scholarly journals Differentiating the Transnational from the National in a Multicultural Setting: Identity in Persepolis and Rush Hour

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Kasper ◽  
Keyword(s):  
National Identities ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Transnational Identities ◽  
Multicultural Setting ◽  
Globalized World

This essay explores the differences between transnational identities and national identities in a multicultural setting by juxtaposing the films Persepolis and Rush Hour. Furthermore, it examines the characteristics of both transnational and national identities and how they are represented in film. In an increasingly globalized world, it is important to distinguish these two types of identity and consider how these individuals interact with today’s society; thus, this essay asks readers to think about the influence that the commingling of transnational and national identities has on the modern world.

Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism: Redefining Fundamentalism in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007)

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Quratulain Shirazi
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
National Identities ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Immigrant Student ◽  
American System ◽  
American Nationalism ◽  
Globalized World

This article is based on a study of The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007), a novel by a Pakistani writer Mohsin Hamid.  The novel is based on the  story of  transformation of an expat Pakistani living in New York from a true cosmopolitan to a nationalist. The article will explore the crisis of identity suffered by the protagonist in a new land where he reached as an immigrant  student and worker. However, he experienced a resurgence of nationalist and patriotic sentiments within him as 9/ 11 happened in 2001.  The force of American nationalism that was imperial in nature, resulting in the invasion of Afghanistan and Iran, triggered resentment in the protagonist who decided to leave America and went back to the country of his origin, Pakistan. During his stay in America, the protagonist redefined fundamentalism as an imperial tendency in the American system while rejecting the accusations hurled towards him of an Islamic fundamentalist. The article will explain that there is a loss of cosmopolitan virtue  in the post 9/11 era and the dream of universal peace and harmony  is shattered due to unbridled  state ambitions to invade foreign territories.   The article will conclude with the assertion that the loss of cosmopolitanism and reassertion of national identities give way to confrontation and intolerance destroying the prospects of peace and harmony in a globalized world.

scholarly journals Is social forecasting of the mobile world’s dynamics currently possible?

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-28
Author(s):  
Oleg N. Yanitsky
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Physical Sciences ◽  
Metabolic Analysis ◽  
International Projects ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
Non Equilibrium

Based on Soviet sociologists being able to predict the fall of the USSR in the mid 1980’s, the author of this article seeks to understand whether social forecasting is possible in our unstable and constantly changing modern world. Relying on the theoretical work of Russian and Western sociologists conducted in the 2000’s, including his own research and his participation in three international projects, the author of this article demonstrates that to this day a dichotomous approach prevails in prognostic studies. Such an approach to analysis is preferred by most Anglo-Saxon scientists who study globalization. The article also examines the theoretical-methodological trends being developed outside the boundaries of the aforementioned dichotomous analysis by researchers from third-world countries. For example, subject to analysis is the heuristic potential of analyzing modern globalization as a self-organizing “movement of the movements”, as well as the need for interdisciplinary and metabolic analysis. Special attention is devoted to changes on the micro-level, in other words, to the position and lifestyle of an individual under conditions of fluid modernization. The article is concluded by certain specific considerations on the author’s part concerning the type and nature of the theory and methodology, which allow for adequately analyzing and predicting the dynamics of our modern non-equilibrium and mobile world. Analyzed are the methodological contradictions between social and physical sciences in their ideas and approaches when it comes to criteria and methods for predicting the dynamics of the globalized world.

scholarly journals THE CONCEPT OF SERVANT LEADERSHIP AS CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY OF MANAGEMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-41
Author(s):  
T. Kychkyruk ◽  
◽  
H. Salata ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Servant Leadership ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Servant Leader ◽  
Business World ◽  
Multidisciplinary Analysis ◽  
New Type ◽  
Common Goals ◽  
High Level ◽  
Globalized World

The modern world needs a new type of leader who develops a vision of the future for his / her followers and encourages them to be ready for it. These leaders ensure changes, they are not focused that much on the behavior of their followers / subordinates and on controlling their behavior. On the contrary, they are focused on the development of initiative and support becoming the servants of those they have to lead. The concept of servant l eadership is derived from the ideas of Robert K. Greenleaf. As R. Greenleaf states, it all starts with a natural urge – the desire to serve. The motto of this thought is "A good leader is primarily a servant". The task of the leader is to achieve common goals by ensuring the well-being of followers and subordinates. Servant leadership is an attempt to become better, to become the person others would gladly follow. Such an idealistic vision of a leader as a servant is fruitful and is paid off even in a very competitive business world. A servant leader builds an organized and creative team, and this type of leadership involves the development of organizational culture which demonstrates a high level of trust. Being a servant leader means to help people overcome obstacles and get the tools and resources they need to perform better; to be an example; to facilitate the work of others; to be willing to do what others do. This model of leadership implies a "flattening" of hierarchies: a boss is a friend who listens to those who are with him/her rather than a person who decides what is best for them. This type of leadership has the powerful potential in today’s globalized world. The article aims to analyze the concept of servant leadership. The authors have used an interpretive research paradigm and multidisciplinary analysis.

scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONALITY VALUES IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 374
Author(s):  
Olena Nevmerzhytska ◽  
Myroslav Pahuta ◽  
Iryna Hamerska ◽  
Svitlana Voloshyn ◽  
Lyudmyla Savchenko
Keyword(s):  
Text Analysis ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Active Life ◽  
The World ◽  
Personal Problem ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
Complicated Task

The modern world is extremely diverse. The processes of globalization in it contribute to the disappearance of borders: political, economic, religious, informational, etc. Personality is continuously facing the values of other cultures and other religions. By the way, he or she is not always able to properly evaluate and interpret them, what in its turn leads to the situation of conflict of values. The choice of necessary values becomes a complicated task and it definitely arises the need of pedagogical support of the process of values developing. Therefore, the situation described makes the problem of looking for the best ways of developing the values of the modern individual who lives in the world of values, where the chaos dominates, really topical, and that was the purpose of our research. Our poll conducted among teenagers and adolescents (n=120) proved an orientation towards their own and their family's problems, especially material ones. Instead, the decline in morality is an important social and personal problem for only a quarter of respondents, which makes the necessity to acquaint modern children and young people with higher values even more urgent. Educational institutions are challenged to assist students in the process of values choice in the complex axiological situations existing in the world, which is in the constant process of globalization. The search for ways of developing the values of the modern personality allowed us to identify the specific methods that contribute to the mastering of socially and personally significant values. These include text analysis (artistic, documentary, etc.), biographical methods, crystallization of values, problem solving, and more. These methods imply the active work of the pupil in the selection, mastering and appropriation of values, which will contribute to the formation of a highly moral personality with an active life position. 

scholarly journals INTERACTION OF LANGUAGES IN THE CONTEXT OF TRILINGUAL EDUCATION IN KAZAKHSTAN

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Knol ◽  
Dariya Assanova
Keyword(s):  
Information Flow ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Trilingual Education ◽  
Globalized World

There is no country in the modern world where all citizens speak only one language. Anyone who knows several languages well feels comfortable in a globalized world, a huge information flow is available to him. This expands opportunities in study and work. That is why multilingualism in Kazakhstan was initially considered as a communicative adaptation of citizens. Trilingual education in Kazakhstan is the dictate of the time. The idea of its implementation is connected with the expansion of knowledge and skills, as well as the development of mutual understanding between people, which cannot be achieved without knowledge of languages.

The Formation of Ethnic and National Identities

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liah Greenfeld ◽  
Nicolas Prevelakis
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Popular Sovereignty ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Ethnic Nationalism ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types

Nationalism is the worldview of the modern world. It is based on three fundamental principles: it is secular; it sees the members of the community defined as a nation as fundamentally equal; and it presupposes popular sovereignty. Modern ethnicity, that is, ethnic identity, is the result of ethnic nationalism. One can classify nationalisms into three major types: the individualistic-civic type, as seen in England, the United States, and a few other countries, though it remains a minority in the world; the collectivistic-civic type—also a minority; and finally, the collectivistic-ethnic type, which is found in most of the nations in the world. This third and last type is what is usually referred to as “ethnic identity” in the modern world. These types of nationalism seldom exist in their ideal form. Typically, one will find a combination of elements from different types. Their relative importance may vary from one period to another, or within the same period and among different social strata. The case of Greek nationalism illustrates this point. It also represents a clear example of the causal role of nationalism in shaping ethnic identity. The seeds of ethnicity emerged in the first decades of the Greek state, though it was only in the middle of the nineteenth century that Greek nationalism took its definite ethnic form. This evolution can be seen in two areas: the emergence of Greek irredentism, and the construction of Greek historiography.

scholarly journals Causes of modern dіsintegration processes: EU experience

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Mutual Dependence ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Different Types ◽  
External Causes ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
Supranational Institutions ◽  
The Eu

The article analyzes the main causes of modern disintegration processes in a globalized world. Integration and its opposite - deintegration - coexist in the modern world simultaneously or change each other at each stage of development of countries and integration associations. If integration allows the benefits of combining disparate parts into a single whole from the complementarity of the economies of the participating countries, then disintegration weakens their mutual dependence. There are different types and manifestations of disintegration, due to internal and external causes. According to the results of a poll that funded by the European Commission five of the most important problems facing the EU countries in the process of further integration were identified in the year 2016. The article concludes that these problems today are the main reasons for the contradictions between decisions of national and supranational institutions in the integration union, the loss of confidence in the latter from the EU population, which does not feel a sense of inclusion in decision making and the ability to influence the activities of supranational authorities.

Transnational Identities and the Church: Examining Contemporary Ethnicity and Place

2012 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eloise Hiebert Meneses
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Multiple Identities ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Ethnic Identities ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Local Churches ◽  
Transnational Identities ◽  
Common Purpose ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Church

Abstract Ethnic identities have been problematic for the construction of local churches since New Testament times. Transnationalism adds a layer of complexity to this circumstance, as migrants hold multiple identities and retain strong ties to places of origin. An examination of the history of anthropology’s study of ethnicity reveals ethnicity’s constructed nature, along with its tendency to demand loyalty as to a family. Given people’s very real need for a place of ultimate belonging, churches have sometimes too easily resolved the tension between Christian identity and ethnic identities by segregating themselves. New Testament churches were assemblies associated with place, not ethnicity, bringing together diverse peoples and requiring them to submit to Christ, as to the head of a household. There is evidence that contemporary attempts to form multi-cultural churches out of a liberal political agenda ironically become enmeshed in power struggles. But those that recognize the centrality of the gospel succeed due to the adoption of a central authority, Christ himself, who relativizes all ethnic and national identities in favor of a common purpose, the spread of the gospel to others who have not heard it.

Introduction-Another Way in the World

PMLA ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 131 (5) ◽  
pp. 1193-1206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Gikandi
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Historical Event ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Theoretical Problem ◽  
The World ◽  
Prison Camp ◽  
Globalized World

For Abiola Irele, friend, mentor, maître.Language for me is the soul of the text. I love the Arabic language, and I adore writing in it. It is the linguistic mold that I want to fill my personal stories and culture in, distinguished from that of Arabs.—Stella GaitanoI Will Start with Two Stories About This Thing Called Literature and the world it claims to name and possess.The first takes place in Shillong, in the northeast corner of India, a place far removed from the Indian heartland, closer to Bangladesh, Burma, and China than to New Delhi. The setting is the Shillong campus of the English and Foreign Languages University, where I have come to teach a seminar to junior academics and graduate students on decolonization as a theoretical problem. My students and I will embark on a two-week systematic rereading of the philosophical claims made for decolonization in the writings of canonical postcolonial writers, from Mahatma Gandhi's writing on nonviolence to Aimé Césaire's and Léopold Sédar Senghor's on negritude to Frantz Fanon's on the pitfalls of national consciousness to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's and Trinh T. Minh-Ha's on the figure of woman in difference. Although my students are attentive, their relation to these texts is ambivalent: they recognize the importance of these texts to understanding the making of the modern world, yet colonialism, as a world-historical event, occurred too long ago to be part of their lived experience. Their ambivalence is compounded by the fact that the urgency with which the authors of decolonization write, the sense that they are operating at the end of time—the time of Europe—belongs to a moment that no longer resonates with people struggling to survive in a more complex, globalized world. It is hard for my students to make the connection between Senghor's negritude and his incarceration in a Nazi prison camp in Poitiers during World War II or to see that event, the imprisonment of an African fighting for France, as connected to a paradigmatic break in the discourse of empire.

scholarly journals Analysis of integration and disintegration in the digital age

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-27
Author(s):  
C. Gribincea ◽  
◽  
S.Kh. Kessei
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Political System ◽  
Human Growth ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Spiritual Values ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Mutual Dependence ◽  
New Space ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
New System

Integration is a process that is multifaceted and dynamic. In the modern world, integration and its opposite-disintegration-coexist or change each other concurrently at each point of the growth of countries and of integration associations. If incorporation, from the complementarity of the economies of the participating countries, makes the advantages of integrating disparate parts into a single whole, then disintegration weakens their mutual dependence. The new system of integration should ensure, in general, active human growth. The article explores the key directions of modernization that are appropriate to the Sustainable Development Strategy, allowing, through maintaining national identity and traditional spiritual values, a shift in the living conditions of the population. The processes for choosing life strategies, which is directly influenced by either integration or the other, are transformed by ideas about the environment, culture, and themselves. The task of disintegration is not only to oppose integration, but to create momentum for a new space for regional configuration. The processes of integration and disintegration in the world’s modern political system are becoming more common. In a globalized world, the article analyses the key causes of modern processes of disintegration and integration

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