Culture

> //Just because we aren’t all the same doesn’t mean we have nothing in common. // (Kirk Kerekes)
 * What beliefs or knowledge, if any, are independent of culture?
 * How do cultures differ with respect to the ways of knowing and areas of knowledge that they value above others? How would one justify valuing one way, or one area, more than another?
 * If one looks at most western compilations of quotations, it seems that most are attributed to dead, white, European males. Why might this be so? To what extent does the identity of the author of a quotation influence how its content is interpreted and how seriously its ideas are taken? What does the choice of quotations in this guide signify?

Watch this video of Nigerian writer Chimamanda Adichie about stereotypes and prejudices culturally constructed:

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