ANTH 23 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Intercultural Competence, Liberal Democracy, Renato Rosaldo
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Nonwhite immigrants experience either whitening or blackening (which one depends on racial tensions/white assessment of cultural competence based on what they know of that particular culture) Immigration is largely influenced by capitalism/the economy. Depending on immigrant"s economic status, some have more opportunities than others. Economic status may give immigrants certain privileges in western democracies that might help those immigrants to scale racial and cultural heights but not hierarchies based on racism. Though many essays on citizenship exist, little attention is put on the everyday processes by which how people (immigrants in particular) are made into subjects of a particular nation-state. Western democracy governments make generalizations about groups of people and universalizes citizenship, which is paradoxically attained through a process of individuation where people are specifically defined as citizens in certain ways (taxpayers, workers, consumers, welfare-dependents. Government-determined citizenship or culturally-determined citizenship (full citizenship despite cultural differences from main society)
