The Rainbow Connection: A Time-Series Study of Rainbow Flag Display Across Nine Toronto Neighborhoods

Recently, the display and use of the rainbow flag in historically defined gay neighborhoods has grown even as gay residents and businesses have been driven away by gentrification, rising real-estate costs, and cultural homogenization. At the same time, prevelence and use of the rainbow flag and the rainbow motif has increased in areas not usually considered part of recognized gay neighborhoods. This chapter explores the prevalence and persistence of the display of the rainbow flag and rainbow motif in nine neighborhoods across Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The visual assessment of rainbow flag use across these neighborhoods serves as a potential model for examining the rate of spread of rainbow flags and visual rainbow motif symbols as a means for tracking the movement of the LGBTQ+ community across urban neighborhoods. Initial results suggest potential significance of the prevalence and persistence of the rainbow flag and the rainbow motif. These include; (1) a possible diaspora of LGBTQ+ residents from traditionally defined gay neighborhoods to newly emerging gay or LGBTQ-friendly neighborhoods, (2) a newfound inclusivity or pride among residents of other neighborhoods, and (3) “rainbow washing” due to overuse of the rainbow motif by non-LGBTQ businesses and organizations connected with pride celebrations. While overuse of the rainbow flag may diminish historically coded meaning of the rainbow, that well-intentioned use of the rainbow flag is a positive and welcoming indicator for LGBTQ+ individuals and it may lead to the emergence of additional LGBTQ-friendly enclaves that, over time, could potentially emerge as new gay neighborhoods.

The Rise of British Cultural Identity in Othello by Shakespeare

The rise of British cultural identity in Othello by Shakespeare stands as a special message to the non-native. It was a patriotic address Shakespeare intended for people who were not British and inhabited England of Queen Elizabeth the 1 st . The paper analysesthe foul and rude treatment of Elizabethan ways on the part of the people Shakespeare and the British community willingly accepted, then integrated into their society as an ordinal citizen. At the top of outraged British people, the preoccupation of Shakespeare with the issue of the rise of British cultural identity was illustrative than ever in his play. His hope and craving for a multi-cultural British society culminated in the societal project. The project was meant to campaign for the rise and promotion of a cultural identity typical of British ways and customs. In a word, the implementation of the societal project of the playwright would certainly allow British cultural identity to go up in value within the ongoing globalised world inclined to cultural homogenization of identities.

Glocalization of the Television Format in China

For the past two decades, global television formats have received more attention in academia. Being theorized as mass-produced transnational cultural products, global TV formats have been articulated as dynamic junctures of cultural imperialism, media imperialism, and cultural homogenization in the realms of media and popular culture. These theoretical approaches, however, adopt a dualistic understanding of globality and locality, ignoring the multi-relational interactions between discourses of the global format and the local context constrained by specificities of global TV formats’ importing countries. Compared to the notion of globalization, glocalization attends more to the dialectical relationship between the global and the local, with its emphasis on postmodern understanding of local contents’ reproduction or repackaging within the framework delineated by global TV formats. With global TV formats’ transnational flow, these cultural commodities have gone through complex reproduction or adaptation in order to fit importing countries’ specific cultural, social, and even political milieus. Besides adaptation, global TV formats are inevitably subject to incompatible constraints in importing countries and thus exposed to disputes that may bring damages to their sustainability outside of their countries of origin. In order to present a comprehensive review of cross-border transaction and glocalization of global TV formats, it is necessary to examine this phenomenon’s origin and global expansion and explore its entrance into China. This can be done by analyzing the rise and fall of The Voice as a representative case and as one of the most successful global TV formats in the Chinese context within the framework of glocalization.

Internal cultural imperialism: The case of the Kurds in Turkey

The cultural imperialism thesis that emerged in late 20th century focused on inequalities in the West driven global flow of culture and communication, and how that adversely affected the cultural conditions of nations in the so called Third World. However, the core–periphery dynamic at the root of cultural imperialism has not merely been confined to the transnational level, from the West to the Rest. It has existed at the national level as well. Conducting a historical examination of state policy vis-à-vis Kurdish culture in Turkey, and drawing on the theories of cultural imperialism, internal colonialism and nationalism, I develop the concept of internal cultural imperialism to capture the state of severe center peripheral cultural imbalance that has been a product of Turkish nationalist ideology and its policies of cultural homogenization. In hegemonic condition, the state’s ultimate goal has been to subjugate and/or possibly eradicate the cultures of non-core groups within its territory.

La enseñanza del dibujo entre la orientación utilitaria y patriótica en la escolaridad elemental argentina (1904-1910)

In this paper we study the conception of drawing in public elementary school in Argentina and its relationship with the previous orientation based on education for work and cultural homogenization. We also explore its connections with the patriotic trend towards education in general upon approaching the celebrations for the Centennial of the May Revolution. Likewise, we examine the discipline’s appropriation of pedagogical currents in circulation at the time and its particular interest in experimental psychology and pedagogy. Finally, we review its contribution and resulting tension with school policy under the administration of José Ramos Mejía at the head of the National Council of Education, which sought to form patriotic sentiment in the youth population and adopt new initiatives in artistic education.

GLOBALISASI: ANTARA PELUANG DAN ANCAMAN BAGI MASYARAKAT MULTIKULTURAL

This article examines globalization, between opportunities and threats for Indonesia's multicultural society. Globalization has brought changes in the social, political, economic, and cultural life of the people, especially for multicultural Indonesians. The swift flow of globalization that continues to move through various lines of life of people and reduce the borders of nations. Globalization will bring two consequences at the same time for the Indonesian cultural community, namely how the opportunities and threats of globalization to Indonesia's multicultural society. This study uses a literature study approach, where data and information relevant to the topic or problem are subject to study and compiled from various scientific sources and other sources. The theoritical framework used in this study is the theory of cultural homogenization. The results of this literature study indicate that the current of globalization will pose a threat as well as an opportunity for Indonesia's multicultural society. An opportunity that can be exploited is the emergence of a collective awareness about living together in differences that are co-existent. Meanwhile, the threat that needs to be watched out for is the strengthening of cultural homogenization that can erode and uproot the roots of local culture. Therefore, Indonesian multicultural society is not only required to think and act more critically and intelligently in dealing with the various subversive and destructive effects of globalization, but more than that it is able to build diversity immunityDOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17977/um021v4i22019p103

Os impactos da globalização sobre a Educação do Campo: políticas públicas de resistência

This article aims to conduct a discussion about the globalization process and its implications on Rural Education. Bringing Rural Education into this discussion, results in identifying the impacts that globalization can bring, affecting the cultural and social uniqueness of these subjects. It is a theoretical-bibliographic study of a basic nature, qualitative in terms of approaching the problem and analytical descriptive in terms of objectives. We present in the text the undeniable impact that globalization, intensified in modern times, has on Rural Education: its cultural homogenization, the commodification of the educational system, the crushing of local cultures, the exclusion of its uniqueness and the standardization of behavior, denying the historicity of peasant struggles for land and quality education that is inherent to it. Contrary to this process, the text points to public policies aimed at Rural Education, as forms of resistance to this movement.