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This 6 page paper provides an overview of the connection between social research and the conceptualization of Asian cultures. Western researchers have often had difficulties assessing the specific nature of Asian cultures, primarily because these cultures represent deeply ingrained social views and long-standing traditions that are unfamiliar in the Western world. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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At the same time, the social perspectives offered by a number of authors, including James Fallows in A Damaged Culture and Prema Kurien in Kaleidoscope Ethnicity: International Migration and
the Reconstruction of Community Identities in India, relate varied views on the ethnic and social cultures of the communities they assess. At the same time, these two authors also
provide distinct perspectives based on their own ethnicity and their cultural and social perspectives. Fallows (1987) article A Damaged Culture, published
in the November 1987 Atlantic Monthly, considered the specific cultural problems and the manifestation of culture in the Philippines. Essentially, Fallows used an observational methodology to consider the
way in which the Filipino society interacted and viewed themselves, with a distinct assessment of their cultural perspective. It was Fallows (1987) contention, then, that the Philippine society was
defined within a culture that negated the ability of the Filipinos to "look beyond themselves" and instead leads them to pursue "their own interests to the ruination of others."
The separation of the culture and the emerging "war" against the common man appear to be the fundamental elements that Fallows reacts to when assessing the Filipino culture.
What is interesting to note when viewing Fallows assessment is that the same elements that he critically views in terms of the Filipino culture
represent some of the central manifestations of the modern Western culture. The national identity and the sense of the sacred rights of the individual are clearly factors that are
supported by Western ideals and denied within the cultures of the more spiritually aligned East. As a result, the expectations of the culture are different and the views of
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