i'll go to sleep, and when i wake up, seouldout voting will be over and i can move on with my life. the question is how can i knock myself out for that long.
so i'm doing this article on cultural defense in my class and i found it really enlightening even though i don't necessarily agree with it on all aspects. this is my summary of the article and to be clear, this is an article on cultural defense in terms the legal system.
Koptiuch approaches cultural relativism through ‘cultural defense’, where minorities in the US can validate their crimes in court under culture. This idea validates gender and racial inequalities under the terms of being ‘culturally sensitive’. The “Third World at home” is a metaphor for the exploitative-inclusion of ‘Others’ into a hegemonically ‘white’ society. Freud’s idea of the ‘uncanny’ to further this point, where the citizens of the US are anxious of these people because of an unsettling awareness of repetition-compulsion. By validating cultural defense as a defense in a court of law, it renders other cultures as ‘primitive’ to the ‘reasonable’ laws of the Americans. Cultural defense also constructs Asian women as “always-already passive victims”. Cultural defense cannot be a compelling argument until colonial knowledge and gendered ideas are removed.
excuse the edit, but i can't with people marveling over how big he looks. he is obviously standing on a block and he's closer to the camera than she is
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