Revisionist Western

In Richard Nisbett 's "The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and Why", the differences between Eastern and Western cultures are discussed thoroughly. Nisbett primarily compares them through their differing thought processes. Western culture is primarily very individualistic, while Eastern culture is very collectivist. I personally have grown up with both of these cultures myself and can back up Nisbett 's claims through personal experience. There are many…

the kind of clothes she wears” (Fernea 1989:312). Sheik Hamid shows his concern and disrespect towards the women he see’s, that are not like his women who are fully covered. He has a point when regarding this situation to his son; most women of Western society portray themselves in a negative light by the lack of clothing they wear in resemblance to show off their “good aspects”. As we can see Sheik Hamid can relate more to women who have respect for themselves, woman who portray there…

Watson attempts to create a historical survey of the states systems that were formed in Europe and then spread to the “civilized” world. This states systems was challenged after World War II by the anti-colonial revolution and the demands of the Third World states for a new international order. Watson tries to move beyond on the mechanistic and sterile concept of international system to the more focused and perhaps more complicated concept of international society. Watson focuses on the global…

In Western culture, comparisons are constructed in an almost natural manner as a way for people to form an understanding of foreign ideas and concepts. The diagnosis and treatment of mental illnesses across the world vary from that of Western Culture; thus, it becomes difficult to define the nature of a disorder as it pertains to each individual culture. There is a tendency of miscommunication of the language as well as a variance in the causations of the disorders that create a cultural barrier…

because what might be the norm in emic perspective, can be seen as strange from an etic perspective. Ponijao was cleaned by his mother saliva and Bayarjargal had his face washed by his mother’s breast milk. These might seem as strange acts from a western perspective. On the other hand, they are considered normal in an emic perspective. The film rarely shows any clear interaction of the father in the Mongolian sitting also, but it shows prominent father interactions in the Japanese and American…

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…

This essay aims to outline that within a liberal democratic society, in which everyone is free to do whatever they will, as long as it does not impose upon others freedoms, multiculturalists ultimately have to endorse practices they may regard as immoral, although the discussion around the topic is not that simple. For the basis of this argument we are assuming that multiculturalists in this context are living within a liberal democratic society, in which everyone is free to live their life as…

A Reaction to Narayan’s Dislocating Cultures. Uma Narayan’s article raises multiple questions about how third world issues are perceived by western bodies. In her article, Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism, she looks at the “‘effects’ that national contexts have on the construction of feminist issues and the ways in which understandings of issues are then affected by border crossings across national boundaries” and how culture is invoked in explaining the…

However, instead of just creating economic decline, industrialization was the principle cause in their civil war. What was originally filled with an intimate economy with agro-pastoralists, expansion of western influence brought the desire for oil, and as a result western style industrialization. Through the desire of creating a society of perpetual growth and influences of large developed economies, large scale oil operations began to displace the small scale farms throughout the country…

In the Western world, depression is described as a mental state and set of behaviors that relate to a loss of connectedness to others or a decline in social status or personal motivation. Ethan Watters, writer of the essay “The Mega-Marketing of Depression in Japan”, describes how cultural differences highly influence the way people understand depression. The company GlaxoSmithKline…