...Professor Reed Abstract Imperial expansion changed the aspect of many cultures. What was considered everyday life and tradition began to change dramatically or destroyed. The European influence on non-western society began a cultural shift to the European culture in more of a decentering, rather than reclamation to its own culture. Keywords: Culture, decentering, westernization. Introduction The non-western cultures faced many changes through the beginning of the twentieth century. Slavery and Christianity was a huge part in those changes. Centering of culture results in a change in one’s own culture. As the world began to modernize, cultures began to become part of the civilization that was thrust upon them. “Worldwide, non-Western cultures faced fundamental challenges to their cultural identities—not so much a recentering of culture but a decentering of culture.” The word westernization equates to transformation to the modern ways of the world, or modernization. One must be able to distinguish the two terms. Modernization is an overhaul of the current society. Prior to the Europeans, the only other contibutors to the modernization of Africa were the Arabs. The Arab nations introduced Islam to the African culture ("Westernization - Africa,"n.d.). Through the late nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century, Western Cultures began to modernize technology, communication and expand their armed forces. Western culture had been given political power, accompanied...
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...Westernization and European Influences on Various Cultures Angela Lancaster AIU Online HUMA215-1205B-19 Abstract We are asked to analyze and interpret a quotation about the confrontation of Western civilization with other people whose values were often dramatically opposed to the West’s. We are asked to discuss what would the loss of centeredness of culture have meant for a given cultural group. To select from the non-western cultural groups and research the impact of Western or European cultures on the group chosen. Finally we are asked to give an opinion on how non-western culture was prior to the late nineteenth century and how did it change as a result of European expansion. There are several cultures that were affected by the westernization and the colonization of the Europeans. A few of these cultures are the Native Americans, Africans, Chinese, and Japanese. Each of these different cultures had drawn in different ideals, some good, and some bad. Asia did not have as many problems with westernization as the Native Americans and the Africans. The entire culture of the Native Americans and Africans were destroyed from European expansion and colonization, whereas the Chinese and Japanese retained much of their heritage by remaining out of touch with the western world. (Sayre, 2012) The Native Americans had a civilization that was basic and traditional, and it remained that way for several hundred if not thousands of years. They lived off of the land...
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...Both “Naomi” and “The neighbor’s wife and mine” are representative stories of westernization of Japanese culture. Naomi was written by Junichiro Tanizaki and published in newspaper in 1924. It demonstrates aestheticism and created the word naomism that represents the modern girl. The neighbor’s wife and mine is also a story that shows how Japanese people were longing to be like westerners. Both are stories of transition from classic Japanese culture to modern western style culture. I would like to describe how each story represents modernity and the difference of each women modernization. The neighbor’s wife and mine is the first sound effect movie in Japan. As we can see, the title is written in horizontal line instead of traditional vertical direction. The whole movie shows the influence of the western culture. First, in the beginning of the movie, the painter was drawing a western style house that was rare to see it at that time. He was inspired to the western style architecture and boast to Shibano, the main character, about how beautiful he drew it. Second, when Shibano goes to his neighbor house to claim the loud music, he realized that the house was totally western style, and he even did not know how to use the slippers. The interesting thing is that the music, Jazz, he supposed to feel disgust, was really amazing that he ended up dancing and singing with the people around. The music, Age of Speed, is also interesting because it implies the quick development of society...
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...During the late 19th century, Europe had already undergone the age of industrialism and had changed course into the idea of Imperialism. In class, we discussed that Imperialism is the idea of gaining power by colonizing other countries. This idea and a new way of life were the effects of two main causes. Since industrialization had brought factories, the need for cheap raw materials grew. In order to keep these big factories going many European countries had to colonize to get the materials, they needed for the cheapest price (doc 7). The best example of this was England. At the time England was one of the biggest and most powerful countries due to it’s larger number of colonies which included India, Egypt, Canada and Jamaica to name a...
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...Theory and Popular Culture Globalization, Mass Media and Culture Table of Contents Globalization, Mass Media and Culture 1 Table of Contents 2 Introduction 3 Modern culture, ideology 4 Globalization 5 Americanization 6 Mass Media and their Impact 7 Globalization, mass media and culture 8 Mass media and globalization 9 Globalization and culture 10 Conclusion 12 My opinion 13 Recommendations 14 List of references 15 Introduction A term globalization was used in 1983 for the first time in a history. Globalization as we know it today started at the beginning of the 20th century. It has an impact on everything and it has changed everything from its core. Economic environment, political environment and regarding to this subject – cultural environment. As everything, it brought both advantages and disadvantages. Looking back in time when this globalization started intensifies rapidly. It evokes a basic question: why did the globalization intensify rapidly? We can consider many reasons, for example lower travel cost, free movement of people, development of technologies, faster data exchange etc. These answers lead me to another possible answer - mass media. Globalization, Americanization or westernization are closely related to the popular culture. As stated in the book ‘There are two things we can say with some confidence about the United States and popular culture. First, as Andrew Ross (1989) has pointed out, ‘popular culture has been socially...
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...HIST 439 September 17, 2011 Critique: Poverty of Progress Retelling nineteenth-century Latin America through literature The time period is the nineteenth-century, the setting: a geographic and cultural space once known as the New World. It’s not your typical account of heroes and villains, the rich against the poor, good versus evil, or princesses, castles and glass slippers. Although all of these actors play a fundamental role in the tale that is about to unfold (with perhaps, the exception of the glass slippers), the real story traces its roots to a time period plagued by significant socioeconomic changes in the way of life of an entire civilization. By no means was it a homogeneous collection of peoples, but rather a mosaic of diverse indigenous folk, African descendants, Europeans, and peoples of every possible mixed ethnic makeup. This is the story of modernization imposed by the Eurocentric elites, forever leaving its mark on the social and cultural construct of Latin America. Historian, Bradford Burns, in his work the Poverty of Progress concludes it was modernization that led to the destruction of the quality of life in the aftermath of independence movements across Latin America. The overarching themes of his book revolve around the wealthy and educated minority imposing modernization on the less educated majority: the indigenous folk, Africans and those of mixed ethnicity. As can be expected, historical accounts during the nineteenth-century also reflect this...
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...For Huntington, each country or culture has its own core which can not be changed or destroyed at all, so the difference of civilization will cause the further conflicts, non-western countries can be democratization, but they can not be truly westernization. While from Fukuyama’s point of view, he denies the core which can not be changed or destroyed. He argues that the culture can be changed through the development of politics, economy and entire society. Also, Fukuyama claims that the cultural difference between two western countries and between one western country and one non-western country is similar in essence. In this way he thinks that any country, under the effects of western civilization and globalization background will definitely move together. westernization, adopt liberal values, democracy and market economy. “Fukuyama believes that liberal democracy would eventually triumph in the world and the liberals will win battle within the Muslim world as well. Radical ideologies are only powerful in the Muslim world because of a lack of democracy, a lack of development, frustration with American foreign policy – some combination of all...
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...19.3 Poverty A large section of the Indian society is suffering from poverty. Poverty is a phenomenonSocial Problem :: 201 which is objective as well a subjective. Objectively poverty implies a dehumanizing condition in which people are unable to look after the basic needs. Subjectively poverty stands for perceived deprivation. As such it is relative and any body can feel poor by comparing himself as herself with a rich person. Poor people lack the necessary resources and capacity to satisfy basic needs like food, shelter, health and education. They live under difficult conditions which are not conducive for development of their human potential. As you have learned earlier in the lesson 10 and 11 that for healthy human development a child needs environmental support for survival and development. Poverty interferes with development in many ways. For instance lack of or inadequate nutrition arrests mental development during early childhood. The unavailability of stimulating environment and absence of effective role models decreases the motivation level. A large section of poor children do not go to school. Even if they go they become drop outs and fail to complete education Gender Discrimination Women and men are equally important for the growth and development of individual and social lives. The women play the important role as mother and the same makes it unique. However, careful analysis of Indian society indicates that the situation is not good for women folk...
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...and written. The focus of this body of work is that of globalization, Mosquera seeks to define what globalization is, whom it affects and how it impacts on regions. The globalization that we imagine i.e. having interconnectivity with each other around the whole planet is different to that of the author. His beliefs are that globalization is a series of circuits passing information among each other. Essentially it is a series of centres and circuits connected. The information that these connections transfer is economics, culture and basic communication. articlemarket.blogspot.com Globalisation has an impacted on culture, by making culture known to the wider world seeks to legitimize it and make new epistemes. Instead of expanding our global space globalization seeks to make the global experience more intimate. Urbanization is the product of globalization when people move from the edges usually consisting of the countryside they are drawn to these centers (megalopolis). www.communicationagents.com The influx of people lead to city growth and further development and a bi-product of this urbanization is that of physical and mental displacement. Globalization and borders are linked, within this movement the world is being brought closer together and both physical and mental boundaries/borders are being erected, changed or removed totally. The Internet is a virtual example of globalization where it also seeks to bring information worldwide closer to us...
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...Pride, Dignity Independence, Indigenization “CultureBound” Customer Focus; Speed, Responsiveness; Continuous Learning; Accurate & Up-To-Date Information Quality; Value Added; Cost Effectiveness; Humanization; Ecological Specialisation; Objectivity; Materialism; SystemsOrientation MODERNIZATION WESTERNIZATION Individualism; Secularism; Freedom Of Expression; Consumerism INDUSTRIALIZATION Mechanization; Rational Thinking; Bureaucracy; Efficiency; Productivity; Mobility; Discipline; Mechanical Time Orientation; Reliability Stable 1800 AGRICULTURAL Revolution Time line Simple division of labor, labor intensive, Collectivism, sharing 2000 FORCES OF CHANGE & ACCOMPANYING VALUES Turbulence Intellectual capital, Intellectual propert, ,information sharing Networking, innovation, R&D INFORMATION AGE K-Economy GLOBALIZATION DEVELOPMENT Autonomy, Pride, Dignity Independence, Indigenization “CultureBound” Customer Focus; Speed, Responsiveness; Continuous Learning; Accurate & Up-To-Date Information Quality; Value Added; Cost Effectiveness; Humanization; Ecological Specialisation; Objectivity; Materialism; SystemsOrientation MODERNIZATION WESTERNIZATION Individualism; Secularism; Freedom Of Expression; Consumerism INDUSTRIALIZATION Mechanization; Rational Thinking; Bureaucracy; Efficiency;...
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...various literature presented by host of Caribbean scholars, presents something of a conundrum for modern day analysis by students and by extension scholars. Through the naked eye it is evident that the contemporary Indo family is in no way similar to the Indo-Trinidad family of the mid-nineteenth century. As an institution the Indo-Trinidadian family has changed overtime to meet the needs of life in Trinidad and Tobago (Wood (1968), Angrosino (1976), and Brereton (1979)). Here, among the Indo- Trinidadian family, cousins are considered siblings, biological aunts and uncles are like parents and strangers are referred to as aunty and uncle. One thing however that can be agreed upon is that the present day family arrangements are more fluid in contemporary society as opposed to static as was seen in 1845. But what accounts for this type of fluidity? Does this shift reflect in individual preference and the needs and wants of life in Trinbago? Or are other forces at work? Singh (2004) had rightly pointed out that, “The twenty-first century recorded great changes of far reach importance in the family system under the influence of westernization, industrialization and modernization.” To add to this claim, creolization, douglarization and globalization are also paradigms associated with the change in contemporary Indo-Trinidad family. Characteristics of the family life style such as high divorce rates, cohabitation as a substitute for marriage, and mixed children being born to parents of different...
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...Name Professor Course Date Family Representation in the Lives of the Kimoto Family in “The River Ki” The novel, “The River Ki”, represents and accurately portrays three generations of a declining traditional family and how it changed in the modern world by spanning over sixty years, before, during and after World War II (1900-1960). The three generations represented by Hana who is seen as the apple of Toyono Kimoto’s eye (her grandmother) is raised and bred as a traditional Japanese woman, is married and gives birth to Fumio. Fumio is the next generation who despite Hana's efforts and wishes, rebels against the traditional arts and culture of her upbringing and ultimately her own daughter wants to learn more about the traditional, conservative lifestyle of a Japanese woman. In the novel, Ariyoshi establishes a strong link between women and the natural world in the context of a family. Each woman's life, (which is seen as a representation of a family generation) contrasts the others as the intense social and technological changes of the period affect their initially rural Wakayama Prefecture of Southern Japan. Changes Found in Family Hana is a girl about to enter an arraigned marriage to an ambitious man of a lesser family. The story begins with her very traditional, arranged marriage to a first born son in a town located down stream on the River Ki. Hana, the main protagonist, held tradition and superstition very dearly representing the initial Kimoto family’s attributes...
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...11/4/13 EH 123 Ancient Futures: Education Many things changed in the Ladakh culture as it started to become modernized. Some of the things that changed were farming and the pride they had for their culture, but one of the biggest changes and probably for the worse was their education. The West came to Ladakh and changed their education for the worse. It took the Ladakhi culture away from their traditions of old that they have survived on for centuries. The traditional schooling system in the Ladakhi culture worked with the seasons which would allow the students to be in school during the months that are unsuitable for farming. Traditional education was kids learning from their grandparents, family, friends, and from the nature of the world. “Education was the product of an intimate relationship with the community and its environment.” (pg. 110) Also, they would learn from their personal experiences like how to recognize different strains of barley. The children would learn about the connection, process, and change in the natural world surrounding them through personal experiences as well. At young ages children were taught how to provide for themselves with clothing and shelter. Also, they were taught how to make shoes out of yak skin, robes out sheep wool, and build houses out of mud and stone. According to Norberg-Hodge this “gave children an intuitive awareness that allowed them, as they grew older, to use resources in an effective and suitable way.” (pg. 111) ...
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...hypothesis that speaks to "westernization" of the world, determined by huge, self-intrigued organizations. Globalization is a general mix over the globe; this joining can be partitioned into financial, political, social, and past. Whether one needs to take a gander at it as another sensation or one that has existed for a considerable length of time, unavoidable or purposeful, great or awful, as people we are becoming more entwined with one another, even from over the world. Now and again, we have effectively searched out these associations, and at different times we have opposed these associations in light of the influences they have. What are these influences and what is all the civil argument over concerning globalization? There is much verbal confrontation existing about whether globalization ought to proceed down the way it has been on, whether it ought to change with the goal that the influences will be abated, or whether it ought to stop all together. Debating the issues of globalization is not the primary reason here, in spite of the fact that on occasion it will be important to present both sides of the contention that is presently occurring. The principle expectation is to look from a wide range of plot at how things have changed over the globe in light of our developing associations crosswise over nations. Changes have happened not just in the economies of nations due to overall exchange and speculation, however individuals' lives have been changed by overall joining of...
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...One of the most well-preserved African cultures is that of the Maasai tribe, who have held on to their traditional way of life despite the widespread westernization and globalization of Africa. The culture of the Maasai tribe has become a popular tourist attraction, and is a symbol of overall Kenyan culture. It is believed that the Maasai tribe began in Northern Africa, and migrated south over several centuries. Along the way they attacked their neighbors, and would steal their cattle. By the end of their southern migration, they had conquered a large portion of the Rift Valley. Many years later, disease struck, greatly reducing the size of the tribe, as well as the size of the tribe’s cattle. Today, they are located in Kenya and are a very...
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