You will prepare and submit a term paper on Effect Of Media On The Arabic Culture. Your paper should be a minimum of 1250 words in length. Current cinemas, the internet, especially social media, television adverts, magazines among others have found their way to the Arab world, just like is the case at the international level. While discussing the effects of media on shaping and enforcing aspects of the Arab culture, this essay will analyze the various ways in which these media forms contribute to the erosion of the Arab culture. Further, it will address the trends witnessed in the contemporary Arab culture relative to the traditional highly conservative culture. Finally, it will address the role that these media forms play in shaping and maintaining and shaping the Arab culture.

Western films, advertisements, and social media have considerably led to the erosion of morals among a section of the Arabs, especially in the Middle East (Suren web). Despite these changes, however, Arabs use these same media as ways of maintaining their culture. Through films focusing on their culture, television adverts embracing their culture, and promotion of the importance of having an identity over social media, the media has played a key role in shaping and enforcing aspects of Arabic culture.

While traditionally, Arabs were highly conservative in nature, recent trends indicate otherwise. The mode of dressing, teenage relationships, and unruly behavior among teenagers are the biggest contributing factors to the changes witnessed among the new generation (Suren web). The young people currently engage in sexuality at a tender age, something regarded as a taboo among the Arab communities. The mode of dressing among some women shows diminishing respect for their privacy, exposing considerable skin, which is culturally wrong. Further, alcohol, although not classified as a moral wrong, it was unethical for the young to take alcoholic&nbsp.drinks. The changes in society currently are amazing.&nbsp.Not only do the young now drink, they even influence their girlfriends. Others engage in stimulating drugs such as cocaine, heroin, and marijuana.&nbsp.

Complete 6 pages APA formatted article: Paper on The Awakening of Civil Society. The paper will provide a reaction to Kubba’s arguments.

Kubba begins by highlighting that Arab countries have shared certain aspects that define their political differences. Over the years, authoritarian governments have governed the Arab countries. None of those governments has given attention to the political liberalization of respected civil and human rights. It is unfortunate that the few Arab countries who vote leaders through a democratic system do not enjoy the fruits of democracy. Many of the authoritarian leaders have often used other strategies in an effort to stay in power. One of the intriguing arguments presented by Kubba is the fact that the dictatorships and authoritarian governments reigning in the Arab countries have registered increased access to public services. Notably, this is true, but an unexpected phenomenon in authoritarian governments. It is true that many of the Arab governments have recognized the salient need for altering the political environment without triggering an internal crisis (Kubba 2000, p. 85). It is strange that dictatorial governments in the Arab world offer people the hope for security, stability, as well as continuity. In other parts of the world, people base such hopes for democracy.

I totally agree with Kubba, who challenges the survival of democracies established in Arab countries after independence. Egypt, Syria, and Iraq, are the only countries that supported democracy for several decades after independence. However, the political crisis that has erupted in those countries in the recent past serves as evidence that democracy did not survive. Kubba is right when he notes that the established democracies by the European democracies did not give room for civil societies. In any case, the concept of civil societies in that era was entirely new.