Essays on Transculturation

Part1

Primitive and alienated from the rest of the world. Hegel viewed Africa as a world enveloped on a dark mantle of the night. It is a land shut-up from the rest of the world and often presumed to be static from development perspectives.

Stereotypes associated with Africa includes being under-developed, unhistorical, wild, and untamed.

Definition of terms Assimilation means an adaptation of a minority group to the norms or directions of a larger group. In this case, the way of life of the minor group becomes similar to that of the dominant one (Brubaker, 534). Acculturation is the contact between individual members of groups with different cultures that produce a ...

Mary Louise Pratt: “Arts of the Contact Zone”

Pratt continued the assertion of the baseball card experience, as an excellent way of learning, by using examples of real world texts that were common to the baseball cards, and what she quotes as “new visions of literacy” (486). This was a quote from comments made by Tony Sarmiento at this particular conference (the Pittsburgh conference on literature). In many ways, her article is based in the original thought of how Sam learnt to communicate, and become literate. She mentions the letter, written by Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, with text as well as images. This ...

Whenever we talk about education, we always see modern system and our present social environment. But education is also about the past and the how this past can influence our future. Selecting and interpreting the factors that influence the development of an individual is the task that always shows personal perspective. Education by itself is a complex social element, when we analyze its current characteristic. But what if we look at education from historical view and the influence of culture on the formation of modern educational system? This integration of the subject inevitably results in a high degree of personal judgment. ...