Greetings, everyone!
Hello, fellow classmates! My name is Marc Densing and I am a Corporate Communications major here at Baruch. At the present moment, my favorite book is Noli me Tangere (Touch Me Not) written by one of the national heroes of the Philippines, Jose Rizal. In my spare time, I involve myself in my dance team, managing three non-profits, being a foodie and exploring new places in the city, and SoulCycle.
The following quote from Jay is the one I found to be the most thought-provoking:
“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 that with avoiding such contact.”
I agree to an extent that every culture is always shaped by other cultures, but each culture must also be able to develop and come into its own identity. I just feel that his thoughts and concepts in this particular paragraph were a little unclear and were not conveyed as well as others.
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