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To what extent can language and perspective influence our knowledge on culture?
Knowledge Question
Assumptions in the KQ
Language does influence our perspectives while acquiring knowledge.
In our real life situation there is a focus on a specific culture, the muslim culture. This
past year there have been issues with factions of the muslim culture and religion
with regards to the terrorist group ISIS.
This has caused people to develop a fixed mindset on the muslim culture.
These events connect to language because of the way the situation is described to
us (by different people, media, social networks, etc.) may change the way in which
we view the culture, and alters how we acquire that knowledge when learning about
the subject without prior knowledge.
In the RLS the muslim woman mentions how previous to her silent protest the
people around her were treating her with kindness however when she stood and
protested the same people began to treat her differently. This shows how impactful
language can be when there is a big influence sharing that perspective.
Ethics
Religion
History
Emotion
Faith
Reason
Language
Reason
Emotion
Perspectives
Language influences
perspectives in a positive
way.
Language influences
perspectives in a negative
way.
Ethics
ethic
(thk) n.
1.a. A set of principles of right conduct.
b. A theory or a system of moral values:
2. ethics (used with a sing. verb) The study
1.
is moral or not
2.
is this acceptable?
3.
Our real life situation connects because the woman approached a crowd
of people whom she knew had certain preferences
We could say that she had knowledge and tried to use different types of
communication and language to change the perception they had on
Islam.
She also spoke to different people
Also, she counted on the knowledge people had before which is a radical
image of muslims and used language to change this mindset.
This connects to ethics because the previous knowledge people had on
muslims affected the way the way the treated her and many other
muslims in an unethical way.
Ethics
Dukan Diet
Pierre Dukan, the French doctor and international diet guru, has been censured by France's
national medical body for failing to observe medical ethics
Since his first weight-loss book was published in France in 2000, 11m copies of his books have
been sold worldwide. The Dukan group behind the diet-coach websites and a range of products
registered a turnover of 38m (33m) in 2012.
Dukan, 72, who has retired as a doctor, was given a week's ban from practising medicine and
ordered to pay 6,000 in legal costs to the complainant.
The drug Mediator is at the centre of one of France's worst-ever pharmaceutical scandals.
The amphetamine derivative was marketed to overweight diabetics but was also prescribed to
healthy women as an appetite suppressant when they wanted to lose a few pounds.
Dukan told the Guardian in an interview last year: "I have been working on this for 42 years and
millions of people have done this diet. I've never heard of anybody's health suffering."
Our AOK connects to our RLS because the RLS is about how there is
misconception in the understanding of the muslim religion and those who
follow it. The muslim woman, Rose Hammid, despite being treated with
disdain, attempted to share her knowledge of the religion and provide people
with a better understanding of who muslims are and the religion they follow
using different ways to communicate.
She wanted to change the perspective of millions of people with a powerful
message, and a powerful action.
Religious
Knowledge
Systems
They Call
me Osama
History
How the AOK connects to the RLS:
In the past, terrorism has affected the USA
People use intuition to predict how terrorism could happen in the
present
The way they see the past directly affects the way they see the
future
History may also be used to create logical fallacies, which in this
case may be to create stereotypes of the muslim people.
History
KJV 1661
NLT 1990
Message has changed through language
WOK Language:
WOK Emotion: The new passages are more emotionally charged,
thus appealing to a wider audience.
Bibles
Language as a WOK
We could say that she had knowledge and tried to use different
types of communication
Personal Example
Emotion as a WOK
Emotion: 1 a strong feeling, such as joy or anger. 2 instinctive feeling as distinguished from
reasoning or knowledge. DERIVATIVES emotionless adjective. ORIGIN originally denoting a
public disturbance: from French, from Latin emovere disturb.
Emotion
Faith as a WOK
Complete trust or confidence in someone or something.
strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual apprehension rather than
proof.
Faith
Reason as a WOK
Reason is our capacity to think think beyond our immediate. We use resoning to build our
knowledge and to evaluate it.
Reason
Logical
Fallacies
Composition/Division
You assumed that one part of
something has to be applied to all,
or other, parts of it; or that the
whole must apply to its parts.
Significance
Throughout exploring our knowledge question we got to conclude that not only
the muslim woman is representative of how language influences our acquisition
of knowledge but also that knowledge and its uses are present in many of our
daily lives. Using different examples like Dukan diet, the Sikh religion and many
others are representative of we trying to communicate. We can therefore
conclude, that language plays a role when acquiring knowledge in many AOKs
Conclusion
Our conclusion implies that in our RLS, the language that the woman had
placed on the sign had a large effect on the people in the rally when they
were acquiring information about the woman. Also, they noticed the
Hijab, which is a marker (stereotype) of the muslim community, thus
making them predisposed to the idea that she was a terrorist. In our
everyday life, we need to be careful about the type of language people
use to communicate, because it might deter us from the real meaning of
their words and change the perception people have.
Work Cited:
Kuruvilla, Carol. "Sikh Filmmaker Takes On Times Square To Teach People About His
Religion." HuffPost Religion. N.p., 24 May 2016. Web. 03 June 2016.
Chrisafis, Angelique. "Dukan Diet Creator Disciplined over Mediator Prescription."
Theguardian. N.p., 09 July 2013. Web. 31 May 2016.
Richardson, Jesse, Andy Smith, Som Meaden, and Flip Creative. "Thou Shalt Not
Commit Logical Fallacies." Thou Shalt Not Commit Logical Fallacies. N.p., n.d. Web. 08
June 2016.