Occidentosis or Gharbzadegi or Westoxification is a pejoritive word used by non western people about non western people who lost their identity while trying to imitate or adopt western values,culture,arts
these pejorative word was coined by Iranian professor of Philosophy at the University of Tehran in 1940 but it got famous when Jalal Al-e-Ahmad wrote this book.
Jalal Al-e-Ahmad is an Iranian thinker writer social and political Critic.
although this book was written in 1962 it still talks about many problems that these modern world faces especially in Muslim countries
Chapter 1 :- ( Diagnosing an Illness)
occidentosis is like an hidden disease which "resembles an infestation of weevils. Have you seen how they attack wheat? From
the inside. The bran remains intact, but it is just a shell, like a cocoon left behind
on a tree.
the world is divided into two world
the first world which produces goods and buys raw materials from third world
and third world which sells raw materials and buys finished product from the first world
the first world has generally a " generally have high wages, low mortality, low fertility,
well-organized social services, adequate foodstuffs and higher per capita annual income "
and the third world "
characteristics: low wages, high mortality, even higher fertility,
social services nil (or for hire), inadequate foodstuffs and lower per capita annual income "
the first world is ascending in progress in every way while the third world is stagnated at the best
the main problem is that their is big chasm between these two worlds sometimes a two hundred years difference
ch 2:- ( Earliest Signs of the Illness )
"All this traffic with the West is natural for a people who want every day to
live better, know more, and die more at peace than the day before. There's
nothing extraordinary about it. It is inter-course with neighbors near and far. It is
to seek to widen one's humanity in other existential molds. "
mostly non westerns feel toward the west between admiration or jealousy or utmost hate and repulsion even with all this animosity most people
that they marry just like the Westerners. they pretend to
be free just like them. they sort the world into good and bad along the lines they
lay out. they dress like them. We write like them. Night and day are night and day
when they confirm it.
these days only abiding to Western values Countries could survive in this modern world or you will be called Terrorist or Authoritarian country and you will subject to western wrath through coups assassins or sanctions and when all fail through sheer military power.
500 years ago the West was surrounded by three sides by Islam from west south and southeast
where the West was forced to dig in and fight back
mostly non western do not know these fact but the west progress lied on the crushing of other cultures faiths and countries for example the first crusade war between Somalia and Ethiopia the West allied with Ethiopia and Vasco de Gama supplied modern Cannons to Ethiopian Armies
the second Crusade war between the Somali people and Ethiopia the western people allied secretely with Ethiopia and forced Arms Embargo on Somalis people while supplying arms and finance to Ethiopian christian Armies while slaughtering arm less civilian Somali people because of their Islamic faith,the third Crusade war in Somali lands which was recent in 1900,my grand father( Mad Mullah ) declared holy war or Jihad on four Imperial countries French Italy Britain and Ethiopia which their common character was their religion although most of the were secular the somali people wondered
if you were secular why you brought with your Guns this Missionaries and preachers
when my Grand father holy war failed the Somali countries are divided in to five regions one is occupied By Ethiopia another is given to Kenya a third was given self governance and is called Djibouti
so after this historic lesson you cant' blame Somali people because of the injustice forced upon us by the name of christianity,still now if you come to my tribal region which is Ethiopian forbids to Journalist you could see how with building a new church a lot of rape and killing will happen near here so most of people hate living near Churchs.
there are many contradicts which you can see in Occidentosis countires
"We now resemble an alien people, with unfamiliar customs, a culture with no
roots in our land and no chance of blossoming here. Thus all we have is stillborn,
in our politics, our culture, and our daily life."
there are many gems in this book which you will find amazing and still relevent in non western countries specially in Muslim World which are most close to western world and the most anti western in the world