Mira Bunga Rachmana Raue
Staff Writer
Mira is a German-Indonesian and lived in Berlin up until this August. She is enthusiastic about travelling and loves conversations about philosophy and politics (which is also her planned major). She enjoys sharing her waitressing-stories and writes about identity, family and society.
Articles
The World is Telling you to be “Real,” Goffman tells you it’s not that deep
Erving Goffman’s The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life exposes life as a performance, where authenticity is just an act. Before social media, his work offers a sharp lens on today’s obsession with “realness” ^ pressure of curating identities.
What will we do when we win? Michael J. Sandel’s Tyranny of the Merit in the context of NYU Abu Dhabi
We are all extraordinary because we are successful. After all, we made it past the competitive applications at NYUAD. However, we must reshape our understanding of what it means to win and lose and the importance of the community in our successes.
