British Civilization

male and female modernists is consistent with the interrogation of gender roles that occurred in the modern period. As Miller noted, the modernists worked to “make it new”. “They made it new as a revolutionary reaction to centuries of stolid, British calm. They made it new in an attempt to respond to and reflect the radically, catastrophically altered world pre-, during and post- First World War. They evoked new, interior, idiosyncratically personal voices, within new narrative structures. And

Graphic design, composition and printing: Jed Graphic & Multimédia © UNESCO 2002 • CULTURAL DIVERSITY • 2 Preface I n these troubled times with the world in search of its bearings, and wayward minds using the terms “culture” and “civilization” in an attempt to turn human beings against one another, there is an urgent need to remember how fundamental cultural diversity is to humanity itself. ever-increasing gains in diversity – had opened it up to still living forms of that creative

BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation DRC: Democratic Republic of Congo CNDP UN: United Nations RC Huye: Radio Communautaire de Huye TIP: Trafficking In Person US: United States UNICEF: United Nations Children’s Fund UDHR: Universal Declaration of Human Rights NGO: Non Governmental Organization STD: Sexual Transmissible Disease HIV: Human Immunodeficiency Virus RDRC: Rwandan Demobilization and Reintegration Commission MIFOTRA: Ministry of Public Serve and Labor 1 INTRODUCTION From the birth

like the other self-governing Dominions, has gone into this war with the determination to fight shoulder to shoulder with Great Britain to the finish, under no compulsion save that of conscience and duty and devotion to the ideals of civilization of which the British flag is the symbol[40]. » Selon Dafoe, le Canada ne se bat pas pour la Grande-Bretagne mais avec la Grande-Bretagne et les autres alliés[41]. Dans La Patrie, on dit que le véritable objectif c’est de battre l’Allemagne qu’importe le

rapporteur de binômes, prendra la parole en continu. Une reprise collective pourra avoir ensuite lieu. Productions possibles : The first picture corresponds to someone who loves solitude, deserted beaches, being on his / her own, being lonely, away from civilization. This person certainly enjoys going on holiday on an exotic island, fishing, swimming, sailing, scuba-diving. This person loves nature, living close to nature, in the wilderness. It’s about a surfer, someone who enjoys taking risks / having thrilling

own thing": The world of immanent humanity, 65 Learning humanity, 70 56 Chapter 5 The Invention of Society Cultural "change": Social convention as inventive flow, 76 The invention of language, 77 The invention of society, 83 The rise of civilizations, 90 76 Chapter 6 The Invention of Anthropology The allegory of man, 95 95 3 Controlling culture, 99 Controlling nature, 102 The end of synthetic anthropology, 106 Index 112 4 Preface The idea that man invents his

music-lovers, for the truth-servers. Money-power or earthly name and fame cannot lord it over these two immortal realities, these two earthly and heavenly treasures. Music sometimes plays an important role in the practice of religion. In ancient civilizations it has been found that the pharaonic rites included music, seen on the tombs of many pharaohs and noblemen. In other religions, such as Judaism and Christianity, people use music as an integral part in the performance of their worship and religious

comment of disgust about his native region. But Naipaul's discourse should be analyzed, not in terms of binaries, but by taking into account sociological and historical realities. Let us look at the quote: "For nothing was created in the British West Indies, no civilization as in Spanish America, no great revolution as in Haiti or the American colonies. There were only plantations, prosperity, decline, neglect: the size of the islands called for nothing else" (27). If analyzed from the philosophical

would do their duty to make life better. The location where they arrived goes by the name of Plymouth Rock. This pilgrimage became what is known today as only the second successful colony in North America and what was until independence the oldest British colony in America dating back to 1620. I believe the author’s intent was to make an ironic comparison between the arrival of the Pilgrims and the present day issue of immigration in the United States. When the Pilgrims arrived, not only did the Indians

Britain gambled that its multicultural approach to immigrants was superior to France’s forced assimilationist model. But with the discovery of one terrorist plot after another being planned by British Muslims, as well as the deadly transportation bombings that took place in London on July 7, 2005, British public and security officials have begun to question the wisdom of their « Londonistan » approach to Muslim integration.[3] Similarly, until recently, officials in Berlin believed that Germany was