首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
An "obvious and striking feature of the late twentieth century world, " notes Sally Price in her book Primitive Art in Civilized
An "obvious and striking feature of the late twentieth century world, " notes Sally Price in her book Primitive Art in Civilized
admin
2016-09-24
23
问题
An "obvious and striking feature of the late twentieth century world, " notes Sally Price in her book Primitive Art in Civilized Places, is the accessibility of its diverse cultures to those who enjoy membership in Western society. " Westerners can travel with relative ease to even the remotest comers of human civilization or stay at home and watch exotic images of world diversity on the television and movie screen. The world market system assures those who have the financial resources that they can buy just about anything from anywhere. Heidegger, also thinking on this phenomenon, says, "Yet the frantic abolition of all distances brings no nearness; for nearness does not consist in shortness of distance. What is least remote from us in point of distance, by virtue of its picture on film or its sound on the radio, can remain far from us. What is incalculably far from us in point of distance can be near to us. " Western technology and the market economy are shrinking the world, bringing the West closer to other peoples, and other previously accessible regions of the earth. Yet this dramatic global change has not opened the West to difference, either the nonhuman differences of the earth or the cultural differences of nonwestern peoples. On the contrary, the expansion of the West and the resultant "small world" is still, as in colonial days, primarily a movement of domination. It depends on the exploitation of the land and organic life, and the exploitation of the labor and lives of the majority of the earth’s peoples. Because the oppressions of the earth, of women, and of those who do not belong to "the abstract dominant non- group" called whites are intimately related and reinforce one another, caring for women and for the earth cannot be separated from caring for diverse human communities.
Western economic development, Vandana Shiva explains, is supposed to be a model of progress for the so-called Third World that would improve productivity and growth. However, western development, as capital accumulation and commercialization of the economy for the generation of surplus and various and as natural resource utilization, emerged in the context of colonization, industrialization, and capitalist growth. This notion of economic development has been falsely universalized and applied, with disastrous results, to the entirely different context to attempting to satisfy basic needs of newly independent world peoples. Western so-called development in Third World countries has generated profit of various multinational corporations, created internal colonialism, undermined sustainable lifestyles, destroyed local ecologies and has, as a result, created true material property.
From a western perspective, if a people do not anticipate in the market economy and do not consume western-style commodities produced for and distributed through the market, they are regarded as living in poverty. Because, moreover, from a western perspective, production and development take place only when mediated by technologies for commodity production and profit, such peoples are considered underdeveloped and unproductive. However, for most indigenous peoples, for example, maintaining an ecologically balanced connection to their land is much more essential to their being and culture than the land’s monetary value and its so called natural resources.
The attitude of westerners to cultural or uncultured difference in other peoples is that of______.
选项
A、rejection
B、open-mindedness
C、detest
D、appreciation
答案
A
解析
西方人对其他民族的文化差异或非文化差异的态度是拒绝的态度。第一段指出,西方技术和市场经济让全世界变得更小,使西方更贴近其他民族以及地球上过去可以到达的地区。然而这种显著的全球变化未能够让西方国家接受全球非人类差异或非西方民族的文化差异。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/gJGO777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
AreweatthebeginningofanotherAgeofExploration?Perhapsevenmoreimportant,areweatthebeginningof【C1】______AgeofC
AreweatthebeginningofanotherAgeofExploration?Perhapsevenmoreimportant,areweatthebeginningof【C1】______AgeofC
AreweatthebeginningofanotherAgeofExploration?Perhapsevenmoreimportant,areweatthebeginningof【C1】______AgeofC
AreweatthebeginningofanotherAgeofExploration?Perhapsevenmoreimportant,areweatthebeginningof【C1】______AgeofC
Televisionhasbecomequiteavigorousactivity.Sittingupisexhaustingsomostpeople______downwhilewatchingtelevision.
Today,theTowerofLondonisoneofthemostpopulartourist【C1】______andattractsoverthreemillionvisitorsayear.Itw
Themost______technologicalsuccessinthetwentiethcenturyisprobablythecomputerrevolution.
Readingbooksisahabitthatispopularly【C1】______bymoreandmorepeople.Itbenefitsourlivesbyimprovingourknowledgeto
Nottoomanyyearsagoitseemedobviousbothtothegeneralpublicandtosociologiststhatmodernsocietyhaschangedpeople’s
Thesolutionwassimple:gasthebuildingwithahallucinogenandputtheterroriststosleepbeforetheycould______thebombs
随机试题
患者双侧下后牙缺失,余牙正常,设计铸造支架式义齿此患者确定颌位关系的方法是
有关成釉细胞瘤的生物学特点,正确的是
A.嗜睡状态B.意识混浊状态C.意识蒙咙状态D.昏睡状态E.谵妄状态癫痫所致精神障碍常见
患者,男,66岁。患高血压病19年,经常头痛、头晕、耳鸣、失眠等,近1年常感疲乏,活动后心累、气紧。查体:血压190/120mmHg,脉搏80次/分,心浊音界向左下扩大,A2>P2,两肺呼吸音稍粗,但无啰音,肝脾未扪及,下肢无水肿。该患者每天食盐量应不
非洛地平为
患者女,35岁,阴道分泌物增多伴瘙痒,诊断为滴虫阴道炎。护士进行健康教育预防本病的传播,下列哪项不对
苏区肃反工作的经验教训有哪些?
施工单位应当为施工现场的人员办理意外伤害保险。意外伤害保险费应由()支付。
道德与法律都属于社会规范的范畴,都具有规范性、强制性和有效性,道德与法律既有区别又有联系。下列有关法与道德的几种表述中,哪种说法是错误的?()
在下面的DO循环中,一共要循环______次。M=5N=1DOWHILEN<=MN=N+1ENDDO
最新回复
(
0
)