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the World, No,” published on the New York Times website, statistically speaking, terrorism is not on the rise overall. According to the article, the number of deaths in Western countries that are a result of terrorism have seen an increase, as seen by the fact that, “the number of people who died in terror attacks in North American and Western Europe rose markedly in 2015, claiming more than 200 lives” (Sanger-Katz). Furthermore, interestingly enough, there were far more fatalities in western countries

civilisations believes that the World will eventually divide in accordance with cultural lines, and not political lines. According to Huntington, “the thriving East Asian and Muslim societies will soon challenge Western dominance, and the United States being the World leader will need to reevaluate its policies on foreign invention and domestic immigration to remain a major player.” During the Cold War, the world was divided into the First, Second and Third Worlds. Huntington views these ties as

In the 16th to mid-20th century, Western powers and knowledge have dominated other countries, due to the Western superiority to the other cultures in terms of civilization. According to Said, having knowledge is to dominate it; having authority is to deny autonomy to the Oriental country. Evidently, the inaccurate Western cultural perception towards Eastern world has resulted in the practice of power over, what they presumed, the 'weaker' countries. Java was once an influential Hindu-Buddhist empire

audience of Disney, but with a deeper look into its details this is not the reality of it. The ideas that children are exposed to from watching this movie help create and structure their mindsets as well as reinforcing unrealistic images of the Arabian world. In addition, Aladdin is a great illustrative tool in reflecting the concept of Orientalism, a term coined by Edward Said, which emphasizes on representing the Orient with certain clichés and characteristics that are misleading about the true nature

Edward W. Said comes up with another definition of Orientalism. He thinks that it is Western understanding of the Orient. Specifically, Orientalism is distorted perceptions and attitudes of the Occident toward Orient. If we continue to define Orientalism as an academic category for scholars or style of thought that is based on distinctions between two geographies, we miss the truth that Orientalism helped western countries have authority to dominate eastern countries. In order to realize the influences

In today’s society, influences from the western world depict education as a prerequisite for adulthood, required to be undertaken as a child. We as students in a western world must learn the ways of the western world and how we can alter and instil it into the societies of the honourable eastern world. In ‘Animal Farm’, the pigs first tried to teach the other animals to read; some animals learnt the alphabet, but most

kind of veracity to her statement: we can at least see that Marji believes she is truly talking to God. But God is drawn as a large and sizeable figure with long, flowing white hair and beard, which is very familiar to the figure of God in the Western world

this vague term that Carolyn Dean, in her text, “The Trouble with (The Term) Art”, makes a case for the consequences of applying the term “art” in societies that lacked such a notion which also accounts for the Western-centric lens the field intrinsically utilizes when viewing non-Western art. The claim is deftly supported by the utilization of expert accounts in the subject, alternative perspectives for what is considered the current norm, and self-examining questions,

definition of representation is “using language to say something meaningful about, or to present, the world meaningfully, to other people” (Hall, “Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices” 15). Representation, therefore, is to create a meaning. In Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices, Stuart Hall additionally points out in the first chapter The World of Representation(一樣是要用斜體還是quotation？) that “[r]epresentation is an essential part of the process

play the hunter role, they still would have the urge or animalistic inclination to compete or kill one another, which leads to violence, hence; men began killing each other. This leads to gender division, which Carol Adams blames on the fact that the world has always been a patriarchial system. Men have established themselves as the dominant position in the human race, and because of this feeling of the need to be dominant there have been certain roles established for the way each gender should behave