there are positive aspects of importing US media into Singapore‚ there is also a responsibility in ensuring the stability of and reinforcing the nation ’s values and principles. The government understands the importance in keeping one ’s nation ’s culture‚ and in an effort to enhance the country ’s cultural heritage‚ a set of values was introduced in 1988 by then Deputy Minister Mr. Goh Chok Tong. Aptly named "5 Shared Values‚" it covers principles such as‚ "Nation before community and society before
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this Sunday” and “conqueror” both explore the resurrecting of a culture and combating the preconceptions in it. The detrimental damage on the colonised is often a turning point of change and the creation of a hybrid identity. This new culture can often be a doorway to a greater and more affective change. The movie”Whale Rider” directed by Niki Caro and originally written by Wiki Ihamera follows the process of old culture entwining with the new and allowing the love for a heritage to pull
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for breakfast than those who are eating traditional Chinese meals. And all the Chinese older generations are worrying about the younger generations losing the Chinese traditional culture‚ China is going to be more westernized in the next few years than any other country in the world‚ also all Asia is adopting Western Culture in areas such as: industry‚ technology‚ law‚ politics‚ economics‚ lifestyle‚ diet‚ language‚ alphabet‚ religion‚ philosophy‚ women wearing jeans‚ shops selling Valentine’s Day merchandise
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their peoples. Culture is difficult to effectively define; for the purpose of this essay‚ culture is the collective knowledge‚ behaviour and customs of a group of people that has developed over generations. Things such as art‚ language and religious practices are often unique to a culture‚ which suggests that individual cultures possess a certain independence from others‚ thus creating diversity. I will make an important distinction throughout between Western culture and non-Western culture‚ the latter
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became my sub culture. Culture and your surroundings obviously influence you subconsciously. In Western cultures‚ decoration and fashion are sometimes dismissed as unimportant‚ even feminine activities‚ but decorating the body has taken place over human history. It can be looked upon as silly and frivolous‚ but it is an important part of our ever changing culture. It is part of design and evolving styles. It is like a visual timeline. We are all actively taking part in this. In some cultures men‚ women
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Explain the appeal of characters like Hello Kitty to younger consumers in both Asia and the western economies‚ taking note of cultural and group influences. Hello Kitty is a marketing phenomenon from the Japanese Company Sanrio. The Little white cat with no mouth was initially aimed at young girls but Hello kitty has found a much wider audience. I think Hello Kitty appeal unquestionably both Asia and the Western economies. A Google search for “Hello Kitty” yields more than 1.5 million results. It’s
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political culture that most people assume them to be the natural order of things‚ universal values that people everywhere would embrace if given the chance. In times of change‚ people wonder more consciously about how the world works. The hiatus between the Cold War and 9/11 was such a time; conventional wisdom begged to be reinvented. Nearly a century of titanic struggle over which ideology would be the model for organizing societies around the globe -- fascism‚ communism‚ or Western liberal democracy
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the future. Conflict between civilizations will be the latest phase in the evolution of conflict in the modern world. For a century and a half after the emergence of the modern international system with the Peace of Westphalia‚ the conflicts of the Western world were largely among princes--emperors‚ absolute monarchs and constitutional monarchs attempting to expand their bureaucracies‚ their armies‚ their mercantilist economic strength and‚ most important‚ the territory they ruled. In the process they
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traditionally depicting a compressed presentation of 25 million years of human evolution‚ can be applied to sociologists view on childhood- is it ‘evolving’ for the better? The ‘March of progress’ view argues that‚ over the past few centuries‚ childhood in western societies has been improving steadily‚ and is even better than ever today. We can then go onto say that the ‘march of progress’ evidently paints a bad picture of the past; as Lloyd De Mause puts it- “The history of childhood is a nightmare from which
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from the adult world. The March of progress sociologist believe we live in an increasingly child-centred society. They state that children have existence of child poverty‚ abuse and exploitation. Child liberationists argue that children in modern western society are victims of age patriarchy and are subject to adult control. Some argue that we are witnessing the disappearance of childhood as the media erode the boundary between childhood and adulthood. Others argue that the west is imposing its idea
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