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| | Chronicles' H.A. Scott Trask reviews CARNAGE AND CULTURE by Victor Davis Hanson |
 | | Islamic culture would have enriched Western life with forced religious conversions, the harem, and the wonderful institution of devshirme, under which the Turks kidnapped Christian youth from their conquered Balkan subjects, enslaved them for life, forcibly converted them to Islam, and then trained them to staff the army and bureaucracy of the Ottoman Empire. | | | Carnage and Culture errs in totally dismissing the ethnic dimension in military history and insisting on a determinism that is purely cultural. | | | Hanson's three chapters devoted to the defense of the Western homeland from Eastern imperialism should be required reading for contemporary students who have been subjected to an endless tirade against alleged Western crimes and depredations committed against non-Europeans. |
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http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/Chronicles/February2002/0202Hanson.htm
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| | TOQ-Kevin MacDonald-What Makes Western Culture Unique?-Vol 2 No 2 |
| | This culture area is quite the opposite from the characteristics of Western social organization. As indicated in Table 1, Judaism is collectivist and highly prone to ethnocentrism, xenophobia, and moral particularism. | | | Whereas all of the other economically advanced cultures of the world have been typified by polygyny by successful males, Western societies beginning with the ancient Greeks and Romans and extending up to the present have had a powerful tendency toward monogamy. | | | century there has been competition between Jews as a collectivist, ethnically conscious group and Western individualistic elites. |
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http://www.theoccidentalquarterly.com/vol2no2/km-unique.html
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| | Separatism and Western Canadian Culture |
| | This culture is based in our history as an oppressed people, and finds its roots in our strong, democratic ideology of populism, a political culture perspective not shared by Central Canadian imperialists. | | | The idea of cultural unity has often been cited as sufficient reason for an independent nation of Quebec. | | | Yet we have had to endure Central Canada’s racist policy of official bilingualism, as opposed to voluntary multilingualism with one official language of the majority. |
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http://www.westcan.org/westcan/culture.htm
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| | America's Debate -> What is Western Culture? |
| | I just finished a book about Judaism that was very interesting in that it showed all the ways in which many Jewish traditions came about because of all the different Empires that conquered the Jews and Palestine. | | | IMHO, thats why, because Christian clerics were the key to preserving what has came to be know as 'Western culture'. | | | Each time the Jews had a new Empire take over their land, they either scattered or became absorbed by the local culture. |
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http://www.americasdebate.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=5530
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| | Amazon.com: Carnage and Culture : Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power: Books: Victor Hanson |
| | In the book's fascinating final chapter, he then looks forward and ponders the consequences of a complete cultural victory, challenging the widespread belief that democratic nations do not wage war against one another: "We may well be all Westerners in the millennium to come, and that could be a very dangerous thing indeed," he writes. | | | The result is an approach to battle that has been evolving since the time of the ancient Greeks, and that now involves applying maximum disclipline and violence at the point of engagement in order to annihilate, not merely defeat, an opponent. | | | In traditional warrior societies (including the Greeks of Homer's Iliad assaulting the Trojans with individual heroism in a pre-phalanx era) the warrior rushes forward individually to count coup (the native American model) or seize prisoners (the Aztec model) or simply kill enemies (the Gauls and Germans against the Romans). |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385720386?v=glance
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| | Closing time? Jacques Barzun on Western Culture |
| | The historian Jacques Barzun has been a voice of moderation and sanity in American intellectual life for some six decades. | | | The questions with which intellectual history confronts us can be parsed as elements of that large, perennial question, "How should I live my life?" | | | And then they will say again that everything has been done and said." |
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http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/civilization/cc0084.html
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| | A Catholic Lay-Driven Re-evangelization of Western Culture - Catholic Online |
| | While Western nations claimed to have good and justifiable reasons for these, the Magisterium opposed all three. | | | A conversion to generic Christianity would be helpful but not to the degree that the assumption of Catholic orthodoxy would. | | | It is apparent to all thoughtful orthodox Catholics that once Christian Western Culture has devolved into a virulent form of neo-pagan secularism. |
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http://www.catholic.org/featured/headline.php?ID=2993
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| | Is Western Culture Superior To All Others? |
| | No one was more suspicious of his arguments, though, than Dr. Castillo, who alleged that specific Native Americans referenced in Dr. Berliner's address were "fakes." Castillo argued that Berliner's view of Native American culture has little or no value due to the lack of accurate information available in the historical record. | | | Noting numerous inaccuracies in widely cited accounts of Native Americans, Castillo declared "the worst thing that can happen to a culture is to have its history told by its conquerors." | | | Westerners are people of science, driven by individualism while Native Americans are people of myth (defined as "truths"), driven by communal beliefs. |
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http://www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/iie/v6n1/columbus.html
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| | Computers, Telecommunications and Western Culture |
| | Jacques Ellul claims (Ellul, 1992) of all modern technology that "We see the concept of democracy called into question by the manipulation of the media, the falsification of political discourse and the establishment of a political class that, in all countries where it is found, simply negates democracy." Meanwhile, the very subtitle of George Landow's | | | The very call for freedom itself can be, if we are correct, the call for freedom's absence; free and equal access to everything can enforce cultural and ultimately political and economic agendas. | | | It is, first of all, a culture in which the belief in the ultimate value of the human individual, the belief that individuals are the ultimate sources of truth, value and political authority, is a dominant and pervasive cultural theme. |
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http://www.hoboes.com/html/NetLife/CRIT/CWC.html
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| | Western world - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In addition the clearly Greek-influenced form of Christianity, Orthodoxy, is more linked to Eastern than Western Europe. | | | Western society is claimed to follow an evolution that began in ancient Athens, continued through the Roman Empire and, with the coming of Christianity (which had its origins in the Middle East), spread throughout Europe. | | | Western thought is often related to the cultural tradition that traces its origins to Greek thought and Christian religion. |
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| | Western culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The rule of law and the separation of privacy and business created strong institutions in the society and the economy. | | | The origins of Western Culture are often cited as ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, and Catholic and Protestant Christianity, and as such, some describe it as "Judeo-Christian culture", neglecting the fundamental role of ancient and modern philosophy and science. | | | Owing to the influence of Arab culture—a culture that had preserved the knowledge of ancient Greece and Rome—in Moorish Spain and in the Levant during the Crusades, Western Europe rediscovered its Greek heritage in the 1300s, and the Renaissance was born. |
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| | NewsFromRussia.Com Iranians ignore president's ban on Western culture |
| | Syria has come under increasing international pressure since the U.N. investigation into a Lebanese leader's assassination in February has accused its government of failing to provide full cooperation More details... | | | He did not disclose the exact location, in keeping with the family's wishes More details... | | | The official IRAN Persian daily reported Monday that Ahmadinejad, as head of the Supreme Cultural Revolutionary Council, ordered the enactment of an October ruling by the council to ban all Western music, including classical music, on state broadcast outlets. |
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http://newsfromrussia.com/world/2005/12/20/70172.html
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| | Amazon.com: Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture: Books: Leslie Newbigin |
| | Newbigin skilfully guides his reader through the contours of jsut how Western culture has impacted and in some respects, subverted the Christian message. | | | Join Amazon Prime and ship Two-Day for free and Overnight for $3.99. | | | This is a superb theological treatment of the relationship between the Christian gospel and Western culture. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0802801765?v=glance
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| | Western Culture, Opera, and Cultural Marxism by Steven LaTulippe |
| | Clearly, the rot had been eating at the roots of our culture for quite some time before the appearance of Abbie Hoffman and the Weathermen. | | | Television and movies are now thickly laced with overt and covert political ideology. | | | I was of the general opinion that the undeniable cesspool that has become our contemporary culture had its roots in the chaos of the 1960’s and counterculture/anti-Vietnam war movements of that era. |
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig4/latulippe2.html
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| | Native American Sacred Traditions and Western Culture |
| | For most, engaging in Western identity politics is simply not on the agenda. | | | It is important to respect the fact that Native and Western cultural presuppositions differ so drastically that we need an altogether different term for those of us who would claim a similar sacred role (as othergendered -- i.e. | | | In my culture we have people who dress half-man, half-woman. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/on/otherwise/native.html
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| | The Acorn » Is western culture superior? |
| | The Diplomad is not the only one to make such assertions about civilisational superiority: when asked about his views on Western civilisation, Mahatma Gandhi famously replied that it would be a good idea. | | | If you’re accused of even thinking that cultures are unequal, then you are branded as a racist, and at State you can have your career ruined. | | | Claims to civilisational superiority are like claims to cultural, religious or racial supremacy — not just politically incorrect, but manifestations of bigotry born out of insufficient understanding and awareness of the larger world. |
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| | Townhall.com :: Columns :: Western culture is superior by Mona Charen - Aug 19, 2003 |
| | But it is equally ridiculous to deny that the moral standards, customs and beliefs of the West contribute to fairer and far more humane societies than are found elsewhere. | | | Is it really arrogance, as the liberals would have it, to believe that the system and the culture we've inherited is superior to others? | | | As the United States is now engaged in a protracted and expensive eff |
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| | Amazon.ca: Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body: Books |
| | Elsewhere in these brilliant, scholarly yet accessible essays, she analyzes images of men and women in advertisements, interprets the current abortion debate as an assault on the personhood of women and charts pop star Madonna's metamorphosis from voluptuous rebel to slender, taut, muscular icon. | | | Many of the problems and ideas of contemporary Western society, says Bordo, derive from the ineluctable mind/body dualism of Plato, restated by... | | | You can view sample pages from another edition of this book. |
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| | iowahawk: College Profs Denounce Western Culture, Move to Caves |
| | While it has been tough at times, Grok says he has no regrets. | | | Clearing the snow from his makeshift twig sundial, Grok notes the time. | | | Iowahawk reports that some postmodernist college Professors have followed their beliefs to their logical conclusions, and quite rightly, moved into caves. |
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http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2005/03/college_profs_d.html
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| | NPR : Salamis: The Battle That Saved Western Culture |
| | But the Greek city states set aside differences and banded together to repel the invaders in an epic battle involving a thousand ships. | | | In his book The Battle of Salamis historian Barry Strauss argues that the Greek victory did no less than assure the survival of Western civilization. | | | NPR : Salamis: The Battle That Saved Western Culture |
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3489001
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| | The Greatness of Western Civilization by Edwin A. Locke -- Capitalism Magazine |
| | Western culture, claim the intellectuals, is in no way superior to that of African tribalists or Eskimo seal hunters. | | | Pro-life cultures acknowledge and respect man's nature as a rational being who must discover and create the conditions which his survival and happiness require -- which means that they advocate reason, rights, freedom, and technological progress. | | | The achievements were greatest in the country where the principles of reason and rights were implemented most consistently -- the United States of America. |
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http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3234
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| | 20th WCP: Logic and Law in Russian and Western Culture |
| | He did it at the beginning of this century, but I believe, that all the problems, which were marked by Kistyakovsky, have only increased in the subsequent period of Russian History. | | | Rufus was one of those, who had formed "medieval Western intellectual life". | | | In particular, as I see it, it leads to a lack of rational forms of Political and Legal Culture, the destruction of political and legal argumentation and, as a result, to misunderstanding of many forms of the relationships between citizen and state in Modern Russia, mainly to a lack of Law and Order. |
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| | I said to him, 'where were you arguing?' He said 'in Jerusalem' so I said 'it doesn't matter, the important thing is that he is in Jerusalem. | | | The disengagement was the breaking point: Sections of religious society isolated themselves from the secular population, condemning its establishment and treating it with contempt. | | | Others believe the settlements created cultural ghettos and that maintaining a connection with secular Israelis in Tel Aviv is more important than living in Hebron. |
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| | Understanding Lao Culture |
| | A key learning objective is to be able to state information and theories or quote authoritative texts, rather than think critically about a subject. | | | Even the Lao, the largest ethnic group constituting close to half the population is considered a minority in its own country. | | | Quite often, what you take for granted, based on your cultural bias, is interpreted differently by the Lao, based on their cultural orientation. |
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http://www.seasite.niu.edu/lao/undp/understandingCulture.htm
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| | Cultural Resources, Inc. -- Creators of Culture® 4.0 |
| | These grids organize over 25,000 people, places and events by country, discipline and generation. | | | Internal text links that are non-functional (due to the fact that the Culture 4.0 document | | | scientists and other historical figures over 3,800 years of Western culture |
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| | H-SC Academic Catalogue - Western Culture Program |
| | The course is grounded in a consideration of both historical sequence and significant historical and cultural questions; it examines a variety of texts—literary, philosophic, theological, artistic—placed clearly in historical context. | | | BEGINNING TO 900 C.E. Common topics and events are civilization in the Fertile Crescent, the rise of Athens and democracy, the Roman Empire and its aftermath, Hebrew culture, and the rise of Christianity. | | | The Western Culture course is a three—semester sequence that introduces all Hampden-Sydney students to the history and cultural achievements of western civilization, from its roots in the early civilizations of the Middle East to the present day. |
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http://www.hsc.edu/academics/catalogue/course/western_culture.html
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| | General Education Non-Western Culture |
| | HIST 3893 Culture and Society in the Middle East | | | ENGL 4343 The Indian in American Popular Culture | | | A HI 4833 North American Indian Pre-historical Art |
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http://www.ou.edu/admrec/humnonw.htm
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| | Women and Western Culture |
| | This course examines women as producers of Western culture, as they are represented in the discourses of Western culture, and as their lives have been and continue to be shaped by the forces of Western culture. | | | We begin with the early modern era in Europe (sometimes defined as the Renaissance, the 14th through the 18th centuries), a period of heated debate about "the woman question." It was also an era of intense interaction between the peoples of many continents and nations: the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia. | | | We will question the very terms of this course (women, western, culture), looking at the history of how such categories have been constructed. |
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http://www.ic.arizona.edu/ic/mcbride/ws200/ws200.htm
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| | Tammy Bruce: Vatican Says Western Culture Should "Know its Limits" |
| | The part of Western Culture Cardinal Achille Silvestrini refers to is Freedom of Expression. | | | Maybe it's just me, but last time I checked there's been nothing out of the Vatican suggesting that Muslim Culture should know its limits. | | | While I can understand that Muslims the world over are offended by a handful of Western newspapers printing mocking images of Muhammed, I myself can't seem to muster any outrage at these newspapers. |
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http://tammybruce.com/archives/2006/02/vatican_says_we.php
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| | Henry Cow: Western Culture: Pitchfork Review |
| | My caveat would be one of aesthetics, because if you're looking for a party, you'd best dig out "Long Distance Runaround" instead. | | | By the time Western Culture was released in 1979, the group was mostly separated. | | | It's not that they weren't cool in their way, but there's a not-so-subtle academic aftertaste to much of their music for me. Western Culture was their final record, and is probably the most overtly influenced by modern classical composition. |
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http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/h/henry-cow/western-culture.shtml
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| | Technorati Tag: western culture |
| | This page shows blog posts, photos, and links that have been tagged western culture. | | | Become a member to save searches in a Watchlist. | | | Learn about Western Culture Powered by Discovery Channel. |
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| | Hampden-Sydney College Western Culture Program |
| | The program consists of a three-semester series of courses taught by professors across departments, supplying them with a shared context for intellectual inquiry. | | | Western Culture integrates the various disciplines and unites Hampden-Sydney as a whole to explore the human condition and human civilization. |
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| | Flow of Western Culture |
| | This picture is probably where Western culture got the image of God as an old man with a long, white beard. | | | Here God and Adam are nearly the same size, much like the old stories of the gods and men. | | | God not only comes down to give man life, he is like man. |
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| | Rio Rondo -- Western & Cowboy Culture, Tack, Apparel |
| | All that Cowboy " is located in the heart of cowboy country in Idaho. | | | For 50 years Solano's has carried some of the finest, most unique and stylish western wear available. | | | Type gallery of projectile points and other Indian artifacts from Texas and surrounding states. |
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| | Timeline of Significant Names in Western Culture |
| | This page offers a timeline of major contributors to the history of Western culture, organized in four columns: prose, literature, art, and music. | | | The prose category is fairly broad, as it includes theologians, philosophers, scientists, social scientists, historians, etc. In many cases, a particular thinker could easily be placed in more than one column. | | | Send comments on this page to Charles Bellinger: |
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