Point Of View When It Comes To Otherness

is that there are outsiders in today’s society. When one is made into an outsider, the bias

The space of liminality, of ambiguity, is the space through which the determination of racial classifications can become most complex and deterministic for further understandings. In this space of liminality the distinctions between races become further obscured, yet concurrently these racial distinctions are made most evident. In both the Nazi and Jim Crow contexts, the liminal space between German versus Jew, and White versus African-American becomes how race is constructed. Yet, these liminal spaces are not simple, nor binary, instead these spaces are multidimensional; German versus Jew becomes German versus German-Jew versus Jew, and White versus African-American becomes White versus less White versus African-American. In this complexity, in these liminal spaces, the fundamental question of race emerges: who is an other?

To be an “Other,” the first must be the “One.” A simple way to describe otherness, is to describe it as being different. The “One” would be whoever the “Other” differs from. For example, in Plaskow’s article, she describes Jewish women as others in comparison to Jewish men. Plaskow

Otherness as defined in FFAR lecture four (-- removed HTML --) > is a “radical alterity, or difference, which can take the symbolic form of a person or a group of people, a place, or a culture”. Otherness is the quality of being “different” and “other” than a so called norm. I believe Jean Michel basquiat struggled immensely with “otherness” in his life. As a “young black man in a white art world” (www.basquiat.com) basquiat was othered simply because of the colour of his skin. In this his work captures a visual commentary of the marginalisation of african americans.

Point of view is typically the first person or third person for the entire novel, unlike Ungifted by, Gordon Korman, where the first person changes throughout the book. While the novel keeps first person from start to finish, Gordon Korman toys with who is in control of the first person. Whilst this is very odd, and not like any other book, this point of view helps the book give depth to the characters.

Within chapter six of Zhuangzi called “The Great and Venerable Teacher” Master Yu suddenly falls ill but his attitude toward this turn of events is peaceful. He is asked by Master Si if he resents the fact that the Creator made him crookedly and to this Master Yu says, “Why no, what would I resent?” (Zhuangzi, 1391). His peace comes from the knowledge that life will flow how it is supposed to and there is no reason to be bitter, or resent, something that is inevitable. He makes this extremely clear when he says, “I received life because the time had come; I will lose it because the order of things passes on. Be content with this time and dwell in this order and then neither sorrow nor joy can touch you. In ancient times this was called the

the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every

Many people grow up not ever wanting to accept anything; they want to always push for something better. All over the United States people believe you have cancer and are going to possibly die that you should push against the odds and try to live. This is one reason that the assisted suicide act is such a controversial thing.

Simply putThere is not only one way to view anything, perspectives define our world as more than what it seems.

Nohemi Perea Task2/LCT1 8/01/2012 An individual labeled as the Other is different and does not fit in. The Other is “perceived as lacking essential characteristics possessed by the group, the Other is almost always seen as lesser or inferior being and is treated accordingly” (The Other, 2009). A group sets guidelines and if a person does not meet them they will not be accepted as “normal”. Otherness to a group represents awkwardness. Although each person does have its own unique characteristics to prevent from being labeled as the Other you must possess common characteristics within a group. I read “This Is What It Means To Say Phoenix, Arizona” written by Sherman Alexie. It is about a boy named Victor who lives on an Indian Reservation

In Ryszard Kapuscinski’s lecture, “Encountering the Other: The Challenge for the 21st Century”, Kapuscinski argues that everyone is part of another group that is deemed the ‘Other’. Kapuscinski states that “Others are indeed Others, but for those Others, I am the one who is Other” (Kapuscinski, 22). Thus, being an outsider is a universal condition since we are all the Other to someone else. However, some might argue that being an outsider is not a universal condition as humans are by nature social animals so being an outsider is a rare occurence. To this, Kapuscinski also states that being an outsider is universal as “...the Other is a mirror into which you peer...a mirror that unmasks and denudes, which we would prefer to avoid” (Kapuscinski, 28). In other words, being an outsider is a universal condition even though humans are social animals because the Other is a reflection of qualities that define a person and humanity in general. The quality of being in outsider is universal as everyone is an outsider to someone else and outsiders are simply reflections of who humanity

We all go through our life’s as individuals. We are present in our life’s at the time of our birth, though we do not recall being there. We are present in our life’s at the time of death. There have thoughts and experiences of interacting with other objects, animals, and humans. But is this reality? Can I be certain, without a doubt, of the credibility of my experiences? Are there other beings and if so do these beings have conscious experiences? Furthermore, I will question that if these other conscious beings do exist then are the experiences of these being similar to my experience and can I observer these experiences to predict what the being is experiencing.

people who ate “bushmeat” which some believed had to do with the Ebola outbreak. But

Otherness stresses how society creates a sense of belonging and identity by constructing categories as binary opposites. This is obvious in the social construction in Western societies featuring gender and how socialisation shapes what it means to be a man or women.

In class we have been discussing the analogy of perspectives. A perspective is a way of seeing, also thought of as a ‘point of view’. This mental view or outlook can both enhance and constrain how we view the world in our own eyes. In the field of psychology and sociology there are many ways to perceive our world in which we live. No one perspective alone can define the world. Each perspective has its own distinctive strengths and blind spots. In class we have discussed different theories and analogies to better understand the complexity of perspectives.