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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.
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TL;DR: This article examined the extent to which Western cultural influence is visible in the print advertising of four Asian countries: Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, and found that English was the dominant Western language contained in the sampled ads and Western females were the most frequently portrayed Western models.
Abstract: This study examines the extent to which Western cultural influence is visible in the print advertising of four Asian countries: Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. To measure the level of Westernization of print advertising, two indicators were used: The presence of Western models and/or celebrities and the inclusion of Western language or words. It was found that English was the dominant Western language contained in the sampled ads and Western females were the most frequently portrayed Western models. Judicious use of Western words and of Western models is called for in order to minimize possible cultural backlash against overt foreign influences.
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TL;DR: The continuities between the study of the West through Dutch in Tokugawa Japan and the program of modernization in the Meiji period seem self evident as discussed by the authors, and that debate greatly enriches our feel for Japanese society then and now.
Abstract: The continuities between the study of the West through Dutch in Tokugawa Japan and the program of modernization in the Meiji period seem self evident. The influence of Holland through Deshima became the focus of the life work of Itazawa Takeo and others well before the war, and it received detailed discussion from Charles Boxer in 1936. Nevertheless issues of the importance and influence of Tokugawa rangaku continue to be debated, and that debate greatly enriches our feel for Japanese society then and now.
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TL;DR: For some time, foreign policy as an expression was perfectly interchangeable with diplomacy, given the degree of leverage enjoyed by diplomatic corps in Brazil's political system as discussed by the authors. But there ha...
Abstract: For some time, foreign policy as an expression was perfectly interchangeable with diplomacy, given the degree of leverage enjoyed by diplomatic corps in Brazil's political system. However, there ha...
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TL;DR: The lack of uniformity in British educational policy led to a great deal of controversy as mentioned in this paper, with many Africans arguing that old African values must be replaced since, whether educators approved or not, overwhelming social change was obliterating them.
Abstract: Before abandoning past practices and patterns, the new leaders recognized the need to examine the inherited structures in order to better comprehend the strengths and limitations of the educational systems now firmly entrenched in their countries. This is especially the situation in former British Africa where no uniform policy existed. Each territory supported its own educational program and each governor had his own ideas on how to educate the "natives." This British diversity contrasts with the practice of the French and Portuguese, who consistently transported their own cultures and orthodox methods of teaching them to their colonies. The diversity in British Africa ranged from educational policies that imposed the English model and all its components on the African to policies that attempted to develop an educational program based on the African's own environment and on his own way of life. This lack of uniformity in British educational policy led to a great deal of controversy. On one side were those Europeans who favored rapid Westernization of the African. They argued that old African values must be replaced since, whether educators approved or not, overwhelming social change was obliterating
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address the dilemmas of researching about women's lives in global perspective and examine feminist post-development thought and its potential contributions to womens studies curriculum and scholarship.
Abstract: In this article I address the dilemmas of researching about womens lives in global perspective and examine feminist post-development thought and its potential contributions to womens studies curriculum and scholarship. On one hand feminist post-development scholars have called for further attention to Western feminisms role in reproducing global inequalities faced by many women in poor countries. Yet despite the need for this project we know from a variety of media and studies that there is still a need for "an anthropology of place" including an examination of regional histories prior to during and following colonization; a study of geography including a critical examination of the role of maps in constructing a global reality (e.g. most maps purchased in the United States divide India into two); further research on womens lives in poor countries including issues surrounding poverty but also womens contributions to art media literature politics and policy making to name only a few arenas; and an examination of how gender and womens bodies themselves have become "battlefields" for broader movements against modernization Westernization or U.S. imperialism. (excerpt)
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