Etic And Emic Analysis On Suicide Terrorism - 1662 Words

Etic and Emic Analysis on Suicide Terrorism Exploring different cultures as well as your own in order to understand the various ways they do things compared to our own can be enlightening as well as challenging. The main challenge comes from being used to your own culture that it is difficult to view a different culture without any personal bias. Being born and raised in a culture and getting used to those norms of everyday life contributes to the bias that one may show, believing that their own culture is superior to another. This type of thought process is called ethnocentrism. But with the use of an etic and emic approach to analyze your own culture and different cultures will help eliminate ethnocentrism. Using an outsider’s†¦show more content†¦The reader eventually figures out that â€Å"Nacirema† culture is indeed the American culture. This article is very helpful in understanding that just because cultural aspects of America are the norm for you, those same aspects can seem eccentric to people of a different culture. Suicide terrorism is one of those acts of violence that is almost impossible to defend against. In his article, Atran (2003) explains suicide terrorism as â€Å"the targeted use of self-destructing humans against noncombatant-typically civilian-populations to effect political change† (pg. 1534). One of the most remembered dates is American history is September 11, 2001. This was a day in which suicide terrorism took the lives of nearly 3,000 Americans (History.com, 2010). This suicide attack is where 19 Al-Qaeda followers hi-jacked four airplanes and used them to crash them into the World Trade Center in New York and into the Pentagon in Washington D.C. This triggered the then President, George W. Bush to declare war to â€Å"destroy Osama bin Laden’s terrorist network based there† (History.com, 2010). Osama bin Laden was Al-Qaeda leader that claimed responsibility of the suicide att ack on the United States. This type of use of suicide terrorism was not only used to kill many innocent people, but to be televised and reported on to put fear into theShow MoreRelatedThe Impact Of Budget Cuts On Educational Institutions And Its Economic Effects1669 Words   |  7 Pagesput my shift my mind to an outsider’s etic view to enable me to examine my own culture. Furthermore, I will jump on the side of an insider to gain the emic perspective of a culture as if I have lived in it. In this paper I will specifically examine my own cultures educational crisis from an outsider’s perspective to understand where the failures are in our education. I will then dive into an insider’s perspective to the act and reasons behind suicide terrorism, and overshadow my own misconceptions