Asia, Africa, and Latin America have all been influenced by the transmission of Western cultural values through direct as well as indirect contact. By means of colonization Asia, Africa and Latin America were particularly affected as Western values were enforced upon the populations by colonial assault. During this era traditional cultural pursuits declined and stagnated in the face of Western conquests. The attitude is much the same now as it was then, “However disagreeable the “medicine” may be, it is worth it for the “backward” people to become just like people in the West, (Haviland, 2008). European colonization greatly changed the cultures of the above mentioned countries cultures, economies, and religions. Driven by the desire for material gain, to spread religious beliefs and to expand territory, westernization directly impacted the countries colonized. With the conquest of the Inca and Aztec empires Spanish influence spread from Mexico to South America, while a growing market for new foods such as tea, coffee, sugar, rubber, tin and oil stimulated trade and colonization in parts of Asia. Indigenous people of Latin America were used as a source of labor since Spanish conquest and assimilated into more dominate cultures. After nearly three centuries of European rule Latin American countries gained independence and yet the indigenous people still remain the poorest and least represented group. In recent years there as been awakening of Latin America's indigenous people as movements led by militant peasant leaders are participating in and leading political changes which toppled Ecuador’s democratic president. In Asia colonial impact is found in the schools as English was favored in instruction, economic policies gen... ... middle of paper ... ...ation directly created long-term changes in the cultural, economic and religious structure of the countries colonized and indirectly affected countries with which trade was formed. Positive effects have been improvement in the modern infrastructure, standard of living, technological advances, while negative effects include loss of cultural identity, disease, and repression of indigenous people. Works Cited Property Rights and Governance. (2010, November 17). Retrieved June 3, 2011, from Country Profile: Nigeria: http://usaidlandtenure.net/usaidltprproducts/country-profiles/nigeria/country-profile-nigeria#top Haviland, W. A. (2008). Anthropology: The Human Challenge. Belmont, CA: Thomas Learning. USAID: Nigeria. (2011, June 1). Retrieved June 8, 2011, from USAID: http://www.usaid.gov/locations/sub-saharan_africa/countries/nigeria/
The colony is not only a possibility in the geographical; it is a mental dominance that can imperialize the entire self. Entire continents have be domineered, resources completely dried, and at colonialism’s usual worst, the mental devastation of the indigenous culture has left a people hollow. Indigenous culture is no longer that. In the globalized world, no culture is autonomous; culture cannot breathe without new ideas and new perspectives, perspectives that have traditionally come from the people who have lived within the culture. But, the imposition of dominant cultures has certainly benefited from culture’s own vulnerability, as global similarities now exist throughout most different, yet not separate cultures. Postcolonialism is imperialism with a mask on, nothing less. As Franz Fanon puts it “that imperialism which today is fighting against a s true liberation of mankind leaves in its wake here and there tinctures of decay which we must search out and mercilessly expel from our land and our spirits.”
Concluding, the significance of the Columbian exchange greatly impacted what we know of life today. The major impacts that have shaped what we know of the world today happened during the Colombian exchange. The major impacts of the Colombian exchange was Christianity that led to the rise of the Catholic Church, new food crops and domesticated animals that improved the Europeans and American living, new military technology such as weapons and horses, slavery of the natives and Africans and diseases that drastically harmed the different ethnic groups. Colombian Exchange between the old world and the new world still holds a drastic impact on the world today. If we didn’t have these influences then the world would be completely changed. Trading still continues today and has made an impact all over the world.
AUTHOR: Oswald Spengler, (1880-1936), was a German philosopher who acquired his conservative views from his father, a postal official in Germany. Spengler attended the Universities of Munich, Berlin and Halle in Germany, where he studied natural science and mathematics. In 1903, he wrote his dissertation on a Greek philosopher named Heraclitus, though he failed due to a lack of references. Spengler resubmitted his revised thesis in 1904, earning him his doctorate degree. Shortly after earning his degree, Spengler suffered a mental break down, secluding himself from the world. In 1906, he recovered and began working as a teacher in secondary schools until he received some money from his mother. In 1911, Spengler gathered his inheritance and moved to Munich as a private scholar.
Imperialism had some positive effects regardless of how strict and unfair it was. Some positive effects can be seen in documents 2 and 7, which talks about what the mother nation gave to their colonized nations. These oppressors built them roads, canals, railways, and gave them education. They also introduced to them telegraphs, newspapers, and overall made them economized. Another positive effect can be read on documents 1 and 5. These documents show how both the oppressors and oppressed benefit from getting new resources such as raw m...
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How the Western civilization did begin? It all started about 2 billion years ago where there was animal life in the planet. Then about 65 million years ago, a meteor struck earth and wipe out about every living life, killing about 70% of life in earth including the dinosaurs. Then years later the western civilization began in the Middle East and generally spread western in contrast to eastern civilization. During the earliest civilizations which it was influenced the development of the western culture were those of Mesopotamia.
Western imperialism was a positive shift in the 1800s and early 1900s because of the end to internal conflicts, improvement in infrastructure, education and health in Africa, India, and French Indochina. During the British rule of India, or the Raj, there was an end to internal conflicts within the country. Before the British occupations, ethnic and religious groups fought against each other due to bitter rivalry that grew over time. During the Raj however, laws were enforced to reduce violence so the conflicts gradually decreased. Secondly, in French Indochina the infrastructure of the region improved drastically. There was the development of roads, harbors, rail systems that improved communication and transportation of the citizens. This added to the British efforts to modernize India using imperialization methods. Thirdly, in French Indochina education, health, and sanitation was improved. Across the region, schools were built to increase the literacy rates of the population, hospitals were improv...
Beginning in 1880, there was a growing desire for European countries to expand and control their rule. The only continent at that time that was left uncontrolled and, in the European's eyes uncivilized, was Africa. This was the start of Western Imperialism. All European countries wanted their piece of Africa and to get it, they would let nothing stand in their way. They would change the entire government, religion, market, and behavior of most of the African nation and affect almost every person living there. An account of the impact of Imperialism is given in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. This book shows the changes that occurred in Africa during Imperialism and its affect on the community and the people of the tribes that existed there.
Moreover, generalizing the treatment of indigenous people in Latin America the continuation of bad treatment and the type of lifestyle indigenous people live is still evident in different regions in the Latin America. However, the fact that the indigenous people are still urbanized or depend on their livelihood and livestock to survive still exist. Also, the extraction of resources by the government and government authorized officials still threatens the land right of the indigenous people. Moreover, the government and other NGO’s still lack in the implementation of the indigenous rights. Which also leads to the indigenous people to have minimum participation in political...
The two main effects Imperialism in Latin America and Southeast Asia were cultural changes and depopulation. Cultural changes in Latin America was the practice of syncretic religions, while in Southeast Asia it was the establishment of Western Education. The decline in population was excessive in Latin America, when in fact it was minimal for Southeast Asia.
What effect does colonialism and modernization have on an old and traditional culture? Throughout history the result of new cultures or traditions always created problems for old ones. Sadly, this results in the destruction of the old one. Barbara Kingsolver’s, The Poisonwood Bible, as well as Cormac McCarthy’s, All The Pretty Horses, deals with this issue through its plethora of themes and symbols. The underlying theme of The Poisonwood Bible throughout the novel is the idea that arrogance makes westerners indifferent to how third-world countries are affected by colonialism. The title of the book is, in itself, a demonstration of how the prominently western religion of Christianity and the western culture can cause destruction and pain when imposed upon the Congolese by American Baptists. Similarly, in All The Pretty Horses, western culture is causing the endangerment of cowboys. The idea of western arrogance gives way to secondary themes and symbols that all revolve around the effect Nathan and the United States have on the individuals inhabiting the Congo before and after its independence or the United States have on the individuals following the ways of a cowboy.
The Western culture has evolved over a span of several years with various civilizations specializing in specific aspects of life or nature. In essence, Western civilization dates back to the BCE periods when Ancient Greece, Mesopotamia, and Ancient Rome reigned. Each of the Western civilizations came with a clear lineage that portrayed such attributes as property rights, free market economy, competition, personal freedoms, and innovation (Perry, 2013). Besides, the western civilizations came at different periods with some of the attributes evolving or remaining unchanged throughout the lineage. However, the non-western civilizations contributed towards such attributes to a given extent, primarily because of the interactions among
Scholars have debated not only the nature of Iberian colonialism, but also the impact that independence had on the people of Latin America. Historian Jaime E. Rodriguez said that, “The emancipation of [Latin America] did not merely consist of separation from the mother country, as in the case of the United States. It also destroyed a vast and responsive social, political, and economic system that functioned well despite many imperfections.” I believe that when independence emerged in Latin America, it was a positive force. However, as time progressed, it indeed does cause conflict.
To begin, the term colonialism is defined in the dictionary as “control by one country over another and its people”. Throughout history colonialism has confounded and damaged numerous cultures and people. Indigenous people have undergone a series of massive modifications to their culture as well as spiritual beliefs and morals and obligations they’ve held since before the first coming of Western cultures. In regards to this, there are many concerns of loss of culture among several different groups.
By the nineteenth century Western nations, especially Great Britain, had already set up colonies all over the globe greatly affecting the natives and their cultures. American Anthropologist Ruth Benedict saw the racial discrimination due to westernization in the book Patterns of Culture. This work was written decades after the Victorian era and it shows how much this has changed. After colonization, natives were killed, moved around, and “they have seen their religion, their economic system, their marriage prohibitions, go down before the white man 's” (Benedict 20). This gave Europeans a sense of superiority with their race because it can mold their beliefs into thinking that, because changed and got rid of many of the natives culture, they were the stronger