Yet, reflecting on recent Rosh Hashanah and Mid-Autumn Festival festivities, I realize I too am homogenizing cultural expression when I carry this belief. The Cornell Chinese Student’s Association’s Mid-Autumn festival last Friday included Cornell Taiwanese American Society. Sure, there are instances where it is not an external voice, but a prominent internal voice, that politicizes cultural expression. Politically-motivated images that redefine a culture on its behalf naturally invite a similarly political voice from said culture. Just as my brother references a variety of news agencies in understanding an issue, I hope to have as ready an access to variegated self-definitions of culture, political or otherwise.

Source: Daily Sun October 11, 2019 12:56 UTC