Othering Otherness Racism Discrimination Other Cultural appropriation Cultural canibalism Institutional racism All rights reserved application/pdf 2020-06-17 SCRIPT: "Celebrations: A table for one or a table of one's own.": Approximations on the aesthetics of othering Wong, Ramiro eng Text https://phaidra.bibliothek.uni-ak.ac.at/o:36200 Color, gender, race and ethnicity, age, class, sexual orientation, gender identity, etc., words used to group individuals with certain characteristics while at the same time making a distinction between others. These distinctions often are built up on a system of beliefs based on certain common tendencies or virtues of the members of a certain group with distinct cultural traits. When these beliefs become assimilated into a culture and become reinforced through humor or other forms of language by means of advertising, TV, film and social media, adopting these stereotypes as the standard becomes the cultural norm.