How much misunderstood has Arun Mitra’s poetry been! How a totally wrong suggestion about Arun Mitra’s poetry has incited seminarists and essayists! How the neo-conservatism of modernists and post-modernists has always been taking Arun Mitra’s Eurocentrism for granted! Contemporary of Buddhadeva Bose (1908-1974) and Bishnu De (1909-1982)‚ Arun Mitra was aware of the ’modern’ European trends. He opbtained his PhD in French language and literature‚ and was a teacher of French in Farnce and in Allahabad
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The History of Imperialism Since the dawn of time the human race craved the idea of superiority. As time progressed in history our mind set remained; a constant hunger for power above the rest. Whether it was in North America‚ India‚ or Africa wherever there were people‚ there was imperialism. Even today we are still faced with a some-what modest intention of dominance. Looking back in history one of the first major conflict with imperialism took place in India. The India-Britain situation
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define and give examples of these key terms geography region development globalization space place location communism capitalism state socialism command economies nation state supranational organization map hegemony colonization eurocentrism import substitution gross domestic product (GDP) Human development index (HDI) Cold War post-industrial spatial turn landscape global climate change / global warming Examine key concepts: Uneven development: different theories of development
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There were two main motivators for the Europeans to establish their empires. The first reason was that the Europeans believed that they had the superior culture and had to save the rest of the world from their own insolence. Another more practical reason for imperialism was that the Europeans want to have their country as the most powerful country in the world. The poem that best described the European sanctimoniousness of their culture is the poem Carry the White man’s burden by Rudyard Kipling
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The Other by Ryszard Kapuscinski In his book The Other‚ Ryszard Kapuscinski effectively delineates the importance and social implications of identity. The Other is a collection of Kapuscinski’s final lectures exploring diversity and multicultural patterns. In his short but extraordinary book‚ Kapuscinski explores what it means to be a European‚ non-European‚ to be the colonizer or the colonized‚ or just to have or to impose an identity. Kapuscinski distinguishes the commonality among mankind
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According to James Morris Blaut‚ "Eurocentrism is quite simply the colonizer’s model of the world.”If I were to meet a genie‚ and was offered one wish to solve any problem‚ it would be to stop Eurocentric standards be the definition of beauty in the media and fashion industries‚ especially when it comes to hair.The media often portrays the Eurocentric standards of beauty‚ by presenting women of color with lighter skin‚ thin body‚ and sleek straight hair.Therefore‚ contradicting African American beauty;
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mohammed alqarni Europe European imperialism began with the discovery of the New World and the Cape of Good Hope passage to Asia at the end of the 15th century. However‚ while the Europeans were able to easily wipe out and subjugate the prehistoric hunter-gatherer inhabitants of Africa and the Americas‚ they encountered wealthy and well-developed societies with powerful armies in Asia and the Middle East who could not be militarily conquered outright. Here the Europeans used trade concessions and
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The notion of renaissance era being regulated by medieval era is also applied to the field of cartography. Renaissance Universalis Cosmographia‚ Ribeiro’s map‚ Mercator’s projection and map had remarkable resemblance to medieval mappamundi. Although mappamundi looked way too disparate in comparison to the other three‚ the ideas behind and the premises on which the 16th century maps were created were inherently swayed by the mappamundi. The key distinctions between these arose from the circumstances
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and domination over another countries economic and cultural institutions during 1850-1914. The demand for raw materials and new markets spurred a search for colonies. European nations competed for colonies and traded to gain power and believed in eurocentrism and ethnocentrism. Imperialism influenced the increase in trade‚ sources for raw materials‚ secure military advantages‚ share of religious and cultural beliefs‚ increased prestige‚ industrialization and a market for manufactured products.
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Residential school happened in the past‚ but still affect us in today’s world. Globalization and Residential school’s go hand in hand in the history books. Globalization created the residential schools‚ Euro-Canadian culture was the Canadian government’s foremost concern‚ they created religious schools which accustomed the indigenous children. The church easily made it into a cultural genocide. The children were hominem abused; physical‚ sexual‚ and psychological. The children were malnourished for
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