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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
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Naturalise the imbalance ?
1) Eurocentric discourses means Eurocentric themes/topics?
2) naturalise the imbalance means make the imbalance natural as born-to-be-natural?
Context:
To help further explore this relatonship, let us return briefly to Western cinema where colonial adventures involve colonial sexual desires, which are centred particularly on the display of naked white bodies, bodies of armour and had muscles such as Tarzan, Hercules and Rambo. These white bodies have, throughout the decades, generated a whole set of Eurocentric discourses that naturalise the imbalance of power relationships between the East and the West.
2) naturalise the imbalance means make the imbalance natural as born-to-be-natural?
Context:
To help further explore this relatonship, let us return briefly to Western cinema where colonial adventures involve colonial sexual desires, which are centred particularly on the display of naked white bodies, bodies of armour and had muscles such as Tarzan, Hercules and Rambo. These white bodies have, throughout the decades, generated a whole set of Eurocentric discourses that naturalise the imbalance of power relationships between the East and the West.
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NL888 1) Eurocentric discourses means Eurocentric themes/topics? Yes. NL888 2) naturalise the imbalance means make the imbalance natural as born-to-be-natural?
- NL888 1) Eurocentric discourses means Eurocentric themes/topics?
- Yes.
- NL888 2) naturalise the imbalance means make the imbalance natural as born-to-be-natural?
- " These fictitious characters portray superior strength and prowess which perhaps counteracts or balances the notion that the West was superior in power to the East.
- We really need more context.
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NL8881) Eurocentric discourses means Eurocentric themes/topics?Yes.
NL8882) naturalise the imbalance means make the imbalance natural as born-to-be-natural?I'm not sure what you mean by "born-to-be-natural." Yes, you could say that Tarzan was born to be "natural." I think he was born into a Western urban environment and
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