Indian culture and American culture share many things; however‚ there have vast differentiations. Over time‚ I’ve come to recognize that the most different cultural aspects are marital customs‚ religious beliefs‚ and community values. Whenever I go to India‚ I get the chance to first hand experience the distinctions between the two cultures. The most dissimilar aspect‚ to me‚ is community values. I’ve noticed that in America children are encouraged to be unique and individual. American parents understand
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AMERICAN CULTURAL STUDIES Cultural studies refers to the notion that the study of cultural processes is theoretically and politically important to an active and productive understanding of the ways in which power and influence manifest themselves in social or political order. The historical roots of cultural studies mainly take us to Britain and its Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham. In Britain‚ cultural studies in the early days was marked by class‚ later by gender‚ race or
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situation. Solution-based therapies have been described as brief and time-effective and applied effectively to working with couples (Chromy‚ 2007). Client Description Mac and Jessica Johnson enter into couples counseling with issues regarding the difference in parenting styles. The two have
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dimensions in national cultures’ comparisons‚ the pillars of Hofstede’s work‚ which belong to the etic approach ‚ are based on 5 dimensions whereby national differences are then measured. In other words‚ from the emic standpoint it is also arguable that the etic research methodology‚ as aiming to identify equalities among national differences‚ would risk throwing out the baby with the bath water . On the other hand‚ from the emic perspective‚ dividing the culture into a set of defined scopes stands
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conversion has a limit. Some cross-cultural differences will not disappear so easily and managers will have to understand and appreciate these cultural oddities’ if they wish to run a successful business. Let us take China and France as examples of two very different countries that may have cross-cultural problems while doing business. First we will give a general overview of the two countries and then discuss some management practices that may vary between these eastern and western cultures
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Cultural Relativism and Ethnocentrism may attribute to the differences btw Religion & Magic. Ethnocentrism is a cultural attitude that one’s own culture is the best‚ thus we evaluate other cultures on the basis of our own cultural perspective. On the other hand‚ Cultural Relativism is opposite of ethnocentrism and is based on understanding other cultures in the context of that culture only and not from our own cultural standard. According to Durkheim religion is a system of beliefs and practices
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Part 1: HISTORY OF INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT TRADITIONAL MALAY KINGDOM The ancient history of Malaysia spans four main phases: 1. PALEOLITHIC AGE (early stone age)‚ 35000 YEARS AGO 2. MESOLITHIC AGE (middle stone age)‚ 11000 YEARS AGO 3. NEOLITHIC AGE (new stone age)‚ 5000 YEARS AGO 4. METAL AGE‚ 2500 YEARS AGO EARLY INHABITANTS • • • The earliest ancient civilization found at Tampan Fort‚ Ulu Perak to be 74‚ 000 years old and believed to associate with a Java man. The finding of a human
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Connections Across text: The theme cultural identity and differences is important in our community‚ the way we treat others and how we stereotype someone. I chose this theme because it portrays the importance of maintaining your culture and not allowing someone’s stereotype of your culture impact you. Cultural identity and differences throughout my texts is formed mainly between 2 or more cultures in each text. The four texts I chose are Ka Kite Bro written by Willie Davis‚ The Red Sari written
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Cultural differences and global marketingCultural differences and global marketing The progress of humanity and human beings can be attributed to one important factor and that is the strong capability of human beings to understand and adapt to cultural differences. Respecting cultural differences has brought the human beings close together and has tied them in a strong bond. The conquering of the cultural differences has also introduced us to a new terminology‚ global economy‚ which is a global
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Occupational Therapy & People with Intellectual Disability from Diverse Cultural Backgrounds Individual values are important in healthcare and it is important for providers to understand the concept of cultural competence to provide cross-cultural therapy for all clients. Francisco and Carlson (2002) pioneered a qualitative research study to determine how cultural differences and language barriers affect the quality of care within the realm of occupational therapy (OT). This study used the findings
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