Western culture

Introduction Contemporary examples of globalization stamp another age in human affairs. Pretty much the same as the Industrial Revolution and the development of the West in the nineteenth century characterized another age in world history. By comparison with past periods, globalization today joins a striking conjunction of thick examples of worldwide interconnectedness, close by their extraordinary regulation through new worldwide and territorial frameworks of control and correspondence, from…

Here we meet with a third factor to the globalization movement primitives that can be represented in the form of a question: why global problems should be seen as more important than many problems of individual states and nations, both large and small? It is, therefore, about the prevalence of national values over the world. Recent perceived by people as something important, but distant, as values that we all know who comprehended and recognized, but did not feel, are not included, so to speak,…

Cannibal Tours is a film directed by Dennis O’Rourke that follows a group of Western tourists on their vacation in Papua New Guinea. The film represents the contrasting differences between the tourists, who live a modern life, and the locals who appear to live a primitive life. As a result of their differences, Cannibal Tours allowed me to truly comprehend the “The West and the Rest” discourse that shapes cultural encounters in todays world. The tourists in the documentary are a group of…

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. The leaders of Russia,…

impossible without either side conceding some values of their own. Several Muslim families in the Western world have tried loosening the views of their faith and how strict its tenets are in order to better fit in with the modern world. This is a result of the pressuring forces that have been placed on these families by the tension that is created as a result of the opposing views held by the modern, Western world and the Muslim…

have had a huge impact on the development of western society. Greek philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle have been exceptionally important figures in the world. Homer’s contributions to literature are enduring in both “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey.” Certainly, the conquest of the known western world by Alexander the Great was a major influence in the region as well. However, one of the greatest and enduring contribution of Greece towards the Western world is found in their forms of…

Padoongpatt’s novel, Flavors of Empire (2017), the main argument of the novel is that the United States are fascinated with Thai culture and food that they use the culture to their advantages to gain power and profit while manipulating it to satisfy their own American culture. It is found throughout the book from when the United States were first exposed to Thai culture to when Thai people were beginning to establish an identity for themselves in the United States. For example, when the United…

especially those in the West, have disgraced their religion and they have banded together in order to fight a common enemy. Westernization, defined as “the conversion to or adoption of western techniques or traditions” (Merriam-Webster), has permeated the membrane of the Middle East and has ultimately impacted the Muslim culture. However, the Islamic State has enacted Sharia law within the territory that it has gained through its fights over the past few years. Sharia law is a set of governing…

Historian Frederick Jackson Turner expressed his feeling on the frontier thesis. He explained that the frontier influenced the American culture by promoting individualistic democracy. “The frontier,” he asserted, "is the line of most rapid Americanization." He also expressed that expansion to the American West changed people’s view of their own culture. The western frontier, however, did not appear to be what it seemed like. Turner described in his frontier thesis that the West was a “land of…

Western democracy is seen as the most acceptable way to live, and according to the major leaders of the world, it should be the only way we live. That is a problem, due to the fact that some places in the world are run differently than others. The Sharia law is frowned upon by most societies, and it brings up the question of whether these two types of controls can really coexist with one another in one country. The answer, presumably, is no. The laws and legal systems between these two types of…