What do you consider the major divisions in Western and non-Western societies? What are the major points of connection?
What do you consider the major divisions in Western and non-Western societies? What are the major points of connection?
Introduction
Contestation over Globalization have been overwhelmed the world which mostly separated into two ways, the Economic and the Cultural. In this essay, I would like to share my views on how the culture differences between the Western and non-Western societies to be regarded under the trend of Globalization. For the sake of convenience, the United States and Britain would be the representatives of the former while the latter would focus on Singapore and Hong Kong.
Major Division
“The Clash of Civilizations” (Huntington, 2011) is the major divisions as proposed by many scholars. For the sake of simplifying, I would focus on the Western Civilization in Western societies and Civilization Confucian (or Sinic) in non-Western societies.
Under the Liberal Individualist view, the West is rights-based and so emphasizes the rights to non-interference to individuals and so the power of government is limited (Locke & Laslett, 1988). The main objective to set up the government is to provide services to people and so it had to be supervised. To the Confucian traditions, non-Western societies are paternalistic, accepting hierarchic authority and the community-oriented–characteristics promote order and consensus (Dalton & Ong, 2005). In other words, people are being supervised by the government and unquestioning loyalty is encouraged. With the tradition of “respect” for authority (also family) and the emphasis on community (over individual rights), Confucian Civilization seems to be antithetical to liberalism, which the Western advocates. Politician even regarded those Confucian traditions as the roadblock to democratization.
Pseudo
When the majority nod to the statement that different civilizations would finally divide the world into several parts, I see it in another way. Although the West used to have a dominant position, especially
Introduction
Contestation over Globalization have been overwhelmed the world which mostly separated into two ways, the Economic and the Cultural. In this essay, I would like to share my views on how the culture differences between the Western and non-Western societies to be regarded under the trend of Globalization. For the sake of convenience, the United States and Britain would be the representatives of the former while the latter would focus on Singapore and Hong Kong.
Major Division
“The Clash of Civilizations” (Huntington, 2011) is the major divisions as proposed by many scholars. For the sake of simplifying, I would focus on the Western Civilization in Western societies and Civilization Confucian (or Sinic) in non-Western societies.
Under the Liberal Individualist view, the West is rights-based and so emphasizes the rights to non-interference to individuals and so the power of government is limited (Locke & Laslett, 1988). The main objective to set up the government is to provide services to people and so it had to be supervised. To the Confucian traditions, non-Western societies are paternalistic, accepting hierarchic authority and the community-oriented–characteristics promote order and consensus (Dalton & Ong, 2005). In other words, people are being supervised by the government and unquestioning loyalty is encouraged. With the tradition of “respect” for authority (also family) and the emphasis on community (over individual rights), Confucian Civilization seems to be antithetical to liberalism, which the Western advocates. Politician even regarded those Confucian traditions as the roadblock to democratization.
Pseudo
When the majority nod to the statement that different civilizations would finally divide the world into several parts, I see it in another way. Although the West used to have a dominant position, especially