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My name is Anand Patel and I am a 1st semester transfer student majoring in Accounting. I don’t read often and if I had to pick a favorite book it would be The Great Gatsby, which was a book I enjoyed to read which also had a movie release.
The section from the text that really threw me off was:
Page 3 midway down Indeed, “homogenization” has emerged as something of a false villain in debates about globalization, in that similarity or uniformity is as much undone by contact with other cultures as it is enforced by it. The same can be said about agency, which is often linked to debates about homogenization. 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-cultural contact than with avoiding such contact. Agency from this point of view is a function of that negotiation, not…
The part where I italicized is where I was thrown off. I couldn’t put together what Jay meant by Agency. He states it multiple times as you read further but just the way he wrote it made it really confusing to me. I also wasn’t sure what he meant by “we tend to link agency to cultural autonomy”. Hopefully we discuss this in class so I can better understand this section.
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