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    has been made clear that the Western Culture and the Indian culture are not single and unified entities because there so many divisions found in the nations class, religion and racial facets of society. This notion can be best explained by Samuel Huntington in his ‘Clash of Civilizations” in his statement that “At the one hand, the West is at a peak of power. At the same time, however, and perhaps as a result, a return to the roots phenomenon is occurring among non-Western civilizations”…

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    The Western Cultural Escalation Life articulates with culture. Culture is the result of an influx of ideas which creates norms and ideologies of certain regions. Modern day culture, tends to be a hybrid of a myriad of aspects of many cultures around the world. An alpha of all of the included cultures tend to be “western culture.” Although Western culture, with its rigid bond with modernization, plays a dominant role in shaping world culture, such as creating necessity for freedom, nationalism,…

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    and Western civilization, more specifically Thailand and European South African culture. As a Westerner, people are more logical thinking about careers and being an individualistic, as opposed to Easterners who are more contexts based, acting more for the harmony of the community. (What is the difference between eastern culture and western culture?, 2012) It examines, in more depth, the differences in cultures, religions, beliefs, family values and lifestyles between the Eastern and Western…

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    Culture Vs Western Culture

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    Mead (1978, p. 64), claims that culture is a standard quality that is passed from ancient period of time to new time, however on account of the unique creativity of the Internet several people are not picking up from their generations, but instead from the Internet. Generally speaking, the recent exploration of cultures over the spread of the Internet has made many people lose their cultural uniqueness and qualities. However, the western culture has been extremely useful to discrete social…

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    foreigners. Only few elites have the resources to acknowledge western cultures. Nevertheless, globalization made western way of life approach majority people in China. For instance, you can find simple English words on the street in China that was impossible 50 years ago. I personally think there are many reasons devoted to cultural assimilation. The three factors that contribute to cultural assimilation are: people sharing the same popular cultures, people can communicate through the Internet…

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    many cultures did not know of other peoples or other parts of the world. Ever since exploration started in the 1400s, leading to discovery of other societies and their resources, globalization had emerged. This development has progressed through all continents; many aspects of such societies and their institutions have changed greatly because of globalizing effects. Unfortunately every positive impact can be followed by a negative. In many ways globalization has negatively impacted the culture…

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    substance containing nutritional elements for the human body. However, from the archeological record to today, there are many examples of items of food that are consumed for reasons other than simply fulfilling one’s dietary nourishments. In modern cultures, medical substances fit into this category, since they are properties that are ingested for reasons other than nutritional value. In Callahan’s article, ‘Eating dirt’, he not only discusses the nutritional elements of geophagy, nonetheless,…

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    What role does Western Medicine play in our society? Western medicine is evidence- based medicine that began in the Western civilization countries like Europe. It is a system in which medical doctors and healthcare professionals treat symptoms. Throughout time medicine has revolutionized into a new traditional era of American health culture. A new culture that now focuses on its fundamental foundation to follow guidelines, rules, and procedures. Medicine and culture have crashed and caused…

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    Western culture is thousands of years old. It has been influenced by the Greeks and Romans on its slow conquer of the world. European countries developed Western culture even more as they spread it across the globe to the Americas and parts of Asia and Africa through colonization. Government and education travelled with it as well as the Christian faith. Millions of people were affected by colonization. Its purpose was intended to be good by spreading what Europeans saw as civilization, but it…

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    what sort of stages have Pho become parts of some western cultures INTRODUCTION Pho, the most common and famous Vietnamese’s street food, and it only exist stretches only a hundred years back in Vietnam 's recent past. But in Australia and many other western countries, people are also very familiar with Pho as Vietnamese cuisine. In Vietnamese history, it has three important stages that remarked Vietnamese pho became common Asian food in some western society which has close relation with…

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