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Secondly I will focus on China, Japan and Korea looking at their interpretation of the West and how this has influenced them. Hobson (2010) highlights that the Eurocentric view of globalisation unjustly empowers the West, such as Europe and America, and gives little credit to the East as playing any role in globalisation. This is done through the idea of the “West being self-made as a result of its own exceptional qualities” (Hobson, 2010, pp.25) and miraculously appearing to dominate…

Napoleon was more than a conqueror, that his deeds go beyond military exploits. Black states that Napoleon was a statesman that brought France out of the chaos of the revolution, and brought forth French dominance in continental Europe. He illustrates that Napoleon shaped Europe significantly in the beginning of the Europe’s dominance over the world. This text is in favour of Napoleon’s reign, it speaks highly of him and does not focus on Napoleon’s negative contributions to history. This source…

War, medicine, and religion broadly summarizes the Middle Ages. Bloodlines and culture clashed as the Roman empire fell, and time stood still as large, Eastern european civilizations crumbled with systematic disaster. With no political script to follow, for the first time townsmen experienced a sense of unpreparedness as they saw their rulers fall and be conquered by invaders. Throughout the Middle Ages not only was a monumental shift occurring culturally and politically, but specifically in…

Innocence and Feminity in Salman Rushdie’s, East, West and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis In Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi shows the struggles from childhood while growing up in Iran to the subsequent encounters in Europe. Salman Rushdie’s “East, West” on the other hand uses fiction and reality and blends the two in its most controversial perspective. Despite the difference in style and writing language, the two books are documented in certain themes with complementing ideologies. The main objective…

The nineteenth century was a huge turning point in global powers in Europe and Asia. The smaller countries grew larger in power whereas the bigger countries grew smaller in power, Russia, Japan, and China being the greatest examples. While Japan thrived in many aspects, Russia and China were on the verge of falling apart. The different approaches to nationalism by the three countries affected their political, social, and economic transformation and modernization while Japan mostly benefitted in…

problem of migration has always been an issue, but recently it has escalated to the point, where politicians are paying close attention to it. They have also make immigration an issue on their agendas to be focus on in security matter, especially in Western Europe and the United States. The awareness of international migration poses a threat in conjunction with the ever growing number of immigrant in the world. Statistics has been showing that there were more than 191 million persons living…

education dropped immensely. Farmers switched to subsistence farming, where they would grow just enough for themselves and their families to survive and education got pushed aside because it was not necessary for survival. Nearly everyone in Medieval Europe at this time was illiterate, even the nobles if there were any. Education and literacy was only taught in religious institution where it was deemed necessary to continue the teachings and recordings of God. While this was all going,…

On Multicultural Western Societies After the decolonization processes that took place during the second half of the twentieth century, the imperial adventures that drove some European nations and the United States came to a halt as countries gained their independence. Naturally, the exit of the Western powers did not necessarily mean an end to relations between the ex-colonies and their colonizers. Far from it, immigration channels opened up, and countries no longer remained devoid of outside…

imperialism expanded, numerous African people groups turned out to be extremely concerned. Fears that Europeans would grab all the land prompted to various furnished clashes. Some of these formed into full-scale wars also prepared armed forces from Europe attacked Africa to secure regional cases. By 1914 Europeans had…

author of “The Great Degeneration,” argues that Western civilization has entered into a period of decline because of the exclusivity and private dictatorship of the state. Ferguson is strongly concerned about the decline of the west and North America and Europe becoming a stronger polity. Thus, he believes that reforming this decline cannot be done through revamping institution, but rather through a rejuvenation of civil society itself. In our western society today it is highly…