{"id":35,"count":19,"description":"Cultural Selfreflection\r\n\r\nWe, educated westerners, have been indoctrinated with introspection (looking into yourself) as the major path to  self-reflection and self-knowledge.\r\n\r\nLearning to see ourselves through the eyes of others is a much more rewarding and  practical way to walk a learning path in life and becoming a better, less troubled\/suffering, person. \r\n\r\nPsychotherapists and psychiatrists have to to cope with  ''transference'' from their clients by reacting effectively with ''counter-transference''. It takes some years supervison to learn to aquire this skill. I cooperated for a thirty years in clinical psychiatry with these professionals.\r\nCultural self-knowledge is the trade in which anthropologists are busy. By looking to ourselves though the eyes of 'very foreign others' we have the potential to learn the art of cultural selfreflection. \r\n\r\nSome possible never-ending reflexive questions are: \r\nHow am I\/are we Dutch, Western (Christian) (fe)males  acting born and raised in middle class from our families, communities, religions, educations in different kinds of contexts?\r\nHow are we, The Dutch, coping with our colonial past in this local, national and international present?\r\n\r\nHow are we dealing with our distorted Dutch gender worlds past? \r\n\r\nA rather perplexing view emerges when we relate the mythological themes in Dutch culuere in the stories of 'The Flying Dutchman' (De Vliegende Hollander) and The Lady of Stavoren (Het Vrouwtje van Stavoren).\r\n\r\n[:]","link":"https:\/\/anthropo-gazing.nl\/de\/category\/reflexivity\/cultural-selfreflection\/","name":"Cultural Selfreflection","slug":"cultural-selfreflection","taxonomy":"category","parent":48,"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthropo-gazing.nl\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthropo-gazing.nl\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthropo-gazing.nl\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthropo-gazing.nl\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/48"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthropo-gazing.nl\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}