ethnic authenticity but on certifiable knowledge, skill, and expe-rience

Catholic officials who certified the relic

, are able to grant or reject the authenticityclaim

Hank Williams Jr

provides an excellent exampleof remaining true to the authentic self one has create

presentation of self one claims and

people can join without having any of these characteristics

authenticity by immersing them-selves in what they take to be authentic experiences

whether the artist is untouched by influ-ences from the fine art world

Authenticity through group identity is a construct that is elastic.

950s commercial country musi

For example, in the case of opera and theatrical per-formances, the criterion of excellence is not whether an actor is authentic butwhether she can sublimate her own personhood in order to act the part demandedby the particular role.

The debate over authenticity or contrivance of teen-oriented rock bands hasraged ever since the Beatles became famous for singing their own songs

Such fabrications are hardly unique to the contemporary era. As the authorsanthologized by Hobsbawm and Ranger (1983) show, similar large scale efforts tofabricate authenticity took place in the 19th century.

ornamentation. Glazing,

The 'substantial' category which prevails in this type of cooking is that of the smooth coating:

To eat steak rare therefore represents both a nature and a morality.

saignant (when it recalls the arterial flow from the cut in the animal's throat), or bleu (and it is now the heavy, plethoric, blood of the veins which is suggested by the purplish colour - the superlative of redness).

t exalts all climates, of whatever kind: in cold weather, it is associated with all the myths of becoming warm, and at the height of summer, with all the images of shade, with all things cool and sparkling. There is no situation involving some physical constraint (temperature, hunger, boredom, compulsion, disorientation) which does not give rise to dreams of wine.

Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intentio

we're not willing tospend the time or money it takes to be thoughtful about our consumption ofspend the time or money it takes to be thoughtful about our consumption ofthese foods. We can say what we want about all of these ethnic or foreignthese foods

United States, and yet most of us are unwilling to pay more than$10 for Chinese food.$10 for Chinese food.

The same can be said of Indian, and in many ways it's even truer. Mostcheap Indian food is made by Bangladeshis and Pakistanis, and most Indiancheap Indian food is made by Bangladeshis and Pakistanis, and most Indianfood here is cheap. Of course, people don't realize that. But it's true. Morefood here is cheap. Of course, people don't realize that. But it's true. Morethan 70 percent of the Indian restaurants in New York City, for instance, arethan 70 percent of the Indian restaurants in New York City, for instance, arenot run by Indians. They are run by Bangladeshi and Pakistaninot run by Indians. They are run by Bangladeshi and Pakistanirestaurateurs.restaurateurs.

If it appears to be authentic, it isauthentic to us.authentic to us

salt, butter, and fat.

It's the fact that we are not willing to pay the same price to get the samelevel of quality. And frankly, that's why you get so much crappy foreign foodlevel of quality.

When we call a food ethnic, we are signifying a difference but also a certainkind of inferiority. French cuisine has never been defined as ethnic.kind of inferiority.

Food that isn't associated with whites will be calledethnic.ethnic

ame prestige we treat others, is not nearly as authentic as weimagine it to be.imagine it to be.

THE POLITICS OF RECOGNITIONdefine our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes instruggle against, the things our significant others want to seein us

People do not acquire the languagesneeded for self-definition on their own

By definition, this way of being cannot be sociallyderived, but must be inwardly generated

socially derived identification, however, isthe ideal of authenticity itself.

Being true to myself means being true to my own original-ity, which is something only I can articulate and discover. Inarticulating it, I am also defining myself. I am realizing a po-tentiality that is properly my own.

It greatly increases the importance of thisself-contact by introducing the principle of originality: eachof our voices has something unique to say

eachperson has his or her own “measure.

ean-Jacques Roussea

Thus some feminists have argued that women in patriar-chal societies have been induced to adopt a depreciatoryimage of themselves. They have internalized a picture oftheir own inferiority,

The confession has spread its effects far and wide. It plays a part in justice, medicine, education, family relationships, and love relations, in the most ordinary affairs of everyday life, and in the most solemn rites; one confesses one's crimes, one's sins, one's thoughts and desires, one's illnesses and troubles

hence a metamorphosis in literature: we have passed from a pleasure to be recounted and heard, centering on the heroic or marvelous narration of "trials" of bravery or saint· hood, to a literature ordered according to the infinite task of extracting from the depths of oneself, in between the words, a truth which the very form of the confession holds out like a shimmering mirage.

the thoughts that recapitulated it, the obsessions that accom-panied it, the images, desires, modulations, and quality of the pleasure that animated it. For the first time no doubt, a society has taken upon itself to solicit and hear the imparting of individual pleasures.

antithesis

It will easily be perceived, that the only part of this Sonnet which is of any value is the lines printed in Italics; it is equally obvious, that, except in the rhyme, and in the use of the single word ’fruitless’ for fruitlessly, which is so far a defect, the language of these lines does in no respect differ from that of prose.

Metrical composition

As sensibility to harmony of numbers, and the power of producing it, are invariably attendants upon the faculties above specified, nothing has been said upon those requisites.

ostentatiously

2. “I know my heart, and have studied mankind. I am not made like anyone else I have been acquainted with, perhaps like no one in existence; if not better, I at least claim originality, and whether Nature did wisely in breaking the mold with which she formed me, can only be determined after having read this work.”

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