The World Wide Leading Political Ideology

Liberalism started as a major doctrine and intellectual endeavour in response to the religious wars gripping Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries, up until the cold war

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.

Having been born in Europe in the epoch of Renaissance and Reformation, the liberalism has become an inevitable part of the United States. When someone and somewhere talks about the liberal movement, everybody will mention the American liberalism, which has undergone several stages of its development and transformed into modern liberalism. This liberalism allows the United States to be one of the most powerful states in the world.

Throughout American history many different ideologies and legislations according to the constitution. These ideologies have structured the American system for many ages and people really never really look throughly into them at all. Some people really do blindly follow certain ideologies and really never stop to think about the repercussions when it comes to them and they only really take into consideration what is really going on. The liberals here in America really seem to have the most impact to me when it comes to the American people. The liberal believe that everyone should have an equal opportunity and that everyone has the opportunity to have a chance to make it in this

Living in the twenty first century means living in a world where people are hyper-connected, and the American Dream is a term recognized all over the world. As a diverse population, Americans have a thirst for experiencing new cultures and embracing new ideals. We embrace diversity, we accept people for who they are, and we try to find a connection with them and explore their culture. Living in a hyper-connected world means that we are now aware of the existence of other cultures, and we are learning how to embrace them. In other parts of the world, however, it is extremely important to preserve the local ideologies, including religion and social norms. Nevertheless, this diversity of ideologies is what makes the world more colorful, which is essentially a part of why exploring other cultures is interesting and entertaining. In the eyes of American corporates, the world is a blank canvas for them to create their own visions, and eventually creating a big picture by blending the world into one big “global” country. On the other hand, people across the globe in Syria, for example, believe that it is extremely important to preserve every single aspect of their culture, keeping it as untouched as possible, and as uninfluenced by the globalization philosophy as possible. Today’s generation is primarily interested in bringing both ends into balance. We want to explore the raw, yet to be consumed, cultures with a cup of Starbucks in our hands, because why not? We want to combine

Understanding the political philosophy of any individual is extraordinarily important when attempting to understand any given individual in greater depth. As for my personal, political philosophy, I am primarily focused on compassion. I contend that notions, and actions thereof, are just when concerning the expansion of legitimate microcosmic interpersonal relationships.

A political ideology mainly has to do with how to allocate power and to what ends it should be used. Usually all ideology includes certain ideas on what it considers to be the best form of government and the unsurpassed lucrative system, for example, capitalism, conservatism, socialism, etc. The people of a certain culture determine the type of elections to be held due to the type of political ideology and their type of government. Political ideologies have two promotions which are how society should operate or be well thought-out and the most suitable way to attain this goal.

The phrase “the west and the rest” is often discussed in regards to how westernization perhaps influences and even trumps other cultures. Westernization is defined as a “cause (a country, person, or system) to adopt or be influenced by the cultural, economic, or political systems of Europe and North America” or to “be in the process of adopting or being influenced by the systems of the West” (New Oxford American Dictionary). This implies that it is frequent that other cultures are exposed to Western cultures and then adopt the customs to be their own, and indeed this has occurred in several Eastern countries. Another concept that is discussed often is globalization, which is defined as “the process by which businesses or other

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

An article written by Samuel Huntington introduced the idea of a new source of conflict that according to Huntington would potentially rise between civilizations. The argument that the differences of cultures will come in the way of politics involving the world and its entirety mostly surrounds Western civilization and Islam and the differences between the two different cultures rather than the possibility of a working harmony. The idea of culture allows for a difference in the way people live their lives. Culture allows for independence while also promoting cooperation and interdependency. However, this argument presented by Huntington contrasts the ideas of the West and Islam and puts the two against one another and instead allows for the

“The definition of the “Middle East” as a category, is very much dependent of the existence of a “West”” (Alsayyad, 2011). What defines the term western and what makes a populace considered western? The term “western” derives from the idea of European modernization, from cities such as London or Paris. Under this modernization the cities adapted to new technologies, such as transportation and road systems. Western culture was introduced; culture referring to “that complex while which includes knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, customs, and other capabilities and habits acquired by a person as a member of society” (Edward B Taylor, Anthropologist). Foreign capital, through tourism and investors, began to appear in these cities. Foreign

Liberalism is generally differentiated into two categories which are classical liberalism and modern liberalism. According to Heywood (2003), classical liberalism was the most primitive tradition which nothing can surpass. The forming of the ideas of classical liberalism between the seventeenth to nineteenth century was due to the disruption of feudalism in Europe followed by the reconstructed to capitalism. However, modern liberalism is the advanced alternation from classical liberalism which is based on its fundamental basis. This is one of the reasons that some people argued both classic and modern liberalism are partly similar. Yet, this essay will be more focus on the discussion of the distinction between classical liberalism and modern

Adina Borcan in his book titled “Diplomacy and Cosmopolitanism in a Globalized World” ‘wrote that, “due to the fact that there is a new world culture, with

Liberalism was an important concept but it also lost some of its importance in order to emerge as a new form. In the today’s world hardly any one speaks for the freedom and democracy

Since the advent of modernisation and the rise of globalisation around the world, issues regarding the cultural homogenisation of the world have arisen. Anthropologists have raised concern about the spread of capitalism as the dominant form of market exchange, the commodification process and the prominence of Western media in contributing the erasure of cultural difference in many areas around the world (Inda and Rosaldo 2002, 14). Many first world leaders during the Cold War believed that emerging nations would become prosperous only if they became capitalist nation-states (Schultz and Lavenda 2005, 360). A neo-colonialist form of political intervention emerged, as more developed countries believed that it was their duty to teach developing nation-states about capitalism, so they can achieve economic success and independence (Schultz and Lavenda 2005, 360). As thus, there is a threat of cultural homogenisation, whereby the dominant cultures of the core, such as America, impose their beliefs, values and cultural products to developing nations, thereby replacing cultural differences with that of the dominant culture (Inda and Rosaldo 2002, 14). Despite the seemingly homogenising process of commodification and capitalism, social transmutations of the capitalist