| Sometimes people would think that westernization is | | | | meditation has gain acceptance in the west. And it is |
| the only thing that is happening in the world. The | | | | fast gaining popularity as a method of healing ailments, |
| misconception probably dates back to colonial | | | | as a psychiatric method, as a method to aid one to |
| expansions, colonial past, and the current outspoken | | | | achieve unity with nature and the universe, to become |
| west. "Easternization" has been there for centuries. | | | | one with the ultimate, and to achieve ultimate |
| We have had Chinese utensils and Japanese Marshal | | | | knowledge and peace. |
| Arts. And today, the world is being painted in herbs, the | | | | Esternization is affecting individuals and corporations. |
| darling of the Chinese and the Indians. Many | | | | Greenpeace movement that was founded in the west |
| multinational and transnational companies have almost | | | | was started by individuals who had the aggressive will |
| baptized everything herbal. We now have Protex | | | | of the west and the awe of the east, where man |
| herbal, Vaseline Lotion Aloe Fresh, and herbal Colgate | | | | seems to fuse into one with nature, and is part and |
| tooth paste. Their advertisement have come to | | | | one with nature. Though China is an industrialized nation |
| dominate TV adverts that one day a father watching | | | | and India is fast becoming industrialized, people of the |
| TV with his children humouredly commended that soon | | | | two countries have always revered nature, and nature |
| they will have herbal "Ugali". Ugali is a stable food in | | | | has provided them with herbal medicine for thousand |
| East Africa, mainly Kenya, made by mixing boiling | | | | of years. Protection of biodiversity, now a UN |
| water with cone flour and is stirred until it is a bit hard | | | | convention reflects eastern values. The world is |
| and served with vegetables. | | | | benefiting from the east's experience in herbal |
| Easternization is evident in all areas of human life. It is | | | | medicine. |
| happening in the realm of science and medicine, and it | | | | Although secularization, a western phenomena is fast |
| is affecting life- styles and religious life of many people | | | | affecting Africa, Caribbean, Pacific, Middle East, and to |
| around the world. Universities are now doing research | | | | some extend, the Far East, a section of western |
| and offering courses in Alternative Medicine, a | | | | people have been badly left empty by secularizing |
| preserve of Chinese and Indian universities for | | | | effects and are now embracing eastern ancient |
| centuries. Herbalist contribution to medicine is now | | | | cultures. Perhaps the west may need to strip |
| being acknowledged world-wide. Herbal clinics are | | | | secularism and western trappings that they have |
| being set up alongside convectional clinics in | | | | clothed Christianity with and replace with true |
| government hospitals. Marshal Arts, which Japan are | | | | Christianity complete with awe of God, his wonderful |
| famous for are being learned and are being promoted | | | | creation and acts. It is likely that after Christianity in the |
| as sporting activities in many parts of the world. Many | | | | west was stripped of its awe and mysticism, it lost its |
| people in the west, and recently Africans, are | | | | appeal. A good number of young people are trying |
| becoming vegetarians, life styles that Hindus and | | | | eastern religions and philosophies to achieve some |
| Buddhist have embraced for centuries. Transit dental | | | | meaning in life. |