Today's class discussion was quite interesting to me. Firstly because just yesterday I have posted two movie trailers to show how important is how issues are framed. For example, "Paradise Now" shows and explains how suicide bombers are the ultimate victims of an exacerbated situation, they are "already dead" people and their desperation is used as an instrument of terror by fanatic cowards. It is a quite uncommon way of framing them, but it doesn't mean it is wrong.
The Judeo-Christian cultural link has really interested me as well. It has surely shaped the Western culture and forma mentis, it's part of it, just as some other factors like Greco-Roman's cultural legacy. What edward Said calls "The Other" is a construct that has quite distant and intricate roots, specific historical reasons (for example Greco-Persian wars seen as a striking caesura) have to be combined with so many other ones. History of framing is one of them, and it's just fascinating and I think it would be really important to focus more on it.
I think that the two videos Prof. Webb suggested us to watch are quite significant to understand the importance of framing in social sciences. Check this video out, and guess who's the speaker.
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who is the speaker? I like what you said about the cowardly fanatics using people who are "already dead" to carry out terrorists attacks. That is definitely true.
Mr. Silvio Berlusconi, Italian Prime Minister.
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