His exile (imprisoned for insulting a French nobleman) influenced his thinking. He believed in religious and social freedom that could enable the civilians to express their views liberally. Voltaire's writings in history challenged the common conception at the time that historiography dealt only with great military, political and diplomatic events. Instead, he emphasized on the cultural history, the arts, the sciences and the customs. He is known to be the first thinker to try to write a history of the world based on political, economic and cultural facts rejecting any kind of theological framework. According to Voltaire history is made by victors. With that being said, victors also are the ones who write the history down so when Voltaire says "lie" he means, for example, if a country conquers another country mainly for selfish purposes, they justify what they had done by writing about how abominable or threatening the other country was. By saying "agreed upon" Voltaire means that those “justified” stories or lies are passed around and down to generations creating a snowball effect that leads to those “justifications” turning into so-called facts. Many people, for example, still believe that the invasion in India by the East India Company was solely to help India’s progress. They believe that EIC was the reason for westernization in India and that British Imperialism benefited India by providing them with educated elite, large tea plantations and irrigation projects for…
feminism in relation with post-colonial and feminist” discussing the issue of Harem and veil and quoted Fatima Mernissie who argued that: “there is an ideological divide in Muslim society between…
Main Thesis: Huntington wrote The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order in 1993 for the publication Foreign Affairs magazine. In this article, he is trying to point out that the world politics was moving towards a new page where there will be future conflict would occur between civilizations based on cultural differences. According to Huntington, these cultural fault lines were divided up between eight civilizations: ?Western, Confucian, Japanese, Islamic, Hindu,…
According to this theory, media not only set a particular agenda for public discussion but also strongly suggest how viewer should think and talk about ethnic, cultural, and religious affairs. In media content, there is a power to change the viewer’s perception about a particular thing. George Gerbner and his colleagues developed the ‘cultivation theory’ to explain the effects of television viewing on people’s perceptions, attitudes and values (Severin and Tankard, 2000). Gerbner et al. (1994)…
All places are holy. You can talk to God from the bathroom and he will listen to you” (Desirable Daughters p.302). Her down-to-earth attitude contrasts with Motilal’s attempts at other-worldliness. Though Tara’s eldest sister, Padma, bore anger against their authoritarian father throughout her life, Tara moves beyond that. It is evident near the end when Tara visited India and stopped in Rishikesh, together with her 15 year old son in order to be with her parents for a…
emphasising the sentimental religious issue to counter the opposition. The Daily Star, a widely circulated national daily, reported that a motley group comprising local leaders of pro-Awami League organisations, BNP men, madrasa students and common people were allegedly behind the communal violence at Ramu on Saturday night.[4] At a subsequent procession, some people demanded the arrest of Uttam Kumar Barua. At around 11:30 PM, a third procession marched towards Barua Parha, and some of the…
Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, and elsewhere). Other Regulatory Issues Differences in laws and regulations from country to country are numerous and complex. These and other issues in the regulatory environment that concern multinational firms are briefly discussed here. Countries often impose protectionist policies, such as tariffs, quotas, and other trade restrictions, to give preference to their own products and industries. The Japanese have come under much…