Historical political movements and wars forced the Tai Lue to escape from their hometown and finally, they migrated to the United States. There are too many sorrowful stories of their escaping from China to Myanmar, L...Historical political movements and wars forced the Tai Lue to escape from their hometown and finally, they migrated to the United States. There are too many sorrowful stories of their escaping from China to Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, and new-coming to the USA. The skills for work, working environments and working time are all different from what they had done in Asia. They realize that it is important for them to preserve their traditional culture in the USA. One the one hand, keeping their traditional culture could make them safe, and on the other hand, make them happy and help them reduce homesickness. Theravada Buddhism is their main traditional culture. When the Tai Lue move to the USA, they have to negotiate the mainstream culture and modify their behaviors in order to maintain their traditions as much as possible. The US circumstances provide Tai Lue Americans with both negatives and positives for preserving their traditions. The cultural freedom in the USA provides the Tai Lue the freedom to maintain their traditional culture but some aspects also conflict with American laws and regulations. American Western culture also influences their traditions. Globalization not only provides the Tai Lue traditional culture with possible and similar conditions to extend in the USA, but also helps Tai Lue Americans to do their contributions to the traditions in their motherland. The identity of the Tai Lue is misunderstood as the Lao by the public. Tai Lue Americans are still moving and working for their lives, and they are contemporarily keeping their tradition in the USA. However, it will be hard for Tai Lue American elders to transfer the traditions to their next generation.展开更多
In recent years,tens of product teams,research institutes,academic conferences,and college courses-the list goes on-have cropped up under the banner of tech ethics to grapple with the social and political impact of te...In recent years,tens of product teams,research institutes,academic conferences,and college courses-the list goes on-have cropped up under the banner of tech ethics to grapple with the social and political impact of technology.For some,an orientation around ethics indicates a moment of humility in an industry characterized by hubris.Now even major tech corporations are seeking expertise outside of the technical sphere.In speaking tech ethics,we speak ethics to power.For others,the outlook is less rosy.Critical observers take tech ethics to just be the latest tool in the same-old corporate toolshed-new rhetoric in service of old interests.Tech ethics is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.It is power speaking ethics.But debate about tech ethics concerns more than descriptive analyses of current efforts as such.The capacities of ethical tech as a political movement are also up for scrutiny.What is the political payoff of anyone speaking ethics at all?In this article,the author approaches the question by drawing on a critical history of another moral-turned-political movement.A critical inquiry into the ascendency of human rights,the author suggests,elucidates the multiple functions of moral reasoning and rhetoric in political movements and lends insight into how they may ultimately bear on political efficacy.The 20th century history of human rights gives reason to be suspicious of moral language that is evasive of engaging political and ideological battles.However,it also points to the possibility that long-standing moral ideals may be renewed and refashioned into new claims.Tech ethics may yet play such a role:placing explicitly moral demands on those typically taken to be exempt from moral standards.This demand reaches beyond what the specialized moniker of“tech ethics”suggests.展开更多
文摘Historical political movements and wars forced the Tai Lue to escape from their hometown and finally, they migrated to the United States. There are too many sorrowful stories of their escaping from China to Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, and new-coming to the USA. The skills for work, working environments and working time are all different from what they had done in Asia. They realize that it is important for them to preserve their traditional culture in the USA. One the one hand, keeping their traditional culture could make them safe, and on the other hand, make them happy and help them reduce homesickness. Theravada Buddhism is their main traditional culture. When the Tai Lue move to the USA, they have to negotiate the mainstream culture and modify their behaviors in order to maintain their traditions as much as possible. The US circumstances provide Tai Lue Americans with both negatives and positives for preserving their traditions. The cultural freedom in the USA provides the Tai Lue the freedom to maintain their traditional culture but some aspects also conflict with American laws and regulations. American Western culture also influences their traditions. Globalization not only provides the Tai Lue traditional culture with possible and similar conditions to extend in the USA, but also helps Tai Lue Americans to do their contributions to the traditions in their motherland. The identity of the Tai Lue is misunderstood as the Lao by the public. Tai Lue Americans are still moving and working for their lives, and they are contemporarily keeping their tradition in the USA. However, it will be hard for Tai Lue American elders to transfer the traditions to their next generation.
文摘In recent years,tens of product teams,research institutes,academic conferences,and college courses-the list goes on-have cropped up under the banner of tech ethics to grapple with the social and political impact of technology.For some,an orientation around ethics indicates a moment of humility in an industry characterized by hubris.Now even major tech corporations are seeking expertise outside of the technical sphere.In speaking tech ethics,we speak ethics to power.For others,the outlook is less rosy.Critical observers take tech ethics to just be the latest tool in the same-old corporate toolshed-new rhetoric in service of old interests.Tech ethics is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.It is power speaking ethics.But debate about tech ethics concerns more than descriptive analyses of current efforts as such.The capacities of ethical tech as a political movement are also up for scrutiny.What is the political payoff of anyone speaking ethics at all?In this article,the author approaches the question by drawing on a critical history of another moral-turned-political movement.A critical inquiry into the ascendency of human rights,the author suggests,elucidates the multiple functions of moral reasoning and rhetoric in political movements and lends insight into how they may ultimately bear on political efficacy.The 20th century history of human rights gives reason to be suspicious of moral language that is evasive of engaging political and ideological battles.However,it also points to the possibility that long-standing moral ideals may be renewed and refashioned into new claims.Tech ethics may yet play such a role:placing explicitly moral demands on those typically taken to be exempt from moral standards.This demand reaches beyond what the specialized moniker of“tech ethics”suggests.
