For example are Chinese and Indian culture hugely influenced by Western Culture? What are the Pros and Cons? What should be the solution?
By Western I assume you mean the US (and maybe European countries? I dunno). People act as if we are somehow forcing our own cultural practices upon other people. This is just not the case. People have the capacity to decide how they want to live their lives. If that means partaking in practices that are deemed "Western," then so be it.
The pros – Just because a practice or belief exist in a "non-Western" culture does not automatically make it a good thing. Look at the Chinese culture. There, the group is much more important than the individual. Some athletes, for example, are trained at a very young age, which results in a very demanding life that may leave the child unhappy. It is common to not allow them to quit, because they must become successful to better the family. People accept this and say it’s okay, their culture is just different. But if someone, in this case the child, is truly unhappy, then it is not good. Would it be a bad thing if the Chinese (or any other group that has similar practices) were "influenced" by Western Culture and such practices were put to an end? I think not. Of course, I am generalizing here, so it’s quite possible that there are numerous Chinese people who do not partake in what I described above . . . just as there are probably many Western parents who also try to force their children to keep doing something they don’t want to do.
Cons: It’s possible that the "influence" results in some really spectacular cultraul practices, or beliefs, being lost. I think though, that with modern anthropologist and historians recording the past, this stuff won’t be lost.
What do you mean by western culture what is western culture and do you live in the west
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By setting up indians and still buying chips and tomato ketchup.
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Western culture= Materialism, self rightoussness and greed and it will destroy the East, I wouldnt say they are hugely influenced by it yet but we should back off, try to rediscover our own old cultures and let them develop themselves
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Western culture has already hugely influenced the entire world. Every part of the world is part of a state (as in nation-state) modeled after the European style, e.g. with a President or Prime Minister and a Parliament. Every part of the world has inextricably become part of the capitalist world economy. E.g. even remote pygmy communities in the Congo forests are now being used as slave labour in the extrication of natural resources for export. Western culture has affected other cultures for hundreds of years through trade, but the greatest impact occurred during the era of accelerated European colonial expansion in the second half of the 19th century. It’s meaningless to talk about the "pros" and "cons" of this entire process, because Western culture is so deeply embedded in the cultures of the non-Western world that it has become largely part of their own identity. Look at Communism in China – that was a Western political ideology. Look at India’s political institutions and its Constitution and Bill of Rights – they are also exported from the West. Gandhi was a lawyer educated in the UK. Nationalism was exported from the West. It’s silly to talk about a "solution" because that implies that there is some kind of problem to be solved.
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By Western I assume you mean the US (and maybe European countries? I dunno). People act as if we are somehow forcing our own cultural practices upon other people. This is just not the case. People have the capacity to decide how they want to live their lives. If that means partaking in practices that are deemed "Western," then so be it.
The pros – Just because a practice or belief exist in a "non-Western" culture does not automatically make it a good thing. Look at the Chinese culture. There, the group is much more important than the individual. Some athletes, for example, are trained at a very young age, which results in a very demanding life that may leave the child unhappy. It is common to not allow them to quit, because they must become successful to better the family. People accept this and say it’s okay, their culture is just different. But if someone, in this case the child, is truly unhappy, then it is not good. Would it be a bad thing if the Chinese (or any other group that has similar practices) were "influenced" by Western Culture and such practices were put to an end? I think not. Of course, I am generalizing here, so it’s quite possible that there are numerous Chinese people who do not partake in what I described above . . . just as there are probably many Western parents who also try to force their children to keep doing something they don’t want to do.
Cons: It’s possible that the "influence" results in some really spectacular cultraul practices, or beliefs, being lost. I think though, that with modern anthropologist and historians recording the past, this stuff won’t be lost.
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Most of the third world countries are copying the Western culture, but I can tell they they do it all wrong, they look fake and one should stick to his own culture and be prodded of it.
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The Chinese culture is hugely affected by Western Culture when you considered globalization. Sociologist George Ritzer coined the term McDonalization of Society to describe how the principles of fast-food restaurants developed in the United States have come to dominate more and more sectors of societies throughout the world. Ten years ago there may have been 10 McDonald’s Restaraunts in that country, now there are at least a hundred, maybe more. Same with Starbuck’s Coffee, Pizza-Hut, Burger King and Kentucky Fried Chicken for example. Our culture has huge influences in the aspect of fast-food.
Technology from the Western World has affected India as well.
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Sociology: A Brief Introduction
Richard T. Schaefer
Seventh Edition
2008
Publisher McGraw Hill