MY REFLECTION ABOUT THE PHILOSOPHICAL MATERIALS STUDIED WITHIN WEEK 06

 

In this week learnt about ‘Race’: what we mean and what we think, Race, Ethnicity and Culture and finally I learnt Prejudice as Difference.

Under ‘Race’: what we mean and what we think, I learnt that reluctance is a Window on to limitations of the popular account of race as a morally and neutral system of scientific classification of natural biological groups. And Race is no just way of classifying people or of talking about people, it is not just a discourse. It is a way of thinking about experiencing, perceiving, and relating to people. Furthermore I learnt about moral dangers of racial thinking. In here I learnt that moral distance is bound up with the idea of deep inherent and ineradicable differences among races. As well as I  learnt about False community, Inescapable Racial fate, Dominance and Hierarchy, Lacks of reflective which is probably clearest with respect to the implication of racial hierarchy and finally Blacks’ use of racial categories.

Under Race, Ethnicity and Culture, I learnt about the racism and racist. Under this I learnt the difference between racism and racist, human race, racial diversity, and Darwin and Social Darwinism. Moreover, I learnt about culture as cognitive structures, culture and power, cultural pluralism, two faces of liberalism, living with plurality, cultural navigation. Finally I learnt the dynamics of ethnic polarization, the logic of racial and ethnic polarization, ethnicity and social mobility, ethnicity and social exclusion, winding and unwinding the dynamics of mutual ethnic closure, and ethnic polarisation in contemporary Britain under this topic.

Under Prejudice as Difference I learnt about Differentiation, problematic of difference, and the history of differentiation. Under this I learnt about Indian Dalit and their cultures, the claims led by Dalit leaders like Dr.B.R.Ambedhkar, Gandhi to being a ‘statutory minority’ a separate element in the national life, a ‘ necessary party’ to political negotiations. And also I learnt about the struggle between Brahmanism and Buddhism, how Dalit became to believe “Buddha” discarding the gods they worshipped. Finally I learnt about Dalit and African American arguments for self-respect and citizenship at the ‘new dawn’ of Indian independence and American civil rights.

It can be concluded that I could enrich & expand my knowledge & understanding about race, ethnicity, culture and prejudice and difference during this week.