How does ethnnocentricity cause conflict?

How does ethnocentricity cause conflict?

Based on their cultural views, people tend to judge other people in negative ways. The difference between 2 cultural backgrounds can cause friction between the people. Their ethnocentric views cause each other to disagree. Nowadays the disagreements are minor and can be easily resolved. People are used to living with mixed cultures and people from different racial backgrounds. In the 1700's, however this wasn't the case. When the english colonized australia, they saw the indigenous people to be very animal like and inhumane. As the relationship between the 2 races started to develop, their differences started to fade. Over time the differences still existed and the english still looked at the aboriginals are being animal like. British soldiers were still hunting the aboriginals and killing the local people with their weapons. Treating them like they were wild animals. Pemulwuy, an aboriginal soldier, believed strongly in revenge to the British and set out to burn their crops. This only made the British more angry and giving them more of a reason to call the aboriginals, savages. The british carried on killing the natives and the natives carried on fighting back. Because the british's culture resolved around progress and educating their society. Mainly keeping their nation as developed as possible. The first australians however, focused more on their religions, They were more traditional than the British and therefore they didn't see thing in the same perspective as the British people. Their beliefs were different and so their actions were strange to each other. Their ethnocentricity caused conflict between the 2 nations because their views on each other, based on their culture, were not always positive and were mainly negative.

Context: Portia is talking to Brutus after the conspirators leave. She is asking for an explanation to why he's been acting like he's troubled by something and she also says that she is a understanding wife.

This scene shows Brutus still loves Caesar. This is shown because to can tell that he is uneasy about killing Caesar by the fact that he wont tell his own wife. Portia and Brutus have a close relationship. I can tell because Portia stabbed herself in the leg to show how much she cares for him. This is significant because it shows that Brutus doesn't only care for Rome but that he aslo cares for other people. When he kills Ceasar, we loose all traces of that. This scene shows that he cares about what people feel. Overall Brutus shows that he loves Caesar because he hesitates to tell his wife. He doesn't only care about Rome.

Act 2, Scene 1 (lines 233-309)

PORTIA

Brutus, my lord!

BRUTUS

Portia, what mean you? wherefore rise you now?
It is not for your health thus to commit
Your weak condition to the raw cold morning.

PORTIA

Nor for yours neither. You've ungently, Brutus,
Stole from my bed: and yesternight, at supper,
You suddenly arose, and walk'd about,
Musing and sighing, with your arms across,
And when I ask'd you what the matter was,
You stared upon me with ungentle looks;
I urged you further; then you scratch'd your head,
And too impatiently stamp'd with your foot;
Yet I insisted, yet you answer'd not,
But, with an angry wafture of your hand,
Gave sign for me to leave you: so I did;
Fearing to strengthen that impatience
Which seem'd too much enkindled, and withal
Hoping it was but an effect of humour,
Which sometime hath his hour with every man.
It will not let you eat, nor talk, nor sleep,
And could it work so much upon your shape
As it hath much prevail'd on your condition,
I should not know you, Brutus. Dear my lord,
Make me acquainted with your cause of grief.

BRUTUS

I am not well in health, and that is all.

PORTIA

Brutus is wise, and, were he not in health,
He would embrace the means to come by it.

BRUTUS

Why, so I do. Good Portia, go to bed.

PORTIA

Is Brutus sick? and is it physical
To walk unbraced and suck up the humours
Of the dank morning? What, is Brutus sick,
And will he steal out of his wholesome bed,
To dare the vile contagion of the night
And tempt the rheumy and unpurged air
To add unto his sickness? No, my Brutus;
You have some sick offence within your mind,
Which, by the right and virtue of my place,
I ought to know of: and, upon my knees,
I charm you, by my once-commended beauty,
By all your vows of love and that great vow
Which did incorporate and make us one,
That you unfold to me, yourself, your half,
Why you are heavy, and what men to-night
Have had to resort to you: for here have been
Some six or seven, who did hide their faces
Even from darkness.

BRUTUS

Kneel not, gentle Portia.

PORTIA

I should not need, if you were gentle Brutus.
Within the bond of marriage, tell me, Brutus,
Is it excepted I should know no secrets
That appertain to you? Am I yourself
But, as it were, in sort or limitation,
To keep with you at meals, comfort your bed,
And talk to you sometimes? Dwell I but in the suburbs
Of your good pleasure? If it be no more,
Portia is Brutus' harlot, not his wife.

BRUTUS

You are my true and honourable wife,
As dear to me as are the ruddy drops
That visit my sad heart

PORTIA

If this were true, then should I know this secret.
I grant I am a woman; but withal
A woman that Lord Brutus took to wife:
I grant I am a woman; but withal
A woman well-reputed, Cato's daughter.
Think you I am no stronger than my sex,
Being so father'd and so husbanded?
Tell me your counsels, I will not disclose 'em:
I have made strong proof of my constancy,
Giving myself a voluntary wound
Here, in the thigh: can I bear that with patience.
And not my husband's secrets?

BRUTUS

O ye gods,
Render me worthy of this noble wife!

Knocking within

Hark, hark! one knocks: Portia, go in awhile;
And by and by thy bosom shall partake
The secrets of my heart.
All my engagements I will construe to thee,
All the charactery of my sad brows:
Leave me with haste.

Exit PORTIA

Partners with Krithika

Learning profile P

I learn best when I am moving. When I move around I tend to engage into discussions and also listen better. When I did this in health last year, I learnt that I also learn better when I focus on the bigger picture. I hadn't noticed until I was doing this in humanities but when ever my friends ask me for help and they try to explain in detail, I start thinking about other things. Also when they go into too much detail, my final question always is "So overall what happened?".

I need to, like I said above, move in order to concentrate. The profile info recommends that I do lazy eights before any assignments. This will help both sides of my brain work better. I also need to connect with the emotional side of the situation in order to understand it fully. Even though it doesn't say this in my profile, I actually do appreciate detail. Even though i like to look at the bigger picture, when I get instructions the more detail the better.

The strategies that would help me in my learning are things like I stated above. I should move around more while I am processing information or discussing things. If u watch me in humanities when we are doing the Socratic seminar you would see that I fidget or shift around in my seat a lot. This is not because I am bored, it's because it helps me engage in the conversation. If I don't move around I tend to blank out in whatever we are doing. In Spanish for example, when we are just sitting down I almost dose of. But when we do things like acting situations out or do things where we move around to get answers, I am much more engaged.

I would like my teachers to know this about me is that I love colour. I really don't know why but colourful visuals draw me in. Most of my teachers probably notice that because on every thing (besides math and science tests) I use colours. They help me more when I'm studying because when most people study, they panic trying to memorize things. Colours stand out for me and they really make a huge difference to how I process the information. When I study I move around rather than staying in one place rather than writing things down over and over again. I read things out to help me memorize them. I absolutely love interpreting metaphors. They have so much emotion and meaning. Although I don't read that much. Its not because I don't like reading. Its because I wait for the right book. I love poetry, but not the type where its just rhyming words. I love reading poetry about people and their situations but I don't like reading novels about it. I find it weird how I love sound and music, but when I'm under stress my sense of sound and sight blur out. This normally happens when I am really tired and someones trying to explain something to me. I make them repeat things over and over again. Over all my Profile pretty much explains who I am.

The Allegory of Sight

The Allegory of Sight was painted in c. 1618 by Jan Brueghel the Elder. It was painted with oil on canvas. I think this Painting is a reflection of what was going on during the renaissance because during the renaissance there has a major shift in art. Art is shown through the paintings and sculptors all around the room. More styles and rules were made. More artists started experimenting with art. It also shows the development in technology through the telescope and different instruments all over the floor. During the renaissance many people explored many aspects of life. There were many more explorers that traveled around the world as shown in the globe. Both these help represent exploration in the renaissance. Overall this painting reflects the renaissance because it represents the development during the renaissance and it shows different parts that were developed.

Driving Forces of the Renaissance

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I believe trading was the most crucial driving force in the renaissance. It was through trading where the Italians got most of their knowledge of medicine and most of their spices. Also explorers discovered new trading routes which led to new countries to take over. Overall trading was the most important because it helped share ideas from all over the world.

This I believe

After a fourteen-hour trip back from the U.K, my family and I finally got home. It was late and dark and I was really sleepy. 5 minutes later I had already fallen asleep (which was really unlike me). At 4:30 AM my mom came in my room to wake me up telling me to get dressed we were heading to the hospital. At the time I was too tired to understand what was happening and so I didn’t bother asking questions.

When we got to the hospital the doctors checked my dad and immediately rushed him to the emergency room. My dad is a twin and usually with twins one of them will have blood clots. All it took was a fourteen-hour plane ride to form 3 blood clots (two in his lungs and one in his left leg). I didn’t know till the morning that my dad could have died if we hadn’t gone to the hospital.

I lived in Singapore before Malaysia and I didn’t really have many real friends. My first real friend ever was Sarah Bell. When I first saw her she looked a lot like the school bully at my old school but since she lived right next door to me, I figured that if I didn’t go and say Hi to her or every morning would be really awkward. Soon we were sitting next to each other in the bus and having sleepovers every weekend. Five years later during the international fest Sarah came up to me and told me that she was moving. Although she still doesn’t know this, I had a huge stomach cramp for the rest of the week.

This weekend I was at Rachel’s house watching Zombieland (a movie where America gets taken over by zombies). One of the main characters was a really tough man whose son had been eaten by a zombie. Although he was really tough he had a soft spot for Twinkie’s (a soft cream-filled pastry which his son always loved). Since America had been taken over by zombies no one was there to make Twinkie’s. Every time he got to a stop he would search for Twinkie’s then he would savour them. This is why all this relates to my belief. Always savour the little things. Before you know it they could be gone, this I believe.

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Should We Stand Up For Others?

What are the consequences of ' just accepting the situation in which you find yourself [so] everything will be so much easier'? (Boyne 53)Bruno's father to Bruno.

Hitler got into power through lies, the main lie being “the Jews are the reason we lost the Great War”. Obviously that was not true. People were too scared to face Hitler with him having the military and the government on his side. They thought that if you went against him you would get killed immediately, which would most likely happen to you. Hitler also lied about what was happening to the Jews. He didn’t tell people that they were going to be starved and tortured and forced into labor. He only told the Germans that they were going to be killed and that Germany would become a perfect, blonde and blue-eyed nation.

There were various people (like the people of Le Chambon, a small town in France) who would protect the Jews and take care of the so that they would live a normal life where they weren’t hated by people. There were also some brave people who would break into the concentration camps and release some of the Jewish people. Other groups such as the White Rose Movement would publicly go against the Nazi’s and hand out flyers and protest against Hitler and the genocide.

Just accepting the situation does not make things easier because is watching people die better than dying yourself? If I had a Jewish friend at that time in Germany I wouldn’t let them die because the rest of the country says they are animals. Killing innocent humans because they are different doesn’t make you and more human and just accepting the situation doesn’t help because it doesn’t help you to have people who are almost exactly the same as you. Personally I wouldn’t let myself accept the situation whether it’s a live or death situation.