Analysis of the Economic Progress of Christian Nations
Western society has dominated the global market since the very outset of international trade. From the days of the glorious British Empire to the modern day United States, the world has always had the tendency of being dependent upon the economy of the strongest Western power. Why is it always the West that takes charges, comes to the forefront, and takes on the economic burden of the entire world? Why haven't non-Western cultures such as the East, the Mid-East, or Africa unified themselves to be the same type of world force that The United States, Great Britain, and the European Union? With the advent of the industrial revolution, as well as significant technological advances (most notably those in the communication and banking industries) theoretically all countries can be considered equal in these terms. It is my belief that the reason why the West is the most economically dominant culture is because of a mental and/or attitude edge given to it by its most common unifying force, the Christian faith. The substantive area of study for this paper is international relations, as I look to discern a relationship between a country's level of Christianity and a country's level of wealth as defined by the GDP per capita in US dollars.
/SCATTERPLOT(BIVAR)=govteff WITH gdppc99 Making this intrusiveness more problematic still is the growing mismatch between the West's aspirations and its capacity to enforce them. According to Huntington, the power of the West is relative to that of other civilizations and has begun to ebb, most notably in comparison to Islam and China. In the Islamic world, massive population growth breeds restlessness and resentment-and produces cohorts of easily mobilized fighters eager to repay the West for slights real and imagined. In China, skyrocketing economic growth translates into military potential that threatens the long-standing dominance of Western arms. The United States and the traditional European powers meanwhile remain willfully oblivious to the reality of the West's efforts to promote a universal Western culture and its declining ability to do so, due to the economic and cultural expansion of non-Western cultures. Weber studied non-Western cultures as well. He found that several of these pre-industrial societies had the technological infrastructure and other necessary preconditions to begin capitalism and economic expansion. The only forces missing were the positive sanctions to abandon traditional ways. While Weber does not believe that the Protestant ethic was the only cause of the rise of capitalism, he believed it to be a powerful force in fostering its emergence.
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Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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