The Impact Of Cultural Imperialism And De-Westernization

Cultural imperialism can be an issue and worsen people’s perception on how they view other cultures they aren’t familiar with. Internet and the entertainment industry are big contributes for serving

In this Issue, the two authors are concerned with what happens when one cultures spreads at a much faster rate and dominates other cultures. Both use the spread of American culture as their main example, citing American movies being watched worldwide and the popularity of the English language. The following summarized articles debate whether these cultural changes are positive or negative. Julia Galeota’s article is first, which contends that globalization and, more specifically, American globalization is negative and amounts to cultural imperialism. Galeota is convinced that America’s cultural imperialism is forcing other cultures to go extinct.

In confronting western imperialism, China and Japan took two different approaches. China had become more dependent on Western economics when Japan did not. Many Western military forces occupied some of China’s territory during this time, the Western Military did not move in on Japan’s territory. China and Japan were forced by Western powers to sign unequal treaties and capitulations, but Japan eventually renegotiated its treaties in its favor. China and Japan both launched modernization programs, but Japan’s industrialization was more thorough and successful than those of China. China developed several strategies in an attempt to deal with its ongoing problems. They developed self-strengthening programs in an effort to renew itself. They highlighted

Looking back over the millennium now ending, one question in particular stands out: how did the inhabitants of Western Europe, a backwater in the year 1000AD, manage to gain economic and military dominance over much of the globe? Not so long ago, the answers to this question seemed obvious: Europeans were racially superior, and besides, God wanted them to win. As historians have shed race-driven and providential views of human history, new explanations have had to be formulated. Some of these new explanations are surprising; most of them conflict at some point with each other. Imperialism has been linked to multiple theories of the actual origins of the imperialistic

Collective action is when action is taken together by a group of people whose goal is to enhance their status and achieve a common objective. Collective action would lead to harmony in Congress but unfortunately in the United States we see many collective action problems. Collective action problems are often known as the collective action dilemma. This a conflict between group goals and individual’s self-interest (Hayes, Lecture 2). Many collective action problems seen in Congress are due to the free access to goods and the free riding problem.

In the most current presidential elections, popular demographic voting groups are race, religion, and gender. Analyzing the election exit polls in the year 2000, 2008, and 2016, the three demographic voting groups generally voted for the same party. Specific groups look for specific things in a candidate. This can be things such as physiological factors like their political viewpoint or current events, and sociological factors such as gender or religion. In addition, population of a certain group can help determine the expected winning party.

Globalization is far reaching in this day and age. Globalization is the worldwide flow of goods, services, money, people, information, and culture. It leads to a greater interdependence and mutual awareness among the people of the world (Tischler, 2011, 2007, p. 430). One non-Western culture that has been impacted by globalization is China. An example of the impact of globalization on China is their economy. Since joining the World Trade Organization, China has transformed from a culture that relied on economic self-sufficiency and shunned the thought of globalization to an economy that is progressively more open to trade and foreign investment.

In this essay, I will discuss the matter of Globalization of two nations, South Korea and India. Globalization can be defined as, in simple terms, as the process of making something, anything available worldwide. It is a collaboration between countries, exchanging goods, services, workers, ideas, and even culture, which allow a multitude of opportunities to anyone to enjoy, from anywhere in the world (dictionary.com, n.d.). Globalization can been seen different depending on where you are from. It can cause issues for more traditional societies such as losing

Dana, it is a perfect example to compare cultural imperialism to McDonaldization. Internationally, more and more companies are following this trend. It allows greater incomes and as the information revolution continues to unfold, it will further increase international interdependence, making actions in one state reverberate in other states more strongly than in the past.

Western culture and policies have shaped the modern world, especially the Middle East, in many ways. Since the sixteenth century, the nations of Western civilization have been the driving wheels of modernization. Globalization is simply the spread of modern institutions and ideas from one high power to the wider world. Technological innovation and economic growth along with such concepts as democracy, individualism, and the rule of law administered by an impartial judiciary, set Western societies above and beyond any possible rival. Other cultures looked to the West as a model, a threat, or some combination of both. One country that was most successful in their confrontations with Western states was Japan, who incorporated Western

Some argue that globalization will, on the long term, bring all cultures as a unique Western, if not Americanized, culture, while others argue that some cultures will persist in order to keep their own essence and therefore avoid the homogenization of all cultures. Alongside pure tradition, global conflicts, contradictory political regimes and the diversity of economic systems, some cultures are bound to face issues when trying to fully fit in a global western culture, and that is why cultures are adaptable to one another, but with some limits that we will express in this essay.

In truth, its history dates back as far as the sixteenth century, following the first great expansion of European capitalism, which resulted in slave trade, colonialism and neo-colonialism (Ezema, 2009). Throughout history, world powers have continually sought to perpetuate their way of life: from the philosophy and mythology of the Greeks, the political ideologies and linguistics of the Romans, and the art and architecture of the Italian Renaissance (Daghrir, 2013). Thus, it comes as no surprise that the aftermath of the post-war era, which saw the collapse of Soviet communism and the emergence of the United States as the sole hegemon, saw the aggressive spread of American ideals, values, and beliefs. Indeed, just as American goods flooded world markets in the post-World War II era; American culture now penetrates every continent through the aggressive development of mass communications, trade expansion and information technology.

Westernization is the result of the contact between western and non-western cultures. Beginning in the fifteenth century and playing out until the nineteenth century, colonialism and neo-imperialism by means of the Euro-Atlantic economy’s authority, played a major part in the spread of western culture. For example, even after decolonizing and becoming their own countries with their own governance, many former-colonies adopted aspects of western politics, even if they firmly opposed other aspects of western culture. Twentieth-century and twenty-first-century globalization took various forms. In the 1950s, there was accelerated postwar globalization through American and European multinational corporations, like McDonald 's and “mcdonaldization” throughout the world. Then, beginning in 1970, the rise of industrializing economies meant the international division of labor, with low-wage and high-wage zones, and in the 1980s, the United States took on an important role in neoliberal globalization through the Washington Consensus, a reform package designed by Washington D.C. comprised of a set of specific economic policy prescriptions for critically economically unstable developing countries, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the World Bank. In 2000, globalization was heightened through the emergence of the economies of countries including India, China, Brazil, and Russia (the BRICs). In recent decades, as opposed to during colonial and recent post-colonial times,

Hitler- a well known man during WWII and now- was an extremely significant leader of history all around. At the time being Germany did not realize nor notice what was wrong with Adolf Hitler’s way of leading. In fact, in the beginning they were willing to follow him and all of what he had spoken out for. However, that didn’t change the fact that there were still downsides to what he convinced others to believe in and what he wanted as a leader. Nonetheless, these factors don’t overcome the significance of Hitler’s leadership. The Weimar Republic was an ineffective form of government in which there was too many separate parties that stood alone. This government was unable to stay secure and in leadership. After the Weimar

Cultural imperialism, the main focus of globalisation is defined as the domination of culture from some countries to the rest of the world (Tobin, 2016). It could be the cultural goods flow to the other countries, normally from the more influential or stronger countries such as the United States and some Western countries which inculcating their values through the goods or advertisements. For instance, the origin of Starbucks, McDonald’s, and