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Week 2 Article Critique: Identity Politics

In the article, there were numerous areas that were marked for being un-cited bringing the credibility of the information of the article into question. Some of the citations were unreliable as well. For example, when discussing the 2016 Trump campaign, the author used an opinion piece from the Washington Post as a source. This is an inappropriate source because it is written from a personal point of view rather than presenting facts. Moreover, there was the use of a long quote from the Combahee River Collective that I considered plagiarism or copyright infringement. The quote could have been paraphrased or left out completely.

Beside this I found the article to me limited in its scope, particularly in the Art and Culture subsection. An entire paragraph was dedicated to skinhead culture while hip-hop was only discussed in two sentences in which the author digressed from the point at hand many times. Neither skinhead culture nor hip-hop were appropriately cited.

Overall I found the introduction of the article hard to follow. This section is meant to give a general idea of the topic of the article and define the issue at hand. However, the article never seemed to give a general definition to what identity politics is. LBrook (talk) 05:54, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

Week 3 Article Edit: Women in the Arab Spring

in the "Cyberactivism and social media" subsection of the article Women in the Arab Spring, I added one sentence about how the women's increased use of social media during the Arab Spring demonstrations highlighted the activities of individual female activists during the conflict. The article itself was very well written. Most of what was mentioned in this subsection discusses the spread of news and women's increased involvement in the demonstrations via social media; however, my addition speaks about how this use of social media brought attention to not only the happenings of the Arab Spring but the women involved.

Week 4: Article Selection

Articles from Culture stubs

• Cultural mulatto

I was able to find an article that responded to The New Black Aesthetic by Trey Ellis from Habiba Ibrahim. A responses section or opposition section could be added to this article.

• Xenocentrism

To this article I wanted to add a section about the economic impact of xenocentrism. I found a few articles that reference how xenocentrsim affects consumer purchases and choices.

From Racism category under Identity Politics category

• Gendered racism

One thing this article needs is the inclusion of citations which I could add. Besides this, I wanted to add subsections for how gendered racism is manifested and affects different groups besides African American women, which is what the article focuses on, including Asian men, Black men, and Latinos/as.

• Ethnic nepotism

The article currently focuses on the sociobiological explanation for ethnic nepotism. I want to include a section on the political impacts of ethnic nepotism. In the talk section of the page, it was suggested that a criticism section be added. I do not have any sources for this yet.

Rough Draft-Additions to Xenocentrism

Original Text from Article

Xenocentrism is the preference for the products, styles, or ideas of someone else's culture rather than of one's own. The concept is considered a subjective view of cultural relativism. One example is the romanticization of the noble savage in the 18th-century primitivism movement in European art, philosophy and ethnography.

Origin of the term: Xenocentrism was coined by American sociologists Donald P. Kent and Robert G. Burnight in the 1952 paper "Group Centrism in Complex Societies" published in the American Journal of Sociology. The term remained obscure but considered useful and occasionally used by other sociologists. The University of Florida treats it as a key term of Sociology. The term is opposed to ethnocentrism, as coined by 19th-century American sociologist William Graham Sumner, which describes the natural tendencies of an individual to place disproportionate worth upon the values and beliefs of one's own culture relative to others. In his doctoral dissertation, Steven James Lawrence suggests it may be an influential in making consumers buying decisions as they might have "favorable orientations to products from outside their membership group. Puja Mondal cited some examples from India: "People in India often assume that British lifestyle (dress pattern, etc.), French fashion or Japanese electronic devices (TV, tape recorders, mobile set, washing machines, etc.) and Swiss watches are superior to their own." —  Grace Susetyo suggests "the idea that foreign cultures and their elements are superior to the local" causes a crisis of cultural identity among Western-educated Indonesians and is a problem that needs to be eradicated. The Academy of International Business is studying "out of group favoritism and in-group derogation" as a consumer effect in the Chinese consumer market.

Addition to introduction

Xenocentrism is countered by ethnocentrism, viewing one's own society as a frame of reference for all others. . Both xenocentrism and ethnocentrism are a subjective take on Cultural relativism.

Additions to Origin of the term section

Kent and Burnight state that feelings of xenocentrism are caused by three possible factors; individuals who have familial ties to a foreign country, specifically 2nd or 3rd generation immigrants, those who oppose the political choices of their native country, an example of this being the Communist Party USA whom idealized the Soviet Union and its anti-capitalist government, and individuals who are exposed to other cultures and grow disenchanted with and rebel against their own society.

New section: Consumer Xenocentrism

George Balabanis and Adamantios Diamantopoulos further defined consumer xenocentrism to be a multi-dimensional construct by which to explain consumers liking for foreign products. They explain consumer xenocentrism to be rooted in two concpets, perceived inferiority of domestic goods and aggrandized perception of foreign products.

Consumer Xenocentrism Scales

In his doctoral dissertation, Lawrence uses the definition of xenocentrism, conceived by Kent and Burnight, to describe consumer behavior and propose a potential scale, CXENO, to predict trends. The most recently proposed scale to quantity xenocentric consumer tendencies, XSCALE, includes both instances of social and consumer xenocentrism. Economists have have begun to include consumer xenocentrism, along with other consumer centrisms such as consumer ethnocentrism and consumer cosmopolitanism, in their analysis of consumer behavior.