GP’s would buy operations from hospitals with their funds, so the ‘survival of the fittest’ also applied to hospitals.Margaret Thatcher and her government completely restructured Britain’s economy.GP’s who were ‘efficient’ and were left with a surplus left over at the end of the year would be able to reinvest that money into their practice.Thatcher introduced prescription charges and dental charges.She privatised nearly all of Britain industries and made huge tax cuts.
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In addition, cultural assimilation as well as cultural clash in those who must balance their traditional culture with the modern Western culture has been shown to contribute to a predisposition towards AN, as a result of self-conflicts and unstable self-identity (Shuriquie, 1999, 355).Although the phenomena of global culture and culture clash demonstrate the extensiveness and impact of Western cultural values on the rest of the world, it has been argued that attributing the cause and symptoms of AN solely to the sociocultural influence of the West may be inaccurate.Mumford and Whitehouse have shown that Asian girls in the United Kingdom that have not acculturated struggle to balance their beliefs and attitudes at home, where their tradit...
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The history of Western Literature encompasses a range of works in many languages from epic poetry to non-linear novels, as well as drama and works of non-fiction While it is difficult, if not impossible to succinctly state what Western Literature is “all about,” the content of Western Literature is as broad and as complex as the various cultures, historical time periods, and individual authors which shape its history.In modern times, blogs, websites, movies, TV shows, video games, and many other forms of media can be considered all or in part, a form of Western Literature.While it is true that the term Western Literature refers to works written in specific Indo-European languages, the term Western Literature does not, in practice, relate...
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Where Western Culture and Indian culture come at a cross roads is further explain by Naor, Linderman, Schroeder in their idea that “non-significant difference between Eastern and Western countries for the dimensions of institutional collectivism, in-group collectivism, assertiveness, uncertainty avoidance, and humane orientation can be attributed to their strong link to people’s behavior and work-related attitude” (Naor et al, 2010, p. 194).In the western culture, yoga is a popular activity as a facet of physical activity.One can understand that understanding of Western Culture can point towards various traditions, customs, values, and different belief systems that made their origin from Europe and are based on European culture.What are ...
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This theory proposes that Western thought has led to globalisation, and that globalisation propagates Western culture, leading to a cycle of Westernization.On top of largely Western government systems such as democracy and constitution, many Western technologies and customs like music, clothing and cars have been introduced across various parts of the world and copied and created in traditionally non-Western countries like Japan, China, India, etc.[14] Though Western concepts may have initially played a role in creating this cultural shift in Taiwan, the market and desire for bridal photography has not continued without adjustments and social modifications to this Western notion.Countries such as Korea and China attempted to adopt a syst...
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In the case of India it’s culture it has been negatively affected through the adoption of western centric ideologies, which have led to a rapid loss of rich Indian culture.In summation westernization has negatively impacted India and it’s culture and while some beneficial societal changes have been brought about by westernization, India continues to struggle against the rapid loss of culture due to increased societal and cultural emphasis on western culture and society.Since it is a difficult concept to grasp at first, we do not realize the true scale of culture and its responsibility in dictating many actions within our daily lives.Other countries have begun to incorporate local cultural reinforcement as it has been viewed as an effecti...
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The globalization was the responsible in the 20th century by the influences of the Western culture to the African culture.After the 20th century, the impact of the European culture has modified the non Western culture such as Africa, native America, The contribution of the European culture was the significant responsible for the enhancement of the African cultural development.The major departments of the African culture had improved in the case of fashion technology, music department, traditions, media, and communication and so on due to the expansion of the Western culture.The musical contribution of the European culture was one of significant contribution to the African culture and the technical applications of the European culture wer...
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Another point Teson argues is that “ethnocentrism” that relativists view are not supplying the same basic rights to “non western cultures” as opposed to the “western cultures” receiving those rights.The western society has also greatly impacted on the non western society, with the influence of western life and living which altered the Human Rights, and thus impacting it on the non western society.It focused on the state abusing the Indigenous people and pushing for Indigenous people to have rights to their land and culture The Spanish community and people in Latin America have been introducing western culture into the Indigenous community of Latin America, thus implementing the Human Rights as a western construct.In 1789 the French recog...
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Today’s youth are misusing the Western culture because our elders, educationists and reformers have failed to make our children understand the importance of our Indian culture.Some of the orthodox minds go still further to stress that the Western culture takes our youth to a wrong destination and that the strange behaviour of our youth is due to the ill effects of Western culture.Western culture has not only removed many evils from our society but also made concerted efforts to bring in equality among all people of the country.If one glances into the past, we find numerous examples where Western cultural ethos has helped to remove superstitions, fallacies and disastrous acts from our own Indian culture.Therefore instead of saying that We...
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This can be called upon as western cultural penetration, which is slowly eroding Pakistani culture unnoticeably.It has been observed that the elite society in Pakistan are opposing their own culture and are more interested to follow western culture in their daily life.In this study, the focus is on the Western culture penetrating inside Pakistani Culture.Dr. Ahmed Rashid Malik (2009) states that perhaps it is some colonial chip we are carrying on our shoulders, which focuses on us to acknowledge the western culture as cool and hip.This study will discuss the impact of western culture on Pakistani culture.
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Western culture is an opening culture, which has powerful expansionary and permeability.Western culture since the Renaissance, emphasizing the human, cultural personality characteristics that affect Western advertising, shaping personality, unassuming self, the pursuit of individual freedom, personal values and other targets become highlights of Western advertising culture.Way of thinking is an important part of human culture, but also the cohesion of human culture, plays the role of designers and bearers of the culture spread.China such a long history is indeed better than western culture, so in some respects the values even in the view of the world is different.Key Words: Chinese advertisement, western advertisement, characteristic,D...
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However, the contemporary Asian music is now heavily influenced by the Western cultures particularly that of the American culture.Western Culture .Therefore, the themes and myths behind the Western and Eastern culture are different in such a way that the Western culture is focus in modernization while the Eastern culture is seem to be centered on traditions.This culture is called as such because it originated from the Western part of the world, the Europe.For example, in the American population, the culture of the Blacks may be different from the culture of the Caucasians; and the culture of the American Roman Catholic may be different from that of the American Jews.
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Globalisation and mass media has laid the basis of the merger of western culture with Indian culture and this collision can better be termed as westernisation.Western culture, sometimes equated with Western civilization or European civilization, is a term used very broadly to refer to a heritage of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, religious beliefs, political systems, and specific artifacts and technologies.The damage that Indian culture has experienced can be broken down into three parts which are, pursuit of wealth, complex of the west and the most essential of all the power of western media.At the side of the positive, Bangladeshi people are involving day by day with negative activities which is destroying our own cu...
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Because of this, relationships within Western cultures are usually discontinuous and only temporary.Unlike in Western cultures, change is not so readily accepted.An issue with this theory is that Western cultures have only recently been more accepting of temporary relationships.This has made break ups and divorces a lot more acceptable in the Western world.This recent change may mean that the differences between Western and Non-Western societies may not be down to the culture itself but due to the social mobility and urbanisation of the society.
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Is the educational sector of Pakistan affected by the western culture?Do you feel that it is the goal of the western culture to have English as the international language?It is usually a two-sided process, in which western influences and interests themselves are joined by a wish of at least parts of the affected society to change towards a more westernized society, in the hope of attaining western life or some aspects of it.The following study discusses the influence of the dimensions of western culture to the respective dimensions of the Pakistani culture.In this study, the focus has been on the Western culture being penetrated inside Pakistani culture.
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Although globalization appears to be inevitable based on social, political, economic, and environmental events that continue to make our world increasingly interconnected, it does not necessarily have to be associated with the ethnocentric view of Western society.Although this transition will not happen over-night, it is important for society to acknowledge the detriment that Western ideologies have caused to the survival of indigenous cultures and traditions.As Watters (2010) discussed, in order to reduce the influence of Western psychopathology around the world, we need to diminish the meaning that society has given mental health.As discussed in Marsella (1998), “Western psychology will need to be repositioned as one of many psychologi...
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When Toshiko’s husband is sitting there talking with his friends he jokes about the incident and stating “I rescued our good rug… (367), this showing that his mind is corrupt with the western culture because he did not care about the well being of the nurse and the blood did not faze him.Western culture is not only seen as violent but as polluted as well.The story depicts the corruption of Japanese culture by western modernization.Japanese culture is becoming more westernized, “unhomely with its Western-style furniture…” (366).The baby is a symbol of the violence in the western culture as well.
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Due to Thailand accommodating tourist needs and influence from Western culture and habits that the tourists leave behind, as well as the accessibility of the Western media, this culminates in the erosion of Thailand’s authentic and exotic traditional values.It is further explained by (Jayne 2003) that it is also partially the state government’s responsibility that the youth are being influenced by pop culture because of the lack of support for local pop culture that youths have no other choice but to search for their individuality or values in the western media which is easily accessible and popular globally.Through the examination of the Buddhist Thai business culture and the Islamic Malay business culture, it is visible that the Wester...
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Conclusion: How there is head and tail for a coin there is both positive and negative impact of western culture and Indian Culture.Hence we can say that western media has not affected the core traditions of indian society but has changed life style and apparent characteristics of the society.Western culture can also be referred to as advanced culture; this is because its ideas and values promote the development and sustainment of advanced civilization.Western culture and Indian culture both have good qualities and bad qualities.Even the Indian culture has influence the western world.
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It involves adoption of different life styles, cultural ways, working styles, and even the behavioral patterns of the western countries particularly.• Western culture is about less formality and more fun.From last years it has accepted many different trends and systems of the western countries.Though we can adopt certain good things of western countries by holding our own culture and tradition.Coca-Cola and many more which is always against our own culture.
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This thesis study and compare the Chinese and Western culture taboo from the social etiquette can make us learn more about the social etiquette and the Chinese and Western cultural taboo.Facing with the current trend, which is that we Chinese have more opportunities to touch and know the foreign culture, especially the Western culture.This part will also make us know both the Chinese culture and the Western culture much better so that we can avoid the culture collision between the two different cultures.Just as the taboos in Chinese culture, there are also a lot of taboos in Western culture from the perspective of social etiquette.In a word, the Westerners influenced by the Western culture are more open and more rational, and the taboo i...
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They are therefore the least likely to seek help for their binge-eating disorders.These women may exhibit eating disorders for the same reasons women in western cultures do, such as extreme concern over shape and weight, low self-esteem, and emotional disorders (Becker, 2003, 425).Through acculturation to Western ideals and exposure to Western norms, they may have developed a “Western” perspective of body image.Healthcare providers should take ethnicity into account when determining causal factors of binge-eating in women from Asian and Native American cultures because they are more sensitive about it than women of other ethnicities (Eating Disorders Review, 2007, 5).Women who are not from a Caucasian background face different societal a...
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When rejected immigrants fail to adapt to western cultures they search desperately to find their former identity in their homeland.Having a car is a very Western and materialistic concept, very unlike the culture of the Parsi community that resides in Firozshaa Baag.Unfortunately this attempt backfires because the individual is so influenced by western culture that he is caught in total displacement from both cultures.Sarosh managed to adopt most of Western culture but he could not go to the bathroom without ‘squatting’.Thus he uses his failed attempts to use the western toilet as a sign of his Inability to integrate.
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They also had depended on Indian princes to support them, so they also had to abide by Indian customs and rules (Rise of Western Dominance).Rise of Western Dominance.If China and India were to have been influenced by the Western European and a syncretism occurred, then the development of the modern world would have been different.Rituals that were performed in West Africa were the heart of their culture and this is why there is a difference between the Westerner and non-Westerners process of thinking (Sayre, 2009).In particular the Chinese and Indian cultures were able to resist the influences of Western Europe.
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.. Culture will affect people’s views and understanding of the outside world of things, different countries have different cultures, so there must be differences in thinking patterns, which is in the Eastern and Western culture has been particularly evident among.Owing to the differences of Chinese and Western culture, the representation form of Chinese and Western advertisement is diverse, advertising language also manifests different culture value and thinking mode.In Chinese and Western cultures, for example, in Chinese culture, people respected modest chirye, the pursuit of adaptable and do not like assertive or aggressive, and social trends are often blocked too prominent individuals, are the so-called “line above the masses, peopl...
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This fact explains the controversial discriminated position of the Africans in the Western world, which can be not accentuated, but it is a result of the historical development.If racial capitalism and colonialism influenced the development of the African Diasporic cultures as the phenomenon, is it possible to speak about the transformation of the Western culture under the impact of colonialism and racial capitalism?The African Diasporic cultures began to develop in the Western world, which could not be the same as it was before the moves in colonization and imperialistic policies.However, it is also necessary to focus on the further progress of the situation when the Western culture was also transformed.Nevertheless, the development of ...
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Social values all this culture have established away of life with acceptable social values -In all culture marriage is considered important for companionship and procreation.career for culture lovers and other artsy types,McGraw-hill professional .The western people have diversified social values depending with families and individual status where as the African values are continuously being westernized -In African culture marriage is only between couples of different sex but in western even same sex couples do marry -Hindus parent of the woman look for a prospective march a -Muslim and African men are polygamies Islamic.-In western culture the practice are done in a special way such as in hospitals but in African they are done traditi...
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The revolutionizing of people and societies is normally seen as the western culture where governments in the east want to retain the status quo and remain dictatorial .Many will debate on the loss of culture and the imitation of the western culture as modernization while others will base their argument on the adoption of democracy and a free society .Therefore for those who modernize does not have to adopt the western cultures .The East especially the Islamic nations has particularly remained cold in adopting the western values more specifically due to the religion factor which is seen as an overtaking of the Muslim religion and culture by the Christian practices and norms .While modernizing is the adoption of technology and industri...
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Coming back to your question, yes we are in the midst of such a western craze that we have almost forgotten what our roots are.Effect Of Western Culture On Indian Youth .We jus cant stop/Ban things by considering it to be western /eastern.If an individual decides what is good/bad for them every person can be in control …rite I finally stress points like No matter people adopt what ever the culture … They shud be in the limits and act rationally according to the situations.We sitting here always crave and imitate western people and their culture.
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Their students could study “seven liberal arts” derived from Greek and Roman culture which served to pass on the spirit of Christianity.All in all, Christianity has played an important role in western culture.Christianity was the only organization realizing the significance of Greek and Roman culture when the priceless classical culture was in the greatest danger of extinction.the whole social values of the western world have been Influenced by the thought of Christianity.However, In which aspects, or how Chrlstlanlty, the religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, Influenced western culture?
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