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  2. Westernization - Wikipedia

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    Westernization has been reversed in some countries following war or regime change. For example: Russia in aftermath of the Russian Revolution in 1917 and Iran by the Iranian Revolution in 1979. [44] The main characteristics are economic and political democratisation, combined with the spread of an individualised culture.

  3. Sanskritisation - Wikipedia

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    Sanskritisation (or Sanskritization) is a term in sociology which refers to the process by which castes or tribes placed lower in the caste hierarchy seek upward mobility by emulating the rituals and practices of the dominant castes or upper castes.

  4. Sanskritisation (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    During the medieval era, the Indian languages had taken in a lot of Perso-Arabic influences as a result of Muslim invasions, particularly in the northwestern subcontinent; [20] colonial-era education policies, religious nationalism, and the influence of some of the more Sanskritised Indian languages played a role in Hindus and Muslims increasingly separating in terms of their linguistic ...

  5. Jon Thares Davidann - Wikipedia

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    As a result, in 2019, he published The Limits of Westernization: American and East Asian Intellectuals Create Modernity, 1860–1960, an extended critique of westernization. [3] The work won the Kenneth Baldridge Prize in 2020. [4] Davidann published the essay "The Myth of Westernization" in Aeon Magazine in 2021. [5]

  6. Western culture - Wikipedia

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    Western culture, also known as Western civilization, European civilization, Occidental culture, Western society, or simply the West, refers to the internally diverse culture of the Western world. The term "Western" encompasses the social norms , ethical values , traditional customs , belief systems , political systems , artifacts and ...

  7. Outline of the history of Western civilization - Wikipedia

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    History of Western civilization – record of the development of human civilization beginning in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, and generally spreading westwards. Ancient Greek science, philosophy, democracy, architecture, literature, and art provided a foundation embraced and built upon by the Roman Empire as it swept up Europe, including ...

  8. Hinduism in the West - Wikipedia

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    During the British colonial period, the British substantially influenced Indian society, but India also influenced the western world. An early champion of Indian-inspired thought in the West was Arthur Schopenhauer who in the 1850s advocated ethics based on an "Aryan-Vedic theme of spiritual self-conquest", as opposed to the ignorant drive toward earthly utopianism of the superficially this ...

  9. Sanskritism - Wikipedia

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    Sanskritism is a term used to indicate words that are coined out of Sanskrit for modern usage in India, in Sri Lanka and elsewhere or for neologisms. They are often formed as calques of English words. [1] [2] [3] These terms are similar in nature to taxon terms coined from Latin and Greek.