What Makes you Mature

PLEASE READ INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY First, view the video, East vs West: The Myths that Mystify, below. Make a note of info/ideas in it which might have surprised or interested you, or which you might like to know more about. (How does it, or not, change the way you think about the situations/ideas considered in the the main discussion prompt topicn(see below)? Can you make connections?)
2. Next, review the discussion prompt/topic below and consider the different but interrelated situations/ideas it raises–What connections can you make among these different situations/ideas? Be sure you make connections with lecture mod content. The main prompt topic is in the following section. Pattanaik discusses two very different perspectives about the world and our relationships to other people in this video. Think of these views as different frameworks for thinking about the prompt topic for this discussion Power Plays. Remember, there are pros and cons to every mindscape, and there is no right answer to these questions.
Be sure you make connections with discussion propmpt topic, below, and lecture mod content.
First: after viewing the video in above section, consider the following quote from the movie: Scarface: “In this country (USA), you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power…”
Next: Main Prompt Topic (for full credit, be sure your response clearly addresses each part of the prompt topic in this and next paragraph in one way or another/third paragraph provides ideas to jumpstart your thinking): Do you agree or disagree with the idea expressed in the quote? Is it consistent with your understanding of the Western mindscape and how it works? Are values expressed in quote consistent with one or both of the world views described in video? Is this how you understand what it means to be successful? What it means to feel like you have power (whether personal power or social power) in your life? What it means to be a mature person?
Be sure your response addresses the issues raised by the Rama and Arjuna stories, as well as the Pattanaik video, as you consider the differences between the Hindu and Western Mindscapes’ views on power (and perhaps your own mindscape, as well, if it differs from these). Be sure you make connections with this and other lecture mod content.
[For instance, do you find yourself switching between the two persectives (world views) mentioned in video depending upon the situation, who you are with, and your particular values? How does thinking about people as objects influence your ideas about power, about what is or is not okay to do and why. How does your understanding of power differ in these differing perspectives. Think about perspective/world view of worker described in video vs world view of her employer. Do people dehumanize others to rationalize exercising power over them? Other takes would also work. when thinking about differences among Mindscapes, how the mindscapes influence the decisions made by its members, how they decide what is important, and how they experience the world. Much to think about.] LOOK UP THIS VIDEO ON YOUTUBE- East vs west — the myths that mystify | Devdutt Pattanaik

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