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consumers are bombarded with emails & online adverts that have been specially customised according to the user's search history & digital footprint often celebrities are recruited to advertise certain products. on their social media page · viral marketing & crowdsourcing are now popular because advertisers can get consumers to sh their experiences. - advertainment combines advertising with entertainment Like product placements in film or TV shows Disgraced, Ayad Akhtar. → Summary. (The book is centered on sociopolitical themes such as the self-identification of Muslim American citizens, politics, religion & Islamophobia in general) opens with a married couple in their Upper East Side apartment, Emily: white painter, takes inspiration from Islamic tradition, sketches a portrait of Amir (American-born Lawyer who renounced his Muslim background); the couple discusses the night before when Amir was mistreated by a racist waiter → incident inspires E. to paint a portrait of A. based on Diego Velázquez's Portrait of Juan de Pareja which depicts a former slave who serves as the author's apprentice → A. finds this unsettling · A's nephew Abe (formerly Hussein) arrives at the apartment & wants A to help Imam Fareed who has been wrongfully charged with funding a terrorist organization with charity money he collected for his mosque, A. refuses at first because he renounced his faith and gets agitated because E. tries to persuade him 27 scene: E. reads the newspaper out loud, an article about S the imam's trial (an alledged terrorist); Amir is frustrated because the article makes it seem like he is his attorney & protecting him, obscuring the fact that A was only there to support the imam E tries to assure him that this will not harm his reputation Amir exits when Isaac ( friend of the couple & curator arrives, they talk about E.'s art work being included in a show he is curating but he is worried that she will be accused of -orientalism (depicting non-western culture in an exploitative way) 3 scene: Amir is angry and drinking alcohol because his boss found out that the changed his last name (muslim/ arabic to hindu name); Isaac & his wife Jory arrive for dinner and I announces that he will feature I's art in the exposition; A prefers I's art before she used Islamic imagery A & I have a disagreement over the interpretation of the Quran; A. admits a small part of him sympatized with the terrorists, which he hates thats why he distanced himself from Islam; A. Leaves & 1 accuses him of being a terrorist A. & J. head out to get champagne. I tells E that I got promoted instead of A. because the article made them suspicious of A.'s dealings with the imam; 1. alludes to him & E having sex recently & tries to kiss her but A. & J. come back A, I. & J. scream at & insult one another and then leave A & E. alone E. tells A. that she cheated on him with 1. A is blind with rage beats her up, just as he realized what he has done Abe walks in 4" scene: 6 months later A. lost his job & wife; Abe & E. arrive as he is packing up his apartment, Abe changed his name back to Hussein & is in trouble with the law and may get deported, A. scolds him for puplicly portraying himself as Muslim; H. tells him he used to look up to A. now he thinks A. hales himself & his own people → Leaves A repeatedly apoligizes to E. and tells her that he is proud of her success; E. interjects that her art was naïve & that she had a part in their marriage collapsing too; she tells A. to not write her again & leaves; A. unwraps the painting she left him → E's portrait of him → character constellation Abe Emily Amir 1 religious conflict: - E. is proud of Amir's success but also wants to be successful herself (Landmark of portraiture) • mutual dependance on money /social status different attitudes on Islam & helping the Imam →Ami- fears to be connected to the Islam → disadvantage for his career • Amir + Abe & Emily have different cultural backgrounds • E. wants to change society regarding the social standing of Muslims → E. thinks that Amir & Abe are placed in an interior ronk in society → aspects of Assimilation pros • Living a normal life ·less racism/prejudices members of society - better work possibilities · reunion of society (→→ melting pot) cons -fixed values -Loss of identity, culture & religion - reduces diversity -pressure to assimilate - not accepted by society ↳ need to change identity => definition: process whereby outsiders aim at becoming indistinguishable with the dominant host society ИЛ →Amir's Assimilation change of name, married to an American (white) woman ·lies about his cultural origin => Racism & prejudices influence Amir's identity → the change of Amir's self-identification. influenced by mother & 9/11 confrontation due to the Imam / Quran gives up his religion apostate", drinks alcohol, eats pork doesn't want to be connected to Islam → refuses to help the iman being a lawyer (normal job), buys/wears expensive western clothes V painted by his wife discussion with Isaac, racial profiling role of women - Did you feel pride on 9/11? (key event) I guess I forgot which 'we' I was." 4 confusion between two identities/inner conflict newspaper article associating him with Muslim culture & the crime of the iman) - background check + feeling treated unequally Jory gets promoted instead of him his wife betrayed him with Isaac spits in Isaac's face beats Emily perceived himself as an American/ fully assimilated . a oriental identity. occidental. his oriental identity gets the upper hand → hypocrite? not strong enough has lost himself → helpful definitions - racism: refers to prejudices against individuals/groups based on beliefs about one's own superiority • prejudices: negatif feelings/beliefs about a particular group of individuals. • Assimilation: the process whereby outsiders aim at becoming indistinguishable with the dominant host society cultural appropriation: the act of taking /using things from a culture (kulturelle Aneignung) that is not your own → drama structure. exposition character introduction climax. 11 American history timeline discussion at the dinner table Amir beats Emily calm breakup, Emily leaves retarding moment catastrophe : 11 1607: 1. permanent Anglo-Saxon settlement is established (Virginia) 1619 Beginning of slavery - 1620: Mayflower Compact signed by pilgrim fathers, who were intolerant of everyone who thinks differently. 1775-83: American revolutionary war: 13 colonies vs. British colonial power, climax: American independence movement → creation USA 1776: Declaration of Independence on July 4th 1789: first president of the US: George Washington 1803 Louisiana Purchase: US purchased territory from France → opened up the continent for westward expansion 1861-65: American Civil War: US vs. Confederate States of America, Slavery got legally abolished. 1863 Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln 1890 end of Indian wars, economic depression, industrialization, urbanization & immigration, wounded knee massacre 1917: US enters World War 1; prohibition -1919: congress approves 19th Amendment = women now have the right to vote - 1929: Wall Street chrash → worldwide Great Depression; Influenza epidemic. 1941: US enters WW2 → declaring war on Japan → Pearl Harbor 1945: WW2 ends; bomb dropped on Hiroshima & Nagasaki 1954: Detonation of Castle Bravo; Eisenhower proposes, Domino theory" (13) 1955 start of Vietnam War; warsaw pact 1960s: civil rights movement, Martin Luther King 1989-91 end of the cold war, collapse of the Soviet Union. - 2001: 9/= terrorist attack of world trade center & pentagon → US invaded Afghanistan & toppeled taliban government 2006: protest for immigration rights -2008: collapse of national financial system → worldwide depression, Obama becomes the 44" president of the US →American Dream · term for the hope of immigrants. while maintaining personal freedom the belief in in the USA for economic success > social progress (things will get better with time; the self made man) the the fo * > individual success (everyone can realize their highest ambitions, • from rags to riches") > American exeptionalism (Manifest Destiny) > ever new frontiers (go west movement, new opportunities discoveries) liberty & equality (no class distinctions life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness, everyone can participate) > > the melting pot & multiculturalism (different nationalities, ethnicities, religions & Languages fused into Ination) > ever new beginnings (climb the ladder of fortune) the Promised Land puritans suffered in England bc of their religion which made them see a parallel between them & the Israelites in ancient egypt thought America was promised to them by god like Canaan to the lorgielites - believed to be guided by god so they have every right to take the Land & the violence is justified and right (→ God's chosen people) America was supposed to be a fertile & broad Land where they would find freedom & everything they need for a good life → Manifest Destiny (dt. offensichtl. Bestimmung) definition: the ideology that the expansion of the US troughout the American continent was justified & inevitably • the right to settle on the American continent was given to Americans by god it is their duty to expand over the whole continent in order to bring liberty & democracy to the other nations as well (godly mission) justification/explanation for Americas territorial expansion & imperialism → Declaration of independence definition: the formal proclamation that the colonies would now be an independent country seperate from Great Britain • it contains: 1. the ideals & goals of the American nation Requality, justice, seperation of church & state, democracy, freedom & happiness) 2 the complaints of the colonists against the British king (unalienable rights are not respected; not represented or treated equally) 3. the explanation/arguments why the colonists want to be free of the British rule (protection of divine providence god's chosen people optimism) "We hold these truth to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. => The ideas of the founding fathers had not been valid for all ethnicities, only the WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants). →Bill of Rights • it's part of the constitution & added to protect civil rights it consists of 27 ammendments & was passed in 1791 us