POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Iron Curtain
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Civilization is a cultural entity, villages, regions, ethnic groups, nationalities, religious group, all have distinct cultures at different levels of cultural heterogeneity. Thus, civilization is the highest cultural grouping of people and the broadest level of cultural identity people have sort of that which distinguish human from other species. 1 civilizations are differentiated from each other by history, language, culture, tradition and religion. People have different views on god and man, individual states and so on. Different views of relative importance of rights, responsibility, liberty and authority, equality and hierarchy. Differences among civilizations generate most prolonged and most violent conflicts. 2 world become smaller place which means an increase interaction between people from civilizationaintensify civilization consciousness. Nation state as a source of identity are weaken. The revival of religion transcends national boundaries and unities civilizations: a deawesternization and indigenization occurs in many nonawestern countries. American culture, styles become more popular among mass of people.
