My name is Derek Wong and this is my first semester at Baruch. I am a transfer student and will be majoring in Finance. I enjoy playing basketball and working out in my free time, as well as playing video games occasionally. A personal passion of mine is cars; I’m a bit of a grease monkey. My favorite book would have to be Eragon, a story about a boy and his dragon, as I enjoy reading adventure stories, and dragons are awesome.
“We tend to link agency to cultural autonomy and to measure homogenizaiton…but every culture is always shaped by other cultures”
I understand the context of the passage, I just don’t understand what he means by agency. Additonally, I don’t agree with the second half of the statement; the Chinese culture was shaped through years of civil conflict, much longer before outside nations started exploring it.
