Defining politics today has different meaning from 20th century. Littrë in his 1987 dictionary defined politics as the science of government of states'. Robert in 1962 defined it as the art and practice of government of human societies'. Today government of state related to that of other human societies. Political formula for pluralistic societies is required. ...
He also spends some time talking about how the variety of food based on culture is a defining aspect of those individual cultures. ... Cultures have different opinions or tastes for sweetness and therefore use sugar in different ways. Sugar may be used in almost all, if not all, cultures, but the way it is used defines part of the food culture of different groups and gives them identity. ... After the slaves were emancipated, the labor needs of the giant sugar plantations were filled by indentured servants from India. ... Furthermore, it can be said that sugar production and its growth is the...
As the cultures were revised by economy, stronger economies imposed their cultural practices to the weak ones. ... In a process of unequal cultural encounter, 'foreign' populations have been compelled to be the subjects and subalterns of Western empire, while, no less significantly, the West has come to face with the 'alien' and exotic culture of its 'Other'. ... The current century has seen a magnitude of rise and fall of political power and economical, political, social and structural changes, which without doubt have influenced any society's culture that w...
In living the immigrant experience, Ondaatje is able to recognize the importance and presence of culture in one's up-bringing. ... The westerners of the villa are demonstrating their right to exercise power in ownership over Kip just as the British did in colonizing India. ... Kip returns to India when news of Hiroshima reaches the villa. ...
The Romans, the Mongols, the British and the Spanish empires and many more have all made us who we are today; from one empire another one was given birth to, but also as the culture, language, and food and even combat transformed and developed. ... The world has developed and changed in languages and also cultures. ... Tobacco was also found from India, the addictive thing that is in cigarettes. ...
This ultimately left democracy as a prevalent ideological structure, but it also allowed for more power and culture to emerge and rise along the very fundamental lines of religion. ... These are not absolutely exclusive of each other, and there are various degrees of similarity between them, what does differentiate them from each other are their languages and histories, traditions and cultures, but "most important, religion" (Huntington, 1993). ... Fourth, as the West, and America in particular, becomes more and more powerful, popular and elite, smaller nation-states without access...
I believe wrongly in the fact that the United States would come in and remove the cultures and religion of the former country, and then proceed to force the "democratic institution" of the United State's choice. ... When discussing the economic standing of Greece and Turkey, Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson stated "He stated that more was at stake than Greece and Turkey, for if those two key states should fall, Communism would likely spread south to Iran and as Far East as India" (Truman Doctrine, Dean Acheson). ...
Japan pressed forward japanization, the idea of Japanese culture dominates and assimilation, in other Asian countries. ... Hong Kong's garrison, composed of local troops as well as British units and foreign infantry battalions from India and Canada were prepared for the attack. ...
In May 1998, India and Pakistan both performed underground testing of a nuclear bomb. ... With this section I will briefly identify three competing theories that can be used to make predictions and explain military doctrine and command systems: "organizational theory, realist theory, and strategic culture theory" First, before I talk about these three theories the idea of military doctrine should be better explained. ...
