Cultural Perspective Differences between the Greek Period and Early 20th Century

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Cultural Perspective Differences between the Greek Period and Early 20th Century
Human beings share common beliefs, traditions, customs, or practices based on their relationships and interactions across various platforms in society. The shared principles or ideologies on how to behave or carry on with their daily life activities represent or rather refers to the culture of a group of people within a particular set-up. Such set-ups may embrace a condition of exclusivity in their interactions on the said beliefs and practices or integrate with other individuals with different cultural perspectives. Thus, the characteristic feature of culture for human beings forms a lasting bond across humanity through the different languages spoken, ethnic backgrounds, religious orientations, and countries of origin. A group of people sharing the outlined features represent their unanimous cultural perspective upon which they form their identity as a collective and at the individual level. The fact that the entire humanity shares a common belief in their origin and intellectual superiority over the other living beings serves as a cultural orientation, which defines human beings in their distinct existence around the world. However, humanity faces various challenges arising from the emerging cultural perspectives among different groups of people or communities and their quest of gaining power and control over other members of the global society. The search for unique human identities has played a significant role in the chronological changes in cultural perspectives across the history of human beings. A comprehensive analysis of the changes traces the evolution of human cultural perspectives in society since the Greek Period to the early 20th century, while also highlighting the underlying cultural differences between the two eras.
Both scientist and sociologists believe that human beings share a common origin as documented by the evolution story of human beings with Homo Sapiens being the bond that ties humanity together. Hence, it is expected that human beings would form peaceful relations and foster good relationships for mutual enhancement or development of as a collective. It has not been the case as human beings compete against each other on multiple ends to elevate themselves over other members of society and occupy a dominant position. At the onset of the 4th century, the Greeks spearheaded civilization across the world with their remarkable developments across the social, political, cultural, and economic sectors. The Greek’s economic development was characteristic of great innovations in transportation, which facilitated their interaction with non-Greek societies or cultures CITATION Ski12 \l 1033 (Skinner). The integration and interactions with people from different cultural backgrounds built on the premise of trade, intermarriages, and even conquest endeavors by the highly civilized society during ancient timesCITATION Tar14 \l 1033 (Tartaron). The Greek practiced co-habitation with relations from the non-Greek society leading to the formation of new languages, promotion of art, and other ancient technological advances. The Greek society promoted cross-cultural interactions irrespective of the cultural diversity existing in the global society at the time. The Greek interaction with the Phoenician, for instance, led to the enhancement of the former’s language by the adoption of the West Semitic alphabetCITATION Tar14 \l 1033 (Tartaron). The interaction between members of the two societies led to increased cultural exchange through customs and practices. Though the ancient communities interacted based on trading exploration resulting in colonization of other social groups or communities, such entities were tol...