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Lila Abu-Lughod focuses cultural difference using anthropology to express her points while still remaining objective about how those cultural differences are portrayed, used, and misrepresented in "Do Muslim women really need saving? Anthropological reflections on cultural relativism and its others. Lila Abu-Lughod.""Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others"American Anthropologist, 104:3 (2002):783 To support Abu-Lughod's thesis She first starts with a statement on how generalized conversation about the middle east has been since 9/11. She also addressed an active push to connect the culture in regards to the Middle East with the attack that was not only pushed by the media but …show more content…

" Recreating an imaginative geography of west versus east, us versus Muslims, cultures in which first ladies give speeches versus others where women shuffle around silently in burqas." Ibid.784 She argues that this concern is artificial. Much like Cultural ecology it focus on the fact their there is a problem without any relation to history or a solution to the problem that would work to improve the problem within the realm of the community being painted as a victim that needs saving. Lila Abu-Lughod concludes her point with saying people should be suspicious whenever messy history is reimagined to paint a different narrative. "we need to be suspicious when neat cultural icons are plastered over messier historical and political narratives, so we need to be wary when lord Cromer in British-ruled Egypt, French ladies in Algeria, and laura bush, all with military troops behind them, claim to be saving or liberating Muslim women." Lila Abu-Lughod.""Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others"American Anthropologist, 104:3

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