimplifies the multiplicity of meanings that individuals may attach to citizenship. This article seeks to fill this gap in scholarship by examining young adult second-generation descendants of immigrants in Germany. The second generation occupies a unique position for examining the meaning of citizenship, based on the fact that they were born and grew up in Germany, and are thus more likely than adult immigrants to be able to become citizens as well as to claim national belonging to Germany. Among the varied meanings of citizenship are rights-based understandings, which are granted to some non-citizens and not others, as well as identitarian meanings which may depend on everyday cultural practices as well as national origin. Importantly, these meanings of citizenship are not arbitrary among the second generation; citizenship status and gender appear to inform understandings of citizenship, while national origin and transnational ties appear to be less significant for the meaning of citizenship.

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