Before its decline in the 20th century, the west was a powerful surge that had the rest of the world scrambling for westernization within its society. Westernization is the expanding and adopting of western culture. Russia, Asia, and Africa after the were byproducts of Westernization. They were kind of forced to adapt to the life of western peoples because of this sudden infatuation in western policies. The whole surge for westernization was partly because of religion, which at this time was a very respected aspect.…
Following the civil war, the railroads towards the west helped in opening up a lot of land for settlement and economic development. White settlers traveled from the East to farm, ranch, and mine. Along with the white settlers, African- Americans made their way from the south to the west for economic development. Even the Chinese who worked on the railroads traveled to the west furthering its diversity. Settlers from the east changed the face of the “Great Plains”.…
This system had positive impacts not only in Asia but also in Europe. However, due to a strong military dominance by the western powers, the trading establishments in China and Asia were altered. The Western nations used their authority to take over trading routes that facilitated trade in Asia and parts of Europe. As a consequence, Western powers asserted their authority and the global economy was transformed. Mark posits that the Western nations indoctrinated the nations in the Middle East, China, and Asia with their cultural and technological establishments.…
Concept Sketch: Representation Representation is defined as a cultural process through which we envision the world. This process is influenced by the omnipresent norms and values shared by members of society. The definition has been derived by canvassing Ella Shohat and Robert Stam ’s article titled Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media, and Anne McClintock’s article Soft-Soaping Racism and Imperial Advertisement. It is important to note that the meaning of the term ‘representation’ is contextual, thus, for the purpose of this paper the development of ‘representation’ is conducted under a feminist scholarly framework.…
Westernization occur in 1970s to 1980s. At that time, the cultural globalization was driven by the western culture because of the intensification of the agent of change, such as media technology. Americanization refers to the distribution of American products ort culture into other culture and cause cultural imperialism…
caricaturing Jews and non-Germans. Seeing the horror of where this culminated, the victorious west adopted somewhat of a secular approach to identity so that as well as not having an official religion, they did not have official values or myths of a national character. It was believed that the secular approach (that is sometimes erroneously defined as multiculturalism) would be the best method to achieve positive relations with the diverse peoples of their own countries and with other countries in a globalised world.…
1. The West does not have all the answers. Be it with life, space, or a load of other matters; significant and serious questions remain unanswered. With technological advancements every year, anthropologists and scientists are discovering more hidden ruins, cities, and monuments all over the world. This gives us new insight into how certain people lived in the past.…
The people of the West defined themselves in contrast with civilizations of the ancient East having their own political life; kings ruled without the regard of the public opinion, and in contrast with Islamic civilization the religion of the Islam were monotheistic and nowadays is, the West had large armies, navies, and bureaucracies loyal to the monarch by the capacity to raise revenues and still later in contrast with less economically developed regions of the world as having monarchies, their military, and their expanding commercial economies became the basic for the extension of European and Western around the world.…
The West vs. the Rest- “The West” is a term that is given to more advanced cultures such as ours. These cultures can be described as moral, civilized, industrial, developed, and educated. On the contrary, “The Rest” is a term that is given to less advanced cultures such as the poor countries in Asia. These cultures can be described as primitive, immoral, savage, underdeveloped, and uneducated. “The Rest vs. The Rest” is of great significance in our class due to it being greatly involved with the term “discourse.”…
There are different meanings about the meaning of the Western World. Western civilization was born thousands of years ago with the rise of the Greek city-state, influenced by Middle Eastern culture. EAST East (Latin orens, oriri participle: appear birth) is the name of the direction from which the sun (and other stars) minted in antiquity, namely the East rises. By extension, it refers to those regions that are east of the benchmark. In the "Western" culture he was given this name to Asia.…
This paper aims to explore these questions and takes into consideration the way “hegemony” functions in the contemporary era. Herein, one needs to address how worldviews were centered on Western civilization. These worldviews developed…
The West is a group of nations consisting of The United States of America, Canada, Australia, and Western Europe. These countries are the powerhouses of the world and are some of the most developed countries today. The West is heavily involved in international law, The UN, and influences many global issues. The West is also the centre of the world as the people who reside there are typically financially stable, it is a large area of the world, and has luxurious cities. While quite prosperous and rich, the West is hated by many other nations.…
Chandra Mohanty, writer of “Under the Western Eyes,” tries to challenge the traditional “Western feminist” discourse on women in the third world. Mohanty’s purpose is not to question the knowledge and value of Western feminist writings on women in the third world, but to uncover ethnocentric universalism (presuppositions and implicit principles). She claims that women in the third world are portrayed as sharing a homogeneous oppression. Instead, she asks Western feminists to take into account the complex interaction between social, economic, class, religion, culture, etc. frameworks before describing women in the third world. Mohanty states that ignoring these frameworks creates the false assumption of women in the third world as an always…
The term “globalization refers to a multidimensional set of social processes that create, multiply stretch, and intensify worldwide social interdependence and exchanges while at the same time fostering in people a growing awareness of deepening connections between the local and the distant. ”(J, Campbell, 4) Westernization is usually known as a particular type of universalize in which the social structures of modernity (capitalism, industrialism, rationalism, urbanism, etc.) are spread the world over, destroying the cultures and local…
The best things in life aren´t things, but it is easy to lose yourself in a world where values such as capitalism and materialism is paramount. In the short story “The Decline of the West” which is written by Hanif Kureishi and published in 2010, in Kureishis collection of short stories; “Collected stories”. In the short story we meet Mike, Mike comes home after a terrible day, he worked in the financial industry, but he has just been fired. He has been used to work twelve hours a day, and therefor he has a difficult relationship with his family, because he has spent more time working than paying attention to his family.…