Lecture 4a

Quiz

Aung San Suu Kyi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLjt7jshW0k

In 1988 Suu Kyi returned to Burma, at first to tend for her ailing mother but later to lead the pro-democracy movement. Aris' visit in Christmas 1995 turned out to be the last time that he and Suu Kyi met, as Suu Kyi remained in Burma and the Burmese dictatorship denied him any further entry visas.[28]  Aris was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1997 which was later found to be terminal. The government denied him entrance and instead urged Aung San Suu Kyi to leave the country to visit him. 37]

Aris died on his 53rd birthday on 27 March 1999 Aris died on his 53rd birthday on 27 March 1999. Since 1989, when his wife was first placed under house arrest, he had seen her only five times, the last of which was for Christmas in 1995. She was also separated from her children, who live in the United Kingdom, but starting in 2011, they have visited her in Burma.[38]  Suu Kyi was released from house arrest on 13 November 2010.[41]

How do you know that Suu Kyi’s decision about not visiting her husband took place in a high context culture?

High-context Cultures vs Highly Expressive Cultures High-context cultures also have their own “tone” or “dimension.” In other words, if you are expected to pick something up from eyes, gestures, facial expressions, is it a negative thing or a positive thing, primarily? As your text says, “Often what is not said is far more important than what is.” (p. 55)

Since communication “is shaped by culture, [there is] the potential for misunderstanding and, by implication, the difficulty of feminist leadership.” p. 63 How does communication change by culture, by circumstance, by gender, by ethnicity?

Womanist African American feminists coined this term to denote the important ways that African American women differ from white women on feminist issues of equality Your text, quoting Williams (1994, p. 1) Womanist means, “African American women’s experience has its own integrity and must speak its own truth in its own language expressing its own cultural ideas about women’s reality.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz-hnyVRvpM

Frida Kahlo: Womanism shapes communication

Take home messages 1. Aung San Suu Kyii dedication to her people. Her ability to understand a highly contextual communication 2. Context dependent communication. How does it differentiate? Isolate? What is its place in feminist leadership? 3. Womanism: appreciating all that a woman is/does 4. Womanism in communication: Frida Kahlo’s art