Western Civilization

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This paper explores the concept of western civilization. The author defines the major components of western civilization, a civilization of European derivation and most of their offspring, and defines the political and geographical reach of the western civilization. The paper also discusses the classifications that defines the East-West comparison, some of which are industrialism, socialism, totalitarianism and discrimination. In addition, the paper analyzes the influence of Western civilization on other civilizations all around the world.

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"The thought of Western civilization is usually connected to the traditional explanation of Western world. In this classification, Western civilization is the set of fictional, technical, melodic and theoretical values which set it to a distant from other civilizations. It relates to the states whose history is sturdily noticeable by Western European migration or resolution and is not limited to Western Europe. Much of this set of society and information is composed in the Western norm. A variety of uses for the thought of Western civilization have integrated, correctly or incorrectly, analysis of American civilization, greediness, industrialism, entrepreneurship, commercialism, pleasure-seeking, imperialism, socialism, totalitarianism, discrimination or novelty. Other propensities that describe contemporary Western civilizations are the survival of political pluralism, famous subcultures or countercultures, growing social syncretism ensuing from globalization and human immigration."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Wikipedia. (December 27, 2007) Western Culture. Retrieved on December 30, 2007 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_culture

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