Coculturalism And Cosmopolitanism

Culture is known as everything humans do or create to enhance their survival and well-being. Introductions to new ideas happen fast, and since they come from outsiders, like the missionaries, the culture begins to change. Tradition was very important to Okonkwo and his clan, it helped to bring order to the tribe. As I have learned through living people are comfortable with what they know and they don’t really want to let the new in, they aren’t good with change basically. Okonkwo was unaffected by the white man’s religion because he thought they were cowardly. Since Okonkwo thought of them in this way he would show softness if he accepted the white man and his beliefs. He just thought it was a threat to the society, and that the way to go was to follow the tradition that was established a long time

The Internet is playing a very important role in the evolution of digital technology, but although it has seen remarkable growth over the last few years, its dispersion remains highly asymmetric. It is widely believed that the so called information age will bring radical change and improvement, and countries all over the world are busy with constructing the necessary infrastructure, the "information superhighways," in order to meet the challenges of the information society of the twenty-first century. Kwame Anthony Appiah’s essay “Making Conversation” tell us about human’s conversation

In the beginning of the book Chinua sets up the story by explaining about the tribe of Umofia, and the people who live there. Okonkwo is a powerful native with 3 wives, and several children. The story continues on until he is banished from the clan and forced to live on his mother’s land. During his time there, his friend Obierika visits him and brings him currency from yams sold that belonged to Okonkwo. He learns that during his exile Christian missionaries came to the tribe. His own son Nwoye has been interacting with the missionaries. In the text, Obierika asks Nwoye how his father is and Nwoye responds, “I don’t know. He is not my father.” when Oknokwo heard this, he did not want to speak about Nwoye (Achebe 52). This is the first example in the story where the European missionaries have directly affected the main character. Although Okonkwo did not like Nwoye, this event opened up the story to deeper interaction with the Christian missionaries. These people were beginning to implement themselves into African territory, and

succeed which was astonishing regarding the history of enslaving the minority group. The cosmopolitan domestic policy would appeal to Web Dubious because the ideology, “Demand for integration a genuine integrity, a wholeness and soundness of enthusiasm and purpose which can only come when no national colony within our America feels that it is being discriminated against or that its cultural case is being prejudged” (Bourne, 13). The argument is immediately dispelling the Anglo-Saxon imperial mindset by knocking down the eurocentric hierarchy. The preferential treatment that develops from the race chain of command does not allow African-Americans to advance socioeconomically at all or at a slower rate than europeans economic mobility. The policy is advocating for geniune involvement of all ethnic group in

Okonkwo, one of the fiercest men of Umofia, had to not only fight against Christianity, but the changes and problems it brought to his village. When Okonkwo’s son gets converted into the new faith and leaves Okonkwo, he holds a bigger grudge against the Christians for taking his eldest son away from him. Apart from all these problems, Okonkwo was exiled for seven years into his motherland and came back to Umofia, where he had tried to regain his position as the Christians coming, Okonkwo went through many changes. He wasn’t very good at change, so many times he found himself in tough situations. In the novel, Things Fall Apart, Achebe uses Okonkwo to show the message that a single character or society’s actions affects another character by Okonkwo disputing with the Christians.

The Christian faith brought acceptance to those who needed it but others felt as though they were being overtaken. The first reverend to interact with Umuofia was a peaceful and accepting man. His approach with the tribe was through mutual understanding. When he became ill a new, less accepting reverend took his place. “Mr. Brown’s successor was the Reverend James Smith, and he was a different kind of man. He condemned openly Mr. Brown’s policy of compromise and accommodation. He saw things as black and white. And black was evil” (Achebe 184). Reverend Smith had a predetermined outlook of the black natives that ruined the natives relationship with

In Thing Fall Apart there are several instances where the culture of the different African tribes, missionaries are trying to convert people over to Christianity, at first they mainly converted twins, outcasts, and lazy people from the tribes. Okonkwo did not like the idea of all his children abandoning the culture their family had been worshiping for many years. His first son Nwoye is converted to Christianity when Okonkwo found this out, he became angry at his son and rejected him from home, afterward, Okonkwo becomes worried that all of his other male children will turn away from ancestral worship and become

Okonkwo had a very negative response to the cultural collision the white men brought to the village, do you know why? In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, a great man called Okonkwo goes through difficult times as many obstacles come in his path to lasting greatness. When the white men start preaching about Christianity Okonkwo starts to loss his sense of identity because he’s used to people listening to him as he was once one of the great leaders of Ibo and everyone was now listening to the white men. While the men continue to preach about Christianity Okonkwo response is to refuse it, he doesn’t want to be a part of it. His consequences because he refused to changed ended with him losing his life and his son.

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Culture and tradition can collide at different points in the novel “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe, when the missionaries came to the Ibo tribe, there were many mixed emotions. Okonkwo blames his culture for his problems, yet the culture defines him and for that he is scared when the western missionaries come, since they start spreading their Christian beliefs. Okonkwo soon realizes how his society is changing and he isn't in control. Okonkwo was deeply impacted by cultural collision. When the Christians came to spread their beliefs, “the arrival of the missionaries had caused considerable stir in the village Mbnata,”there were a few who accepted the change while others were not to happy about it.

Achebe said, "The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart" (26). The white man approached the civilians differently than Okonkwo. Okonkwo was very one sided, he thought men should be very manly and woman should stick to cooking and cleaning. Okonkwo being very on sided drove a lot of people away from him including his own son, Nywoe. The white man took a better approach and was very accepting unlike Okonkwo because of this he gradually started to gain many followers. Following the White man and his religion you have much more freedom. Okonkwo realized at this time his community had been falling apart, there was always the option of coming up with a compromise with the British Commissioner officers, but Okonkwo did not believe in that route, it was to feminine he said.

The ideal society for many of us is a place in which mutual respect exists for all. A place where despite our different perspective and beliefs we can come together and coexist in peace. This ideology is called cosmopolitanism. The idea of a cosmopolitan society has been around for thousands of years, it has created controversial arguments on whether its principles could benefit our community by helping us achieve a deeper level of understanding towards one another. Throughout the world, there are disputes because of our different perspectives and values. What if we could mitigate conflicts by integrating cosmopolitanism into our daily lives? In Appiah’s text, Making Conversation, he contributes fundamental ideas that could help society achieve and understand the notion of cosmopolitanism. Many cultures hold beliefs contrary to ours. In many cases, these practices can be taboo to us but acceptable to others. Cosmopolitanism is the solution to our conflicts that stem from a disparate set of views of how things should occur. Applying the notion of cosmopolitanism can aid us in our quest to understand and respect others, take into account our differences, and remain open-minded to the diverse ways of living life.

In New Zealand there is a wide range of diversity. New Zealanders have only recently adjusted to the social acceptance of The LGBT community (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transsexual). It is important that we evaluate the implications that the LGBT minority group are faced with. We must use Orbe’s co-cultural theory in order to understand the issues that arise from the dominant heterosexual community.

As colonizers, many occupying European nations sought ways to justify their horrible treatment of natives, and their rapid theft and exploitation of land. They found this justification in a number of places; dehumanizing natives by portraying them as savage and as lower life forms, by painting the picture of Europeans coming in and spreading christianity to said savages, and through the misconception that they were bringing “civilization” to a world which had never had it before. Such justifications were of course incorrect: natives were of course human beings, equal to Europeans on every level but technological, and they had civilization, no matter how different it looked from the civilizations of Europe. In the end, however, these justifications, no matter how outright wrong, were used, and Chinua Achebe exemplifies them well throughout his writing, hitting the point of religious conversion especially hard. While Okonkwo resides in his motherland, Mbanta, a group of missionaries comes seeking converts in the village, and denounces

Due to the wave of the World Values Surveys which was conducted in 57 countries around the world, more than 30 percent of the 65,269 respondents, seriously, identified themselves as the citizens of the world. So the Cosmopolitanism is an important and remarkable phenomenon (Miller, 2010). The Cosmopolitan, is the attitude to yourself as a person, a citizen of the world and this attachment is voluntary and selective (Bayram, 2014: 2).