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Item Existence challenged, progress envisioned, culture compromised: the effects of western influences on traditional values in South Korea(Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16) Min, Crystal DawnThis thesis is an exploratory one, which examines the relationship between Western influences (such as the media, education, work, travel, and friendships) and traditional values in South Korea (such as those related to family, social relationships, nationalism, social order, leisure time, work, religion and women??s issues). The relationship between these was investigated in light of modernization theories and Riesman??s stages of societal progress. Furthermore, a survey was conducted among 579 individuals from the younger and older generations in Seoul and Daegu, to determine the degree of Western influences among the generations, and the adherence to traditional values. It was found that the younger generation clearly had more exposure to Western influences, and also adhered much less to traditional values, while the opposite held true for the older generation. A case was made that South Korea??s unprecedented development following Independence opened the country, especially the younger generation, to influences from the West as they had never experienced before. The generation gap that came as a result of this is extreme, and without express effort to preserve those traditional values that have shaped Korean society for so long, there may be serious ramifications for Korean society in the future.Item Eye contact(2013-05) Chen, Yao; Mickey, Susan E.Eye contact is a research and installation projects about the westernization process of bridal costume from 1900 to 2012 in both China and the Chinese immigrant community in America. The project focuses on the bride’s wedding costume to present the development of social status of women in both China and Chinese immigrant community in America.Item A study of the 1961 controversy over Chinese and Western cultures in Taiwan(2006-05) Du, Huang-Lan, 1978-; Higgins, Kathleen Marie; Zanasi, MargheritaThis thesis talks about the uninterrupted issue about how Chinese intellectuals after May Fourth Movement dealt with foreign culture, the Western one, especially focus on their attitudes and reflections. Furthermore, this thesis analyzes a possible interpretation for why the similar discussion of Chinese-Western culture was brought up again in Taiwan of 1961. The ethos of what can be called the “cultural conservatism” of Chinese intellectuals – attachment to the ontological perspective on culture and the overemphasis of Chinese spirituality – excluded reflection of the flaws of Chinese culture and could not help intellectuals find the proper solution to the conflict between Chinese and Western cultures. The notion of an organic cultural whole also hindered consideration of cultures and the prospect of westernization. The notion of yi exerted a deep-rooted influence on Chinese intellectuals, impeding the realization of cultural pluralism.