HUMA 1970 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Eurocentrism, Ethnocentrism, United Nations General Assembly
30 Oct 2017
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Stereotypes: taking any group and saying they all have something in common. It is also known as a widely held however, fixed and oversimplified image or notion of a certain person or thing. These statements are taken as common knowledge: for example: all sentences saying for ex all women are emotional , all children are vulnerable and innocent . Axes of difference: race, ethnicity, nation, language, gender, class, age and individual experiences. Idea that the culture, social life, morals, and manners of europeans or americans are necessarily better than those of others. Presentism: a mode of historical analysis in which present-day ideas and perspectives are anachronistically introduced into depictions or interpretations of the past. Implied reader: the age group of the target audience. Is the body of ideas that controls (or at least tries to control) how members of the society view the world and their place within it: unquestioned values .
