The immensely wide range of backgrounds and experiences among the group of 20+ students who attended illustrated just how enriched our discussions and critiques of Classical content could be if diverse perspectives were encouraged in the decision
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For background on the discussion, have a read of these articles:
@kataplexis ’s blogpost, ‘On the History of Western Civilization, part 1’: https://rfkclassics.blogspot.com/2019/04/on-history-of-western-civilization-part.html …@KAnthonyAppiah ‘s There is No Such Thing as Western Civilisation’:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/09/western-civilisation-appiah-reith-lecture …Prikaži ovu nit -
“What is western is white, heteronormative, rich, and also English - language, and the dominance of English, plays a huge role in our understanding of the west”
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How does the binary definition of West and East deal with central European slavic countries? Are these Western? Is Russia? And how much of this is as a result of the Cold War
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It is not a coincidence that use of the term “Western Civilisation” spikes during the Cold War
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“For the Romans, to be ‘Eastern’ is to be non-Roman” Ie. To be from the ‘East’ is to be other
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“This rhetoric is even in Japan now in the idea that we have abandoned the East and want to be part of the West. In Asia there’s a struggle modernise, where to be modern is to be Western”
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“There are defined lines about who is allowed to be Western and if you want to be Western, you have to give something up to assimilate”
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“Distinctions of East and West are always used along the lines of what is right and what is wrong; a binary of good and bad whete all the qualities that are considered good will be appropriated into so-called western culture”
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Linking moral goodness and the West is essentially a justification for imperialism and the subjugation of other peoples
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“There can be no West because the idea of the West is constructed by different people and different times. Who is included and excluded by the West is whoever the person with the most power says is included and excluded”
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“It is a label created by the West, for the West”
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“It is a term used for oppression and empire building”
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“There is huge intentionality in the way that Classics has been constructed as Western”
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“Colonisers didn’t want to humanise the people they were colonising so they had to make a distinction between ‘us’ and ‘them’.“
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“People care about maintaining hierarchy because it keeps certain people out”
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In the myth that Greece and Rome handed civilisation to the West, “we haven’t thought about literature and history in a linear form, but have made a huge jump to modern Europe” which neglects the centuries in between and conveniently, the contributions of Islam to the discipline
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