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What is Islamophobia? It seems to be an easy question and yet it troubled most politicians around the Western world. After the September 11 terrorist attack and the subsequent War on Terror launched by the United States, tensions against Muslim in the Western world rose. Scholars have summarized this climate of anti-Muslim situation as Islamophobia. Unfortunately, Islamophobia is becoming more prevalent and socially acceptable in the modern world. Bipolar extremes of both sides typically…

Western societies appear to repeatedly place a great deal of importance on the thinness model of human physique, often to the exclusion of other models of healthy, more realistic and attainable models of physique. The appreciation of specific aesthetic qualities seem to surpass and dominate above those of intellect, accomplishment, demeanor and overall health, and if you are someone who is overweight or ‘fat’ certain practices within Western societies can result in feelings of humiliation,…

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…

The Cultural Divide In Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri emphasizes the divide between Western and Hindu culture through contrasting imagery of the sari and revealing clothing worn by Mrs. Sen, Mrs. Das, and Mala in the stories “Mrs. Sen’s”, “Interpreter of Maladies”, and “The Third and Final Continent”. By using contrasting imagery, Lahiri shows the cultural barriers that stem from her characters feeling the need to choose their own traditional values and beliefs or those of a new culture.…

However, Adichie does answer the question of whether it is the migratory nature of Western ideas, or the manner in which they are delivered that is an injustice upon culture. Protagonist Kambili’s first introduction to the Western world outside of the English language and the Catholic religion occurs in Aunty Ifeoma’s home, where her cousins routinely indulge in the latest media. Amaka - her cousin - is the…

Western culture is thousands of years old. It has been influenced by the Greeks and Romans on its slow conquer of the world. European countries developed Western culture even more as they spread it across the globe to the Americas and parts of Asia and Africa through colonization. Government and education travelled with it as well as the Christian faith. Millions of people were affected by colonization. Its purpose was intended to be good by spreading what Europeans saw as civilization, but it…

Achieving unobstructed economic activities by efforts of ultimate economic liberalization Over the past two decades, economic liberalisation by global productivities has been increasingly expanding and persisting the advancements of western economic growth (Stehr & Strasser, 2004, p. 4). Many people from developed countries have prospered from ‘globalism’ (Robertson, 2003, p. 4) as a result of cross-border trade and investments. However for developing countries, that are not sizeable enough to…

weakness and oppression; neither willing to act on their threats in fear of retaliation. This was the Cold War. A political war between the Western nations and the Eastern Bloc. As Soviet power rapidly grew in the Eastern territories, the Western nations became evermore concerned for their own governments. In order to avoid being taken over by Communist forces, the Western countries joined…

long time in western societies. Feminism has been a form and platform for women to speak out against male counterparts when it comes to issues affecting society and their role in it. The struggles of women who have ancestry are from third-world, pro-colonialism nations contribute to the arguments of African feminist, Oyeronke Oyewumi and anthropologists, Iris Lopez. Oyewumi argues the form of western feminist perspectives have influenced the way in which Africa is regarded in modern western…

a culture on an opposite side of the world, Japan. The story itself was written in an entirely different language and time period, and although it is sometimes hard to spot the similarities, there are parallels with our western culture as well. The cultures of Japan and the United…