Westernization

Today I  will talk about one topic that in my opinion is happening in many cultures also in Colombia that is westernization . I can explain this concept  with the words that is normally related for example : capitalism, rationalism, industrialism and individualism, coca cola , hamburgers, hot dogs , pizza and modernity. They are people that are in favor and other that doesn’t like too much, in some extend it minimize the tradition in each country with universal costumes as we see in many countries in the example of Coca-Cola.

Other understanding of westernization is with all that the “west” involve American :companies universities ,government army, that have played an important role in globalization in my opinion helping the process of minimizing the barriers between culture but imposing its culture so is qualified imperialistic. (Marc, 2015)

To use this blog not only to put my ideas i want to ask an interesting question: Why Japanese and Filipinos have surgeries in their eyes to look like people from the west? why Michel Jackson and other people have plastic surgery to have white skin? Why most of the movies and TV show are made in US and Europe?

As in common in my post I want to share  with you this video that explain the relation that are between Islam and globalization and with this we can go furthers on the topic from a study of the University of Yale

We saw in class that despite the westernization is a very heavy movement in all the cultures around the world we can see in different areas such as, medicine , marketing, publicity , fashion industry but this week my teacher show a different type of banking that help to have a question:

What is Islamic banking and how it works?

It is a totally different type of system that we have in Colombia it is a system that is based on Islamic rules for examples that is prohibited that you pay for interest  for landing or acceptance money , imaging the Colombian “presta diario” there it could be a heavy problem . The system is attached with the culture and religion .The origin of this where with the sayings and actions of Prophet Muhammad .It is not only in the Islam’s cultures it is in there are  countries that also have  for example in Spain (Islamic Banking, 2015)

Lets finish with this video that help to explain how it work  and the differences:

Reference

Islamic Banking. (2015). Obtenido de http://www.islamic-banking.com/what_is_ibanking.aspx

Marc, H. (2015). Westenization., (pág. 3).