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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"cultural superiority"”.
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Saving the Children: Discourses of Race, Nation, and Citizenship in America
… citizenship formed upon a base of Anglo-Saxon superiority. Children functioned as an important symbol and resource in struggles over citizenship and nation as the nation expanded across the continent and beyond. Part of sharing in the fantasy of Anglo-Saxon cultural superiority, for many social …
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"""The friendship of peoples"": Soviet ballet, nationalities policy, and the artistic media, 1953-1968"
… Soviet classical ballet within the political and cultural context of the Khrushchev-era Thaw. It traces the Soviet Union's long-standing nationalities policy--envisioned by Lenin even before 1917 and championed by Stalin throughout his tenure--and its connection to the proliferation of …
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The rise and fall of a wall and a dialect: Observations of shifting linguistic behavior among former East Berliners
… city, the dialect became a sign of affluence and cultural superiority. This paper will analyze these trends by evaluating research findings (based on interviews, participant observation, recordings of reading lists, matched guise tests, and surveys) and discussing potential implications for gender …
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IMMORTALIZING THE SPIRIT OF THE COLONIZER
… of power that establishes the biological and/or cultural superiority of populations of European origin. The central feature of the modern regimes of power in all its variety, both historically and geographically, is derivative of the colonialism that started in the fifteenth century. I describe …
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Global Wreckage and Consumer Illusions: Responses to the Human Effects of Economic Globalization in Sub-Saharan African Francophone Novels and Films, 1973-2006
… the connection between globalization and imposed cultural uniformity, which African novels and films denounce as promoting a system of cultural superiority and submission. Further, the most extreme effects of globalization reinforce notions of a sexualized, racialized or ethnicized <em>other</em>. …
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Indirect dialogue between Chinese Christians and Muslim Huis: on the concept of collective transcendence deeply rooted in Chinese culture
… ‘collective transcendence’ in this thesis. This cultural transcendence is a product of Confucianism that relates individual quest for eternity to the survival of a person’s clan. The notion of collective transcendence facilitates better understanding of the phenomenon of ‘belonging but not …
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Subsistence Patterns as Markers of Cultural Exchange: European and Taino Interactions in the Dominican Republic
… motivated by specific agendas colored by pride, cultural superiority, and salesmanship. They rarely recorded the activities of any but the elites of either the colonists or the Tainos encountered there. Also, because the faunal and floral remains are often poorly preserved or statistically …
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POSTCOLONIAL THEORY : ERASING THE BOUNDARIES BETWEEN THE EAST AND THE WEST
… world. Assuming political, economic, and cultural superiority, the Western powers imposed their methods of governing system, economy, language and culture upon the colonized countries. Distinctions between European and non-European were prevalent in every area: history, linguistics, race …
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TIME, IDENTITY AND NATION IN GERMAN TRAVEL WRITING ON AFRICA 1848-1914
… a positive, heterophilic desire to appreciate cultural heterogeneity; secondly, the opposite, expansionist, hegemonic aspirations fuelled by growing German nationalism and inter-European rivalry. The chief tool in analysing these conflicting tendencies is the representation of time, for the …
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The authenticity of the middlebrow : Warwick Deeping and cultural legitimacy, 1903-1940.
… His 68 novels from 1903-1950 thus give the cultural historian the unusual opportunity of tracing the development of an author's attempts to protect both himself and his readers from a process of cultural devaluation. After 1925, the best-selling Sorrell and Son and its immediate successors …
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A study of the cultural appropriateness of service delivery models in the Australian mental health system
This study is an attempt to examine the cultural appropriateness of the mental health system in relation to the Vietnamese refugee community in Australia. Culture and mental health, as widely acknowledged in the field of transcultural psychiatry, are closely linked. No aspect of the diagnosis or …
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Views from the Other Side: Colonial Culture and Anti-Colonial Sentiment in Germany Around 1800
… an obsession with thinking about forms of cultural difference. In many cases, such efforts are wrought with ambivalence. The German world traveler Georg Forster is torn between the passionate admiration for a paradise-like Tahiti and the judgment of Tahiti as uncivilized. August von …
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Writing as a cultural negotiation: a study of Mariama Bâ, Marie NDiaye and Ama Ata Aidoo
… that nowhere is the question of writing as a cultural negotiation posed, discussed or much less addressed. This is a lacuna that this dissertation addresses for the first time by proposing a re-reading of the selected works of Ama Ata Aidoo, Mariama Bâ and Marie NDiaye through the new prism of …