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Presentation guidelines and mandatory reading source will be in the file attached. The presentation is about Primordialism and modernism and can it go beyond that. The key points that need to be mentioned in the presentation and be leveraged are that neither of those are good choices and neither offers a lesser evil as they’re both equally evil. Primordialism is too deterministic and absolute in the sense that it doesn’t account for change or evolution, and Modernism as we know it is far too eurocentric and capitalist for me to be able to agree with. Modernism fails because it reporduces capitalism. I think we should let go of our history and culture and traditions; Islam is a part of the Maldives’ history, culture, and traditions; a large part in fact. And what you call culture in the Maldives are largely based off of superstition in the past – it is mixed with Islam, and now it has reproduced itself into a culture of patriarchy, closeted misogyny, violent repression, and homogeneity. And then comes in modernism, with capitalist modernisation, those things have in fact evolved into modernist frameworks. Now we have ancient rites and rituals except “modernised” and mass reproduced as an instrument of the political and economic machine in capitalism. Cultures change and evolve – Impermanence paired with equitable, compassionate social evolution at a collective level is best. The issue is that when you ask which one is better – primordialism or modernism the question in and of itself is that it creates a dichotomy, and dichotomies are never helpful. Look beyond the question and the choices you’re given. Please do not use sources from books, just articles from google scholar apart from the source mentioned in the mandatory reading in the presentation guidelines file.