“Getting Out of Your Box” versus “Preserving a Culture”: Two Opposed Ways of “Appreciating Cultural Diversity”

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Eliasoph
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Significant Period ◽  
Single Culture ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
White Middle Class ◽  
The One

This chapter explains that multiculturalism means safety and protection for people who consider themselves minorities, and that they are protecting a tradition by staying apart from the mainstream. For people who feel “mainstream”—usually white, middle-class—on the other hand, multiculturalism means exploring and mixing with other cultures, not staying apart from them. The chapter illustrates the tensions between these two categories of people as they represent nearly opposite objectives: on the one hand, there are the “mixers,” who aim at experiencing lots of cultures but do not engage in any of them for a significant period of time; on the other, there are the “protectors” who prefer to separate themselves from the mainstream and devote themselves to learning the details of a single culture.

scholarly journals Korean Drama Constructing Multiculturalism among Muslim Women Students

Al-Albab ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Okta Nurul Hidayati ◽  
M. Endy Saputro
Keyword(s):  
Women Students ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
The Other ◽  
Korean Culture ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
New Form ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
The One ◽  
Unique Relationship

Abstract This paper aims to understand the unique relationship between Korean drama and the formation of multicultural identity among Muslim women students. On the one hand, as a form of racial activity, watching Korean dramas can establish a new form of identity while at the same time enriching a new perspective of building multicultural sense. On the other hand as a part of Muslim, they can control Korean culture that is incompatible with Islamic doctrine. This paper argues that adopting Korean dramas positively supports students in creating multicultural cultures. These findings may contribute to the formation of cultural diversity within the Islamic context.

scholarly journals Nation, Ethnicity, Milieus, and Multiple “We’s”. The Case of Kenya

Humanities ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 139
Author(s):  
Dieter Neubert
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Political Identities ◽  
Political Identification ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Binary Oppositions ◽  
The One

The title of the volume “Future Africa—beyond the nation?” has several implications. Nation is presented as an entity relevant to identification and identity; and in the combination with “future”, nation implies a political vision. It is not hard to find good examples in respect of these implications. However, there are other entities important for to political identification. Often, they do not go beyond the nation but refer to smaller collective identities, such as ethnicity. The revived debate on “the middle class” implies that particular social groupings, such as class, may play a role, too. The question is how relevant are the nation and other collective political identities in Africa, and are they exclusive? Looking at the case of Kenya, we see on the one hand that collective (political) identities, such as ethnicity, are mobilized especially during elections. On the other hand, these collective identities are less dominant in everyday life and give way to different conducts of life (conceptualized as “milieus”) that are less politicized. We see people maneuvering between multiple “we’s”. Strong political identities are mobilized only in particular conflict-loaded situations that restructure identities in simple binary oppositions of “we” and “they”.

scholarly journals Salafi’s Da’wah and the Phenomenon of Religious Piety among Hijrah Artists

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 228-249
Author(s):  
Ahmad Zaenuri ◽  
Habibie Yusuf
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
The Other ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Common Term ◽  
Religious Piety ◽  
The Common ◽  
The One

In the last decade, along with the huge social media, religious piety among national celebrities has increased dramatically. This trend is characterized by the emergence of a number of artists with traditional Islamic-Salafi fashion community. Trousers above the ankle, bushy beards, thin mustaches, women's veils and the common term of akhi and ukhti, as well as many other anomalies. Salafi da’wa is, on the one hand, a condensed way of da’wa (not much by fiqh logic). His opinions concentrated more on the actual understanding of the Quran and the Sunnah. But, on the other hand, a lot of artists who are typically middle-class, educated and rationalist suit the community. This article seeks to address the question of why the phenomenon of religious piety of artists is more in line with the trend of the Salafi communities? Phenomenological descriptive methodology is the analysis tool used. To address the above question, the author presents the paradigm of Benford and Snow da’wa. The results of this study reveal that the Salaf da’wa was able to frame its da'wah concepts in accordance with reason, Islamic, modern standards, and to respond to the demands of the Ummah in such a way that many artists followed.

Race Man or Race Menace?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis Moore
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Leisure Time ◽  
The Other ◽  
Black Middle Class ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Sporting Culture ◽  
The One

Black fighters’ construction of manhood straddled the line between Victorian respectability and sporting manhood. In other words, many tried to emulate their middle-class brothers. Despite spending their leisure time in the sporting culture, when they had a chance most black prizefighters publicly placed themselves as economically responsible patriarchs. They wanted to prove that their manhood went beyond their physicality, on the one hand, and was not solely rooted in the disreputable sporting culture, on the other hand. As part of the black-middle class’s strategy to prove their equality, race men grounded their manhood in thrift and patriarchy. If the pugilist could avoid the perils of the sporting world, he could properly represent the aspirations of the black middle class.

‘Trans-skin’: Analyzing the practice of skin bleaching among middle-class women in Dar es Salaam

Ethnicities ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 749-770 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharina Fritsch
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Dar Es Salaam ◽  
The Other ◽  
Skin Bleaching ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
A Site ◽  
Empirical Material

This essay analyses skin bleaching among middle-class Tanzanian women as performative practice. It draws on empirical material from interviews with middle-class Tanzanian women as well as from advertisements in Dar es Salaam. Skin bleaching is situated at a ‘site of ambivalence’ (Butler), revolving around ‘light beauty’ as postcolonial regulatory ideal. Thus on the one hand, skin bleaching is analyzed as a practice of ‘passing for light(-skinned), embodying urban ‘modern’ forms of subjectivation. On the other hand, the decolonizing potential of skin bleaching becomes apparent as the interviewed women’s forms of embodiment renegotiate postcolonial Blackness putting forward notions of ‘browning’ (Tate). However, ‘light beauty’ then also appears as norm, according to which forms of embodiment can only ‘fail’. In this regard, skin bleaching challenges essentialized notions of Blackness, embodied in the color of one’s skin, while it also illustrates the performativity of racialized embodiment and its intersections with other structural categories.

scholarly journals LEGAL AND SOCIAL COMPLEXITIES RELATING TO PRACTICE OF ARRANGED AND FORCED MARRIAGES

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-42
Author(s):  
Ashraf Booley
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
International Law ◽  
The Other ◽  
Immigrant Community ◽  
Arranged Marriages ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
National Human ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The One

The practice of forced and/or arranged marriages are reported to be taking place globally. These types of marriages have become gender neutral and can no longer be described only as an issue relating to women. However, what is portrayed is that women normally suffer as reported cases are evidence of that. First world countries where there is a large immigrant community, frown on the practice of forced marriages and arranged marriages. This is a complex issue, because on the one hand, one’s religious, cultural diversity is attacked and on the other hand forced and arranged marriages may violate various provisions of international, regional national human rights instruments. From an international law perspective, one could argue that there is a clear violation of international law. On the other hand, and argument relating to one’s cultural and religious beliefs could also be advanced. Concepts such as culture, religion and gender are deeply embedded in most known religions and communities, therefore, the practice of forced and arranged marriages may not be perceived as violation of any law/s whether international or national. Furthermore, forced and arranged marriages are at times so interrelated that it may be difficult to draw a clear distinction between the two. How do we protect women’s rights while at the same time respecting the cultural diversity of society? This article attempts to add to the existing debate surrounding the social and legal complexities of forced and arranged marriages.

scholarly journals In the Footsteps of an Observer – Looking at Edvard Munch in Åsgårdstrand

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilmi Gutzeit Mathiesen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
School Children ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Anthropology And Education ◽  
The One ◽  
Edvard Munch

This article investigates policies of cultural diversity and difference in the promotion of arts to school children. Based on historical examples from concert promotion for children in Norway the article examines how cultural difference has been produced and mobilized strategically in efforts aimed at strengthening diversity. It is argued that, on the one hand, constructions of difference play an important part in the development of cultural identity and visibility, while on the other hand, a focus on difference can be a basis for cultural categorizations, and potentially, for the formation of unfortunate stereotypes. The article is informed by debates and discussions on arts for children, with reference to theorizations of difference from anthropology and education studies. Questions raised concern how difference best can be addressed in the shaping of an inclusive, anti-oppressive education.

scholarly journals Kontestasi atas Otoritas Teks Suci Islam di Era Disrupsi: Bagaimana Kelas Menengah Muslim Indonesia Memperlakukan Hadis melalui Media Baru

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-35
Author(s):  
Rizqa Ahmadi
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
New Media ◽  
Alternative Media ◽  
Religious Discourse ◽  
The Other ◽  
Sacred Texts ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Halal Food ◽  
The One

This paper was written to become a preliminary record of the hadith debate as one of the sacred texts of Islam in the disruption era. An era marked by the rise of new media, namely alternative media, which in its development has become a new field of religious discourse debate. The debate about Hadith also found its momentum increasingly dynamic. For instance, Muslims in Indonesia use new media to access and make hadith as a lifestyle reference. The emerging of terms such as halal food, syar'i heads carves, halal tourism, ojek syar'i, prophet-style healing, and so on are some examples of them. Unfortunately the existence of this new media indirectly shifts the authority of the Ulama as a reference in understanding the sacred texts, including hadith. This shift emerges to fabrication and distortion of understanding. The contestation of the Hadits authority still revolves around the two main camps: textualism-fundamentalism on the one hand and moderate contextualist- on the other hand. Outside of the two mainstream, the Inkar Sunah group also colored the contestation of hadith authority in new media by middle-class Muslims. Although its voice was not as massive as the two previous groups.

scholarly journals Arts for Children, Cultural Diversity and the Production of Difference

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Sverre Knudsen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
School Children ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Anthropology And Education ◽  
The One

This article investigates policies of cultural diversity and difference in the promotion of arts to school children. Based on historical examples from concert promotion for children in Norway the article examines how cultural difference has been produced and mobilized strategically in efforts aimed at strengthening diversity. It is argued that, on the one hand, constructions of difference play an important part in the development of cultural identity and visibility, while on the other hand, a focus on difference can be a basis for cultural categorizations, and potentially, for the formation of unfortunate stereotypes. The article is informed by debates and discussions on arts for children, with reference to theorizations of difference from anthropology and education studies. Questions raised concern how difference best can be addressed in the shaping of an inclusive, anti-oppressive education.

Stories and the Self

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Krause ◽  
Markus Appel
Keyword(s):  
Meta Analysis ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Lower Degree ◽  
Contrast Effects ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
Self Perceptions ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Implicit And Explicit

Abstract. Two experiments examined the influence of stories on recipients’ self-perceptions. Extending prior theory and research, our focus was on assimilation effects (i.e., changes in self-perception in line with a protagonist’s traits) as well as on contrast effects (i.e., changes in self-perception in contrast to a protagonist’s traits). In Experiment 1 ( N = 113), implicit and explicit conscientiousness were assessed after participants read a story about either a diligent or a negligent student. Moderation analyses showed that highly transported participants and participants with lower counterarguing scores assimilate the depicted traits of a story protagonist, as indicated by explicit, self-reported conscientiousness ratings. Participants, who were more critical toward a story (i.e., higher counterarguing) and with a lower degree of transportation, showed contrast effects. In Experiment 2 ( N = 103), we manipulated transportation and counterarguing, but we could not identify an effect on participants’ self-ascribed level of conscientiousness. A mini meta-analysis across both experiments revealed significant positive overall associations between transportation and counterarguing on the one hand and story-consistent self-reported conscientiousness on the other hand.

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