Many Western European countries had adopted this idea, especially during the 17th and 18th centuries. ... This event gave Europe a new outlook on non-western expansion. ... Accepting defeat, many turned their attention to preserving traditions and culture. Others realized that the ways of the West were more prudent and adopted European cultures and societies, such as Ismail in Egypt. ... Critics questioned imperialism's capitalist motives, disregard for non-European tradition and culture, and lack of domestic concern. ...

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The drive to expand power pass European borders led to war and rivalry between European powers and their colonies. ... As Britain try to imperialize Africa and India, they lost control of their land and their culture and customs were destroyed when traditional figures were replaced. ... African and Indian culture and economy were damaged when Britain was trying to imperialize these colonies. ... The British changed the way they were living which changed their culture and customs. Culture may have been negatively affected in and India, however, the British also introducer modern technology th...

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The euro, a creation of a multinational conglomerate officially known as the European Union is sweeping through all of its member nations and ousting their once loved independent, and unique monetary systems. ... This cannonball of controversy has been shot at the isolated island of England from the mother land of Europe, and has stirred the inner workings of the British government as its leaders turmoil over how to approach this controversial issue. ... Money is the only thing which bridges the physically isolated island from the mainland of Europe , and it the bridges are beginning to ...

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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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Modern United Kingdom is the result of more than two thousand years of conflicts between the populations living in the islands located at the North West of Europe. ... Without taking into account modern mass culture, we can assure that nowadays this agreement must be impossible if we think in the many different cultural backgrounds that compose modern Britain. Some attempts have been done to solve this problem; some of them with the aim of including foreign cultures in the perception and definition of Britishness as a way to solve identity differences. ... "Culture is the mixture of peop...

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In theory the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) now plays that role but to what extent it will serve as an effective check and balance remains to be seen. ... Political culture in the United States is defined as getting laws passed. ... Continued economic decline, the unresolved Irish and Scottish questions, the mounting pressures of European integration and public dissatisfaction with the way the UK is governed, placed an almighty stretch on the elasticity of Britain's unformalised constitution. New Labour responded to these problems through the development of an expans...

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However the appeal for new workers was primarily aimed at white Europeans people who had all gained immigration to Britain during the century before the Second World War and still played a very important role after 1945.Even in 1970s the Irish remained the largest immigrants' community in Britain. In the years immediately after the war, new arrivals came from all over Europe. These included a small number of German prisoners of war, a large number of refugees from the communist regimes in Eastern Europe and the soviet union (130,00uprising poles arrived the first few years after the war ...

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More than four million non-white Britons live in England, making it one of the most ethnically complex countries in Europe. ... The UK played a significant role in drawing up the European Employment Directive, which has been agreed by all EU Member States. ... Diversity goes further than food, however, with a multicultural society enabling everyone to experience live music, or art of cultures from around the world. ... In general it is likely that the majority of people have a fairly ambivalent / slightly positive attitude towards a multicultural society as they see the numerous cultural be...

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It is not until the 1860's that Britain and other European powers began to assert themselves in terms of gaining African territory making treaties. ... It's actions change radically though because of newly discovered economic opportunities and a need to respond to the actions other European powers. ... This is when a big impact from Social Darwinism played a huge role in Europe's imperial ways. ... The debts were still not able to appropriately managed and rebellion broke out because of the wretched economy and the European presence in Egypt. ... The Belgians were making claims ...

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Historian 2 Arnold Toynbee contended that the intellectual modifications transformed the English culture especially mechanical innovations and economic stability. ... Subsequently this encouragement and introduction of newfound ideas and scientific techniques that were been applied within their society ultimately urged the central banks and stock market companies to encourage people in Northern Europe to take risks with investments. ... This new modern technological breakthrough had a profound effect in Britain as it was the beginning of spreading their products not only into North Europe a...

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(Giddens, 1993) Inequality within schools is not disputable among most sociologists, the consequence of social origins; ethnicity, culture and gender all have significant values on the attainment in schools. ...

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The Context for Britain's `Wicked Urban Problems' Britain's urban areas, like those across Europe, have to varying degrees, since the 1950s, undergone major structural changes. ... Thus urban areas in Britain, in common with those across Western Europe and North America, have undergone a major process of restructuring (see Buck et al, 2005 for a recent discussion of these ongoing changes and Brenner and Theodore (eds), 2002 for a more international perspective). ... These areas remain `Excluded Spaces' or `Places Apart' (Power and Tunstall, 1995; Lupton, 2001) that ar...

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Was the British entrepreneur the most important single reason for the relative decline of the British economy in the late nineteenth century? Despite a continued growth of production and wealth in absolute terms, the economy of "the first industrial nation" began to decelerate after 1870, in comp...

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