Western world

The major solution of the issues and problems that come as a result of the contemporary society aspect, mainly in a world where the diverse cultures of different communities have increased contacts with one another, is achievable only if each of the communities from diverse sides can be able to transcend the main aspects together with the ingrained stereotypes that are…

The world is an integrated whole, but throughout history, society has divided itself. The modern geopolitical imagination is the latest in a line of the ever-changing ways we organise the world. While it has its benefits, it also has limitations. It seems like an efficient structure of independent states but these divisions are essentially imagined by the dominant society. In some cases, the modern geopolitical imagination was thrust upon a region and is not a perfect system; international…

addition, we also have cultural contradictions among the different racial and cultural groups. I am a first generation Asian-American in the U.S., and I have been facing a different kind of challenges in terms of assimilation within the society. In the Western society, the way of communication is very different than South Asian countries. In the eastern culture, people still have a traditional way of communication, which refers to so much respect for older people, women, and strangers. But, in…

today? As the world shifts into what seems to be principally, a Western culture, a considerable amount of people chastise the apparent movement that is the homogenization of culture. Global culture’s controversial progression has wreaked havoc among our cultural leaders, and has debatably changed the traditional and aesthetic aspects of culturally driven communities. Nevertheless, while global culture does have its arguable negative points, it is mostly beneficial for our developing world.…

well advanced in terms of medicine, logistics and technology. The Western Middle Ages were restricted from advancing, and they gathered much of their knowledge from the Eastern Empire. As a result, the Eastern Middle Ages became substantially more advanced. Paragraph 1. Topic sub question: What was the Middle Eastern Middle Ages like? Key question: To what extent was the Eastern Middle Ages more advanced than that of the Western during the 1100-1300’s? The medical knowledge of the Middle…

unique nations that comprise the world. A more feasible argument is that globalization…

had become known as “the wild west” of the United States had been thoroughly tamed. The sensationalized accounts of the region popularized in the pulpy rags known as “dime novels” had by and large been deemed a thing of the past as the “civilized” world of industrialization spread westward. Yet, can a region and culture bow to the whims of popular conceit? Can the soul of a land ever truly die, or does it simply evolved into a newer version of the existing paradigm? In Luis Alberto Urrea’s…

same way, I have been motivated to learn about the history of the world as it provides me a better image and understanding of a culture, a town, and in some cases, an individual. Also, I always wanted – in fact very badly wished – to travel the world, do something for the greater good, be someone more than a girl who comes from a small town of about 900 people in the middle of nowhere. I was always so curious about the outside world, I wanted to learn and meet new people. So this creates a…

In Catherine A. Lutz and Jane L. Collins’ book Reading National Geographic, they claim that the National Geographic Magazines tend to portray third world cultures as exotic through photographs to make it easier for Westerners to dominate and marginalize them, even if this is unintentional. “We are pointing to the nature of its photographs as mass-produced images sold to a reading (viewing) public” (Lutz and Collins 1993: 5). This implies that National Geographic’s main focus is for readers to…

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…