His Fourfold Cultural Balance theory states there were four distinct zones (Europe, Middle East Africa, India, and China) of civilization development that were marked by a unique culture. ... The Spice trade routes traded spices from India to Europe and China. ... It also caused them to have settlements of each culture in close proximity, which increased communication between the different cultures. ... These new lands became the center of European wealth due to the need of trade of the colonies with Europe. This increased wealth sparked Europe's Industrial Revolution. ...

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King Henry II discriminated against their culture; he believed the English culture was superior to that of the Irishmen, so the Irish had to accept the English rule. ... The Europeans led the exploration of the world before many other nations. ... To the Europeans, "These foreign peoples embodied an innocent nobility which they deemed lacking within their over civilized culture"[ CITATION Sco99 l 1033 ] Many of the stories spoke of monsters and marvels, such as those written by Pliny the Elder. ... This how categorizing a culture has also led to racial categorizing. ... Ultimately, w...

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Perhaps, however, we will be known as a choppy period in which society has been broken into groups and fractions based on things like: race, religion, culture, gender, age, and sexual orientation. ... In literature, especially, most schools no longer emphasize the traditional canon of works and authors, but are instead teaching the literature of a wide variety of cultures. ... African Americans, Irish Americans, Polish Americans, Jews from Eastern Europe, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Hispanic Americans gained large audiences and won prestigious literary prizes. ... The interstate hig...

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The colonization of their new empires by Spaniards and Portuguese transformed the lives of indigenous people in ways unknown to them, destroying their cities and cultures through wars or by epidemic diseases and ruthlessly exploiting the natives as slaves. The Europeans also faced serious challenges because of land blockades by mountains and jungles, language barrier, native resistance and labor challenges. ... As the colonial Spanish empire expanded, the deposits of gold found in Columbia, Ecuador and Chile between 1500 and 1650 was sent to Europe to satiate the royal treasuries. ... Many tho...

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Reed's Essay "America: The Multinational Society" In this essay, Reed explains how American culture is portrayed as if it consists of a civilization created by the people of Europe. ... He mentioned some examples of countries that are not European, questioning their influence on American civilization. ... And what of the cubists, through whom the influence of African art changed modern painting- I think that it is true that American civilization consisted through multinationals, rather than monocultural influence through Europe. ... African influence in this country should be recogniz...

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All slaves knew work associated with their culture and not the American culture, left them with nothing, so when freed in the late 1800's they had no other trade skills. ... "Nigger" was created as a combination of the Spanish (European) word "negro," which means "black," and the Greek word "necro," which means "dead." ... The Europeans or (whites) who controlled the slave trade realized that he had to strip the Africans or (black people) of all culture such as original names, languages, and religion. ... The word "nigga" was one of the most damaging tools used by the European to force me...

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The majority of America is no longer of Western European decent. It is permeated with every race, sex, and culture in the world. ... This type of education also builds up self-esteem of many different cultures. ... The classical style is the history of America and has roots all the way back to Western Europe. ... Because America is not completely of Western European descent anymore. ...

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Post Modern art was widely spread, rapidly among most North American and European cultures. ... The publics response to this display was over two thousand visitors per day, and because of its success it was took down and brought to Paris and San Francisco (both, extremely different cultures in themselves alone). ... After more than twenty years the Post-Modern Movement has reached a revolution in Western and European culture. ...

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Britain's government, politics, and culture were all affected by the Revolution, as their failure spurred the Parliment to reaffirm both its governance and its competence. ... The undying pursuit of liberty and freedom by patriotic Americans left lasting political and emotional imprints on countries such as Europe, the Netherlands, and most of all North America. ... This led the British Empire to become a unifying force throughout all of Europe, in which they glorified their military victories and aristocratic leadership with a new self-concious that proved essential to its continuing a...

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Many Europeans settlers arrived to the New World and invested in plenty of land but not enough labor to take care of it. ... At the time, the Thirty Years' War was draining Europe economically, resulting in high rates of poor and unemployed citizens. The idea of moving into the "New World" and given a chance to start fresh gave the Europeans hope for a better future. ... The slave trade also downgraded the culture and society of Africa as inferior. Their culture is looked down upon and discouraged since they were weakened and compromised for centuries. ...

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This paper, therefore, seeks to draw attention into how the diversity influences society, not in just non-material culture but also in the material culture with a focus on the United States culture. ... The people from Europe and far eastern, are represented by rock music and slow flowing songs. ... Though, the European songs are also played with high volumes to define entertainment and social class. ... American English, for example, is as a result of the dialect made from the British English by the many immigrants and students that formed the culture of America after some time. ... They rep...

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The American political culture centers on a set of core ideals--liberty, equality, diversity, self-government, and individualism--that serve as the people's common bond. ... These ideals were rooted in the country's European heritage, and early America's vast open lands and abundant natural resources influenced their growth. They became America's common bond and today are the basis of their political culture. ...

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European society used the Enlightenment to object to the oppression of the church. ... Post-modernism sanctions differences from family to family and person to person within the parameters of one culture. ... So, educating oneself about other cultures cannot be used to generalize to the entire group. ... Much of the way current societies view the world is dominated by Western culture. ...

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American intervention between Spain and her colonies of Cuba and the Philippines constituted involvement in European affairs that had previously been avoided under the Monroe Doctrine which was in turn based on Washington's Neutrality policy. ... Thus, white conquest of the region involved no conflict with other countries, such as European nations, that colonization of other parts of the world was sure to entail. ... It is thus the responsibility of said race to spread its civilization, culture, and religion around the world (Doc B). ... The idea of European imperialism making its way int...

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Americans feared that communism would spread from Russia and Eastern Europe to the United States. ... Immigrants were unpopular simply because they were different and had a distinctive culture. ... As told by historians in the case of Sacco and Vanzetti, who were two anarchists from Southern Europe that were accused of robbery and murder because of their ethnic origin. ...

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For European immigrants, ghettos had often been the first step in a trajectory that led to full assimilation. This could not be said of people of color, large numbers of whom have tended to remain economically, politically, and socially disenfranchised, creating a permanent underclass, trapped in a culture of poverty with few avenues of escape. ... The result has a culture of desperation. ...

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Economic growth was deterred and the majority of profits were used to fund Britain's wars with feuding European nations. ... U.S. policies of the 1880's and 1890's attempted to force American culture and education on Native Indians in an effort to form a docile relationship. ...

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Racial superiority reified and assimilated into folk culture because of American racial ideologies in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. ... Racial superiority reified and assimilated into folk culture because enviable traits such as progress and empire building became associated with the term. The idea of pure white people and culture was one of the major socioculutral themes to blossom on the American continent. ... The removal of America's indigenous people invoked a feeling of remorse and guilt among the intruders, among the European invaders, among the whites. ... This...

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The Carlisle Indian School also expedited these transformations by bringing young Americans and Indians together in schools in order to replace Indian culture with white culture. ... Along with immigration came many changes and new culture brought into America. ... Cultural backgrounds of immigrants expanded to Italians and Central and Eastern Europeans around the early 1890s. ... If we look closer into the social structure of these different cultures in such large cities we see h...

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Diversity means differences, difference of age, sex, race, religion and culture etc. ... The challenge facing today's corporate leaders is to foster an organizational culture that values differences and maximizes the potential of all employees. ... Managers also have to communicate well with all the employees and listen to their problems that are of different background or cultures. ... Diversity in workforce is growing in all countries special USA, Canada and Europe. ...

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Canada and Britain have recently taken major steps toward reassessing their anti-marijuana laws, following the lead of most European countries. ... Their opposition rebuts this by simply pointing out the existence of more harmful substances that are celebrated in our culture, and the fact that humans are imperfect and susceptible to danger at every turn. ...

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Those who contributed greatly to world culture across several platforms include John Milton (author of Paradise Lost), Franklin D. ... When we open ourselves to different historical perspectives and cultural experiences from people of color, other races, immigrants, those who are non-heterosexual, the disabled in America to name a few, much of what we discover may be incompatible with our ("our" defined as the losing ground dominant culture) image of the United States as that of a completely free and democratic nation. Multiculturalism in America gained ground after WWII with the influx of r...

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Thus, rebuilding the economies of post-war Europe and Japan would guarantee American prosperity by providing an outlet for the nation's goods. ... For the first time in American history, teenagers became major consumers and were defined as a separate culture. ... The growing impact of television and the impression of youth culture led many social critics to charge that America was becoming a methodical, conformist society. ...

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It is at this important juncture that cars and culture collide. ... Through these generations, the automobile culture would grow and transform, progressively building upon itself and extending its influence further into American society until outside forces, especially the 1973 Arab Oil Embargo, would deal a fatal blow to driver's wallets and subsequently the cars and the culture they had shaped. The Rise of the Automobile An obvious but central component of the impact of the automobile on American culture was the drastic increase in car production. ... Much of the rise of the automobil...

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Throughout the centuries, immigrants have enriched America's culture, bringing foreign languages, distinct cultural customs, traditions and values. ... These contributions enriched our culture, advanced sciences, and affected the economic, political and social aspects of the United States. ... They include immigrants from Europe, China, India and Israel. ...

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