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The Role of Women in Cultural Imperialism

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Edited by: Si Yu Wang

Table of Contents The Role of Women in Cultural Imperialism 1 Introduction 2 Emily S Lee 4 Yasuko Kase 6 Sabelo J, Ndlovu-Gatsheni 8 Soumik, Saha 10 Gustafsson, Kristina 12

Introduction

The main theme of this work is to determine the role that was played by women in cultural imperialism. Cultural imperialism as used in the context refers to the imposition of features of one's own culture on another nondominant community by a more powerful community. There are many components of a community's culture that are separate from the economic and political institutions that create the other society, such as customs, traditions, religious conventions, language, and social and moral values. When the dominant community exerts its dominance over another population by either modifying or replacing components of their culture, it is an example of imperialism. Both men and women had active role in imperialism with each of the gender having a distinct position. Therefore, the study aims at answering the question: What was the role of women in cultural imperialism? Each author highlighted in the discussion has a distinct way of answering the raised question. (Ndlovu-Gatsheni and Sabelo provides components of cultural imperialism and outlines areas in which the women occupy in each of the components towards promoting cultural imperialism. (Gustafsson, Saha and Nadeau) describes the role of women in parenting based on societal values and the barriers that women overcame in their contribution to cultural imperialism. Lee focuses on the role of women in domestic responsibility. This all contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of the role of women. This also plays a huge role in comparing the role played by women back then and how it relates to their role today. Understanding the role of women in imperialism is important as it shows the foundation of women’s role in active politics. Today, there has been equal share in political power and leadership all of which started during imperialism.

Emily S Lee

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Emily Riordan Lee is an Irish author. She grew up immersed in literature thanks to her poet father and novelist mother, both of whom raised her in Dublin in the mid-1950s. Despite being the model minority, Asian American women's incomes remain lower than those of their male counterparts, and Asian American women are often stereotyped as being overburdened with household duties. As a result, it is difficult to determine Asian American women's specific social level. This essay examines Asian American women's sense of self-identity to shed light on these discrepancies in statistics. Given how closely an individual's sense of self-awareness is tied to his or her group identity, it's no surprise that the association of Asian American identity with a particular social class renders her ambiguously inauthentic—as both the poor Asian American woman who struggles to rise out of poverty and the model minority Asian American woman who actively assimilates. Feminist philosophers are aware that people's identities shift throughout time, but they aren't sure how this happens. With this conclusion, the author offers three thoughts on the difficulty of recognizing and executing individual acts that modify one's group identity.

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Yasuko Kase

Sabelo J, Ndlovu-Gatsheni

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African epistemology professor Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni teaches at the University of Bayreuth in Germany, where he holds a chair in global south epistemology. When he was at the University of South Africa (UNISA), he served as a professor of leadership and transformational studies and the director of scholarship for the Principal and Vice-Office. Chancellor's In addition, he was a 2019 Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg's Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS) (UJ). With more than one hundred publications in African history, African politics, African development, and decolonial theory, he is one of the world's foremost experts on decolonial thought. The article focuses in various dynamics on decolonization. While decolonization in the twentieth century was aimed at "the physical empire," decoloniality today focuses on "the metaphysical empire," which is a new goal for decolonization. The 'commercial-non-territorial-military empire,' with its ravenous desire for strategic economic resources, coexists alongside the ‘metaphysical empire.' Metaphysical empires operate and thrive by invading and conquering the world's mental cosmos. That causes epistemicide, language killing, and cultural imperialism to be unleashed.

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Soumik, Saha

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Soumik Saha is a consultant at Ernest and Young. He is from Kolkata, West Bengal in India. Also, he is a data analytics engineer with vast knowledge and knowledge in artificial intelligence (AI). This puts the author in a better position to understand the dynamics used in running media operations and organizations. This includes the aspect of ethics and the needed values in enhancing a successful global community. Also, he describes the different roles played by genders in developing media success across the world. This brings in the idea of imperialism and the role of women as part of gender towards imperialism in the media industry. Media industry is used as one of the major tools that were used in creating awareness on imperialism among the people and channeling them towards a common course. This is the main perspective from which the article is argued from by the author in describing the role of women in imperialism.

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Gustafsson, Kristina

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An assistant professor at the Department of Social Work at Linnaeus University, Sweden, is Kristina Gustafsson. African Migrants' Responses in South Africa the focus of this essay is on two Swedish programs for selective parenting, both of which were designed by Social Services and a Women's Shelter. The primary demographic is foreign-born parents. Change ideals based on patriarchal ideas in honor is how they describe their desires. Using universal evidence-based parenting programs, as well as a three-part dilemma of offering preventive and normative interventions to specific target groups, the article describes the programs, which are built on the premise that migrant parents have unique needs because of cultural incompatibility. An investigation of how parenting programs for this target demographic could be understood as cultural imperialist practices or democratic practices in social work is the goal of this study. Cultural imperialism contributes to oppression, whereas democratic practices provide a counterweight to this are liberating in nature. There is no doubt about the existence of either practice or concurrent.

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