Post by aria on Oct 27, 2017 15:36:21 GMT
The "good copy" problem as Moghaddam explains is when a person (usually a minority) attempts to join/assimilate the culture and way of living of another dominant person (one in a majority group). Unfortunately, due to the pessimistic nature of humans (as outlined by Freud), a good copy will never be treated as the 'real thing' on the grounds that there will always be some reason (no matter how negligible and small) for the majority group to discriminate or differentiate themselves from the 'good copies'. They will never be fully accepted to the group they are trying to assimilate for reasons such as having different skin colour, different hairstyles, speaking with a particular accent, etc. While the deep values will be the same, surface level differences will always result in never being truly accepted.
This problem perhaps may be less likely to occur in a multicultural society because people are encouraged to keep their own culture's values and identities as opposed to trying to conform/assimilate one's self into someone else's culture. As such, you are not attempting to be a "clone" of someone else and are instead embracing the culture and values that have meaning to you.
This problem perhaps may be less likely to occur in a multicultural society because people are encouraged to keep their own culture's values and identities as opposed to trying to conform/assimilate one's self into someone else's culture. As such, you are not attempting to be a "clone" of someone else and are instead embracing the culture and values that have meaning to you.
