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In modern times, the western approach towards nature and Life is practical in the sense that it can all be explained by a scientific phenomenon. Due to this mentality, spiritual connections to our roots, nature and Life, are abysmal. To Linda Hogan, writer of Dwellings, this inauspicious approach confirms a detachment from “the treaties once made with [nature]”(11), to which Native Americans dearly hold on to. Throughout Dwellings, Hogan recounts significant experiences that enable her to inch…

the house, Amina having to run everything by her husband for approval, and Amina having to wear the wrap and veil on her secret excursion to the temple. These very things that Amina and her daughters deal with are just some of the main concerns of Western Feminist in regards the treatment of women in Arab Muslim culture. A particular topic of debate would be the veiling and wearing of a hijab, Khimar, or a Burka, all of which are worn in various parts of the world by Muslim women.…

“My hands were to soft. I had to find some special occupation, some kind of work that would not force me to turn away from the sky and the stars, that would allow me to discover the meaning of life.” Marc Chagall Marc Zakharovich Chagall (July 7th, 1887 – March 28th, 1985), a name he did not use until 1910 (arrival in Paris), was a Russian-born French Artist, holding the title of one of the premiere Jewish Artists of the 20th century. His paintings are largely associated with Cubism,…

interviewing is expressing her emotional connection to the nuchu as western would express their own emotion connection to say a da Vinci panting.…

a view into a different culture. A Belgian girl working in corporate Japan, shows the difference between eastern and western cultures. This is important because it illustrates a new taboo culture to western audiences. In the Japanese culture, the regular person sees themselves as a small being who need to start small and the only way to grow is to have experience while in a western culture, a regular person sees themselves as a large, significant part of society and that you need to have…

profits were not being met to the expectations of our shareholders. The reason I give this example is because I believe that this is a prime example of why Western management styles tend to fail. Not because of the ambitious entrepreneurial spirit of new company talent but by the need most shareholders have for bringing in a “successful” Western business…

Emigrating from China, my parents and ancestors share a strikingly different habit of music listening than my brothers and I. During their early childhood years, my parents viewed popular music at the time solely as a form of religion. However, as my parents settled into America after immigrating in 1994, the consumption of popular music began to link the traditional Chinese way-of-life with the new American life my parents chose. The role that music had on my parents differs from how my…

as Gendered Orientalism. This is the kind of “feminism” that centers white narratives and strips away the agency of women of color. It places the West on a pedestal of gender empowerment, and thus ignores the systemic misogyny of Western nations. It generalizes non-Western cultures. It promotes the dual image of the scary brown man and the white savior. This is the “feminism” of white people (especially, but not only, men) trying to save women of color. It appropriates women’s rights movements…

Sikh twins by the examiner during their final Art examination. Individuality could be a key point to examine a cultural conflict in this context. Before the examination, it will give a definition of culture and difference of the value system in each Western and Asian culture. Culture can be explained in many kinds of terms. Lustig and Koester (2010:25) defined “culture is a learned set of shared interpretations about beliefs, values, norms, and social practices, which affect the behaviors of a…

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…