Comments by "" (@Ba-pb8ul) on "How Immigrants Became 'Bad'" video.

  1. Another good documentary. I would tend to stress modernity, though. Philosophers and Enlightenment thinkers like Herder stressed volk and nation, along with reason. Edward Said notes how the rise of the values of the Occidental means denoting the alterity of the Oriental mind-set as somehow more sensuous and mysterious. These ideas are invigorated by colonialism and the justified exploitation of new lands. Interestingly, even science isn't safe - phrenology and Darwin - opening up a broader discussion of how it exists as a secondary quality to the primary, more phenomenological basis of meaning. I will argue against the naturalism of migration, btw. It's been a long while since we were hunter-gatherers. We move because of a system - capitalism - and it's important to address its historical basis if you are attempting to diagnose solutions (such as supporting people "on the ground.")
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