Analysis Of The Shia Girls

Jamie’s essay she shows how you can be the dominant discourse one place and the “other” in another. So the biggest question I had to answer what it possible to be the dominant discourse and the “other” to different groups of people. From my experience it is possible to be the dominant discourse and the “other”. Have you ever heard the saying it is like two sides of a coin well it is kind of like that meaning it is that easy to be the dominant discourse and turn into the “other” or visa versa. The dominant discourse is a group of people that are privileged from Einstein to the Kardashians. Einstein was not always seen as a great scientist but in today’s society he is seen as the father of technology, yes I said technology because we can trace

Scotland is treated like the “other” in the Western world and the “Shia Girls” are treated like “other” by the Westerners. In the “Shia Girls” side of the story Westerners don’t know them and they rather not and just believe what they are told by others. Although Jamie is considered to be apart of the “other” to the Western world when she visits Pakistan she is seen as apart of the dominant discourse. The “Shia Girls” haven’t realized that just being from the Western world doesn 't make you apart of the dominant discourse. In the eye’s of the “Shia Girls” Jamie is a Westerner and they are not, so they see her as the dominant discourse. In Jamie’s point of view she is not the dominant discourse but the “other” just like them. I can understand why the “Shia Girls” believe that Jamie is the dominant discourse because she has traits that suggest that she is the dominant discourse. Jamie is marginalized in the Western world but receives great from the “Shia Girls” for being from the Western

Jamie is sympathetic to the “Shia Girls” because she is aware of her political situation in Scotland and being the “other” in the UK. Jamie spoke of being the “other” in her prologue. Jamie is the “other” in the UK that is why she is trying to understand the “Shia Girls”. Jamie is reporting on the “Shia Girls” she is giving the facts and not trying to paint a picture of the “Shia Girls”. Jamie was trying to understand the people as a whole or else she wouldn’t have paid attention to the vendor or the child that was carry scales (64). If Jamie was a typical Westerner when the holy man was throwing things at her she would have gotten angry and probably say some bad things to the man. In all Jamie’s doing she is trying to understand the “Shia Girls” and she never judge