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Question 1

katebriley — 2024-12-09 22:05:54 UTC

In what ways do tourists’ expectations impact the way in which locals present their culture and language to outsiders?

Question 2

anysmichelle19 — 2024-12-09 22:06:58 UTC

What role does storytelling play in reclaiming cultural identity and fostering exchanges of knowledge in postcolonial societies?

Question 3

katebriley — 2024-12-09 22:10:06 UTC

Can you give an example of loss and exchange of culture by drawing from any of the class material?

Question 4

anysmichelle19 — 2024-12-09 22:15:23 UTC

How can we relate the concept of hybridity to loss and exchange?

2024-12-10 20:28:30 UTC

Plays into stereotypes and misrepresentations of culture
Creates unrealistic expectations

2024-12-10 20:28:48 UTC

lead to them playing up about stereotypes about their culture that may not be authentic that may not be expected.

2024-12-10 20:34:30 UTC

It shows that you can express your own story and speak your voice of instead of other people speaking for you on what they think it means to you.

2024-12-10 20:34:31 UTC

Storytelling = power
- The narrator has the most power
- The presentation of language determines how stories are constructed
Telling the whole truth

2024-12-10 20:40:01 UTC

I would say Achebe in Things Fall Apart when the colonizers take over the Igbo culture, destroying their sense of what culture meant to them and then the colonizers wanting them to convert them into their religion and way of thinking.

2024-12-10 20:40:25 UTC

End of Things Fall Apart (loss of culture)
- After Okonkwo dies, the colonizer decides to write a story about the Igbo tribe, calling it "The pacification of the primitive tribes of lower Niger"

2024-12-10 20:45:32 UTC

hybridity can lead to changes in parts of the culture, and make it get lost at a point but also in terms of exchange it can make room for new practices and culture to form.

2024-12-10 20:46:08 UTC

Achebe - Language
Universalizing music - Mix of cultures in a genre