My name is Fathia Adam and this is my first semester at Baruch. I am majoring in Entrepreneurship under Management major. My favorite book is Who Was Rosa Parks. On my spare time, I enjoy going to the park, drawing, reading, working, hang out with friends, and watching movies. I will like to own my own business one day so majoring in Entrepreneurship will give me a great start. Likewise, business will allow me to take risks and experience many different things which is exciting.
In my opinion, reading Jays text was very challenging because of the language and the vocabulary that the author has used. The authors statements that is still confusing to me is,
“We tend to link agency to culture autonomy and to measure culture autonomy in terms of a society’s ability to protect its culture identity from being watered down or erased by alien culture forms; but every culture is always shaped by other cultures, and agency has more to do with intelligent and imaginative negotiation of cross-culture contact than with avoiding such contact”.
What leaves me to question about this statement is the author argues that agency has more to do with intelligent and imaginative negotiation of cross-culture contact than with avoiding such contact. In my opinion, my understanding of agency is the ability to make one’s own decision so does the author mean that agency is still restricted to curtain extent because he described it to be imaginative?
