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‘Culture As Cure’ Reading Response
In the reading, “Culture As Cure,” author Vilma Santiago-Irizarry discusses the effect on patients when cultural elements are incorporated into a mental facility. In order to study the effects of “cultural sensitivity,” invoked on the mentally ill, Santiago-Irizarry studied a Hispanic bilingual and bicultural program and its patients.
She ran into many questions surrounding the [… Read More]
Applying Srinivasan ideas to Globalhood – HAF posted by J Rubio
As Srinivasan observes in “Indigenous, ethnic and cultural articulations of new media,” much has been written about the ‘digital divide.’ The discussion has focused on the lack of access in undeserved communities that make less use of technology and new media. He writes that the discussion has been framed around the idea of reinforcing “structures [… Read More]