Culturally competent is all about the value of diversity‚ respect for individuals differences regardless of one’s own race‚ beliefs‚ and cultural background. In this multicultural world‚ becoming a culturally competent in pharmacy or healthcare is an essential and challenging prerequisite. Canada is quickly developing into a multicultural country‚ making it easy for more people to be exposed to different culture. “Demographic change have been transforming Canada into microcosm of the global village
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To help better understand Mexico’s culture‚ a brief overview of Geert Hofstede’s study of different cultures would be useful. Hofstede’s cultural taxonomy helps in the understanding of cultural differences. Hofstede proposed that people carry mental programs that are developed during their childhood and are reinforced by their culture (Lustig‚ Koester‚ 2006‚ p.114). Through these programs‚ the ideas of a culture are expressed through its principal values. Hofstede conducted a study of over 100‚000
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Cultural self-analysis My student ID was the first picture of me in the United States. My face was darker than usual since there was not enough light‚ but my facial expression could still be seen. I was smiling‚ but my smile could not mask the sense of nervousness and uncertainty I felt. Two minutes later‚ my name was printed on the ID card; it was my own‚ unique student ID card. There is only one “Wan Chan” at Central College. “Wan” in Chinese means rhyme‚ melody‚ or music. I have no idea whether
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Walmart around the World Question 1. We assume you have already been familiar with Walmart’s sources of competitive advantage in other classes or references. Could you summarize Walmart’s competitive advantages in U.S. and its business model? We have studied before the supply chain of Walmart and how it led the success in America. We believe Walmart’s success accounts its greatest portion for its excellent operational management‚ which is in other sense its competitive advantage. First of
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Founded by Sam Walton in 1962‚ Walmart has grown tremendously‚ enabling it to become one of the largest companies in the world. With more than 8‚416 stores in 15 countries‚ close to $401 billion in sales and over 2.1 million employees; it is clear that has been extremely successful at expanding its operations and expansion plans for over 300 new stores in the U.S and approximately 150 international stores in pre-existing markets (Walmart‚ 2010). Despite this success‚ Walmart must take into consideration
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Cultural identity is a huge part of who we are. Not only does it define our interests‚ it also dictates why and who we interact with. It affects so many things in our life that it can be hard to find anything at all that isn’t affected by it. For me personally‚ the biggest parts of my cultural identity are the food I eat‚ the people I spend my time with‚ and the music I listen to. When I was growing up‚ every christmas I would go to my Grandmother’s house‚ and have a christmas dinner with my Dad’s
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Wal-Mart is one of the largest retail markets in the world and continues to increase its revenue because of its products and services that are provided. I have to admit Wal-Mart has made a lot of money from me because it’s my one stop supermarket. I can go to Wal-Mart and find just about any and everything I’m looking for which makes my shopping experience just that much more supreme. Let me share some of the businesses history with you and its timeline. The very first store to open was in Rogers
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According to Healey’s (2013) textbook‚ “Race‚ Ethnicity‚ Gender‚ and Class”‚ cultural assimilation is best defined as a process that an individual in a minority group or a minority group undergoes when they begin to take in the culture of the dominant group (pg. 47). Their language and/or culture become similar to other groups‚ causing differences between groups to decrease (pg. 43). This process includes things like‚ having to adopt different values‚ changing the spelling of one’s name‚ and even
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Melissa DeLuca Blue Man Mania Picking a cultural event for my critique assignment wasn’t easy for me. There were so many different types of events to consider that choosing only one was difficult because there are so many forms of art that I have an interest in‚ almost every type. I looked around and found an event which I chose to attend because it offered a variety of art forms. I would identify this event as a musical concert‚ a play‚ a comedy‚ and a visual art show all in one! This spectacular
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Valuing Introduction Currently Wal-Mart serves customers and members more than 200 million times per week. Wal-Mart operates under 69 different banners in 27 countries. With fiscal year 2012 sales of approximately $444 billion‚ Wal-Mart employs 2.2 million associates worldwide. In 2005 for this case the sales were approximately $285 billion and operated 4‚000 stores worldwide. Valuations Dividend Discount Method (DDM): The DDM is a procedure for valuing the price of a stock by using predicted
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