Far East

Throughout this course we have not only gained factual knowledge about East Asia but also a framework that we can use to understand other countries and cultures around the world. To consider ourselves global citizens, we must have an understanding of the world and the way it works. From learning about the history of East Asia, we now have a better understanding of why it works the way it does today, and that makes us less ethnocentric and more empathetic toward others. This course has allowed me…

is very far into debt as a country and the U.S. spends more than it makes. “Today’s Federal Debt is about $19,117,655,871,000” (Chantrill). If the U.S. were to accept syrian refugees it would cost a lot. President Obama said that he would like to accept 10,000…

countries that were not heavily populated with Muslims. Countries nearby were now exposed to Muslim culture. It has been diffusing from the Middle East to Europe, Africa and Asia. Looking at a map created from different sources showing the spread of Islam, over a short span of about 140 years, the Islamic territory reached as far north as France and as far east as India (Doc C). Apparently, Muslim advances were very successful. One might conclude that Muslim military campaigns were not…

influence and the Middle East is no different. Americans should care about the current state of the Middle East for numerous reasons. Some of the reasons Americans should care about the current state of affairs in the Middle East include economic, national security and world peace. Americans should care about what is going in the Middle East, but unfortunately a majority of Americans will not care until the current state…

Current misconceptions of Muslim countries today in the West stem from the West’s belittling perceptions and depictions of “the East.” Many scholars’ writings, such as George Hegel, wrote problematic cultural representations of Islamic history based upon fictional, Western images of the “Orient.” Despite Fernand Braudel’s attempts in writing an improved history on Islamic civilization, he still suffers from a significant Hegelian slant that includes Orientalism and Idealism. In contrast,…

The East Asian media has become an important tool for conveying important ideas, knowledge, and skills that influence both commercial and political-engaged forms of pop culture in the society. East Asia, especially japan has rich cultural and in the recent past, they have incorporated this in the mainstream media as a way of promoting the contemporary cultures. The East Asian countries highly regard their culture and as such, they have made it an important aspect of their modern day technology.…

an end. Capitalist West Germany and socialist East Germany have been reunified. Our setting is the post-socialist East Germany. “The winds of change blew on the ruins of our republic”, Alex recounts. The separation between the eastern and western cultures, communism and capitalism, authoritarianism and democracy was no longer. How far will a son go to shelter his beloved mother’s idealism towards the communist nation she pledged…

political ideologies and egos, another conflict arose. This conflict is called the Cold War. Many countries were terrified since nuclear war and World War III was a possibility if the war didn’t stop. It affected many regions of the world, particularly East and West Berlin and Cuba. The Soviet Union helped Cuba and established in the world as more than one of America’s allies. In actuality, Cuba was treated more like a colony than anything else, and the US was blind to its needs. America ignored…

and their main goal in life that is set by Middle East society is to get married and pass on their genes. Men are seen as the head of the household, in which everything they say must be obeyed and they are suppose to take care of everything financially. Although recently, due to change in gender roles and sexuality in many developed nations. It has sparked a movement in which ideological reform is taken place. In my family many of the Middle East gender roles are present. My father usually takes…

what they saw in the movies. However, the problem in the three cases is generalization. In Meddle East we do have terrorist, but not everybody in Meddle East is a terrorist. Moreover, we do have poverty, literacy, and rich people; but not in the way that people think. The goal of building a contact zone and King Abdullah program is to teach people about the different paths of people in the Middle East and Saudi Arabia especially and why people should never hear one side of the story and believe…