Anthropology
Anthropology is the study of human beings in different features such as culture, evolution of man, and societal aspects and culture which conclusively differentiate other species from humans. Similarly anthropology focuses on different cultures and how they impact the modern world. Anthropological systems are significant in the sense that they portray human beings as they are, and it does judge them based on their culture (Levinson & Pollock, 2011). According to anthropology, all human beings are the same, nonetheless, the only difference is between the distinguishing cultures which they emanate from. As such, one is able to understand why some people tend to react differently to certain incidents than others.
Anthropological systems best explain the way people live and interact with each other on neutral grounds without being bias. The way people in different regions perceive certain things as being important while others do not. In the modern world, culture change is majorly attributed to the new technology, which has led to the erosion of culture as people copy from other cultures. For example, most Africans can easily access European content from the social media, hence acquiring a new culture. On the hand, ranking societies on a scale based on literacy consequently makes a certain group of people to feel unappreciated, hence some groups of people tend to dominate over others, thereby leading to culture change (Levinson & Pollock, 2011). For instance, a society maybe ranked as the poorest in matters literacy, whereas in that society literacy is not valued at all. Similarly, the act of ranking countries based on literacy levels, Gross domestic product, basically makes some countries seem poor when in real sense they may be focused on other areas rather than GDP and literacy. This makes some countries particularly developing countries to feel inferior, hence absorbing the culture of developed countries.
The whole world is being forced to operate in a specific way, hence people are forced to adapt to a new culture in order to fit into the society. For example, countries which do not value literacy are forced abandon their own culture and instead focus on literacy as a new culture. This has consequently led to modern world crises (Carrier, 2012). For example, most countries have been forced improve their literacy levels with most of their citizens not being able to afford the cost of learning. A few people consequently get good education in such countries, hence getting good jobs, while the majority tend to remain uneducated. This leads to an imbalance in the society a factor which eventually leads to evil acts such terrorism which is a global crisis.
Unemployment which is attributed to lack of education is among the factors which lead to terrorism, with the main factor being lack of political freedom. Adapting to new forms of government, which leads to the introduction of new forms of trading for instance the use of a common currency often made most people to lack political freedom thus leading to terrorism. Even though this is not a current issue, but it provides a current example of how people were coerced into forming terrorist groups in 18th century (Carrier, 2012). Terrorism has grown and terrorists are also adapting to new ways such as the use of the social media as a means of recruiting new members. On the other hand, terrorists tend to fight a religious war, in which they allege the Western powers are trying to corrupt their religion, in order to make Muslims to copy their way of life, hence they retaliate (Carrier, 2012).
Reference
Levinson, B. A., & Pollock, M. (2011). A companion to the anthropology of education.
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Carrier, J. G. (2012). A handbook of economic anthropology. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
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