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    Taboos: Cultures

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    In the world we live in there are multiple taboos. Depending on your culture‚ religion and beliefs many strange and bizarre things are completely normal to some people and even animals throughout the world. Taboos are what people find to be strange and unusual practices or what unique things people may do or eat in different parts of the world. Different cultures would consider strange things to eat as a delicacy in some areas or cultures and wouldn’t even dream of being eaten in other cultures.

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    a transportation barrier between China and west‚ and they were not familiar with each other. Eventually‚ they have formed their own unique characteristic respectively. Even now‚ though we may all live in the same city with a broken transportation barrier‚ we still can feel a different culture between the Chinese and the west. There are three main differences between the Chinese and Western culture; personality development‚ diet‚ and religion. First‚ the Chinese concern about a big family

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    Death Rituals Taboos between Kadazan and Iban The death rituals between these two cultures very much different especially the way of respecting the dead’s. First‚ how the Iban funeral when someone are dead. The first phase in the process is called “pana”. Here‚ the deceased body is cleaned‚ and put into the families apartment gallery and the body is covered with a blanket. Friends and family from the longhouse “rumah” may bring food‚ as a gift of respect and condolence to the family. Families

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    western idea of medical treatment with Ch’i and Chinese healing. Western medical treatment is tremendously different from Chinese medical treatment isn several ways. First of all‚ the Chinese use inductive and synthetic methods‚ while western medicine uses reductive and analytical methods. This can be seen in how the Chinese understand and learn medicine. Instead of solving everything with evidence and scientifical reason like western doctors‚ the Chinese use experience and cures that seem to work for

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    strong territories. The main difference in Persian politics and Chinese was that Persians were able to be lower political figures as long as they complied with the Mongols. While in China no natives could be in the political system‚ instead they had foreign personal brought in. At one point Marco Polo was brought in as an administrator during the reign of Khubilai khan. In China the Mongols tore down the whole Chinese political structure and rebuilt it. However In Persia the Mongols just

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    Topics of Taboo

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    Topics of taboo‚ such as religion‚ sexuality‚ and abortion are subjects that cause people to be opinionated and defensive; so much so‚ that it has become inappropriate to discuss them in some social settings. When expressing your views‚ if your stance is not firm or well researched your views may be torn to pieces and/or may even become so distorted you lose your argument. Because I have witnessed‚ and been the victim of verbal lashings‚ fortified in reasoning‚ I disagree with the claim that it does

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    History: Comparative Essay Chinese vs European Between the years of 1851-1861 roughly 30‚000 immigrants from places worldwide arrived in Australia with the hope that they could strike it rich and find some gold. Of the people who were arriving there was large amount of Chinese and Europeans who started to build up colonies of their own. It was hard for these people to start with as there was a lot of discrimination and segregation simply because of their race. This also meant that these sort of

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    behaviour is too complex and too dynamic to be streamlined into stable sets of choices that can be tied to specific textual or non-textual features. As a form of human behaviour‚ translation cannot be productively explained as a consistent choice between two or more discrete sets of strategies or options‚ however nuanced.1 Translation studies has come of age. So much so‚ I would argue‚ that we are now in a position to move safely and confidently not only beyond dichotomies and taxonomies‚ but also

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    Taboo During Pregnancy

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    Taboo during pregnancy Apart for the taboos in daily life‚ there are also has the taboos for pregnant in Malay culture. These taboos are important for the safety of the pregnant woman and her foetus. There are several advice and taboos that must be followed by the pregnant woman. For example‚ they are not allowed to hit and hurt the animal because it is concern that it will cause the baby be handicap. Thus‚ pregnant women should watch their words while talking‚ they are forbidden

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    Scoliodon Taboos

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    common in lizards on throat‚ neck‚ side of trunk or mid-dorsal line. Often these can be erected and are then displayed in courtship or combat. They may be limited to male sex -DEWLAP- a fan that is red in color because the red throat skin shows between the scales. Much LAREGR IN MALE than in

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