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CULTURAL DIVERSITY See also Humor-Anthropology

• by Don L. F. Nilsen

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THE COLOR PURPLE MODEL

• G. L. Robinsons Color Purple model is based on
  a very powerful metaphor. The model uses color
  symbolism to state that there are three lenses a
  language learner can use in viewing a new
  culture.
• It can be viewed through the eyes of the native
  culture (the blue lens), or through the eyes of
  the target culture (the red lens), or through
  bilingual eyes that compare, contrast, and blend
  the two cultures (the purple lens).

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• Only the purple lens (which is based on both the
  red and the blue lens) provides the complete
  picture, and only the purple lens is a dynamic
  and variable model that can accommodate
  differences of gender, ethnicity, immigration,
  and multiculturalism.
• (Robinson 117)

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SOME HISTORICAL CONSIDERATIONS

• Discuss the history of religion in America.
• Discuss American imigration and porous borders to
  the North and to the South.
• Discuss color symbolism as it relates to
  ethnicity and gender. What is the significance
  of black, white, purple, blue, blonde, yellow,
  red, etc.

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AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

• For each of the following marginalized groups,
  discuss the development of rights, and discuss
  the affect of affirmative action on the
  development of these rights.
• Women
• Gays
• Blacks
• Hispanics
• Native Americans
• Asians

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POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE FACE

• Positive face is for social bonding. Negative
  face is for autonomy and power. Explain how face
  is used differently by the following groups
• Women
• Gays
• Blacks
• Hispanics
• Native Americans
• Asians

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ENGLISH ONLY VS. CULTURAL DIVERSITY

• What are the advantages of the English-only
  movement?
• What are the advantages of cultural diversity?
• Is there a middle ground?

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CONTRAST CHINESE AND ENGLISH

• Contrast Chinese I and English I
• Chinese cant hear Americans at all the
  language is too soft and western music
  unhearable. Ive watched a Chinese audience
  laugh, visit, talk-story, and holler during a
  piano recital (Clark, 17)

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BILINGUAL ISSUES

• Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of your
  native language or dialect in terms of mountains
  and trails, and streams.
• Should America be considered a melting pot, or
  an salad in terms of bilingualism?

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!SHAKESPEARE IN THE BUSH

• Sometime, concluded the old man, gathering his
  ragged toga about him, you must tell us some
  more stories of your country. We, who are
  elders, will instruct you in their true meaning,
  so that when you return to your own land your
  elders will see that you have not been sitting in
  the bush, but among those who know things and who
  have taught you wisdom.
• (Clark, 35)

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!!BASIL BERNSTEIN

• Basil Bernstein distinguished between a
  restricted code and an elaborated code.
  Explain.

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!!!BENJAMIN WHORF HENRY LOUIS GATES

• CONTRAST Linguistic Determinism, or Linguistic
  Relativity.
• Discuss Henry Louis Gates The Signifying Monkey.
  
• What is signifying, and how does it advantage
  marginalized groups?
• What is Prototype Theory? What is marking
  and how does it advantage eccentric characters in
  sit coms, etc.?

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• Web Sites
• Margaret Cho Talks about Race
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vkc6mLwOa2Ig
• History of Religion
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vx-sIF78QYCI
• George Lopez Talks about Fast Food
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vv56vwp3r-hE
• Carlos Mencia
• http//www.comedycentral.com/shows/mind_of_mencia/
  index.jhtml

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• Stuff White People Like
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v-3FZhobYTXIfeature
  -related
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vvk0C_U6RqEYfeature
  related
• Yiddish with Dick and Jane
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vNlO5vUS5KnU

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RELATED PowerPoint

• Humor in Anthropology/Ethnic Humor

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• References
• Boskin, Joseph, and Joseph Dorinson. Ethnic
  Humor Subversion and Survival. American
  Quarterly 37.1 (1985) 81-97.
• Caldas, Stephen and Suzanne Caron-Caldas
  Rearing Bilingual Children in a Monolingual
  Culture A Louisiana Experience (Clark 1998
  514-525).
• Clark, Virginia, Paul Eschholz, and Alfred Rosa.
  Language Readings in Language and Culture, 6th
  Edition. New York, NY St. Martins Press, 1998.
• Bohannan, Laura. Shakespeare in the Bush (Clark
  1998 27-40) .
• Cunha, Edite. Talking in the New Land (Clark
  1998 3-12).
• Davies, Christie. The Mirth of Nations. New
  Brunswick, NJ Transaction, 2002.

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• Eschholz, Paul, Alfred Rosa, and Virginia Clark.
  Language Awareness Readings for College Writers,
  10th Edition. Boston, MA Bedford/St. Martins,
  2009.
• Eschholz, Paul, Alfred Rosa, and Virginia Clark.
  Language Awareness Readings for College Writers,
  10th Edition. New York, NY Bedford/St. Martins,
  2009.
• Doloff, Steven. Racism and the Risks of Ethnic
  Humor (Eschholz 2005 273-275).
• Erdem, Ebru. Culture Learning and Teaching in
  the ESL College Writing Classroom A Model for
  Second Culture Acquisition. Portfolio Paper.
  Tempe, AZ ASU, April 10, 2006.
• Eschholz, Paul, Alfred Rosa, and Virginia Clark.
  Prejudice, Discrimination, and Stereotypes.
  Language Awareness Readings for College Writers,
  Ninth Edition. Boston, MA Bedford/St. Martins,
  2005, 215-290.

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• Farnlof, Allie. English Language Graffiti and
  Verbal Humor in Modern Day Romanian and Moldovan
  Society. Tempe, AZ LIN 515 Paper, April 11,
  2006.
• Hadjistassou, Stella. Cultural Diversity.
  Tempe, AZ PowerPoint Presentation, April 7,
  2006.
• Hale, Constance. How Do You Say Computer in
  Hawaiian? (Clark 1998 503-513).
• Jones, Rachel. Not White, Just Right (Clark
  1998 489-491).
• Kingston, Maxine Hong. Finding a Voice (Clark
  1998 13-18).
• Leveen, Lois. Only When I Laugh Textual
  Dynamics of Ethnic Humor. MELUS 21.4 (1996)
  29-55.

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• Lord, Nancy Native Tongues (Clark 1998
  19-26).
• Lowe, John. Theories of Ethnic Humor How to
  Enter Laughing. American Quarterly 38.3 (1986)
  439-460.
• Mey, Jacob L. Pragmatics Second Edition. Malden,
  MA Blackwell, 2001.
• Nilsen, Alleen Pace, and Don L. F. Nilsen.
  Encyclopedia of 20th Century American Humor.
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• Popa, Diana-Elena. Jokes in Translation.
  Perspectives Studies in Translatology 13 (2005)
  48-57.
• Raskin, Victor. The Primer of Humor Research. New
  York, NY Mouton de Gruyter, 2008.

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• Robinson, G. L. Second Culture Acquisition. in
  Linguistics and Language Pedagogy The State of
  the Art. Ed. James E. Alatis. Washington, DC
  Georgetown University Press, 1991, 114-122.
• Rodriguez, Richard. Bilingual Education
  Outdated and Unrealistic (Clark 1998
  479-482).
• Schiffrin, Deborah. Approaches to Discourse.
  Malden, MA Blackwell, 1994.
• Whittemore, Katharine. Saving California
  Languages (Clark 1998 492-502).
• Ziv, Avner, ed. National Styles of Humor. New
  York, NY Greenwood Press, 1988.