“The Confident Gaze”

In Deshande’s article, “The Confident Gaze”, it talks about the National Geographic Magazine and how it portrays the life of people in foreign Countries. Some magazines go over the way people live and how they survive and other magazines just cover interesting facts about certain cultures. Every national geographic book is beneficial to you in some way. In the article Deshande states, “It is hard to underestimate the cultural value of the magazine” (Par. 2). I think what Shekhar Deshande was trying to say was that the information on these magazines are very factual and valid. Also pretty entertaining too I might add. Deshande later stated, “One of the clever ways in which National Geographic magazine constructs the image of the other, thereby providing an occasion for identity formation to its readers, is by representing a combination of the traditional and the modern or the Western” (Par. 16).  What Deshande was trying to say by this is that national geographic has clever ways in which they construct the image of something. Also they are relating the modern to the western in the last part of this quote.