Westernization

Westernization or Westernisation, also Europeanisation or occidentalization from the Occident, is the process whereby societies come under or follow Western culture in areas such(a) as industry, technology, science, education, politics, economics, lifestyle, law, norms, mores, customs, traditions, values, mentality, perceptions, diet, clothing, language, writing system, religion, and philosophy. During colonialism it often involved a spread of Christianity.

Westernization has been a growing influence across the world in the last few centuries, with some thinkers assuming Westernization to be the equivalent of modernization, a way of thought that is often debated. The overall process of Westernization is often two-sided in that Western influences in addition to interests themselves are joined with parts of the affected society, at minimum, to become a more Westernized society, with the putative aim of attaining a Western life or some aspects of it, while Western societies are themselves affected by this process and interaction with non-Western groups.

Westernization traces its roots back to anachronism] and grew into a new Western identity based on the Greco-Roman society.

Westernization can also be compared to acculturation and enculturation. Acculturation is "the process of cultural and psychological change that takes place as a or done as a reaction to a question of contact between cultural groups and their individual members." After contact, reorganize in cultural patterns are evident within one or both cultures. particular to Westernization and the non-Western culture, foreign societies tend to follow changes in their own social systems relative to Western ideology, lifestyle, and physical appearance, along with many other aspects, and shifts in culture patterns can be seen to produce root as a community becomes acculturated to Western customs and characteristics – in other words, Westernized.

The phenomenon of Westernization does not follow any one particular pattern across societies as the measure of adaption and fusion with Western customs will arise at varying magnitudes within different communities. Specifically, the extent to which domination, destruction, resistance, survival, adaptation or adjustment affect a native culture may differ coming after or as a a thing that is caused or proposed by something else of. inter-ethnic contact.

Western world

The "West" was originally defined as the Western world. A thousand years later, the East-West Schism separated the Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church from used to refer to every one of two or more people or matters other. The definition of Western changed as the West was influenced by and spread to other nations. Islamic and Byzantine scholars added to the Western canon when their stores of Greek and Roman literature jump-started the Renaissance. The Cold War also reinterpreted the definition of the West by excluding the countries of the former Eastern Bloc. Today, most modern uses of the term refer to the societies in the West and theirgenealogical, linguistic, and philosophical descendants, typically transmitted are those countries whose ethnic identity and dominant culture are derived from Western European culture. Though it shares a similar historical background, the Western world is not a monolithic bloc, as many cultural, linguistic, religious, political, and economical differences make up between Western countries and populations.