Age Of Multiculturalism Research Articles

Ambivalent Culture: A Migrant's Subject in Kiran Desai’s the Inheritance of Loss

The research explores The Inheritance of Loss from the perspective of Post-colonialism. The cultural relation between East and West or the Indian and Western culture is hierarchical, controversial, and ambivalent due to misunderstanding and misinterpretation. In this age of multiculturalism and globalization, any individual has a fondness for Western culture. But being a migrant, people experience cultural controversy and contradictory feelings simultaneously. Ambivalent Culture is the subject of Third and Fourth World people. At first, these people observe the First and Second World; and assume their superiority in culture, custom, and lifestyle; and they are highly modernized and technologically updated. Due to these assumptions, the Third and Fourth World people willingly migrate to the First and Second World with the dream of economic prosperity and for the betterment of life to secure a better future by accepting the very concept of Western lifestyle, custom, and culture. The main problem of migrants appears with the involvement of Western lifestyle and culture, and they encounter cultural dilemmas and trauma. The migrants realize the gap between their own culture and another culture; and as compensation the hybridity in culture appears—the migrants relocate their existence with the cultural hierarchy, disorder, geopolitical confusion, inequality, illegal immigration, and forefront terrorism activity. The Third and Fourth World people’s migration to secure life with prosperity and a bright future in the First and Second World postulates the imbalance contact between self-identity and foreign identity which lead to the crucial situation and forms ambivalent culture; of the subject of migrant.

THE VIEW FROM THE EAST ON THE PROBLEM FIELD OF WESTERN LITERARY AND THEORETICAL STU

The study aims to determine the status of modern theoretical literary debate within the context of scientific theorizing in China and Japan. Growing understanding of the crisis of Euro-Atlantic literary-theoretical thought in the first two decades of the 21st century took shape in the publication of works by venerable specialists in the field of literary studies devoted to the causes of its occurrence and the taxonomy of directions and theoretical tools to overcome it. What unites this whole corpus of extensive research is an indirect or direct recognition of the decline of productive literary theoretical research, which came after the literary theoretical breakthrough of the late 60s of the 20th century. At the same time, the refusal to recognize Western literature as a model, artistic and aesthetic norm caused the emergence of powerful voices of authors whose writings are not directly shaped by the Western literary canon. Simultaneously, the refusal to recognize Western literature as a model, artistic and aesthetic norm caused the emergence of powerful voices of writers whose work is not directly shaped by the Western literary canon. The polemic started with the postcolonial discourse regarding the epistemological perspectives of Western literary theory in a situation of clash with a non-Western literary text, which, at the turn of the 21st century, developed into a reflection of its ontological potential. Both intellectuals and artists of the age of Multiculturalism, who relied on the Poststructuralist “breakthrough to the transcendental” on the one hand and on the philosophical nature as well as poetics and aesthetics of art of the East on the other, demonstrated that a complex of issues related to the future existence of literary theory risen by the literature itself, is much more sophisticated. First of all, these processes are caused by the early formation of new future horizons of world literature, in which artists with Eastern artistic and aesthetic background and knowledge play a major role. Following the mastering of the Western literary and aesthetic canon – rather a long period when the writings of these authors were derived from the general paradigm of Western literature – the formation of a new literature takes place, protesting Bhabha’s idea of mimicry as a way of survival and adaptation of the colonized and demonstrating the non-Western canon as its artistic source. The era of posttheory should testify that the rumours of the “death of the theory” may be greatly exaggerated in case the overcoming crisis of theory, which is based on literary knowledge originating from the East.

Resurgent totalitarianism, charismatic dictatorship, and the rise of socio-political extremism in the age of globalisation and multiculturalism: an escalating human rights crisis

ABSTRACT Globally, there are certain tendencies in a significant number of regimes today that indicate a shift away from liberal democracy, the rule of law, equality, and justice. This threatens international human rights, advancing towards totalitarianism. The technologies available to totalitarian regimes today for control, intimidation, indoctrination, and mass manipulation are far more advanced than their earlier counterparts. It is typically led by a charismatic dictator and a single political party that uses powerful narratives of blame, hate speech, instilling fear, and scapegoating to seise or maintain power at any cost. That being so, amid contemporary global shifts to totalitarianism, human rights abuses persist worldwide despite the ratification of so many international treaties. This piece engages in critically analysing the situation faced by the targeted group of citizens who live under the rules of resurgent totalitarian states. The study further examines the reasons why certain countries and communities get along well with their counterparts while others appear to be breeding grounds, what role governments, politicians, and leaders play in the development and support of group divisions and ideologies of social difference, and how these ideologies lead to the creation of a destructive culture and infrastructure on the path to large-scale bloodshed.

Aesthetic-cultural education of personality in the age of multiculturalism: social-philosophical aspect

Aesthetic-cultural education of personality in the age of multiculturalism: social-philosophical aspect

Review: Koreatown, Los Angeles: Immigration, Race, and the “American Dream”, by Shelley Sang-Hee Lee

Book Review| February 01 2023 Review: Koreatown, Los Angeles: Immigration, Race, and the “American Dream”, by Shelley Sang-Hee Lee Shelley Sang-Hee Lee. Koreatown, Los Angeles: Immigration, Race, and the “American Dream.” Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022. 216 pp. Paperback $26.00. Elwing Suong Gonzalez Elwing Suong Gonzalez ELWING SUONG GONZALEZ teaches U.S. history at Rio Hondo College. She is also a middle school teacher, artist, and historian who has researched and published work on Vietnamese refugee resettlement and on immigration and demographic changes in Los Angeles. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar California History (2023) 100 (1): 101–103. https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.1.101 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Elwing Suong Gonzalez; Review: Koreatown, Los Angeles: Immigration, Race, and the “American Dream”, by Shelley Sang-Hee Lee. California History 1 February 2023; 100 (1): 101–103. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.1.101 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentCalifornia History Search In an age of liberal multiculturalism, globalization, and neoliberalism, the role of the ethnic immigrant enclave has shifted from previous iterations as restricted ghetto or landing pad for socially marginalized groups. Shelley Sang-Hee Lee’s Koreatown, Los Angeles explores the creation and growth of a relatively recently established ethnic enclave, one that exists as both a geographic location and a symbolic place within a racially and ethnically diverse urban landscape. Using the histories of Korean immigration to the United States, post–World War II social and demographic changes, and L.A.’s makeover and ascent to major “global city,” Lee examines the specific story of L.A.’s Koreatown and poses questions about how ethnic spaces are developed, for whom, and at what cost. Lee’s work shifts back and forth between macro-level structural and systemic forces and inequalities and the day-to-day lived experiences and local-level efforts of individuals who shaped Korean immigrant settlement and placemaking in... You do not currently have access to this content.

다문화교육 기반 초등 중국어교재 개발 방향 연구

In the current elementary Chinese education, the implementation of the perspective of multi-cultural education has great significance since it can positively bring the multi-cultural characteristics of Korean society into class and can develop students’ competence for cosmopolitans living in the age of multi-culturalism. Against this backdrop, this study aims to seek the directions of the development of elementary Chinese textbooks needed for the integrated operation of elementary Chinese education and multi-cultural education. As a baseline study for the ultimate goal, elementary Chinese textbooks currently used at schools were analyzed for evaluation. Then, the results of the analysis were used to propose the directions of the development of textbooks on multi-cultural education in the following areas: the purpose of the textbooks, the presentation of contents, and learning activities. It is expected that, from this study, there will be active discussions on Chinese education, which will not only develop students’ linguistic competence of Chinese but also cultivate the multi-cultural competence at the elementary school in the future.

Diasporic Elements in Amit Chaudhuri‟s Odysseus Abroad

The present paper has been specifically designed to investigate diasporic elements in the selected novel of Amit Chaudhuri’s Odysseus Abroad. Indian diaspora literature has emerged as an academic discipline in the age of multiculturalism and transnationalism. It has been flourished by Indian origin authors who have migrated in different nations for different reasons. The galaxy of Indian Diaspora literature is enriched by notable male-female authors who have projected the trauma and complexities of abroad life in their fictional works. Amit Chaudhuri is a prestigious literary figure in the modern indian diasporic writing. The novel portrays a saga and suffering of young indian Bengali boy Ananda who migrate to the Oxford University, England to peruse his degree in literature. Ananda face many challenges in newly adopted western culture. Throughout his journey in foreign land, Ananda exhibit different tropical issues like identity crisis, homesickness, displacement, exile and alienation. Odysseus Abroad is a conspicuous diasporic text which represents a painful journey of a young indian student in abroad. The selected novel will be scrutinized from the angle of diaspora literary study.

Escape from Kantian Eurocentric bias in cross-cultural psychology

Taking Kant’s misjudgment on Confucian silver rule as the point for first cut, this article is designated to illustrate the fallacy of imposed Orientalism prevailing in mainstream cross-cultural psychology which tends to understand non-Western cultures by a mental set of dualism with a tendency of Westcentrism, particularly the popular research on individualism-collectivism. This type of Euro-centric or Westcentric misjudgments are very common in Western social sciences, for instance, Confucian ethics are frequently described as particularistic in consideration of the distinction between universalism and particularism made by Parsons . In order to help the international academic community to escape from the trap of Eurocentric bias, this article will argue for and illustrate its characteristic of contextualized universalism step by step on the basis of Hwang’s previous research. Finally, the meaning of constructing scientific microworld of Confucian ethics will be discussed to explain how Chinese people are facing the impact of Western cultured during the globalization age of multiculturalism.

영남지역의 유학적 기독교 연구 - 다문화시대의 상생적 다원주의를 중심으로 -

논문에서는 19-20세기 초 영남 지역의 유림이 기독교를 수용해서 성경을 해석하고 적용하는 과정에 관한 논의를 통해서 다문화사회의 상생적 다원주의를 모색하고자 하였다. 우선, 이 논의에서는 영남 지역 유림이 기독교를 수용하는 과정을 논의했다. 영남 지역 유림은 이전에 유학 경전을 읽으면서 묵상하는 공부 방법에 익숙하였기 때문에 기독교의 성경을 쉽게 접할 수 있었다. 그들은 개인의 종교적 구원을 얻기 위한 것이 아니라 민족 독립과 부국강병을 실현할 목적으로 기독교에 입교하였다.BR 영남 지역에 기독교인의 성경 해석을 논의하였다. 성경은 인류의 보편적인 의미를 담고 있지만 그 성경을 읽는 독자에 따라 다양하게 해석된다. 안동 지역 목회자 성경에서는 유학적 요소가 발견된다. 그래서 논문에서는 영남 유학을 퇴계학과 남명학을 구분하고, 두 학파의 학풍이 영남 지역 기독교에 영향을 미쳤는지를 논의했다. 퇴계학풍은 안동 지역 기독교인에게 개방적이고 포용적인 태도를 심어 주었으며, 남명학풍은 경남 지역 기독교인이 현실과 타협하지 않는 투철한 신앙심을 갖는데 영향을 주었다. 퇴계와 남명의 학풍 차이는 해방 이후 신사참배 청산 문제에 대한 입장에서도 나타난다.BR 위의 논의를 통해서 영남 지역 초기 기독교에서는 유학적 에토스와 가치와 성경이 결합되어 있음을 알 수 있다. 그래서 영남 지역 초기 기독교는 정통기독교와는 다를 뿐만 아니라 정통 유학과도 다른 새로운 형태의 기독교로 이해할 수 있다. 안동 초기 기독교 역사에서는 기독교와 유학이 대립하지 않고, 서로의 장단점을 보완하면서 전개될 수 있었다. 우리는 이들의 기독교를 ‘유학-기독교’라고 칭할 수 있으며, 안동 지역의 유학-기독교는 다문화시대의 종교를 이해하는데 사상적 자원을 제공해 줄 수 있다.

다문화 시대의 한국 현대시 고찰 - 하종오 시에 나타난 이주노동자와 결혼이주여성을 중심으로 -

다문화 시대의 한국 현대시 고찰 - 하종오 시에 나타난 이주노동자와 결혼이주여성을 중심으로 -

Contemporary Art and Historical Archives: Collaborations and Convergences in a Digital Multicultural Age

Contemporary Art and Historical Archives: Collaborations and Convergences in a Digital Multicultural Age

Speculative Imperialisms: Monstrosity and Masquerade in Postracial Times by Susana Loza

188 SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES, VOLUME 46 (2019) samizdat literature, this was represented most notably by Arkady Rovner, Yuri Mamleyev, and the formidable cosmic fantasia The Rose of the World by Daniil Andreev [completed 1959; first published 1989], all of whom are absent from the picture). A lot of space is justly dedicated to Oles Berdnik, but not a word is written about his activity as an heir to the famous occultist Nicolas Roerich and as the leader of the “Spiritual Nation of Ukraine.” Curiously, his interstellar visions, as well as Efremov’s, are attributed to the theories of Teilhard de Chardin (248), but are not linked to the occultist tradition they helped to revive nor to the “Russian cosmists” Vladimir Vernadsky or Nikolai Fyodorov, whose names never appear in the Lajoyes’ book. These omissions resemble, in a supreme paradox, a kind of censorship. And one is rather puzzled by the fact that this new look at past sf territory is not so different from the old, almost forty years ago. Maybe this is the direct consequence of a rather poor bibliography that includes only a small number of recent works; while Anindita Banerjee’s We Modern People: Science Fiction and the Making of Russian Modernity (2012) is cited, Asif Saddiqi’s no-less excellent The Red Rockets’ Glare: Spaceflight and the Russian Imagination, 1857-1957 (2010) is not. This reviewer’s “professorial mind” is slightly disturbed by the absence of works in languages other than Russian, French, and English; one has to agree, however, that this is a common drawback in sf studies. That is why this reviewer can only add that whatever the shortcomings of the Lajoyes’ book are, it is still a very readable and useful introduction to Soviet sf. It makes one want to reread the masterpieces it discusses and to search for their successors.—Leonid Heller, Paris-Lausanne Repetition Without Much Difference. Susana Loza. Speculative Imperialisms: Monstrosity and Masquerade in Postracial Times. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2018. x+193 pp. $90 hc. Susana Loza’s monograph Speculative Imperialisms sets out to explore the enduring legacies of colonialism (“classic” and “settler”) and racialized slavery in sf. She does so through a series of case studies: Chapter 1, “Playing the Alien in Postracial Times,” which looks at Avatar (2009) and District 9 (2009); Chapter 3, “Imperial Fictions, Postracial Fantasies: Doctor Who in the Age of Neoliberal Multiculturalism”; and Chapter 4, “Monkeys, Monsters, and Minstrels in Rise and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes”—and an intriguing Chapter 2, “Colonial Cosplay: Steampunk and the After-Life of Empire,” on debates in the steampunk community that have unfolded almost exclusively in the ephemeral spaces of blog posts, comments sections, and cosplay. Loza explores this sampling of recent texts to show that as much as things may seem to have changed, much remains the same. Overall, this study leaves little doubt that the state of popular sf today is anything but post-racial. What is less clear is whether anyone (or at least, anyone likely to seek out this book) seriously thinks otherwise, especially after RaceFail ’09 and the continuing “Puppy” battle against the Hugo awards (neither of which is addressed in the text). This book does important work 189 BOOKS IN REVIEW charting some of the contours of the persistence of racism, but it would be improved if it also attended more directly to some of the many spaces of resistance in the sf community, past and present, that collectively offer the other side of the conversation. The racism and rank colonialism that Loza sets out to “illuminate” are already well known—and vigorously contested—in sf fandom. The issue, in other words, is not so much whether race and colonialism are still live topics in sf (they are), but what sf has to say about race and colonialism. Loza’s monograph utilizes a novel methodology: “My analysis samples and remixes the voices of scholars, fans, and critics to illustrate the ubiquity and intractability of (settler) colonialism in SF” (2). This approach works best in the second chapter, especially when documenting the debates around a 2010 issue of a steampunk fanzine titled VictOrientalism. This issue, edited and posted by a...

The land of seven moles: Mexican culinary nationalism in an age of multiculturalism

ABSTRACTMole, a complex sauce of chiles and spices often served with turkey, has long been considered Mexico’s national dish, but as a symbol of culinary nationalism, its meanings have changed significantly over time. This article uses mole to examine elite and popular expressions of culinary nationalism that accompanied the rise of neoliberal multiculturalism in the 1990s. In particular, it considers the shift away from the city of Puebla’s singular mole poblano, which was adopted in the 1920s as a symbol of indigenismo, a somewhat misleadingly named program of ethnic assimilation that sought to create a unified, mestizo (mixed-race) nation, and toward the contemporary celebration of multicultural diversity among indigenous cuisines and populations in the state of Oaxaca, which has become known as the “Land of Seven Moles.”

Do We Need a New Approach to Library and Information Science?

Abstract This article analyses the pressure against librarianship and library and information science stemming from digitization and the increased importance attached to libraries’ role as meeting places and arenas for the public sphere. Both these developmental tendencies make many question the need of librarians as intermediaries between users and the sources of information. The navigating and searching for information in a digital world when the world itself has become a library, is far from trivial and the traditional competencies of librarians relating to searching for and finding information is as relevant as ever. LIS schools should also provide their students with theoretical tools helping them reflect upon the role and potential of libraries in relation to the challenges to upholding a sustainable public sphere in a digital and multicultural age. LIS schools should also convey to their students the historical continuity and legacy of libraries as a public sphere institution.

다문화시대 동아시아 전통에 기초한 공존 가치

다문화시대 동아시아 전통에 기초한 공존 가치

Claiming Chinatown: Asian Australians, Public Art and the Making of Urban Culture

ABSTRACTChinatowns have traditionally functioned as ethnic enclaves that were despised by the dominant Western culture, while functioning for Chinese immigrants as a refuge from the hostile white society they were surrounded by. In today’s globalised world, the meaning of Chinatowns has been transformed, as they have become more open, hybrid and transnational urban spaces, increasingly interconnected within the broader Asia-Pacific region. For Asian Australians, Chinatown may be a site of conflicting memories of Australia’s racist history and of cultural marginalisation and ethnic survival, but it is also—in today’s multicultural and cosmopolitan age—an area to be claimed for the expression of new Asian Australian identities. In Sydney’s Chinatown, public art projects by Asian Australian artists such as Jason Wing and Lindy Lee articulate some of the complexities and ambiguities of what it means to be Asian in Australia today.

미생과 송곳에 나타난 집단 감성과 언어문화 교육 방안 - 조직문화를 중심으로 -

The study examined collective emotions of texts, mainly concentrating on medium characteristics of drama and identified the characteristic of Korean organizational culture. In particular, Hofstede’s <World’s Culture and Organization> concretely looked into measures to educate collective emotions and organizational culture of Korean culture, by specifically examining how usefully cultural index such as collectivism, authoritarianism, femininity, long-term orientation, avoidance of uncertainty are reproduced which were discussed as characters of Korean organizational culture. This study would propose specific class models that can be utilized to Korean and Korean culture education, by applying Dramas, <Misaeng> and <Drill>, which realistically realize survival issues of temporary employees who work in a multinational workplace in the era of globalization as cultural, educational contents. Based on this educational applicability, the study aims to specifically discuss cultural, educational measures to understand Korean collective emotions and organizational culture by utilizing multi-media in a multicultural age where the number of business in international commerce is increasing. <Misaeng> dramatically reflects the change in modern organizational culture which were formed collectivism, authoritarianism, femininity, long-term orientation, becomes intermingled with individualistic non-authoritarian tendency and changes in perception of Women's social activities. <Drill> expanded diverse social and individual problems that labor environment has confronted in a modern society, into a social discussion, by realistically covering specificity of labor’s daily life and union activity. The study examined the applicability of multi-media as language culture educational contents in a diversified modern society through class lecture model. Drama is a multi-media of two-way communication, of which educational usefulness has been verified by its ability to cultivate and improve vocabulary ability, Korean communication skills and understanding ability of Korean culture.

Korean Culture and Communication Strategies in the Multi-Cultural Age

Korean Culture and Communication Strategies in the Multi-Cultural Age

Diversity Agendas in Australian Stand-Up Comedy

Diversity Agendas in Australian Stand-Up Comedy

Introduction: Beyond Dutch Design: Material Culture in the Netherlands in an Age of Globalization, Migration and Multiculturalism

Over the years, many things have been called Dutch design, starting with national industrial exhibitions in the early nineteenth century and continuing in the last quarter of that century with debates about what constituted a characteristically Dutch style in the applied arts and Art Nouveau. Later, similar discussions were held about the typically Dutch character of De Stijl and later Dutch industrial design. Internationally, Dutch design gained acclaim with graphic design in the 1970s and in the 1990s, with the Dutch organization Droog Design. Since then, unexpected things started being labelled Dutch design. In today’s age of globalization, migration and multiculturalism, Dutch design operates transnationally, comprising foreign objects, subjects and practices in the Netherlands and abroad. By drawing on recent discussions on national canons and critiques of methodological nationalism, this special issue proposes alternatives for a more dynamic understanding of Dutch design and national design canons. As such, it builds on scholarship problematizing Dutch design and contributes to wider debates on the transnationalism of national design histories.