Culture of power is an interesting topic to discuss about, but for other it could be uncomfortable if they feel marginalized. According to the author Paul Kivel. of the article "Culture of Power", he stated that the problem with a culture of power is that it reinforces the prevailing hierarchy. In society, it does not matter what gender, race, ethnicity you are, on some level one will be marginalized. The main point of this article is to realize that we as individual need to change the way we go about culture of power and as Paul Kivel says to move it more to a culture of inclusion.
Therefore,after reading the article I realized that culture that culture of power is in video gaming today and also in the movie EXistenz.One will see that the gender of Caucasian male is predominant in the movie and in regular video game. If one would have to go back to the question in the article, of Paul Kivel to find out who have authority, they will see that Caucasian are in power. Individuals who are marginalized might feel that they are not included in anything because of their gender or race. Even the inventor of the game was a woman, it was still dominant with males. In my opinion, I feel that they show more respect to the one that has higher hierarchy. However, the one with higher respect is the one that gets to depict certain situation and make decision.
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And in real life, most game creators are male. So the culture of power in videogames is male caucasian.
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