GERMAN 56 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Richard Francis Burton, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Boston Review
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Quiz questions on the film are very general based, won"t have to really remember discussion, but general terms. East and west are two different cultures, lots of distrust, but came together through common enemy. White person who runs around being a hero, his name is william. Pay attention to assumption, concepts, and terms. Use your own creative ile as a point of orientation for the main argument. Past professorships at yale, cornell, duke, harvard, and princeton. Currently a professor of philosophy and law at nyu. Father a renowned politician and lawyer in ghana; mother a celebrated writer and philanthropist. Married to partner since the passing of the marriage equality act in 2011. Originally published by the boston review in 1993. Published again as for love of country in 1996. Patriotism and cosmopolitanism are not mutually exclusive. Being grounded in a local culture is important for understanding the world. There are ways of negotiating these differences in communication.
