Western Culture In Britain Face Essays

It is clear that the British way of integrating Western culture within Indian society was more successful than the equivalent process involving the French in Algeria.In addition both occupations were valuable building blocks in which to expand their empires; France into Africa and Great Britain into Asia.In the late 19th Century France began emigrating large numbers of Europeans into Algeria, “By 1881 there were 300,000 Europeans (Half of them French) in an area of 2.5 million Arabs.”Another example of France trying to reduce Islamic culture comes from after the Second World War.However, both the French and British Empires did to differing extents manage to integrate Western technologies such as railways and modern irrigation methods.The...

This transfer of one culture onto another, is what we call, cultural imperialism.Zia ul Haq, the status of Urdu continued to diminish, and the English language continued to spread, and ofcourse with it, the western culture.The language that is believed to be the dominant language today is the ‘English’ language, which obviously comes from the western culture.When Pakistan was formed, it was thought that this would allow the Muslims to live freely and independently of any western or external influences, but sadly, this was not the case.With the increasing dominance of the English language the entire western culture too, takes up an imperialistic form.

What are the implications of these shifts for international businesses based in Britain?For North American firms, the same holds true, although the importance of the increasing prosperity in Latin America suggests a potentially huge market in “their backyard.” Hong Kong, while losing its “independence”, is perceived as the gateway to the immense market of mainland China.Consumer spending power is growing the most quickly in developing countries.While the free market freedoms Hong Kong firms have enjoyed are now less taken for granted, access to China is improving along with the move towards a market economy within China.British firms also face the opportunity (and the threat) of attracting Asian firms interested in Britain as a launch pa...

But after induction of western science and technology the face of Australia have drastically changed negatively.However science and technology is not to condemn since science and technology is developed from the western culture and manifests in the area of educational construction, innovations, world views, organization of societies and offers models for researching.In contrast, Western science and technology displaces natural laws with scientific ones (Misra Gergen l993).Therefore incorporation of traditional cultural systems with Western science and technology will mean Western societies must re-establish and reconstruct the systems which is a contentious and fundamental issue.Despite the presence of harmony in culture and science ther...

On the one hand, the Chinese perspective on the cause of the war is about Britain’s immoral poisoning of China with opium from smuggling, while on the other hand Britain holds the view that the war was as a result of Chinese arrogance that treated foreigners as inferior beings and subjected Western countries to unfair trade and unacceptable diplomatic standards.The arrival of Western traders in China for the first time brought them in direct contact with a strange new world having an alien system of government.According to CNN, China’s defeat led to an invasion of Western culture, and on China’s doorstep, ‘barbarians’ lived in grand houses.As a result, even though Britain recognized the damage opium had done in China, she failed in her m...

Hence, the pace of Western modernization was slow.Initially, China refused to implement western ideas and technology because they too felt superior.The power supplied by The Industrial Revolution and the Western idea of ‘progress through change’ were Britain’s motives for colonizing China.Moreover, Britain’s sensations of culture superiority and her economic necessities were other reasons for overseas expansion in this area.Examples of Western influences are apparent by the influx of Christian missionaries, and the construction of Christian churches and railways in China, in order to promote their ethnicity.

As many people can depict from their prior knowledge, British Culture has been known for their many kings and queens, knights, priests etc., however British Culture has changed.Britain or the U.K. known to others is located in Western Europe, islands including the northern one-sixth of the island of Ireland between the North Atlantic Ocean, and the North Sea, northwest of France (UK – Language, Culture, Customs and Etiquette).The earliest inhabitants of Britain for whom there is compelling evidence are bands of hunters living in Southern and Western England during the Hoxnian (J.P. Sommerville).This grin and bear it attitude in the face of adversity of embarrassment lives on today (UK – Language, Culture, Customs and Etiquette).How did B...

The culture of British has been influenced by many factors including: the nation’s island status; its history as a western liberal democracy and a major power; Result of the British Empire, British affect can be seen in the languages, legal systems and culture of many of it’s former colonies; such as United States, Australia.10 Britain having recently become more unequal and the unequal problem in China seems much more serious.8 The inequality of society exist in every countries no matter Britain or China.Culture, which is an integrated pattern of human belief, knowledge, and behavior influences every society.” 6Unlike China, the power of British different social establishment are not officially specified in a written constitution which ...

China highly embraces a socialist structure of management, unlike the western countries.Goldman, A 1994, ‘The central role of national culture in cross-cultural management: proxemic conflicts in the Internationalization of TQM’, Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal, vol.This backs the research by Hopkins, Nie and Hopkins (2004), who concluded that emphasis on quality management in the western countries like Britain remains to be a critical impediment to the entry and success of Chinese subsidiaries in the regions.Dahles, H & Wels, H 2002, Culture, organization and management in East Asia: Doing business in China, Nova Science Publishers, New York, NY Fan, Y 2000, ‘A classification of Chinese culture’, Cross Cultural Manage...

Malaya alsoallowed the stationing of commonwealth strategic forces comprising of Britain, Australian and New Zealand forces into the country.Malaya in turn undertook to help Britain in the event of an attack on British Colonial territories in the region – Hong Kong, Singapore, North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei.Malaysia had to seek a different assistance that was when immediately after ousting of AMDA, FPDA – The Five Power Defense Agreement was signed between, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Malaysia.As quoted from J.Saravanamuttu; exports of Malayan commodities was 18.5% to Great Britain and only 9.4% to Japan in 1958, but this changed to 8.3% export to Great Britain and a staggering 14.7% to Japan in 1963.The non-aligned ...

The West in effect is using international institutions, military power and economic resources to run the world in ways that will maintain Western predominance protect Western interests and promote Western political and economic values.International relations, historically a game played out within Western civilization, will increasingly be de-Westernized and become a game in which non-Western civilizations are actors and not simply objects; successful political, security and economic international institutions are more likely to develop within civilizations than across civilizations; conflicts between groups in different civilizations will be more frequent, more sustained and more violent than conflicts between groups in the same civiliza...

Another development coming in the 18th century was the emergence of bourgeois as a culture.Unfortunately, this privileges associated with this culture could not be associated with every member of the society.Authority, society and the individual had the chance to improve but if the odds and the rubble of the past was forgotten.In Western Europe and indeed much of the continent this was the case before the middle ages and in the renaissance period.A child born of a family in ancient Britain had to undergo a torturous procedure that was referred to as wet nursing.

The results of the Opium Wars and the unequal treaties established the Western dominance of China that began the series of events in the Century of Humiliation, weakening the dynasty system and most importantly allowing the Chinese to question and alter their assumed superiority (6).The questioning of Chinese tradition and the influence of Western ideas that began in the Opium Wars lead to the Taiping Rebellion, another major contributor to the Chinese Century of Humiliation.The Taiping Rebellion marked the common people’s response to this western influence and the humiliating defeat of the supposed superior Middle Kingdom.Led by Hong Xiuchuan, a man influenced by the influx of Western ideas and the religious basis of Christianity to the...

Germany had planned under Schlieffen Plan to march to Paris both from Eastern and Western sides but due to British Forces on the Western Side, Germany could move towards Paris only though the Eastern Side.At the same time they kept routes open for Britain and France to receive supplies and transport troops to the France and keep then supplied via the English Channel Ports.French people resisted the advance of Germany with the help of Britain Army because of trench warfare and the usage of guns and tanks.Although Germany made good progress initially and it’s army reached within 20 miles from Paris, it could not capture Paris because they faced joined armies of France and Britain at Marne.This kept the West Cost of France safe for the armi...

(Bell,1991) The unambiguity news value model illustrated by Bell, states “that the more clear cut a story is, the more it is favoured” (Bell,1991) .But critically evaluating these model in the front page lead story on the Sun newspaper editorial , it can be critically evaluated that the editorial publication might not be of interest to someone outside the cultural proximity or geographical context of Britain, and the non -western media axis, from readers in another country and will not attract readership interest based on individual perception within the international and foreign news media context, and may vary from different norms and guides considering the news values and cultures on how reporters and journalist, editors in other non-...

Inevitably, Japan adopted many Western traditions, such as the telegraph system, military system, and educational system.The Industrial Revolution changed Great Britain by improving its living standards, it also improved the American economy, and improved Japanese education.The IR improved Japanese education as Japan was exposed to western traditions.It was not until later years that the IR resulted in benefits for Britain.Once being isolated and resistant to western influences, Japan was eventually exposed the IR that was changing the world.

Major design changes in mosque .Britain's influence .Through its history and influence, Colonial mosques should be embraced as historical landmarks and reserve their purpose in Malaysian society.However, most Muslims reside by the exotic rain forests and beaches in the islands of South East Asia, a violative and contrasting setting from the Middle East.However, Malaysia's exposure also granted vulnerability and eventual colonialism under multiple countries, most notably Great Britain.

Individual character in Western culture is extremely important value.Western culture publicizes personality, emphasizes the protection of individual interests, focus on the potential of independent individuals and strengthens the awareness of individual rights.But dragons in western culture still become a derogatory terms... Western culture is restricted by the narrow scope on the island.Western culture thinks that people and nature, spirit and matter, subject and object, where the uniform of God into two distinct lines, emphasizing the coexistence and the opposite binary.

In the centre and the south-west accommodations had to be reached with the Burgundiones and the Visigoths, who came to form politically and fiscally autonomous kingdoms, even if owing nominal allegiance to the western Augustus.In place of a widespread and centralised Roman culture there was a multiplicity of localised territories, some of them Celtic, some of them Anglo-Saxon.Wacher J. S. (1975) The Towns of Roman Britain, London.It was the peculiar nature of the late Roman economy which sustained late Roman culture in Britain, and that the removal of that economic system knocked away the supports of what was Roman about Roman Britain (Finley 1973).The first thing to say is that the ending of Roman Britain is entirely comprehensible with...

In addition there are – not surprisingly – critics from the straight mainstream culture who see queer theory as a barrier (rather than a facilitator) to a greater democratisation of sexuality in the contemporary era.Viewed through this prism, the 1967 Sexual Offences Act can be seen to be a symptom of the broader civil rights movement of the 1960s which oversaw the criminalisation of inequality relating to gender, race, creed and religion in all of the major countries of the western hemisphere.Thus, the very term ‘queer’ is seen, ironically, as an exclusive phrase that implies that bisexual people, on account of their continuing sexual association with heterosexual people, are intrinsically more allied to straight culture than they are t...

While theorists of multiculturalism, are inclined to emphasize their arguments in defining multiculturalism as being used widely to identify the political and moral aims of a diverse group of disadvantage individuals based on ethnicity and religious minorities such as the Latinos in the U.S., Muslims in Western Europe, as well as minority nations such as Catalans, Basque, Welsh, Québécois, and indigenous peoples e.g.According to Blum (1992) ‘race’ has a narrower role in multicultural discourse, although he states ‘antiracism and multiculturalism are distinct but related ideas: the former highlights victimization and resistance whereas the latter highlights culture life, cultural expression, achievements, and the like’ (1992:14).In many w...

At the same time it may increase in the western regions which have recorded negative population growth.As such there has been great struggle to free women from social and religious culture.These wars have had a lot of impact in the international global system as countries take their stand on eth conflict with most of  the western countries especially America supporting the creation of Israel which others have remained in the middle ground.changing role of women in Africa and impact of western culture .However there is a big difference between rural and urban woman in the continent with rural woman taking more of their traditional role while the urban woman has been influenced by western culture and has been turned to a career woman.

This situation made India an attractive colony to Britain as it seemed unquestionable that Britain would benefit from the situation.Indian culture benefited from Western culture in the area of education.Both the social reformists and the conservatives took a fresh and critical look at their own society and culture as a reaction to western interpretation of the same.Although introduction of helped in developing an efficient bureaucracy for the british government, it gave Indians an opportunity to know western concept of rights and freedom and the extent of discrimination practiced against them by British.Along with Christian religion came the rest of British or Western culture, thought and customs and the gradual end of traditional ways o...

After 1945, virtually all countries in Western Europe began to attract significant numbers of workers from abroad and by the late 1960s they mostly came from developing countries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and the Middle East (Massey, D. et.al , 1993, p. 431).He has proposed two reasons that help explain the reasons for choosing partners from outside Britain, and has analysed the ways these reasons operate independently or may reinforce each other.Simpson (1997) further argues that since emigration from Pakistan to Britain is usually seen as a positive achievement, marriage also functions specifically to fulfil a commitment to improve the family fortunes.The Home Office statistics show an influx of 15,000 prospective marriage partne...

By Britain and France doing nothing this only reinforced Hitler’s views of them as being weak.Britain and France had a few chances to stop Hitler, but they didn’t.Britain didn’t want to invade because they considered Germany “going into their own back garden”.It has been argued, that not only was Hitler an inevitable result of German culture and the circumstances of the time, but that he was largely an opportunist who was simply able to capitalize on the opportunities before him and mistakes made by other people and nations.During the Munich Conference, Britain and France appeased Hitler, yet again.

The Western Front was vital in winning the war, as ultimately this was where the action was and so the British army played a crucial role there.The war at sea and the Home Front are as equally important as the Western Front in deciding the outcome of the war.To make sure Britain didnt starve and could continue fighting strongly on the Western Front an important role of the navy was to protect merchant ships and their valuable supplies so that they could reach the country.Without the work done at the Home Front the other fronts and especially the Western Front couldnt have been supported.Due to Britain importing a lot of its food supplies from abroad by 1917 the first food shortages occurred in Britain after bad harvests and U-boat attack...

The Treaty became the bulwark of British defence and indeed that of Western Europe, including France.The second most telling criticism levelled against Bevin was his reluctance to grasp that Britain was no longer the power that she once was.Western Europe’s relatively high living standards were to some extent due to Marshall Aid and it was Bevin who built the foundations.It hindered Britain’s economic growth and arguably sacrificed the long term future of Britain as a great economic power.Roberts states “Bevin realised our weaknesses, was aware of the need to include America in European affairs and construct a stronger Western Europe in order to “share the burden”.

The West believes that it was there duty to spread their “glorious” culture to those who were less fortunate then those.Some of the positive effects of this western imperialism were the new technologies such as medicine and nutrition that were brought to Africa.Others were outraged at the exploitation of the Indian culture.There culture was looked at as inferior to the West.This was a very sacred ritual to some and those people felt that their culture was being infringed upon.

The street culture of the young people themselves.Mainstream western culture is largely indifferent to all forms of religious commitment, not only to Islam.” The largely secular culture of mainstream society, encountered through the education system and the mass media, and in employment and training.The irony is that by demonising Muslims the mass media is also erecting a romantic notion of opposition to mainstream culture.Multicultural societies that I will concentrate on will be within Britain, in particular the area of Bradford, which is a large multi-cultural society.

Keita, L. (2002) The Western Journal of Black Studies 26: 1, 55 .Declining birth rates throughout the Western world have created a dichotomy between the economic imperative to boost population and labour forces through immigration, and ethnic / racial attitudes.These nations are highlighted here to illustrate the evolution in racial notions in these states, as both countries had previously engaged in efforts to assimilate its aboriginal peoples into a mainstream white culture.Racism has evolved to both include and modify popular concepts of culture and ethnicity.In modern times, where Western societies have attempted to formulate a comprehensive definition of race, an overwhelmingly white / Caucasian identity is invoked as the societal ...