The Western way of today’s society is becoming more and more normal as well as a functional way of living in the growing NIC and LEDC countries. Lesser developed countries such as Pakistan can have a big influence on MEDC countries such as the UK because of the growing factor of different religions being acceptable in more developed countries. This can be seen as a cultural process of globalisation. Over the years Islam has become more acceptable in the UK because of migration patterns, meaning more Muslim people are living there and therefore people who originally lived there cooperate with them more easily. Whereas on the other hand if there was a mass migration of Christian people to Pakistan and tried to convert Muslim people to Christianity and build Churches there would be an uproar because those who live in Pakistan for example would not be used to different cultures and find it very hard to accept it and maybe even adapt.
Marxists argue that religion promises us happiness, but this is an illusion hiding the truth; true happiness can only be found in a revolution. Finally, early capitalists used religion as a means of keeping their workers sober and willing to work. However, Marxism can be criticised as religion is no longer used to justify the status of powerful leaders, for example PMs and Monarchs. Also, Marxism ignores secularisation and it can be argued that religion is not a conservative force as it can cause social change. A
Thoreau was heavily influenced by Eastern religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism, which call for a minimalist lifestyle (Chadwick). He claims that if people were to reduce the complexities of life down to the necessities, they would lead happier and more productive lives and have less of a negative impact on the environment. Throughout the first chapter, “Economy,” Thoreau criticizes the American practice of obsessing over every minute detail of gossip, news, and bookkeeping: "Our Life is frittered away by detail…Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.” (Thoreau 73) In addition, Thoreau satirizes this way of life by detailing the prices of every piece of material used to build his house and the revenue earned by selling crops. He criticizes the men and women of Concord whose every minute of the day is dictated by clocks and routines, and is dismayed by the
At the time Brave new world was authored there were substantial issues worldwide. The economic depression in capitalist societies, fascism emerging in Europe and the high rate of unemployment meant people longed for the kind of security that Huxley provided the citizens of his fictional world. This affected Huxley, his writing and ultimately his vision of the future which inevitably seeped into Brave new world. He exaggerates all the present worrying trends of his time so that they produce awful consequences. The movement towards socialism in the 1920’s for example becomes the totalitarian state, the growth in materialism transforms into a form of religion- where humans are mass produced and henry ford is god- and depicts the end of the traditional and familiar life which becomes a strange and sterile modern state.
Since the 1950’s there has been a lot of change socially and economically. Post 50’s was a time when people were opening up to new things and new ideas about the government. At the end of the 1950’s was when people began to want more things because more things were out there that can contribute to some form of economic stress. Along with that people were more able to know what was going on in the world they had the resources to find things out as the Television and internet came out. Along with knowing more brought out the fact that people became more independent from the government developing their own ideas about how the country should be handled.
Imports and exports rose greatly according to Source A- Imports and Exports 1700-1900. Source D shows a new railway in India 1880s if Britain didn’t take over these countries they wouldn’t have new technologies such as the railway spreading British ideas and inventions. Overall the British Empire improved Britain by spreading its values, keeping the economy going, showing off how modern and advanced Britain was, creating jobs and increasing trade, money and power. On the other hand it could be said that having an empire didn’t make Britain great because of Britons attitude. They considered non white people to be lower than them.
I have shown examples of how religious belief was used to build bigger societies and states. The extent to which religion was used varied throughout the world but it was important to allow trade with other cities, showing their wealth (huge temples, pyramids with extravagant carvings), status, the collection and distribution of commodities in the name of the relevant divinity, it bought communities together (to make them stronger in war and to make the people feel safe that they were strong) and people would worship their leading even to the point of sacrificing their lives to their
Taking for example the Middle East crisis and the Arab-Israeli, two of the most persistent conflicts in the global arena, one is tempted to observe that may be if the religious aspect of the conflict was taken out of the equation, other elements in the conflict could easily be reconciled. As the secularized worldview becomes more widespread, different races and ethnic groups are becoming more cooperative in socio-economic and political affairs than they did in the 20th century. One of the reasons why the global war on terror has
Since the 1980s, the United States, Canada and Australia have set up privileged entry systems to attract entrepreneurs, executives, scientists, professionals and technical specialists. More recently, Western European and some East Asian countries have followed suit (Findlay, 1995). Attracting Indian IT professionals has become a global competition, while the health services of countries like Britain could not run without doctors and nurses from Africa and Asia. This type of migration can represent a 'brain drain' - that is a transfer of human capital from poor to rich countries - but may also bring about technology transfer and cultural innovation for areas of origin. Since poor countries continue to turn out more graduates than they can employ, while rich countries continue to prune their education budgets, such migration looks certain to grow (Findlay,
They wanted to extend their political, military and economic control all over the world. With the booming economy in the United States in the late 1800s, there was a problem with the surplus of goods. Excess production led to declining profits. Americans needed more consumers to buy their products. Industrialists wanted trade to expand into new overseas market where American products could be sold.