Essays on Diop

Part1

Primitive and alienated from the rest of the world. Hegel viewed Africa as a world enveloped on a dark mantle of the night. It is a land shut-up from the rest of the world and often presumed to be static from development perspectives.

Stereotypes associated with Africa includes being under-developed, unhistorical, wild, and untamed.

Definition of terms Assimilation means an adaptation of a minority group to the norms or directions of a larger group. In this case, the way of life of the minor group becomes similar to that of the dominant one (Brubaker, 534). Acculturation is the contact between individual members of groups with different cultures that produce a ...

Multicultural Literature and Curriculum in Primary Grades

One book that can be useful in teaching multicultural education to primary grade children is ‘How to Define Cultural Diversity’ by Cheikh Diop. I choose this book because it is nonfiction and most of the terms are clearly defined for easy understanding. For instance, Diop begins by defining multiculturalism and cultural identity. One learning objective in the book that is appropriate for primary grade children is based on how it emphasizes the assertion that an individual’s personality is mainly composed of their linguistic, psychological, and historical forms, which every child can relate to (Diop, 1991). Diop also outlines ...

Many people set morally high standards for educated people. This is fundamentally because we are raised to believe that education makes people “ladies” and “gentlemen”. Hence, there are things that are considered to be “below” some of the most educated and elite people. In spite of this, there are many things that points that the reverse is true. One can hardly rationalize the reason why the most literate and most elite nation on earth, Germany perpetrated the Holocaust in the 1930s and 1940s. This paper argues that although education often leads to enlightenment, it does not necessarily equal to ...