perspective of another. La Bayadere is set in India however it is evident that the movements and images performed in this ballet piece are not based on ethnographic knowledge from experience and memory but in fact on fantasy and assumptions of the Orient. In order to fully contextualize this piece and explore the oddities presented in Petipa’s India‚ I will need to examine aspects of the Indian culture portrayed in La Bayadere‚ with an emphasis on clothing‚ dance‚ art and music of the 19th century
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fruited plain. My Philippines‚ dear Philippines‚ God shed his grace on Thee‚ And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea! I. Philippines our native land‚ The country of the brave‚ Pearl of all the Orient seas‚ The home of men upright. II. We are ready all the time‚ To work for peace and right‚ Philippines‚ dear Philippines For freedom all of us will fight. Wake up so wake up‚ Fight for the right. Freedom for freedom
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Last Poem of Rizal (Source: http://pages.prodigy.net/manila_girl/rizal) His friend Mariano Ponce gave it the title of MI ULTIMO ADIOS‚ as it originally had none Farewell‚ my adored Land‚ region of the sun caressed‚ Pearl of the Orient Sea‚ our Eden lost‚ With gladness I give you my Life‚ sad and repressed; And were it more brilliant‚ more fresh and at its best‚ I would still give it to you for your welfare at most. On the fields of battle‚ in the fury of fight‚ Others give you
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Journey” by Cathy Song In most cases‚ it is the old woman who makes the journey; the old man having had the sense to stay put and die at home. You see her scurrying behind her newly arrived family. She comes from the Azores and she comes from the Orient. It makes no difference. You have seen her before: the short substantial legs buckle under the weight of the ghost child she carried centuries ago like a bundle of rags who now turns in front of your windshield‚ transformed in Western clothes.
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the rest of the world aspired to organize itself – stating that it’s becoming a kind of universal standard. The introduction dove into the reasons for Western Europe after the fifteenth century trumping the outwardly superior empires of the Orient and Ferguson provides several examples as to why this was. Some of those contributing factors being financial intermediaries and good government. Though he stated that a civilization needed a great standard of living and quality of life‚ he contradicts
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Nagib Gonzalez World Civ Section F: The east and west differences emerged from the Greco-Persian war. The idea was that the east stood for despotism and that the west stood for freedom. The eastern and Western conceptualizations still exist but the idea of the East and West in a literal sense is a thing of the past. Today‚ both the Western and Eastern Civilizations influence each other heavily. Western civilization can be compared to modern day Capitalism and the Eastern Civilization can be considered
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Identity Many may think that United States will be the land of opportunities and fairness. Several have spoken highly of America and excepted great freedom and righteous. Even many families had traveled far to be free in America and had left their countries for the better. Many have thought that they would never be treated as animals again. However‚ in the novel When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka‚ her story took place during the World War 2. The novel shows how American has
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M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang exemplifies the beliefs the Western world has over the East. Politically‚ the West believes they can be a dominating force by intervening in all Eastern affairs through the use of weapons. Socially‚ Western cultures and traditions have entered the Eastern world‚ impacting the daily lives of the Chinese people. The white man has displayed inappropriate behavior over the traditional oriental woman by controlling every aspect of her life. In Hwang’s M. Butterfly‚ there
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Orientalism and Imperialism have dominated the psyche of both the Western and Arab/Muslim worlds respectively. Combined with the inherent fear resulting from each world’s history of aggression with the other‚ this creates an inevitable conflict between the two civilizations. Orientalism plagues the Western world’s consciousness through the portrayal of Arab/Muslim society as one filled with violent‚ misogynistic men and a female population that exists solely to serve the men’s every need. Imperialism
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In his book The Geography of Thought‚ Richard Nisbett examines how the cognitive processes of eastern and western cultures organize knowledge to make sense of the world. By east the author usually means Far East Asian cultures such as Japan‚ China‚ and Korea. By west he means most of Europe and America. This is an important topic as cultural diversity continues to become a critical part of business and life around the world. Nisbett states that Westerners are more object-based thinkers‚ while
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