Student Introduction – Janiza Gesmundo
Hello everyone! My name is Maria Janiza Joy Gesmundo. I have a long name but you can call me Janiza! This is my first semester at Baruch as a transfer student. I am an international student and I just moved here 2 years ago. My major is Computer Information Systems because of my love and interest for computers and business. I enjoy web coding, programming, digital marketing, graphic design and dancing! My favorite book is “Florante at Laura” by Francisco Balagtas. It was a reading for my Philippine Literature class back in high school when I was in the Philippines.
This portion of Paul Jay’s Global Matters that I found confusing:
“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…” I didn’t quite understand what he was trying to explain about the whole homogenization in this segment. The linking of agency and cultural autonomy confused me more as I read it further. The author having it mixed had me confused throughout the paragraph.
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