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often find ourselves assuming we see people for what they are, despite their culture and their traditions. However, according to Charles Taylor, in his essay titled "The Politics of Recognition,"
we are more often than not stuck in a position where we fail to recognize the validity of other cultures or other people. The following paper examines Taylors essay.
The Topic The main topic of this essay involves the misrecognition of people. Taylor states, "The thesis is that our identity is partly shaped by recognition or its absence,
often by the misrecognition of others, and so a person or group of people can suffer real damage, real distortion, if the people or society around them mirror back a
confirming or demeaning or contemptible picture of themselves. Nonrecognition or misrecognition can inflict harm, can be a form of oppression, imprisoning someone in a false, distorted, and reduced mode of
being" (225). As we can see there is a certain politic to identity and to the misrecognition of people, persons, and particularly groups of people. The Argument In
terms of presenting the argument, in the beginning Taylor argues that women have often been the brunt of this particular reality. Taylor argues that women, in a patriarchal society, have
been misrecognized for so long that they often feel that they are unworthy. "They have internalized a picture of their own inferiority, so that even when some of the objective
obstacles to their advancement fall away, they may be incapable of taking advantage of the new opportunities" (Taylor 225). While Taylor first uses women as an example, he also provides
many other examples which serve as a foundation to the argument that states misrecognition is potentially very harmful to a people. And, this serves to support the truth that all
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