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In Encounters with the "Other" Barry Oshry uses the lenses of 'loose and tight', liberal and conservative', 'pure and conflicted', 'tolerance and purity' to highlight the range of reflexive responses we can have to 'others in our midst' especially when we are under the stress of poverty, lack of housing or shortage of jobs.

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Sociologie, société et politique

Migration

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Publié par	Triarchy Press
Date de parution	03 décembre 2018
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781911193708
Langue	English

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Published in 2018 by:
Triarchy Press
Axminster, England
info@triarchypress.net
www.triarchypress.net
Copyright © Barry Oshry, 2018
The right of Barry Oshry to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988.
No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means including photocopying, electronic, mechanical, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.
All rights reserved
Print ISBN: 978-1-911193-48-7
epub ISBN: 978-1-911193-70-8
Contents
Act I: How Our Culture and the Culture of the Other Came to be
Act II: Our Culture Encounters the Other Loose and Tight, Liberal and Conservative, Pure and Conflicted, Tolerance and Purity Solutions
Act III: Seeing the Other Through Power or Love
Catastrophes: Power without Love
A Sample of 20th- and 21st-Century Catastrophes
About the Author
Act I
How Our Culture and the Culture of the Other Came to be
1.
Many cultures may look strange to us,
but not to the others .
And our culture may look strange to the others
but not to us.
That simple fact is the beginning of understanding.
2.
We may feel that our culture is simply
the way things have been, are, and ought to be.
The others likely feel the same way
about their culture.
3.
We and the others were not born
with the rules of our cultures;
we learned them
from parents and elders,
teachers, and peers,
and media.
4.
In both cultures
we and the others absorbed
the do s and don ts of our cultures -
appropriate and inappropriate emotionality,
ways of speaking,
clothing,
interacting with elders and
people of different sexes,
and much more.
We were taught our culture s beliefs and values,
rites and rituals,
ways of solving problems,
seeking justice,
expressing joy, or sadness, or grief,
and much more.
5.
In both cultures, these rules were taught
as the ways to live, to survive,
the ways to be in the world.
6.
In time, we and the others learn our rules so well
that we no longer experience them as rules,
they become the lenses through which we view the world.
Except we don t see our lens
and how it shapes what we see.
Instead, we believe we see the world
as it really is.
7.
Neither we nor the others
experience our culture as an option,
as one of many possibilities.
Each of us experiences our culture as
the way things are or ought to be.
And then we meet.
Act II Our Culture Encounters the Other
Loose and Tight, Liberal and Conservative, Pure and Conflicted, Tolerance and Purity Solutions
1.
So now our culture encounters the other.
The other may have immigrated to our culture.
Or we may have conquered them.
Or they have may have once been invisible in our culture,
and now they have become prominent.
2.
Through our cultural lens
the cultural behavior of the other appears
strange
off
wrong
inappropriate.
Wrong language, dress, emotionality, skin color, rites and rituals, and so on.