Western Ghats

Underdevelopment: More Than a State of Mind Student Name: Fujia Wang Student Number: 214122782 Instructor Name: Miguel Gonzalez Course Name: INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Words: 1040 In 2010, Haiti was struck by a devastating earthquake that destroyed land and lives alike, almost wiping clean the capital city of Port-au-Prince. Because of the underdeveloped nature of Haiti at the time of the natural disaster, the country was susceptible to…

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…

Edward Said’s Orientalism and his critique of the West has been called both controversial and groundbreaking. In his book, he outlines the different ways the Western world since the beginning of time has “othered” the East and therefore taken advantage of and exploited its peoples and cultures all while serving its own imperialist schema. While I agree with the argument that the West is responsible for a number of injustices against “orient,” namely that the West created a binary division of the…

Huntington’s popular book, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of world order, “Western, Latin America, Islamic, Sinic or Chinese, Japanese, Hindu, Orthodox and Africa” (25) are the eight main Civilizations that make up the world. With technology improving, globalization is spreading rapidly throughout the world, and as a result, Society and social media are labeling these civilizations in a negative way. Western civilization is too modern, Islamics are too conservative, Latin Nations…

Once again, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano is an effective example of this argument, in that the reader witnesses the African’s forced entrance into Western culture, as well as a diminishment in his dedication to the cultural practices of his homeland, Eboe. While some may argue that the narrative’s introduction regarding Equiano’s background reinforces its continued magnitude in his life despite his…

strength enough to surpass neighboring states. I agree with Huntington’s claims involving the reasons why the clash of civilizations worldwide is bound to cause conflicts in the future. I agree with the alternatives Huntington describes for the non-Western states. Interstate conflict will be an important factor in conflict around the globe. Religion will absolutely be motivation for interstate conflict as each civilization can have a wide range of beliefs and values. The differences in culture…

I have always found psychology to be a fascinating subject in itself and unsurprisingly a great number of the specialties associated with it were of great interest to me. Among them, cultural, evolutionary, and social psychology were particularly appealing to me. However, it was cultural psychology that really stood out from the rest. Given that I aspire to someday be a cultural anthropologist, I can hardly say I found this to be surprising. It makes sense that applying the same cultural focus,…

and even simple daily life traditions. This authority that the western have over the “ orient” has a lot of critical aspects to discuss. One major argument is that why do westerns have an authority power over the “orient”? One answer could be because of the European colonization such as Britain and France and recently the United States. But even with…

about another culture to tell a complex, realistic narrative about the people they are trying to represent? Too often, the Western world has a disproportionate amount of influence over the narratives of other cultures, causing stories about cultures in Africa and the Eastern world to be overflowing with stereotypes, and offensive portrayals of the people who live there. Western story tellers have the tendency to inaccurately depict foreign cultures to make them fit their own simplified…

film. The Chinese whether being rich or not, invested in the practice of commodity fetishism. The film showed the culture of China being one where people are obsessed with the idea of what these items mean in western culture. The Chinese in the film were infatuated with trying to emulate western culture at any cost. Which is the reason that there have been so many fake brands that circulate in China and make these people feel as if they are worth more than the other people. A great example of…