Instructions for the paper:

Please follow below requirement and question to write this paper

You are required to write a one-page essay about one of the texts we’ve read in the first section of the course “Culture Matters”. Provides a short review of the texts assigned on “Culture Matters,” which should include a brief summary of its contents and a comment on its relation to the overall subject of the course

Text: Amartya Sen, “Civilizational Imprisonments: How To Misunderstand Everybody in the World”
(I will upload the text on additional materials.)

Your essay should be a summary of the text, focusing on:
1. the main argument of the text;
2. followed by some of the main points through which the author is demonstrating their argument;
3. and, finally, concluding by relating the text to the larger goals of the course (which we have discussed in sections – look once again to the course description!).

Here are some guiding questions for you:
1. What is the main argument of the author in the text you have chosen? (Present in your own words the main thesis of the text!)
2. What kinds of evidence, examples or illustrations are presented by the author to demonstrate the argument?
3. What are some of the crucial concepts employed that contribute to the main argument?
4. What is at stake in the text? What do you think the goals of the author are?
5. How does the text relate to the general goals of the course?

** Don’t copy any viewpoint from website, please use your own words to interpretations and analysis.

Course Description:

This course examines the relationship between the conception and articulation of culture in this particular moment of global history and the quest for normative values. It is premised on the belief that many people throughout the world have been forced by current history to rethink the cultural meaning of difference (social, sexual, religious, moral, ethnic, political, gender, etc.), that is, to reflect more deeply on how the category of difference is constructed, empowered, evaluated, appropriated, and deployed in specific contexts. This new thinking not only about, but from, difference has also raised fresh questions about what binds human beings together, whether they share anything in common, how they are to be differentiated from one another, and what prevents these recognitions from occurring.

Acknowledging the worldwide fact of diversity has inevitably thrown into bold relief the issue as to whether there is anything that can rightly be claimed to be universally human. But this has raised further issues:
• Should that common or general human element be considered an essence or an aptitude, a set of traits or a practice, a disposition or a feeling?
• Can it be defined in any other than universalized forms?
• Do we actually need answers to such questions to live an acceptable human life?
• Is it possible to discover, define, or establish what might be called “fundamental values” capable of being shared across cultural divides without succumbing to solutions that are absolutist, totalizing or essentialist?

This course is divided into five sections, all taking up a different aspect of the relationship suggested by the title of the course and each leading from one to the next. There will thus be a kind of cumulative logic to our discussions, which will begin with a consideration how and why culture matters both in general and in this specific historical moment in the 21st century; next explore ways in which culture has been employed ideologically as an instrument of emancipation and oppression under regimes of colonialism; move on to explore ways that culture has been employed as a form of resistance in these and other partriarchal regimes by women; address the crucial connection in our time between culture and violence in general; proceed to consider the pain and suffering this so often brings to others and whether that pain is sharable; and finally tackle the question of whether any e