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$15.00 HUMA215-1204B-09 Topics in Cultural Studies
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Compare and contrast the legacies of cultural syncretism in Africa and the Americas with the resistance to cultural change Westerners encountered in China and India. What cultural factors caused the differences in outcomes? What legacies have the differences in types of encounters and degrees of cultural change left today? Had syncretism not occurred in the Americas, how might modern culture be different? If cultural syncretism had taken root during early encounters in China or India, how might they be different today?
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Preview: ... India and China as well. the Europeon who visited China brought important information related to their political system and technology resulting in cross cultural transmission(Hobson & Hui,2005).The religion was carried from India to East Asia and Islam from Arabs to Africa and other countries(Buzn,2009). In view of China and India, there were no traditions and moral values in modernity brought by the Westerners rather they just have power of utility (Norbu, 1996). As the time passed, Spaniards took over the trade of China and India. These countries were interested in the trade of American silver in exchange of their fine silk (Butler,2007). China and Africa were often involved in trade. China was basically interested in African ivory medicines, spices, exotic wood and exotic wildlife.
Europe with the passage of time became the centre of cultural amalgamation of Africa, America, China and India. Europeans adopted many things from these cultures (Sayre, 2010). On the other side in Africa and Americas, the European invaders considered the natives as the others, those who were different to them in color and status. They were treated as commodities, bought and sold as slaves in the markets. The slavery was majorly a result of the commoditization of humans in African and American continents. This legacy of slavery leads towards many cultural changes and gave way to the feelings of animosity among civilizations, hatred and diversity (AIU,2012). Many legacies still exist as the result of the early encounters between Africans and Native Americans. The African culture greatly influenced the Americans. The African language, food, architecture, style of living and music are the legacies that still has influence today on American culture (AUK,n.d.). The encounters between African and Americans lead towards the positive cultural changes while the encounters between Westerners, India and China had not those positive outcomes. That was because of the rigid attitude of Chinese and In ...
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