ovde - vera znanje mir

Istok - zapad
Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Kristina Anđelić
Razmisljajuci o temi koja se bavila evropskim identitetom, i imajuci u vidu da se skola bavi
pokusajima pomirenja razlicitih obicaja, merila drustveno prihvatljivog ponasanja, i vrednosnih
stavova, setila sam se jedne zanimljive knjige, u kojoj su na zanimljiv nacin oslikane velike
kulturoloske razlike izmedju istoka i zapada, i koliko su teski napori prihvatanja novog. Mozda
nije direktno vezana za temu ove skole, ali ipak bih preporucila Perl Bak - Istocni vetar zapadni
vetar.
Dodajem i sumiran sadrzaj knjige koji sam nasla na internetu.
Plot summary
Kwei-lan is put into an arranged marriage, but her husband is not what she expects. They do not
live in her parents’ courts (which was expected in China then). He is a medical doctor and does
not seem to take interest in her until after she asks him to unbind her feet. After they bond, they
have a son together.
Kwei-lan has an older brother who has been living in America for a few years. He has a friend
write back to his family that he has married an American woman (his parents have already
selected a Chinese woman for him to marry when he returns to China).
Kwei-lan’s brother and his wife Mary go to China to see if they can convince his family to accept
her. The family will not accept her, and tell him to give her money and send her back to America.
Kwei-lan’s brother has not fulfilled his duty in his parents’ eyes, and soon his wife Mary is
pregnant with their first child.
The climax is when Kwei-lan’s mother dies, and the family tells him that if he does not send Mary
back to America and marry his betrothed, then he will be disinherited. He refuses, leaves his
family’s courts for good, and live in an apartment near to Kwei-lan’s house. The baby is born, and
ties together his parents’ hearts (and two cultures).
“Helping the Jews is not an easy thing to do.” Vatican Holocaust
Policy: Continuity or Change?
Thursday, February 14th, 2008
“Helping the Jews is not an easy thing to do.” Vatican Holocaust Policy: Continuity or Change?
Preuzeto sa adrese http://hgs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/3/421
Popular beliefs as reflected in “merits of Palestine and Syria”
literature: pilgrimage ceremonies and customs in the Mamluk and
Ottoman periods
Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Popular beliefs as reflected in “merits of Palestine and Syria” literature: pilgrimage ceremonies
and customs in the Mamluk and Ottoman periods
Preuzeto sa adrese http://jis.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/19/1/59.pdf
Rasizam, rasna borba i rasisticka teorija elite
Thursday, February 14th, 2008