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increasingly belonged to the West. By the 19th century, Western hegemony and its ability to obtain the Orient allowed a wide spread communication of Orientalism. No longer limited to just written and contemplative methods, the system of knowledge which Orientalism filtered into Western consciousness was now solidified by physical representation for public entertainment. Although Orientalism came into being through the self-centered Western imagination, it was not just an airy European fantasy.…

their children to be successful, but the Chinese out do all other ethnicities. Parenting is not an easy job. It takes hard work and dedication, something the Chinese manage to do very thoroughly. Chinese young, do not have the freedom that a child in western culture would have. They grow up in a very disciplinary environment. The mothers make sure of this. Chinese mothers have more successful children because they do not allow their kids to have a large social life or do anything they find that…

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…

immense differences in aberration in western cultures and secondary cultures this was implemented in an experiment were we explain the implications of a firm and weak handshake and our interpretation of one’s handshake. We also performed an exercise were we held conversations with each other while resisting eye contact; the purpose of this drill was to expose us to the vast divergence of interpretation of eye contact. Time management was also discussed because in western cultures we see time as…

Feeling beautiful deals with many factors but it has become incumbent with focus being placed on the physical aspects of person Una Marson writes about beauty and how it drives many women into changing their features and making those features fit into the standard of beauty. Her poem, “Kinky Haired Blues” speaks about that notion, of women wanting to assimilate to what the norm is. Specifically women of ethnic minorities, she talks Black Women and the pressure for them to bleach their skin and…

Women Without Men, Sultana’s Dream, and Brick Lane depict women who free themselves from their restricting home lives and societal pressures in favor of living without men. They are initially controlled by patriarchal traditions and expectations placed upon them. The protagonists in these novels are women who are initially restricted by patriarchal limits and societal expectations. The attempt to break free of those restrictions marks the strength to gain freedom from their respective situations…

x“Survival of the Fittest” that has always been my ideology, I had never questioned before why some countries were rich and others were poor. I did question the state of poverty in my country; I had learned in many history classes in high school that when my country became independent we were leading the Caribbean in industry and economy, however by the time I was in high school we were second to last just above Haiti. I always thought that our financial ruin was caused by poor leadership, and…

Merle Hodge’s novella Crick Crack, Monkey illustrates that Western culture has not only physically colonized the Caribbean nations, but also has colonized the minds of the community. The novella focuses on Cynthia, a young Caribbean girl whose Aunts share a similar desire for her to overcome her “ornery” background and become Westernized through education. Cynthia’s altering alienation from and acclimation to the different tiers of society parallel her progress through the Caribbean school…

As people are born and raised in the Western world they come to form their own image of Africa. These images formed come to us from things seen or heard about Africa. Places such as TV, magazines, movies, photographs, and songs are the ones shaping this image. The things depicted by these sources and the misconceptions they form isn’t Africa’s reality. These images make people in the Western world believe all of Africa is a barren wasteland with dangerous animals. When the people are depicted…

approach can be applied to many different areas of teaching to enhance the educational delivery and the resulting understanding of the students. Idealism is possibly the oldest Western philosophy we know and study in the present day. It traces back at least to Ancient Greece and Plato. It was once the dominant philosophy of Western culture and is still influential today. Idealism naturally takes its name from the root word idea. Idealists believe that ideas are reality. They typically reject…