This blog is again revived by me. There is a reason for that. In my current semester in UCSI University, I was to undertake the subject Eastern Civilization and I am pretty happy to do it. To be honest, it was not my first choice and I would not even DARE to risk my CGPA for this. But after a few classes, I think, SCREW THAT MY MIND!!! So no offence made to anyone I hope.
Alright. Let's get to the main point shall we??
The lecturer of the class SL105 Eastern Civilization is Dr Clarrisa Lee. She is a wonderful lecturer although I've only met her twice now. Some of you might ask why am I doing all these nonsense blogpost again. Well, I was given a privilege to design all my own way of doing my class homework. So I will write out all my thoughts and things in this blog, partly to revive this blog and mostly for my homework.
This week was a really unlucky week as I was really sick and I could not attend to the session that my classmate Stephan Netto did. I really regretted for not going to the class. I was totally blur when I realised that I also have to be doing this. Sorry Stephan. (If you did ever see this). So, all I can do is to imagine what my classmates and my lecturer had discussed in that small little classroom who someone once said that could fit more than 60 students. It was real.
This week's topic was regards to Dialogue of Civilizations: East and West and the Idea of an Asian Civilization. The first half was done by Dr Clarrisa herself to show us how to guide a class discussion. Many thanks to that. So here goes my thoughts and summary.
Who in the world of youngsters knew there were so many meanings behind one SIMPLE word of CIVILIZATION? Well, now that I've known partially about it, I wouldn't call it simple. It's such a grand word and there are so many things that could be discussed in it. I remembered about a question that Dr Clarrisa asked me. It goes SOMETHING like this: How does civilization happens? Is it a large group of people or small group of people?
So the question was something like that. I was half dead that time as I was not feeling too well but I clearly remembered my answer about it. I answered that it was started with a small group of people. They started all the civilization and they passed it down through every generation. It couldn't be for a civilization to be large at the very start. So that is what I answered. But now that I've think of it, is culture the same as civilization? Culture is that everything is passed down through generation. For example, the way of how my father holds his chopsticks was pass down through his father aka my grandfather and how I hold my chopstick was imitated by looking at how my father holds his chopsticks.
Isn't civilization the same? How one era succeed and failed, everything was passed down to another era to be learned. Pick up from the succeeded, improve those who failed, build it up, to be a civilization. To me, civilization has pass through a lot. Really, a lot. There are so many changes made through the civilization and there are those who was kept till today. Like how China has it own Civilization for being in the history for so long. Marking from the date of the most prominent true fact, it was marked at 1264 B.C. And how many eras were there? How many changes made? How many years till now they have built their civilization? To cut the story short, to me, civilization is like culture. It is being pass down generations by generation.
So After this whole passage on me saying what I think about civilization, let's look back to what we discuss on. Eastern Civilization. Many people think differently about eastern civilization. Some may think that it was a copy of the Western civilization. Some might think that they have their own way of civilizing. But there is a quote from Huntington. It goes like this:
The
importance of regional economic
blocs is likely to continue to increase in the future. On the one hand,
successful economic regionalism will reinforce civilization-consciousness. On
the other hand, economic regionalism may succeed only when it is rooted in a
common civilization. The European Community rests on the shared foundation of
European culture and Western Christianity. The success of the North American
Free Trade Area depends on the convergence now underway of Mexican, Canadian
and American cultures. Japan, in contrast, faces difficulties in creating a
comparable economic entity in East Asia because Japan is a society and
civilization unique to itself.Culture
and religion also form the basis of
the Economic Cooperation Organization, which brings together ten non-Arab
Muslim countries: Iran, Pakistan, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Turkmenistan, Tadjikistan, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan. One impetus
to the revival and expansion of this organization, founded originally in the
1960s by Turkey, Pakistan and Iran, is the realization by the leaders of
several of these countries that they had no chance of admission to the European
Community. Similarly, Caricom, the Central American Common Market and Mercosur
rest on common cultural foundations. Efforts to build a broader
Caribbean-Central American economic entity bridging the Anglo-Latin divide,
however, have to date failed.
We human evolves through period of times. Everyone does the same thing, When we evolves, our brain starts to generate ideas. THOSE ideas are the one who created what we have now and now, the civilization that we are so proudly holding on to. The civilized people that we are today. How can people say that civilization varies through economic?
So that was everything that we basically discuss on the FIRST session this week. I will post another one later today for the second session which is yesterday at 14/1/15. If so happen anyone who wants to comment on what I've said, please do. This is an open discussion to the whole world. Thank you and have a nice day.
Cheerios,
YiXin
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