Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Cultural Reactivism?
Reactive culturalism is defined as a "response [that] entails a strict adherence to a group's traditional laws, norms, and practicies as part of an identity group's active resistance to external forces of change [....] In all, these amount to attempts to more clearly demarcate the group's boundaries by walling it off from the outside world."
And that is what will happen as a result of these marches by the students, with the upside down American flags topped by a flying Mexican flag. The only thing is, that it will be the average voting American (yes, I understand that that concept is "changing") is gonig to be the one to "more clearly demarcate the group's boundaries" by literally "walling it" (think America) "off from the outside world" (think Mexico).
Michelle Malkin had it right: "I predict this stunt will be the nail in the coffin of any guest-worker/amnesty plan on the table in Washington."
(BTW, thanks Garrett, for the MM link)
Currently reading Multicultural Jurisdictions:Cultural Differences and Women's Rights by Ayelet Shachar. He describes three types of responses toward "assimilation pressures" from the state: full assimilation, limited particularism, and reactive culturalism.
Reactive culturalism is defined as a "response [that] entails a strict adherence to a group's traditional laws, norms, and practicies as part of an identity group's active resistance to external forces of change [....] In all, these amount to attempts to more clearly demarcate the group's boundaries by walling it off from the outside world."
And that is what will happen as a result of these marches by the students, with the upside down American flags topped by a flying Mexican flag. The only thing is, that it will be the average voting American (yes, I understand that that concept is "changing") is gonig to be the one to "more clearly demarcate the group's boundaries" by literally "walling it" (think America) "off from the outside world" (think Mexico).
Michelle Malkin had it right: "I predict this stunt will be the nail in the coffin of any guest-worker/amnesty plan on the table in Washington."
(BTW, thanks Garrett, for the MM link)
posted by Laura Keslar at 12:58 PM | |
