Analysis Of Andhurati Roy's 'Primitve Culture'

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“To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, (or for that matter anti-Indian, or anti-Timbuktuan) is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination. An inability to see the world in terms other than those that the establishment has set out for you: If you're not a Bushie you're a Taliban. If you don't love us, you hate us. If you're not Good you're Evil. If you're not with us, you're with the terrorists”. (Andhurati Roy) Andhurati Roy, famous book writer, novelist, political activis and a critique has written such a beautiful piece. It is the real expression of what one can cll “expression of freedom”. In her article, Roy has focused centrally on how the world is centrally been revolving around capitalism and and how culture of one is considered to be superior then the other. It can be related back to “Primitve culture”, written by Edward B.Tylor. in his article, Tylor mentions how primitive and barbaric the culture of the other is and how civilized the culture of the white …show more content…

Dreading an assault from America, one million subjects have fled from their homes and landed at the fringe in the middle of Pakistan and Afghanistan. In America there has been unpleasant talk of "besieging Afghanistan again to the stone age". Through the years, through the ISI, the CIA subsidized and enlisted very nearly 100,000 radical mojahedin from 40 Islamic nations as fighters for America's intermediary war. Common war in Afghanistan boiled over on. The barren scene of Afghanistan was the cemetery of Soviet socialism and the springboard of an unipolar world commanded by America. Pakistan excessively has endured gigantically. Pakistan's economy is disintegrating. Operation Enduring Freedom is apparently being battled to maintain the American Way of Life. What is Osama bin Laden? He's America's family mystery. He is the American president's nightmare . The heroin utilized by America's medication addicts originates from

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