Tuesdays are my longest days ever, starting with work until 1:30, then classes until 8.15pm. This might have explained the weird tangent I went on in my international librarianship class when we were discussing globalization and its detrimental impacts on other cultures.
I offered that Benedict Anderson’s work on imagined communities suggests that we shouldn’t lament over perceived cultural losses since national identity is a fictitious construct anyway used by governments to coerce populations into supporting grand economic endeavors. This was all good and fine until I devolved into mentioning that even though that’s still an interesting way to look at identity, it isn’t helpful when examining cultural losses outside of a Western context because then it turns into another Old White Guy telling people what is and isn’t true about their way of life- obviously not a productive trajectory for hosting conversations about why globalization (the stupidly overwhelming concept that it is) is or isn’t ultimately destructive to disenfranchised nations.
Then I apologized for not knowing what I was talking about and left the room to get candy since I was obviously suffering from some sort of blood sugar irregularity brought on by a twelve hour day.
Tuesdays are my longest days ever, starting with work until 1:30, then classes until 8.15pm. This might have explained the weird tangent I went on in my international librarianship class when we were discussing globalization and its detrimental impacts on other cultures.
I offered that Benedict Anderson’s work on imagined communities suggests that we shouldn’t lament over perceived cultural losses since national identity is a fictitious construct anyway used by governments to coerce populations into supporting grand economic endeavors. This was all good and fine until I devolved into mentioning that even though that’s still an interesting way to look at identity, it isn’t helpful when examining cultural losses outside of a Western context because then it turns into another Old White Guy telling people what is and isn’t true about their way of life- obviously not a productive trajectory for hosting conversations about why globalization (the stupidly overwhelming concept that it is) is or isn’t ultimately destructive to disenfranchised nations.
Then I apologized for not knowing what I was talking about and left the room to get candy since I was obviously suffering from some sort of blood sugar irregularity brought on by a twelve hour day.
Posted 3 months ago & Filed under cheers if you read this without wanting to hit me, guys I'm so sleepy, 7 notes
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throughsludge said:
everything is all well and good until Benedict Anderson gets mentioned, thanks a lot KAUSHIK
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samuel-rules said:
ilu
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acidpizzadude said:
We all get a little loose sometimes.
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