Questão
ID 2139493Disciplina: Língua Inglesa
Assunto: Interpretação de Texto | Text Interpretation
Ano: 2016 Banca: IFMS - Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Mato Grosso do Sul Órgão: Instituto Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul
Read the text and answer the questions 19 and 20.
DECOLONIZING REALITY
Knowledge is relative, and reality is a composition. You reconstruct yourself and, to a lesser extent, your culture, society, and world by the decisions you make. Your decisions may be conscious but probably are most often at least partially unconscious, depending on which part or parts of your personality makes them. It basically comes down to awareness when you make your choices-awareness of yourself, of your acts, of the acts of others, and of the world. Formal education enhances some aspects of awareness and gives access to certain kinds of knowledges. Decolonizing reality consists of unlearning consensual “reality”, of seeing through reality’s roles and descriptions by what Don Juan calls acts of not doing.
(ANZALDÚA, Gloria. Light in the dark, 2015, p. 44)
According to the text, decolonizing means