Westernization

About: Westernization is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1154 publications have been published within this topic receiving 15791 citations. The topic is also known as: occidentalization.

The Jamaican hypertensive: characteristics of black patients at the University Hospital of the West Indies

Abstract: Hypertension is the most common chronic disease of adults in the Caribbean today, affecting some 22% of this population (I); as a result, it contributes directly and indirectly to the leading causes of death in most of the English-speaking islands (2). While many epidemiologic surveys (3, 4, 5) have defined the prevalence of this disease in the community, there are very few studies that document the clinical problems associated with hypertension in Jamaica. This article provides some basic data about the clinical characteristics of the black hypertensive Jamaican and supplies information useful for comparison with populations from other parts of the world. Black hypertensives in Africa and the Caribbean and those in the United States and United Kingdom exhibit some interesting similarities; but with increasing “Westernization,” changes in the pattern of the disease can be expected. Comparative studies will help to separate those differences that may properly be attributed to ethnic factors from those which are largely determined by environmental variables.

Check Your Orientalism at the Door: Edward Said, Sanjay Seth, and the Adequacy of Western Pedagogy

Abstract: Western pedagogy and its preconceived notions of the non-Western world can limit scholars from developing accurate understandings of culturally different societies. Western academics teaching at foreign and Western institutions abroad must be mindful of how ingrained and subconscious Orientalist thinking can distort and hinder their interactions with local students.

Vietnam's Social and Political Development as Seen through the Modern Novel

Abstract: Contents: The Vietnamese modern novel from 1925 to 1967 reflected the socio-political realities of the period. It showed Westernization, the sufferings and struggles, the wars and its consequences.

Plantation legal, Trinidad século XIX

Abstract: This essay looks at the historical process of settlement of the immigrants Indians community in Trinidad during the nineteen century. The main question that emerges from this process is exactly the phenom of cultural recreation and establishment of the Indians social institutions in face of so powerful policy of the westernization imposed upon all work population of that island by the British colonial government. Thus, we’ll try to observe the historical conditions by which some vital social institutions of the Indian community amalgamated in that colonial social environment.

Politics versus culture: Which is stronger?

Abstract: This article examines the assertion that cultural factors, more than anything else, explain the rapid economic progress of Asian countries in recent years, as against the slow progress (and even retrogression) of African countries. In considering the relationship of politics to culture, it begins by examining various quandaries: the meaning of culture; the causes and manifestations of culture; the possibilities of rapid acculturation; and the importance of Westernization for development. Examples are presented to indicate that cultural barriers to development are often politically created and, as such, politically vulnerable. Political elasticity theory is introduced here to explain the capacity of leaders to influence and change culture, as shown in three case studies. The article ends with an examination of the implications of the propositions presented for World Bank lending programs, suggesting, not only the importance of taking culture into account, but going beyond it into the political requisites for changing culture.