Knowledge Sources

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This paper addresses four sources focusing on knowledge and how knowledge is communicated in the study of non-native cultures. Knowledge defines how we approach a given culture or concept. According to this paper, when we think we know something, we are more likely to approach it in an authoritative manner and communicate our views and opinions to our audience, as we strongly believe that we have based our position in facts and therefore have a firm foundation for our personal feelings on the issue.

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"Knowledge defines how we approach a given culture or concept. When we think we know something, we are more likely to approach it in an authoritative manner and communicate our views and opinions to our audience, as we strongly believe that we have based our position in facts and therefore have a firm foundation for our personal feelings on the issue. This scenario, however, makes it extremely dangerous to present information as factual, when it is inherently incorrect. We see in the discussion of Orientalism, for example, how the perception of Hinduism as defined by early scholars was translated into cannon, where as David Ludden writes "Authoritative sources produced diverse types of data that became factualized and located in a unified empirical domain where they could be formed into verified statements about Indian reality."

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