Paradigm Shift in Western/Eastern Idelogy

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How we understand something depends upon traditions, cultures, norms and values that we are attached with. This traditions , culture, norms and values depend on the religion or sometimes vice versa which at last is rooted to the civilization. There is always difference in insights between eastern world and western world. This difference is seen from the time immemorial.

In 21st era , time of science and technology , we speak about the language of profit oriented machines but also there differs in the principle positions.

Therefore, when United States talks about peace and when China talks about peace, albeit of same subject but stands with different understandings. China peace is not the peace that United States talks about.

Western/Eastern method of understanding

When any object or anything is given to the scholars of western and eastern world their method to understand the subject is different.

Let's assume that an atom is given to both world's people. Then how they try to understand it.

Western understanding

When west gets atom , they start to cut into pieces. They cut until they can . Now they try to look every parts how are they? They try to construct those pieces again and wanna assemble to atom. This is the way. They believe in experiment result. They stand with the position that are physical ones.

Experimenting the sample by disecting it's constituents and finally, assembling them back is the way of west i.e scientific method

Eastern understanding

Now eastern world's view is different then it.

East when gets atom it tries to understand in it's whole form. It doesn't give much emphasis on dissecting rather it gives on understanding relating to other objects than itself. Atom is understood making its relation with others. This makes eastern world to follow philosophical positions.

The ultimate answer of Easter world can be ," atom is also a form of God".

Eastern world's way is the realization. Everything that eastern world is attached are interrelated with each other.

Eastern V western

Views

Eastern world is the path of philosophy everything here can have vague meanings and understood it broadly. When something is understood by giving emphasis to it's relations then obviously, everything will be complicated. This complication ideology is the gift of eastern world.

Eastern people talks about emptiness. World construct through emptiness. This can't be perceived by western world. But they holds that this existence started with something. Thus, the Bible holds that everything started from sound. But in east not only emptiness it also carries the message that this universe started with being conscious. This is again convoluted idea than that of emptiness.

Ever eastern world, people are philosophers whereas every western people are scientists. They see everything as experiment. When they do something and if they fails then they can easily concluded that I experimented that this won't work . But east remains silent in failures and also to success. They just experience it and leave out.

HISTORY

When first history was written by HERODOTUS, He wrote in order to find out why are they going for war? And also to understand economic positions of states. He successful won the rulers heart because by his work they could find the solution before the problem arises. History started with experiment.

But eastern world , they believe it's not important to write down history. Because eastern world has known the fact that everything repeats here. Eastern world don't give emphasis to who ruled the kingdom? They believed that the rulers are the protector of throne for some period of time, they too must pass away. So what is the use of writing it? What is the point of praising the!m?

So, east wrote their experiences rather than history.

RELIGION

There are many religions in eastern world . And within a religion there are many many branches. These branches indicates the attachments within the one prime reference different their ideas, views, opinions. Example in Hinduism , there are many ideologies within it. And also I would like to add, one of the groups of Hindus follow shivaism. They worship Lord shive and Shiva is worship in 1008 forms. This is the beauty of eastern world. Everything holds here. Everything is accepted here, Either it is wrong or right.

But in west, it's not the case. West world are sticked to only one ideology. Where east to many.

From different prospectives if we see then, in this world there is always balance between east and west. When East was spreading philosophies at that time west was spreading physical world ideology i.e. Conquering the world

Those enlightened ones are the gift of eastern culture where the greatest scientist are gift of west. Both scientist and enlightened works for the welfare of mankind and their difference is only in understanding things.Hitler, Mussolini, sterling can be born only in west , east doesn't provide such environment. East provides the way to the higher dimension of realization.

East hold own way where west have it's own. These differences when brought to one point then one can have a complete understanding. Thus, I believe east and west in a one bucket makes the complete sense.

Philosophers can be only understood by scientist. And scientist only can understand philosophy.

Shifting of Paradigm

After the two world wars, there was paradigm shift in the international relationship which resulted a new area of study as international relations. International Relation developed while studying why we fought both wars?

Before states used to followed isolation but after war with the establishment of United Nation there arose the current of co-operation. Cooperation for solving the issues , to help each other for economic progress. This ideology was further endorsed by the establishment of Regional Organization. Not only to Regional organisation but there started grouping as , G7-8 , NAM, Group 77, etc.This what resulted in political integration between the states in international arena.

On the the other hand, establishment of World bank and IMF opened a various ways for economic integration. With the establishment of WTO this consolidation was further strengthened.

With the political and economical integration, socio-culture couldn't remain aloof. This further went on, at the end of 20th century there was voice of common . Common world. Andwith the begining of 21st century, the world which saw the establishment of organization as EU as group of nations to represent one, there in some corners,voices of "one world one government " is being heard. People has started to talk about boundary less states.

This are the shifts that we are facing.

On the other hand, the evolution of capitalism and it's increasing impacts on our culture , traditions , political , social ,economical aspects is a danger signal to our principals holdings of western and eastern world.

We both eastern and western world has been over-ruled by capitalism now. This one will completely destroyed our culture, traditions in coming future. To co-exist as soon as possible there must be alternative theory to capitalism. Otherwise the positions that we stand today may remains in some lines in history.

Otherwise, The gifts of east and west will lose their values.....

Consequences of shifting

The beauty of eastern ideology and western Idelogy has mixed up . Now the eastern ideology is heard in every corner of western world. And east is struggling to refrain it's holdings but we are seeing a dominance of west in social life's of people.

With the political, social and economical integration both western and eastern positions are getting pressure from one another. With change in paradigms the balance that has been there always within each other is completely destroyed. Now east world is balancing itself within it's own and so does the west.

May we have consolidated our understandings but our positions towards understanding things are different. The peace that China understands is different than that's of United States. Due to this , may we get into one bucket but the information that our gene contains to understand things will make some impacts while dealings between west and east. If capitalism grows in such way as we see now then I ensure that we will lose that from one gene.

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