American Culture Vs Non-Western Society

The western societies include Europe such as America and France whereas non-western societies are China and Japan. From the thirteenth to nineteenth centuries, also known as the “early modern period” experienced tremendous forces the imperial authorities that pushed to change under many different circumstances or struggled to remain culturally conservative in their traditions. Thus, China, America and France were important societies that caused a great impact in the world history. In the following, I will identify those changes in their tradition as well as discuss the complex relationship between traditions. First, in China, during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the country was ruled by the Yuan dynasty of nomadic Mongol warriors.

There were conflicts and tensions from Qing leaders that forced Chinese men to shave the front of their heads and grow a Manchu-style queue as a sign of submission to its dynasty. There were stereotypes during this emperor as the evidence that Manchus were careful to preserve their own ethnic and identity. Chinese and Manchus were not allowing to intermarriage or Chinese allowing entering to Manchus territory. The Qing rulers such as Kangxi (1661-1722) and Qianlong (1736-1795) decreased the tension between the Chinese and

The monarchy was shifted to political authority, not in kings rather, the people make up the society. Like in America, in the 1776 on July 4, people declared the independence from British rule and institution. From then, the Enlightenment drew deep and inspired political thoughts that “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness” (Bently 471). There were many Enlightenment thinkers; philosophers like Francois-Marie Arouet and Jean-Jacques Rousseau called for equality, addressed issues of freedom. They supported individual freedom and disagreed to any oppressive policies and discriminating institution, and incalculable human suffering. On the other hand, in France, revolutionaries abolished monarchy, established a republic and refashioned the social order. French leaders repudiated existing society and social as well as cultural structures. French revolutionaries also drew deep from Enlightenment political thought of “liberty, equality, and fraternity” as it goals, abolished the old social order. It snatched lands from the church, defined clergy as civilians and required them to take oath of loyalty to the states