Western United States

East for centuries. This division is known as Orientalism which refers to the Western or Occidental views that the Middle East or Orient is inferior or different in some way. Edward Said was a scholar who studied the Western perception of the Middle East, specifically the word “Islam” through the lens of Orientalism. Said argues that this distinction between the West and the “other” is primarily reflected in Western media which generally promotes stereotypes of Muslims and people living in the…

Driving through the Western University gates on Richmond Street in the Fall of 2011 was my first glance into a place I would soon call my home; although, I did not know it at first. As an impressionable 17-year-old, I did not have a clue as to what I was looking for in a university. I felt a variety of emotions when touring Western during my last year of high school, including, but not limited to, excitement, insecurity, anxiety, and confusion. Such a large campus overwhelmed me; however, I…

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…

politics and Western media. Beginning with Samuel Huntington’s controversial thesis on civilization clash, Huntington suggested that there were distinct cultural differences between the core values of the West and those of Islam. “Individually almost none of these factors was unique to the West. The combination of them was, however, and this is what gave the West its distinctive quality.” To him, the separation of church and state, democracy and liberation were the defining features of Western…

unable to effectively protect their children against harm and need the aid of Western countries. Russell surprisingly asks, “This has been going on for years?” which demonstrates that this situation has been occurring for a long time in Uganda and the African people have not been able to do anything to help these children, thus implying that the African community is powerless. Africa 's alleged dependence on Western…

Egypt support FGM (UNICEF, 2013). In light of this information a multiculturalist living in a social democratic society dealing with the issue of migrants wanting to continue their cultural practices, would be forced to endorse this practice, as the state does not recognize the agency of the children that this procedure is performed on. Recent studies have shown that there can be a range of dangers associated with FGM, depending on the particular procedure performed, and so this would have to be…

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…

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,…

and the east seem to have more humbleness once the different type of people visit places other then what they are use to. For example, a person born and raised in North Korea visits the United States and does not know how to speak the language or does not understand the culture of the people in the United States. It should force the person from Korea to become humble because if not then no one is going to guide that person. Going to uncomfortable situations usually forces someone to become…

and the centuries to follow. The culture and thought of the western trace its roots in the philosophy of the Greek where this viewpoint majors on research and reasoning pertaining some fields including law, literature, technology, politics, science, psychology, art, and ethics. How the Greece became the center of the western culture and thought The geographical position of the Greece favored its geopolitical locus because the city-states of the Greek spread along the northeastern coasts of the…