Western Imperialism Essay

It was a century filled with war, and each represented a shift on who was leading. Each of these wars shows the Western nations willingness to use their militaries as tools to show their might. Militarism was one of the leading causes of this war, but was a side effect of Western nationalism. At the turning of the century Germany, Britain, and many other countries the idea of nationalism was starting to take hold. Having a great sense of pride…

Many readers that love the western writing genre can argue that Zane Grey is one of the bestselling western writers of all time. His novels The Lone Star Ranger and The Spirit of the Border are two examples of this. In these two novels Grey does a good job at showing the differences of the west during two different time periods when Native Americans roamed the lands and when cowboys and outlaws ruled the west. When examining the two novels, it will show the stereotypical views of the west,…

The colonized parts of the world were dependent on the countries that colonized them. They no longer had the resources needed to develop (because the European countries had taken most of them) and become a modern developed country like those of the Western World. In addition, the African and Asian countries no longer had the political organization and structure the European countries had provided them. Due to this broken system, the underdeveloped countries were unable to effective rule their…

beyond his angelic-like mission “there is always the express willingness to use force, to kill and be killed” (Said 226). Orwell, in his first paragraph of his essay about Kipling, argues that no one should agree with Kipling’s ideology toward imperialism or even exonerate him as he is “morally insensitive and aesthetically disgusting”. He argues that he is not just reporting violent acts by the White Man, but actually enjoying them as one cannot remark any sign of disapproval against brutality…

As Central Asian scholars brought in influence from Eastern Europe, especially the Ottoman empire, they discovered the growing importance of education and attempted to further the idea among Central Asian elites. The Patricide by Mahmud Khoja Behbudiy is a play that exemplified the very values of those scholars, who were known as Jadidists. In the play, Behbudiy introduced two ranges of characters which represented the divided attitude in the acceptance of Jadidist beliefs. One side involved…

the universalization of Western cultural preferences that require particularisms to be legitimated in their terms…” (130) The example above explains how western culture is dominating different societies and that the native aspects of culture are questioned or needed to be put into the terms of foreign values. Cases at the Supreme Court such as fights for human and religious rights from Islamic people are first hand effects of ethnocentric thinking and the power of western principles. Another…

Globalization helps blossom the economies of allied countries, giving them the means for a deeper relationship. This results in higher exposure of culture variances. Highlighting relevant theories and concepts including globalization, cultural imperialism and cultural uniformity, this essay discusses the homogenizing of cultures in Asia…

review: The Culture Industry The term culture industry, which created by those in power to maintain the status quo in terms of standardization and commodification was first developed by Ardono and Horkheimer based on the economic structure in the western society. It could be comprehended through the operation of cultural hegemony (i.e. how culture industry operates with the consent from the mass by the “dominant fundamental group”) that introduced by Gramsci. The following three academic…

Appropriation Art is the concept of taking a previously imagined and created idea and altering it either dramatically or slightly to the artist’s liking to fit the artwork. It is the idea that the new work recontextualizes whatever it borrows to create the new work. In most cases the original 'thing' remains accessible as the original, without change.The ‘copied’ artworks can be comprised of objects seen in everyday life or can be from another artist’s work.The earliest cases of Art…

globalization and westernization, and whether or not they are equal to each other and whether the advance of westernization is helpful or problematic for the societies. Westernization is the changing from the traditional cultural to the western dominance and western imperialism, but globalization is infect the tendency in which technologies, philosophical and economic advances can be made throughout the world with a global time zone and boundaries. There are many different views on whether…