Exnomination and Culture

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Exnomination and Culture

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What is culture?(And who has it?)
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Facets of Culture

• Values
• Norms
• Institutions
• Artifacts

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Roland Barthes

• French philosopher(1915-1980)
• Identified process of exnomination
• Explained why dominant groups feel they have no
  culture

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Exnomination
"If you are a member of a dominant group, your
attributes are invisible. Your role in making
things the way they are is not noticeable. You
believe your culture is apolitical and
non-ideological. Your rules become the rules"
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Some students experience school like this..
School Culture
Home Culture
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Other students like this..
Home
School
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Francis L. K. Hsu

• Chinese American professor of anthropology
  (1909-1999)
• Anthropologists should seek understanding of
  their own culture prior to studying that of others

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Discuss Hsus A Blueprint for US Culture
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Postulate 10?

• Monolingualism is the norm.
• Bilingualism is a temporary state on the way to
  becoming American.