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welfare and prosperity to various events and forces in far off grounds. Rising social, cultural,
political, and environmental issues over the world are forcing extreme and complex demands on
individual and collective psyches, testing our sense of identity, control, and prosperity. The
global community is currently upon us. International relation theories can help with tending to
and settling these issues, particularly on the off chance that it is happy to reevaluate a portion of
its basic premises, techniques, and practices that are established inside Western cultural
traditions and to grow its appreciation. Vaclav Havel said that " Without a global revolution in
the sphere of human consciousness, nothing will change for the better in the sphere of our being
as humans, and the catastrophe toward which we are headed, will be unavoidable”.”. [1]
in a trapped snare of global financial, political, social, and ecological events and forces. Global
events, occasions and forces are presently local events and forces! Willingly or unwillingly, the
world has become the “global town" (McLuhan, 1968, 1989), and this global town is
multicultural, multi-national, and multiethnic. The scale, intricacy, and effect of these occasions
and forces establish an imposing test for international relations and profession. They request a
For global community, culture is viewed as a basic variable for understanding human
activity. Culture must be given a new priority in theories and assumptions of international
relations, research, and services endeavors. Such a large number of theories neglect to talk about
cultural varieties in conduct and experience e.g., advancement, comprehension, motivation and,
personality on a global level. At the core of global community, the concerns for knowing,
recognizing, and prizing diversity and that diversity generates and promotes. Cultural
homogenization of well-known culture around the globe that is being molded by Western
qualities, products, and institutions. This worry likewise offers ascend to the issue of rising
worldwide subcultures (e.g., cyber culture) and to inquiries regarding ideal human qualities and
spreading Western cultural ways of life, qualities, and priorities over the world, making a
Westernized global community. This procedure can be viewed as a colonization of the mind. The
key to the processes of cultural changes process is the interest and power of the various groups.
The West's monetary, political, and military power helps make its products and ways of life
appealing. The lives of practically all the world's residents have been opened to Western values,
lifestyle, and products through invitations, need, or power. Albeit numerous individuals are
and boundless and fast change a portion of the major cultural themes of famous Western culture
(particularly American culture) the Westernization of a significant number of the world's cultures
Despite the fact that the facts demonstrate that in the global community, cultures are
dynamic and that cultural change regularly speaks to an amalgamation or combination process, it
can't be denied that those cultures lacking solid authentic and institutional bases are especially
helpless to dislocation, decay, and obliteration in line with Western cultural assimilation
pressures. The cultural homogenization of worldwide culture raises genuine worries about the
value of ethno cultural diversity. In spite of the fact that there is a lot of that is commendable and
laudable about Western culture, particularly its expressed commitments to human rights,
democratic norms, and intellectual and social advancement, genuine inquiries can be raised about
the wisdom of building up a Westernized global culture as the all-inclusive standard. [5]
enveloping language, religion, cooking, social propensities, music and artistic expressions.
"Culture includes religion, food, what we wear, how we wear it, our language, marriage, music,
what we accept is correct or wrong, how we sit at the table, how we welcome guests, how we
carry on with friends and family, and a million different things," Cristina De Rossi, an
UNESCO's interdisciplinary order which incorporates the natural and social sciences and culture
makes it remarkably ready to investigate the different values of nature. Biodiversity is integral to
numerous cultures and culture itself assumes an urgent job in how biodiversity is seen. UNESCO
is the main UN organization with an order in the field of culture. UNESCO's Culture Sector,
through its way of life shows and projects, assumes a novel job in advancing human creativity
Bernard Lewis (1990), the British orientalist, was the first to guarantee that there was a
contended that Islam and the West had contrasting qualities which would just be settled after
clash. At first, be that as it may, Lewis' dispute didn't make quite a bit of a mix. This was not
really astonishing given that the primary foreign policy issue facing the West in the late 1950s
was managing what was broadly seen as an expansionist Soviet Union. After four decades,
Lewis' clash between civilization had become a clash of civilization. This was the case of Samuel
Huntington, who fought that a conflict between the West and the 'Muslim world' would be the
key international strategy issue for the US (and the West more by and large) after the 1991
breakup of the Soviet Union. Like Lewis, 40 years sooner, Huntington contended that one of the
two sides was ideationally bound to beat the over. Due to their contrasting qualities, it would not
be workable for them to join to overcome humankind's heap normal issues, (for example,
assign their national law which carefully disallows the export of movable cultural property and
furthermore vested cultural property found inside their own region in the state or public
authorities, control though, as far as cultural internationalism, a few nations support the free
progression of cultural property and grant cultural property to be exclusive and exercised.
Clearly, cultural nationalism is in opposition to cultural internationalism on the grounds that the
previous likes to maintain the intensity of state to control its cultural property situated inside the
region while the last perceives cultural property as normal human culture which is autonomous
of one’s nation property rights or national jurisdiction or national control and ought to be shared
for humankind. This contention isn't just embroiled to the assignment of cultural property law at
national legal system, yet it additionally incites international questions with respect to the
assurance and compensation of cultural property when cultural property is wrongfully exported
in violation of a nation's export law and the importing nation’s aims to hold such cultural
probably a portion of its advocates who live inside a Postmodern world perspective. The
humanities are represented by the possibility that human reason, guided by settled upon
interpretive standards, can analyze the essential assets available to them, and go to a
comprehension of them. Thus, it is normal that others, utilizing the equivalent interpretive
standards, may take fluctuating positions, and that the researchers in the different ways of
thinking will utilize agreed upon standards and conventions to banter with each other, with the
and cultures of non-Western social orders from a European or Western point of view. Europe, all
the more explicitly Western Europe or "the West," acts as a global signifier in that it expects the
prevalence of European social qualities over those of non-European social orders. Despite the
fact that Eurocentrism is against universalist in nature, it presents itself as a universalist and
individuality, human rights, correspondence, democracy, free markets, secularism, and social
equity – as a fix to a wide range of issues, regardless of how extraordinary different social orders
Orientalism" is a method for seeing that envisions, emphasizes, exaggerates and contrasts
of Arab people and societies when contrasted with that of Europe and the U.S. It frequently
includes seeing Arab culture as intriguing, backward, uncouth, and now and again dangerous.
the West of "the fundamental difference between East and West as the beginning stage for
expound theories, stories, novels, social portrayals, and political records concerning the Orient,
Post colonialism, the recorded period or situation speaking to the outcome of Western
colonialism; the term can likewise be utilized to portray the simultaneous task to reclaim and
reexamine the history and agency of individuals subjected under different types of colonialism.
Post colonialism flag a potential eventual fate of overcoming imperialism, yet new types of
control or subjection can come in the wake of such changes, including new types of global
empire. Post colonialism ought not be mistaken for the case that the world we live in now is
nationalism are the declining significance of privileged access to specific script languages, (for
example, Latin) in view of mass vernacular literacy the development to cancel the ideas of rule
by divine right and hereditary monarchy; and the rise of printing press capitalism "the
and language was encapsulated in books and the production of daily newspapers “all marvels
JHU Press.
4. Lash, S., & Lury, C. (2007). Global culture industry: The mediation of things (p. 4).
Cambridge: Polity.
Society, 7(2-3), 1-14.
8. Bandarin, F., Hosagrahar, J., & Sailer Albernaz, F. (2011). Why development needs
15-25.
Curriculum, Texts, and Pedagogy in the Asia-Pacific, State University of New York