Research Paper on:
False Identities

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Why does this phenomenon happen? Are these people dishonest, or merely uncomfortable sharing their true identity with people that they do not know well? Several authors have made their opinions  known on the subject. Most notably are James C. Scott and his "Domination and the Arts of Resistance", Martha Nussbaum, "Women and Cultural Universals", and Lila Abu-Lughod, "Honor and Shame".  These authors have several common denominators, but each tend to digress and diverge from the other in significant ways. In order to understand the complete theme of a paper it  is quite beneficial to determine the point of view of the author. In Martha Nussbaums case, she believes that: "Without some such notion of the basic worth of human capacities,  we have a hard time arguing for womens equality and for basic human rights"(Nussbaum, 2002, pg. 42). According to Martha Nussbaum, "This very idea advocates the position that  certain, minimum standards should go along with cultural and political sensitivity to other individuals and groups"(Nussbaum,42). Thus, one can deduce from her work that the individual, women in particular, are  subject many times to the culture in which they find themselves. In respect to globalism, which she mentions, there may very well be a shift in the cultural values and  beliefs based on which country is most dominant in the globalized society. Therefore, the strongest determines which features are acceptable and any other is not tolerated. Then, one may state  that if this is the case, that one is not only uncomfortable exhibiting something contrary to the norm, but it is also not advantageous to do so. A good example  of this would be if one belched in public. If the dominant society believed that it was unacceptable in public, even though one did this privately all the time, it