In the article, “The Case for Contamination”, by Kwame Anthony Appiah, the author focused on globalization and its effects on the world. He stressed how new innovations and traditions, rooted from modernization, are essentially contaminating age-old customs and values. Appiah used examples from his personal experiences to illustrate the shift from traditional customs to modern practices within cultures. Although the author explained how globalization adversely affects traditional values and cultures
Being raised in Ghana, receiving higher education in England and working as a professor in the United States certainly helped Kwame Anthony Appiah receive a fair share of different cultures. Appiah is a recognized philosopher with several published books and an impressive track record of accomplishments. His article The Case for Contamination, which was published in The New York Times, speaks of the topic of how globalization affects individuals in many aspects of their life. He discusses how forcefully
Article: “The Case for Contamination” by Kwame Anthony Appiah In “The Case for Contamination” the author Kwame Appiah analyzes and points out the many ways in which the world is becoming globalized. He uses many extensive examples to show that the world is getting ‘contaminated’. By ‘contamination’ he means that the mixture of all the innovative values and traditions are damaging and eventually destroying what our ancestors have left us. In his analysis, he describes the gradual transformation
Emile Durkheim, one of the founders of modern sociology, has established that there is an affiliation between rituals and us as a society. Rituals are a part of our lifestyle, whether we perceive it or not. Furthermore, they are a major part of several religions and a major part of how we function as a society. Ritual, as defined by James C. Livingston, author of Anatomy of The Sacred is “An agreed-on and formalized pattern ceremonial movements and verbal expression carried out in a sacred text”
According to the Dawn, which is Pakistan’s the most famous and widely read English-language newspaper, “A French court Wednesday, January 08, 2014, convicted a young woman for wearing a full-face Islamic veil in public and threw out her bid to have the country’s controversial burqa ban declared unconstitutional. Cassandra Belin, 20, was given a 150-euro fine for wearing the veil” (The Dawn 2014). The importance of incident comes from its connection to a very controversial law, which was adopted six
From my time on this planet, I have never seen a stagnant moment. I grow in the era where technology was rising rapidly coming from a bulky blackberry to a slim Samsung. The fashion is shown as a wave where the styles that died down around from the 2000s from the 90s are now back in style but it is back with a new feel that complements our current era. The music has changed tremendously over the years along with the English language and the slang, if a slang that was used in the 90s is used in this
goods, but ideas as well. The Case for Contamination by Kwame Anthony Appiah explained to Ghanaians about modern day issues and how to attack them one by one. He explained the importance of sustainability and how it benefits all people. Educating the Ghanaians on ideas, such as science and disease, will allow for development in their country. Using the advice may allow Ghana to build a stronger government and economy (Kwane Anthony Appiah, The Case for Contamination, p. 1). Spreading the ideas of
people by impacting their work, their families, and their societies. This is because globalization affects the security of a country, its culture, and identity by introducing new ways of thinking and living. In the article, The Case for Contamination, the author Kwame Anthony Appiah, observes