Western culture

played and influential role in western art. The influence of Japanese art made created a term, Japonism, this term specifically refers to Japanese influence on European art and culture. One of the most remarkable traditions in Japanese art is Ukiyo-e of the Edo period. As the ‘jewel’ of the Japanese printing art, it uses the most exquisite paper, the finest colors and elaborate technique. Ukiyo-e not only carved a deep influence in Japanese art, and also in western art history. Ukiyo-e is a…

Reflection Essay Progress is, by definition, an onward or forward movement to a destination, goal, or outcome. Progress takes time. Progress is not a simple task that can always be done overnight especially when talking about human civilization. The western world has taken life times to reach the point that is has become in this century. For those of my generation, this progress is slow and is not noticeable to the naked eye, but even going as far back as a few decades we can see that many…

liberalization of immigration in the 1970s and the increase in transnational migration as a result of globalization, there has been an influx of persons of Indian origin (PIOs) in North America and Britain. These PIOs have brought aspects of their culture to their new countries while adopting cultural aspects of that society. Nonetheless, it was food that was viewed as a ‘common cultural barometer’ that charted the expansion of Indian settlement as well as the responses from the white locals…

like: “Iran Nuclear Deal: What Happens Next?” and “Radical Islam: why Europe should be on war footing” it is no surprise that Western society has a fear of Muslims. In Azar Nafisi’s essay “The Veiled Threat”, she brings light onto a neglected issue within Islam: the inequality between men and women. Media has distorted the Western perception of Islam as it does with other cultures and people. The news says “good evening” and then tells us all reasons it’s not. The news spends the entire news…

The recognition of sex and gender is very different cross-culturally. Although the Western way of gender recognition is getting common around the world, many of non-western society still have other ways of gender recognition. Sometimes, the different recognition makes it difficult to understand gender relations in other cultures. This paper will analyse that how Western gender recognition has influence on understanding other societies’ gender relations by using case studies about Gerai and North…

have suffered countless tragedies. Western colonialism, slavery, neocolonialism, and internal colonialism have impacted Africa, African Americans, and the millions of other African descendants around the world. These western practices brought much discord to African Americans and the black family. Western values and culture created male-female inequality by separating men and women in their labor system, persuaded African American’s to reject their own culture, and encourages black people to…

Parker, understands as “the western way of warfare.” This particular way of war is defined by certain key characteristics which emerged in Roman and especially Greek military, where the connection between technology, tactics, and social organization was the harbinger of the western military practice. This, Parker claims, explains the dominance of western culture, more than economic, intellectual and other factors. Moreover, In the last 200 years, European or the western way of war has become…

Without a doubt Ancient Greece influenced nearly every aspect of western civilization, from our architecture and literature to even our system of governing. Western cultural continually glorifies Ancient Athens, even when it probably shouldn’t. Some scholars, like Victor David Hansen, claim that the Greek victory against the Persians saved western civilizations. But the question remains, did it really save western civilization? It’s important to keep in mind that all of this is pure speculation.…

thing of the past as the “civilized” world of industrialization spread westward. Yet, can a region and culture bow to the whims of popular conceit? Can the soul of a land ever truly die, or does it simply evolved into a newer version of the existing paradigm? In Luis Alberto Urrea’s essay, “Desolation Road,” an evolved, yet completely intact account of the very same “wild west” of popular culture is presented as alive…

The new forms of American music also played an important role in my parents’ assimilation into American culture. The mixture of these different forms of music symbolizes how my parents have assimilated and the process of assimilation. When my parents first arrived in America, they were dumbfounded by all the vibrant exuberance of American popular culture and music. Unlike the mundane Cantopop performances and styles, the popular American artists of the 1990s, such as Britney Spears…