TO ALL MY ETHICAL PEEPS...
How is CR noticeable in the personality and character of Lauren...?! Think in terms of why she accepted the assignment and what her personal agenda really is. EXPLAIN WELL IN 7-10 SENTENCES.
I want your responses in no later than midnight tonight please. CIAO!!!
Mr. A
Jimmy:
ReplyDeleteCultural Relativism is in the personality of Lauren in a way that Lauren hesitated when she was introduce to the assignment of finding out the unsolved mystery that's going on in a dangerous border town. And quite frankly, she shares an opinion with the public in her culture, that going to such an undeveloped poor place isn't a good idea. And that's where the Cultural Relativism took place in. However, in the end Lauren still accepted the request, but while wanting to help out the people is part of the reason, she also gets what she wanted in return, so a big part is also Lauren doing it for herself.
At first, Lauren did not want the assignment of covering the incidents in Juarez. As a woman who was heavily influenced by the "well developed and civilized" culture of USA, Lauren was indifferent towards the news in Mexico. The culture also influenced her belief that no one would actually care about the incidents in Mexico. However, once Lauren got to Mexico and heard the truth about the news, Lauren faced an ontological shock, which slowly divert her to the culture of "women". As a woman herself, Lauren fully understand how the women in Juarez felt. Therefore, after she changed her perception to be from "women" culture instead of US culture, Lauren became very emotionally connected to the idea of she had to expose the truth to help women in the border town. The part we watched to showed the development in Lauren's view of the incident. It was clearly stated how different culture influence a person's belief and how someone views the world.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, Lauren is the blonde woman who has the conversation with the boss. The purpose for this conversation perhaps is that she desires to accept the assignment to investigate the murders at the border between Juarez and America because she wants to have a foreign correspondence job. According to the conversation, it can be interpreted that she is a negligible person who doesn't care others. Moreover, she wants this job due to her own benefits, which can depict her negligence towards other people. By the definition of cultural relativism, she lives in the culture that does not really care about people. Also, those who live in the same culture, based on the definition of cultural relativism, believe that what they believe is right for them. As a result, she is used to that culture and shows off her personality that she neglects people.
ReplyDeleteIn the movie, the main character Lauren was an overly ambitious woman who cares only for her career. Because of this, she often does not have sympathy for others' feelings. In fact, the only reason she took the job investigating the murders in Juarez was because of the job opportunity, not genuine interest or curiosity. She believes that as long as she gets her way in life, she would be happy and her life would be fulfilled. Her personality therefore shows that she does not care for other cultures besides her own, which is similar to the stance that cultural relativists take. She probably views the Mexicans as people who has no connection to her at all, and prefers avoiding and leaving them alone rather than trying to understand them. This way of thinking probably had been caused by her upbringing in a capitalist and individualistic culture.
ReplyDeleteLauren was a female journalist in the United States. The media there was true, or at least not censored by the authorities like Juarez. She only took this job as a package deal so she could get the other job she longed for. However, when she enter the borders of Juarez, she thought the citizens here, especially the women, were fully protected like the people are in the United States, but it was not the case. She faced an ontological shock, that women is raped and murdered and nothing is being done by the authorities. That was the culture in Juarez for years, and it did not look right to Lauren, because she is also a lady, but a lady who belonged to another culture. Therefore, Lauren, who now is in Juarez, is trying to change this idea.
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Cultural Relativism is noticeable in Lauren Adrian's personality by how she sees the news, about the horrible thing that happened to the women in Mexico. In the beginning of the movie, where she tried to tell her boss that she don’t understand Spanish. We can know that she don’t want to go to Mexico, she want and she think she deserve a better work than going to Mexico for the first hand news about the disappearance of Mexico women. In Lauren’s mind, she doesn’t care about what had happened to Mexico women, because they have different culture. She thinks in a place such as Mexico, nobody would ever care about anything that happens to those women. Further more, she might think that it won’t be that bad, since she was raised in U.S.A. She finally realized that she was wrong, until she saw what had happen in Mexico, when her old partner told her that those people are finding the dead bodies, because the police won’t care about them.
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Lauren, the woman who was sent to Mexico to investigate the killing of women in the border. She needed a buddy to work for this case, which she chooses Diaz to be her companion. Till this time her mind was still focusing on how to get promoted by her boss rather than thinking what really happened in the border town. She investigating this case is just for her job promotion, which is selfish, unlike Diaz who really thinks about this crisis, and want to put an end to it. I think Lauren will learn by the shock that she never had experience through her whole life in America, making her a more open minded individual.
ReplyDeleteAt first Lauren didn't want to take this assignment. Because she knew that no one care about some woman got kill in Mexico. Because in everybody's mind is dangerous and uncivilized country. She only took the job because her boss promis she will get the job that she wanted. So when she want to mexico and saw the photo on her computer to her it just some unimportant news. But when she saw what really happen in Juarze she had a ontological shock that change her selfish attitude and how she see this story. And because of this ontological shock she wanted to change the idea of this culture.
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Her assignment is to find the news about the death of women in Mexico, but her goal is to get the award and she plan to write about the truth in Mexico. Lauren has influence by the culture that if she risks her life into the danger place to write about it will make her achieve her goal. Her culture in the United States (journalist group) have an influence the way that Lauren thinks and decide on what she should do. When the guy tell her that the information that she got is wrong, but really there are 5000 women got killed. At first she surprised what she heard, and she thinks that this story can make her achieve her goal without thinking that it is humans life.
ReplyDeleteLauren, as a typical American woman, pretty much has been having a comfortable life. This then reflects the cultural relativism in her personality and character, where she didn't want to accept her assignment at the beginning. This may sound ignorant; however, it is really normal for people who have good lives to reject to go to environment that is harsh like the border town. Later, however, because her boss promised her for the foreign correspondence job, she then accepted to go to the border town of Mexico to help investigate the truths of the women who were killed.
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Lauren wasn’t really pleased to accept the job for Juarez’s investigation from her boss at first. However, she accepted it because of the return that will be given to her. This shows that she cares only for herself and not for others. She wasn’t interested about the investigation because she was influenced from her culture, a culture that developed and does not have news about Juarez in her city. She doesn’t have sympathy until she saw the pictures of women that were raped and murdered. She decided to find Diaz and ask him to accompany with her like in the past, which shows that she really become interest in Juaraz’s investigation. She needed extra helps from experienced like Diaz do.
ReplyDeleteLauren is a female reporter from Chicago. At first she does not even wanted the job to Mexico. She had a lot of reason why she does not. However, the reason she accepted the job is because she want the boss to promise his deal. And as soon as she arrives, she is looking for her old partner. Unfortunately the partner decline to work with her again. Her attitude tower this time’s job was to finish this work. Because that place to her is just a mess of murders of women. This is an example of culture relativism. And in Mexico, he was the only support so far in the movie that she can rely on. So the faster she gets the report done she can go back to where she belongs.
ReplyDeleteLauren was a girl who lived in USA. In her culture, police, government, and all other things help her and everyone else out when events happen. When she first heard of the case, she did not want to accept it. Later on because of some promotion, she decides to accept it and enter her journey to Juarez. When she first enters Juarez, she didn’t really focus on how she will write the report, but she focuses more on how to complete her job as soon as possible. She thought that it is the same as USA where police and people help her out along her journey, but later on she found out that it is not true. In her personality, she was quite selfish and also greedy. She just wants to complete her job and not to help others out. For example, when she was in the hotel, she did not think about whom or what begins the torturing and raping. Her first thought is to call her friend Diaz and ask him to help her out. She uses all of her relationship with Diaz to ask him for help, but Diaz didn’t.
ReplyDeleteWhen the job was offered to Lauren, she said that she doesn't care about Mexico and she doesn't want anything to do with Mexico. This reason is because she is born in a well developed city and everything is clean. So this is why she doesn't want anything to do with Mexico because she thinks that Mexico is a dirty place. If her boss didn't accept that he would give her something in return if she goes to Mexico, then she wouldn't have accepted the job for sure. But after she got to Mexico and saw the photos of the murdered women and all the news, she faced an ontological shock and started to feel how women in Juarez feels. This is why she decided to find Diaz and tries her best to investigate the incident.
ReplyDeleteCultural Relativism is noticeable in the personality and character of Lauren. For being a women from a another culture where everything is fully protected and organized by the government, she doesn't really understand the situation, perhaps doesnt really care what is happening in Juarez; she accepted this assignment because of her job. After she crossed the border to Juarez, she had faced an ontological shock, she finally realized what is happening in the culture of Juarez. People in Juarez were being raped and killed, and yet, nothing has been done. People were being indifference, since its not happening to them. And Lauren is here to bring a change...! CIAO!!
ReplyDeleteCultural relativism is noticeable in Lauren's personality and character when she willingly accept her assignment to be relocated to a troubled community on the Texas- Mexico border. Lauren accepted the assignment because she is challenged to the new case she wold handle.She is interested to the unusual case given to her in which she knows this would bring her to a great breakthrough to her career. She would like to help the victims at the same time would cover a great story in news.Lauren felt the needs of the women that is why she convinces her to break the silence of the victim who is reluctant to speak.Though she knows the real danger behind, she still continue to help the women to solve their problems.Lauren's passionate struggle for justice in a town gripped by fear leads her determination to find out the truth about hundreds of local murders.
ReplyDeleteI agree on Matthew's comment on Lauren being a typical American woman. Many Americans are famous for being a racists, stereotypical, and ignorant because of their wealth as well as a happy life. Lauren, the main character of the movie, have an obvious harmless lifestyle as her first line on the movie were complaints about being send over to Juarez, Mexico -- "Nobody cares about Juarez". This prove that she was a cocky and cold individual, only wishing to get a higher position in her career; she bargained for it or else she would not cover the story given by her editor. As Yuki said so earlier today, "Cultural Relativism state that everyone should not judge other culture"-- Lauren has none of that because she haven't yet experienced an otological shock to change her, however this will soon change.
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ReplyDeleteHow is cultural relativism noticeable in the personality and character of Lauren…?! Think in terms of why she accepted the assignment and what her personal agenda really is. Explain well in 7-10 sentences.
We can see that her culture around her is to climb as high up as you can, we can see this from her boss, we can see it in the place she use to work in. In Mexico, the women get raped and it’s blame on the poor who don’t have any power. Anyone can see that in the society in that culture people is suppose to climb up and get a good life, if you are low down in the society then you don’t get a say in things. And so Lauren use to live in that kind of environment and so when her boss offer her a job in America she accepted it and abandon her partner. She see this trait also from her boss because her boss wanted their newspaper company to become more famous and more people read it so he wanted the truth to those murders on the border found out by his newspaper. So we can see that cultural relativism really affect Lauren because she fights for a better place in society, that is why she accepted all those jobs her boss gave her.
Lauren is an American that lives with a culture of well developed lifestyle in the States. So when she first receive the job without knowing what is happening in Mexico, she declined it immediately. Her reaction on that shows that people are influenced by their culture and are indifference to the Mexican woman's issue. So she doesn't want to take on something that people wouldn't care as well and will not make any help on her career life. It is not until her boss agrees to give her the foreign correspondence job then she accept the job. But after she did a little research on the issue, she went through an ontological shock that changed her point of view on different culture.
ReplyDeleteIn a society, people always wanted to get a better job and better life, no doubt that Lauren is also one of them. In the states, people’s life quality is much better than the Mexicans. In people who live in the State’s mind, they think that Mexico is a dirty place, and unlike in the States, Mexicans have to work long hours for earning only a little money. In the story, Lauren was assign to Mexico to investigate the mystery of the missing women, but because of the stereotype, she does not want to work in Mexico. It is because Lauren’s boss promised to give her a better when she gets back, so she accepted to go to Mexico.
ReplyDeleteCultural Relativism states that culture is created by a group of people, and in this case, to “live a better life” is their culture and also their goal.
Lauren is an American that is living in the environment that is well protected by the country. She simply accepted the job because she can get promoted after this trip to Mexico. The news only shows that there are about 370 women missing but in reality there are about 5000. The American like Lauren simply accept the fact that its normal for these people because its their culture, it is also where CR came in. Diaz also tells Lauren not to interrupt by not giving any support to her in the beginning of the story.
ReplyDeleteIn the movie of “Border Town,” Lauren was a journalist and strong female that came from the United States. By taking this assignment to come to Mexico is her job and what she has to do. However, she experiences an ontological shock when she saw and heard what happened in Mexico. Lauren with American culture can’t believe that women are treated this way in Mexico, and because of this culture. She started wanting to help with girls that are been raped. This show how different cultures of woman are treated differently. Lauren, coming from the America, was treat well and having equal rights. Whereas in Mexico, girls are not been respect, and were raped everywhere. This different of culture in States and Mexico, make Lauren having a very different moral standard from Mexican.
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ReplyDeleteBordertown is a movie in which a journalist named Lauren is trying to investigate the murder and raping cases in Juarez. Basically, i dont think she is that well of a human being in the first place too. All Lauren cared was about the promotion after this story. She thought it would be easy to get away with it after joining with Diaz. Her moral standard is a lot different compared to what she used to have after experiencing datas given by Diaz. She experiences dramatic conflicts within the data given by the government and the reality.
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