Western Scientific Perspectives

Anthropology 122-1 Scientific view on the western side of a fine night, people can only look up to the stars. All the beauty, including the moon, is far away and illuminates most enviably amazing night sky. I sometimes sit outside, sometimes just looking at the stars and marveling, but my scientist is thinking even more. The stars are like the sun in the solar system, hydrogen balls, explosion, radiant energy, and light in all directions, but so far we treated them as spots of the night sky.

As Western scientific perspectives influence decisions affecting all aspects of indigenous people's lives, from education to fish and wildlife management, indigenous peoples themselves are influenced by scientific traditions in various research and policy planning areas It is beginning to play an active role in reestablishing. (Arctic Environment Protection Strategy 1993; Cochran 2004). As a result, people are increasingly aware of the depth and extent of knowledge that exists in many indigenous societies, and their potential value in tackling modern critical issues, including adaptation processes related to learning and knowledge building became. The next observation by Bielawski explains this:

Science is the pursuit of knowledge. The way to gather knowledge is culturally relative. Aboriginal science is a combination of traditional knowledge and indigenous people's perspective, scientific methods of non-indigenous people are often regarded as Western science. Together, they made a great contribution to modern science. For centuries, the lives of indigenous peoples depend on their understanding of the environment. Many plant species, including three-thirds of the crops now cultivated and enjoyed worldwide, are cultivated by indigenous peoples in North America, Central America and South America. Corn, pumpkin, beans, potatoes and peppers are just a few of the foods that have made a big contribution to the world's cuisine.

There are two ways to add other cultures to science. One is responsible for Western ideals, so it is highly likely that they will damage the nature of scientific knowledge other than Western Europe. Including multiple scientific perspectives in the paradigm has changed the nature of Western science itself and reduced the exclusivity of that knowledge that contributes to that limited culture. As can be seen from the description of scientific laboratory functions and scientific methods, there is a clear and prescribed way to accept contemporary scientific knowledge. The beauty of non-Western science is emphasized in other ways of explaining natural phenomena and their acceptance in our personal epistemology about how the world works.