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Although gender equality has come a long way in the past century, it still isn’t as equal as it should be. For example in the sporting world it was not until recently that prize money at Wimbledon was made the same for men and women, for years previous men used to win more prize money for playing the same amount of games and winning the same competition. There has been and continues to

13). Akita stated that the West’s fascinations began in the 19th century and geishas appeared “sexual, exotic, and promiscuous to early European visitors”. Today we can observe specific artefacts of pop culture that depicts these connotations. Western Hegemony and Globalisation To further analyse how the geisha culture has been marketed, attaining globalisation with the sexual ideology hegemonized, I will be conducting semiotic analysis on various forms of media, produced by the West. (Source:

Women such as Harriet Martineau set an example for women everywhere; that one does not have to get married and settle down, but can instead discover the mysteries of the world. The travellers in discussion all came from a Western perspective. When approaching the natives, however, each person, man or woman, had a varying reaction. Western explorers felt superior to the Native people of the lands, but each person reflected

Postcolonialism as an individual category was emerged in the 1980s, which is used to represent the period during aftermath of Western colonialism. It is also used to describe a study that rethink and reclaim the history of people subordinated under various forms of imperialism. Postcolonialism, as Wisker points out, is the "Recuperation of history from point of view of the ignored, silenced, other… people whose lives have been erased, ignored and hidden from history" (Wisker 54). It starts for, as

corporate social Responsibility (CSR) is more suited to an Anglo-American interpretation of CSR compared to that of a Nigerian perspective as it is difficult to apply the ideas in the African context due to the country being less stable than the western world that we know. To demonstrate this I will look at the Shell case study in Nigeria and how “culture may have an important influence on CSR priorities” (Burton et al, 2000). In March 2007 a British national was kidnapped from an oil rig in Nigeria

ultimately a political vision of reality whose structure promoted the difference between the familiar (Europe, West, "us") and the strange (the Orient, the East, "them").” The nineteenth century was a period of imperialism and tourism that led many western artists to visit West Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Orientalist paintings depicted two major effects, many artists often portrayed something “exotic,” which was racialized, feminized, and from a sexualized culture from a faraway land. Another

In order to embark on two different cultures within the same time period during the middle Ages there needs to be a clear contrast between the two. In the Western Middle Ages where the emergence of lords and vassals came about there was sworn loyalty by vassals to their lords of whom took care of them. In return the vassals would serve, protect and honor their lords. Therefore the mutual obligations of lords and vassals was to honor one another. Vassals doing so with their military services to

The Image of the East in Arabian Nights: Burton Versus Mahfouz Race has divided people in the world for centuries. Issues of prejudice and racism had shape ideologies and cultures. Without a doubt, racism is the plague of humanity. Generalization and assumptions made about a particular race or cultural group are statements that affect societies. All the time, unfair and detrimental perceptions within a racial group are established as a rule of labels. The bitter result of these racial attitudes

Takashi Murakami, a contemporary artist best known for his monumental movement, “Superflat”. Murakami is a Japanese artist who was born and raised in Saitama, just north of Tokyo, on February 1, 1962. He studied Nihonga, a traditional Japanese painting method thousands of years old, at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, where he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1986. He continued his education until he received his Ph.D in 1993, becoming the first to achieve this in

Environmental degradation has become a social and cultural norm both within and supported by Westernized North American life, and the average Canadian and American citizen will likely suffer an estrangement from our natural world. This separation, backed by centuries of social constructions, has done much more than alienate us from our original physicality: it has enforced a culturally justified set of values rationalizing and permitting the devastation of wilderness. A cultural mindset extending