Contaminate [Goran]
+Kwame Anthony Appiah, The Case for Contamination”, The New York Times, January 1, 2006, sec 6, 30-37, 52.
+Log Journal issue 10, Summer/Fall 2007 [pick 2 articles and compare/contrast]CONTAMINATION IS: PLURALISM, NEW FORMS OF DIFFERENCE…
1. PEOPLE over nations, tribes, ‘peoples’
cosmopolitans take the choices PEOPLE make seriously2. primordial culture + authenticity is a myth
3. counter-cosmopolitans practice universalism without tolerance
4. Living cultures do not evolve from a state of purity to a state of contamination. Instead cultures move from state to state.
globalizing effect is not all-encompassing, it always leaves room or reappropriation
CULTURE = individuals and their relationships. So when relationships [between people and environments] change, culture changes.
“Above all, relationships are changing. When my father was young, a man in a village would farm some land that a chief had granted him. And his maternal clan would work it with him… Nowadays everything is different. … p33*The nature of environment had shifted- how we communicate and interact…
5. We may live in an era of mass migration, but the global spread and hybridization of culture, through travel and conquest, is hardly a recent development.
But… the quantity and pace of migration HAS changed since post-modernism. The scale has changed. And the MEDIUM has changed. [people are not necessary as physical carriers of info…]
SALMAN RUSHDIE: His fatwa “ celebrates hybridity, impurity, intermingling, the transformation tha comes with a new and unexpected combinations of human beings, cultures, ideas, politics, movies, songs. It rejoices in mongrelization and fears the absolutism of the Pure. Melange, hotch-potch, a bit o this and that is how newness enters the world.
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