Cultural Misunderstandings Darcy Lingg PSYC3540 – Culture‚ Ethnicity & Diversity Capella University March 2014 My example of a cultural misunderstanding is between a doctor and a Chinese patient. Are you drinking plenty of fluids? < Patient thoughts: I wonder why he is asking me that‚ what it is with these people and water > I don’t like the water here. It’s too cold. I don’t know what’s wrong with people here that they drink that. Really??? And what happens when you drink the
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A Cultural Artifact Family Albums‚ “ A Cultural Artifact” Family albums have played an important role as navigators of familial ideology and possessions of familial memory. Most family photograph albums contain a great variety of items‚ both identified and unidentified held together by this collective identity with the family. When family albums are put together we are reminded of our family history and possess sentimental ties within the family. Viewing photographs of deceased loved ones
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Responding to Mass Casualty Events Abstract The purpose of this research is to inform the reader on how emergency response teams would work in a coordinated effort to respond to a mass casualty event. The general public does not typically understand how much is involved in declaring a mass casualty event and activating all the moving parts to achieve the greatest outcome possible. This information will be passed to the reader through explanation of terminology‚
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Never Events and Hospital Acquired Infections Hospital is the place to go when someone is sick and requires medical attention. It is shocking to know that one can contract diseases while in the hospital facility which were not present during admission. And that ‘Never Events’ which are preventable incidents such as wrong site surgery do occur in the hospital setting. How do we prevent hospital acquired conditions and never events from occurring in the hospital? It will be interesting to figure
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American Cultural Imperialism: Fact or Myth? The phenomenon known as globalization has brought sweeping changes to the world. Forces associated with globalization like the spread of capitalism‚ advancements in communications and information technology‚ and expansion of the media have contributed to these changes. The main trademark of globalization has been an increasing flow of exchange in trade and culture. With this lowering of barriers‚ some people have begun to talk of a global culture
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University College Dublin National University of Ireland Bachelor of Science (Singapore) Cross Cultural Management Pre Course Assignment Lecturer: Dr. Richard Tan Student Name: Zefanya Amarya Titiheruw Student Number: 1320 7826 Intake: BSc20 (B) Word Count : 4047 words Part I Summary of Article December 8‚ 2013 – a riot involving 400 people took place in Little India at around 9 pm. The situation arises after the SCDF (Singapore Civil Defense Force) located
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Global Events and Leadership Introduction The Global Issues workshop Is the start of your journey Towards understanding And developing leadership Skills The leadership modules continue the process The GEL Workshop Tutorial Teams January 2012 David Allen Stephen Parry Tudor Rickards Susan Moger Dina Williams Leigh Wharton Louise Pinfold Pikay Richardson Kamel Mnisri (e-facilitator) Alistair Benson Workshop Overview Introductions Global Events and Leadership The Leadership Resource Challenge
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CULTURAL MEANING The meaning humans give to actions‚ concepts and behaviours is dependent on the cultural milieu and is conditioned to a great extent by the underlying meaning systems‚ values and frames of meaning he/she inherites from the society in general. Socialization plays a direct role in that process. Education‚ effects of peers and the intellectual atmosphere all contribute to what is called cultural meaning or systems of meaning. Cultural meaning conditions our perception and determines
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in Hong Kong. game refers to the biggest multi-sport games after the Olympic game. There are 58 disciplines in this game. Also‚ it is the biggest event in the Asian countries. This game is helped by the Olympic Council of China. They’re part of member organized the event every four years. (Olympic Council of China) Feasibility analysis 1. This event is a good idea Asian game can increase the awareness of sporting and the Hong Kong athletes can exchange the experience and communicate with another
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The public event I will talk about is THE SALON at ULTA Beauty ’s Cut-A-Thon! Throughout the month of October‚ ULTA Beauty is proud to support The Breast Cancer Research Foundation® (BCRF) with fundraising initiatives. As part of its efforts‚ customers can once again participate in the largest event of its kind -- THE SALON at ULTA Beauty ’s Cut-A-Thon! There is a salon in each of ULTA Beauty ’s 609 stores across the country and more than 2000 ULTA Salon stylists will participate. This
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