Comment from Susan
Ellie ArsenaultFebruary 12, 2011English Composition 110JAppiah 1. Cosmopolitanism is the thought that hamnus are obligated to understand each other cultures, to live as one, and to respect not just the society as a whole, but also the individuals that make it up.“So there are two ways to intertwine in the notion of cosmopolitanism. One is the idea that we have obligations to others, obligations that stretch beyond those to whom we are related by the ties of kith and kind, or even the more formal ties of a shared citizenship. The other is that we take seriously the value not just of human life but of particular human lives, which means taking an interest in the practices and beliefs that lend them significance” (Appiah 59).2. Appiah writes about his childhood in Kumasi to help him develop the idea that cosmopolitanism is not whats needed, conversation is. He talks about the culturally differences of the people he came across in his town, and for most of them, he was very comfortable with because they grew up around him, but the strangers he talks about were strangers only because they came from foreign places. “It begins with the simple idea that in the human community, as in national communities, we need to develop habits of coexistence: conversation in its older meaning, of living together, association” (Appiah 61). “Cosmopolitanism is an adventure and an ideal: But you can’e have any respect for human diversity and expect everyone to become cosmopolitan” (Appiah 62). 3. To put practice first means the ability to “agree about practices while disagreeing about their justification” (Appiah 63). The idea being that regardless of how right or wrong something is, we should practice to understand it to coexist with our surrounding cultures. I disagree with, “Understanding one another may be hard; it can certainly be interesting. But it doesn’t require that we come to an agreement” (Apphia 68), only because certain topics like homosexuality being viewed as “perverse” is something that I do not think deserves the time of day for me to “understand” why people think that. Someday there will need to be agreement to pass the law that homosexuals can get married and looked upon the same as straight couples.a0 I do agree that people need to practice understand other peoples ways of living though. 4. An example Appiah uses is Muslim women regarding the extent to which they are covered up. To the Muslim community, the American films and media is indecent. Appiah explains the force that the American culture has on the Muslim culture, “I believe that women, like men, should have the vote, should be entitled to work outside their homes, should be protected from the physical abuse of men But I also know that the changes that these freedoms would bring will change the balance of power between men and women in everyday life” (Appiah 71). Appiah uses this example to further his point that understanding a culture is more important that trying to change it. 5. The first paragraph on page 60, I don’t fully understand the significance towards his point he is trying to make by adding this in. “And the one though that cosmopolitans share that share is that no local loyalty can ever justify forgetting that each human being is responsibilities to every other. Fortunately, we need take sides neither with the nationalist who abandons all foreigners nor with the hardcore cosmopolitan who regards her friends and fellow citizens with icy impartiality” (Appiah)The quote by Daniel Deronda simply didn’t make sense to me:“It was as if he had found an added soul in finding ancestry his judgment no longer wandering in the mazes of impartial sympathy, but choosing, with the noble partiality which is man’s best strength, the closer fellowship that makes sympathy practical exchanging the bird’s-eye reasonableness ” (60)
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Hello,I am a former YWAMer who did my DTS in 1990 in Honolulu Hawaii. I am now marired and my husband has never had a DTS. We have been praying and thinking about a Crossroads program as we are 48 & 51 years old, with no children. We are American's. We are also called to serve in Half Assini Ghana, the far Western region of the Nzema people. We are in the process of applying with Pioneers mission org but are considering a DTS-or Crossroads with YWAM for the training and also to be able to be YWAMers and do further training and study as God directs us. Are the directors of your school Ghanaian or American? I read a little bit about them on your webiste and am wondering about that. What are the ages of the people in the DTS that you have in Kumasi? Do you allow older people like us to do the DTS? We have been to Kumasi several times and know some Christians in the region who go get training there with a specific denomination. Thank you for your time and God Bless,Bernie Hackett
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is this the same grace kumasi who also goes with the name grace adobea?? who is supposedly in Accra?
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