It is imperative for me to write about a discussion which I had with my classmates. The Discussion was about Text D: “Globalisation and Culture Diversity” which is in the last pages of the green book.
What begun as an exercise in class, ended in a lot of reflexion, and want to express some ideas in this post.
What begun as an exercise in class, ended in a lot of reflexion, and want to express some ideas in this post.
Firstly , the fact that I read this text with people from other countries gave me the opportunity to remember what I learn about sensation and perception at University. In a nutshell, what the Gestalt School says about sensation and perception is that although two o more people are exposed to the same stimulus each person is going to perceive something completely different, partly because each person perceive those stimulus depending on his or her personal story , own experiences, knowledge, among others.
We had as a task read TEXT D when was the time to discuss this text and write down the main ideas, I found that I had perceive something completely different. For me this text was erroneous, the thought which the author exposed were insufficiently supported and some examples which were given were not true. So I tried to expose this to my classmates but neither of them were agree with me, they supported the author statement which was that Globalisation did not mean Americanisation, on the contrary Globalisation mean the proliferation of cultures around the world. What I found was that the fact that I am Latin American influenced a lot my point of view, and my background and experiences gave me the opportunity to argue against the author statement.
After few days I have still thinking about this. And today I can say that if one of the objectives of this text was Globalisation an culture diversity, the objective was completed...and more than that this experence gave me the opportunitty to understand what culture diversity means in a real context, academic context.
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