The Dynamic Relationship Between 'Identity And Violence'
Essay on Memories and Emotion with refrences to the titled essays and other*
Renato Resaldo~Grief and a Headhunter’s Rage
Dean Barnlund~Communication in a Global Village
Emotions are a loaded topic. From love and hate to grief, fear and envy, emotions are increasingly understood as driving forces in social life. They are affected or aroused by many factors such as: memories of all kinds, complex situations and fights. Charismatic leaders rely heavily on the dynamic relationship between memory and emotion in order to act upon their audience. A charismatic leader can attracts the audience and capture their attention. He or she has the power to make the audience listen and act. The method usually used is manipulating the power of peoples emotion linked memories. Which means, guiding the negative emotions people carry because of past events and bad memories, and put them in focus. That serves the leader’s goal of leadership and gaining more power. In my school in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; Teachers act in a similar way to charismatic leaders. They demonize the western culture. They remind us of things that happened ages ago, like the Crusades and they would say to us: the people of the west are evil …show more content…
He talks about the Hindu-Muslims riots in the chapter called: Freedom to think. I think the one of the reasons why the riots and killings continued, is because the way each sides leader forces certain emotions and way of thinking against the other side. Sen says that each individual has many identities. For example, I am a female, a daughter, a student an Arab and a Saudi… Violence as he stated, is created when a person or a bunch of people are reduced to one identity. That I think is what’s happening in Saudi Arabia. There, teachers would tell the students: we are Muslims, everyone else is our enemy. They would basically divide all people in this world to Muslims and Kuffar
Renato Resaldo~Grief and a Headhunter’s Rage
Dean Barnlund~Communication in a Global Village
Emotions are a loaded topic. From love and hate to grief, fear and envy, emotions are increasingly understood as driving forces in social life. They are affected or aroused by many factors such as: memories of all kinds, complex situations and fights. Charismatic leaders rely heavily on the dynamic relationship between memory and emotion in order to act upon their audience. A charismatic leader can attracts the audience and capture their attention. He or she has the power to make the audience listen and act. The method usually used is manipulating the power of peoples emotion linked memories. Which means, guiding the negative emotions people carry because of past events and bad memories, and put them in focus. That serves the leader’s goal of leadership and gaining more power. In my school in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; Teachers act in a similar way to charismatic leaders. They demonize the western culture. They remind us of things that happened ages ago, like the Crusades and they would say to us: the people of the west are evil …show more content…
He talks about the Hindu-Muslims riots in the chapter called: Freedom to think. I think the one of the reasons why the riots and killings continued, is because the way each sides leader forces certain emotions and way of thinking against the other side. Sen says that each individual has many identities. For example, I am a female, a daughter, a student an Arab and a Saudi… Violence as he stated, is created when a person or a bunch of people are reduced to one identity. That I think is what’s happening in Saudi Arabia. There, teachers would tell the students: we are Muslims, everyone else is our enemy. They would basically divide all people in this world to Muslims and Kuffar