Introduction When people make the statement that racism arises out of ignorance, their statement is not too far from the truth; but it is not the complete truth, and if any part of a statement is false, it renders the entire statement false. Therefore, the blanket statement of racism as ignorance i...

A pyschiatrist, humanist, and revolutionary, Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) was born in Martinique into a lower middle class, mixed race family and receiving a conventional colonial education sees the technologies of control as being the white colonists of the third world. Fanon, at first an assimilation...

"Cultural genocide is the attempted or outright erasure of a people's ways of life" (Lemkin 15). To assimilate First Nations people, European colonist imposed their traditions and customs upon them and exploited while devaluing their way of living (Jules and Kirkpatrick 58). Th...

Human Rights and democracy have always created controversy and this can be said to be true in the face of the emergence of the Asian Values discourse. In order to discover why certain states are furthering these types of values we must firstly consider what constitutes Asian Values, secondly the r...

'Cultural identity', according to Stuart Hall can be viewed through two different ways. The first position views 'cultural identity' in terms of one shared culture, reflecting typical historical experiences and shared cultural codes. Further, these cultural codes and common historical experienc...

We live in a world in which the consequences of the nineteenth and twentieth-century Western imperialism are still being felt. By the early nineteen hundreds, Western civilization reached the high point of its long-standing global expansion. The expansion took many forms such as economic, political,...

Socialization has been seen as a lifelong process of development, involving changes and continuities of the human organism in interacting with the environment. It involves the process by which we learn and internalize the rules and patterns of behaviour that are affected by culture. By learning...

The word "globalization" can be defined as the decline in costs of doing business internationally. One of its key effects is to enhance the international integration of markets for goods, services, technology, ideas, financial and other capital, labor, and even arts and crafts. The end of the Cold...

Singapore has come a long way since independence thirty-six years ago. Today, she has become the focal point of South-East Asia, a cauldron of different races, cultures and religions. Singapore has been colonized by the British ever since Sir Stamford Raffles stepped foot on her shores and she is no...

This novel was written by a social anthropologist, Amitav Ghosh, who is also a skilled literary craftsman when it comes to the precision and clarity of his narrative style. So, knowing his anthropological background and expertise, a reader goes into a book with a little different sense of anticipati...