hi my name is Michael Guzman and i just transferred here from bmcc my major in bmcc was business administration. I am pretty much undecided and have a idea of what i might major in. i do not have a favorite book and i do not remember the last book i read but it for my creative writing class. I am not a dedicated reader i only read books when its necessary like in class readings take home readings etc. my interest are listening to music, relaxing, exercising , art ,watching movies and playing video games.
“we tend to link agency to cultural autonomy and to measure cultural autonomy in terms of a society’s ability to protect its cultural identity from being watered down or erased by alien cultural forms; but every culture is always shaped by other cultures, and agency has more to do with the intelligent and imaginative negotiation of cross-culture contact than with avoiding such contact.”
this section from Global Matters: The Transnational Turn in Literary studies written by Paul Jay was confusing for me for one i get that cultures shape other cultures for instance the Romans absorbed various art techniques and cultures from different society for example Egypt the Romans borrowed culture from the Egyptians like education and gods as well as borrowing from Greeks to further their culture. so i get that cultures shape cultures but what i don’t get is what agency hes referring to and what he meant by “agency has more to do with the intelligent and imaginative negotiation of cross-culture contact than with avoiding such contact” ? i was confused by that it is a interesting read but very complex and easy to get confused but its fun to figure it out.
