Western Imperialism Essay

The Seed of Western Values Prompt C The Eastern world is a mystical and fascinating world, the West has always viewed it differently throughout history showing the Eastern cultures as barbaric or uncivilized. Although our history classes show them in a different perspective the area is culturally rich and has deep roots of its ancestral past. In the graphic novel Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, the reader dives into the mystical world and the modernization, regime changes, and religious revival…

rather than agricultural ones. From the mid eighteenth to early nineteenth century, an industrial explosion occurred. This was the Industrial Revolution. It began in Britain with the expansion of coal and textile industries. This spread throughout western Europe and areas of North America and lead to a trend of manufacturing goods. By the twentieth century the world was aware of their industrial power. But industrialization left many countries behind. While the Industrial Revolution and…

barriers which has both positive and negative consequences. Although this facilitates the sharing of cultures and knowledge, it is easier for smaller cultures and viewpoints to be neglected or overlooked by louder more dominant influences, such as western ones, and misinformation and bias are shared all over the world just as…

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…

High fashion is often considered a pretentious and petty industry, the driver of materialism and body image issues. And while these side effects of the industry may very well be true, what most people look past is the creative aspect of fashion. Fashion designers regard themselves as artists and their material cloth, leather, fur, sequins, and countless other items. Like all art, fashion is highly scrutinized by the public for being too expensive, unrealistic, and overdone. Perhaps the most…

Cultural appropriation is the adoption or use of elements of one culture by members of another culture. For centuries, many groups of people are guilty of this act, especially the white race. Because the U.S population is made up of people from hundreds of different ethnicities and over 13.3 percent of immigrants, it is not surprised that cultures will rub off on you. Even making the culture greater. But wearing a culture and disrespecting a culture are two different things. For example,…

What is Cultural Appropriation? It is hard being a minority in America. The struggle for identity is a common thread amongst minority communities in this country and that issue is constantly exasperated by the white washed media. According to Susan Scafidi, cultural appropriation is “taking intellectual property, traditional knowledge, cultural expressions, or artifacts from someone else's culture without permission.” (Scafidi) I would add that using those artifacts to make a profit is what…

Cultural appropriation has been defined by Susan Scafidi as, “taking intellectual property, traditional knowledge, cultural expressions, or artifacts from someone else's culture without permission. This can include unauthorized use of another culture's dance, dress, music, language, folklore, cuisine, traditional medicine, religious symbols, etc.” In an article written by Brittany Enoghayin, she talks on the recent trend on African print clothing that has become conspicuous in prom attire.…

discourse took part in literature, and covered the idea of representation. The western travelers found the Moroccan characteristics such as habitant, landscapes, religious festivals, customs … fertile to represent the country, whether positively or negatively. Those representations differ depending on the difference perceptions of the writers and their origins. This paper will shed the light on the representation of Morocco in western travel writers’ texts in the early 20thcentury. The…

however the directors use constant imagery of the orient in a barbaric manner to reconfirm the stereotypes by constantly undermining the Jordanian society. Norma relies on the craving of fantasy from the occident to show the gap between America, western culture and Jordan eastern culture. By the documentary showing Norma in both America and Jordan it differentiates the two, one being where she is most comfortable and the other being a mysterious place that could potentially harm her. Norma…