4304/jltr.3.1.74-84 Cultural Awareness and Translation Teaching at Higher Vocational College: Problems and Solutions Xuelian He Quzhou College of Technology‚ Quzhou‚ Zhejiang‚ China Email: angelaxl@163.com Abstract—In this paper‚ an investigation has been done on culture knowledge acquisition and cultural awareness of English majors at Higher Vocational College by taking the students at Quzhou College of Technology as the subjects. The problem of lack of culture knowledge and cultural awareness has
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Cultural relativity is the process to understand that all beliefs‚ customs‚ and ethics are relative to the individual within his own social context. In other words‚ “right” and “wrong” are culture-specific; what is considered moral in one society may be considered immoral in another society. And since there is no something as “universal standard of morality”‚ therefore we have to use the culture’s own value system to judge the culture. It is closely related to ethical relativism‚ which is to judge
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A cultural universal (as discussed by George Murdock‚ Claude Lévi-Strauss‚ Donald Brown and others) is an element‚ pattern‚ trait‚ or institution that is common to all human cultures worldwide. Evolutionary psychologists hold that behaviors or traits that occur universally in all cultures are good candidates for evolutionary adaptations.[1] Some anthropological sociological theorists that take a cultural relativist perspective may deny the existence of cultural universals: the extent to which these
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and ideas. All this is causing a growing interdependency among nations which‚ nowadays‚ are more aware of the increased need for a better understanding of cultural contexts and influences on leadership and organizational practices when going and being global. In both global and professional outlook and field‚ you should not only have cultural awareness‚ understanding and knowledge‚ but also have the capacity to implement and transfer that learned and earned knowledge and experience in culture diversity
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The American Psychiatric Association‚ 2013 has made initial strides in recognizing the importance of ethnic and cultural factors related to psychiatric diagnosis. This paper discuses a 37-year-old Haitian female client. Details are discussed as to her presenting symptoms. In addition‚ the importance of a cultural assessment as it relates to minority clients is detailed. Cultural Assessment of Mrs. Hudson’s Haitian Culture Mrs. Hudson is a 37-year-old Haitian American woman who resides with her
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Term Paper On “Cultural Diversity in the Global World” Course Name: Comparative Management Course No: IB-303 Submitted to: Muhammad Shahin Miah Lecturer Department of International Business Faculty of Business Studies University of Dhaka Submitted by: Md. Jahir Hasan Id: 22 4TH Batch‚ 5th Semester Department of International Business Faculty of Business Studies University of Dhaka
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Name: Yifei Gao Date: 09/26/10 Cultural Identity Cultural identity is something special which distinguishes itself from other cultures. Generally‚ as society develops‚ its certain culture prospers and gradually becomes different from others. When we focus on certain individuals‚ it seems that everyone does have his own cultural identity no matter where he comes from. Culture is a broad term‚ and it’s summed up several different sections. Culture contains not only books from which we have learned
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Introduction Culture is regarded as a sequence of morals and behaviors that will define a particular cultural‚ societal or age of individuals. Certain groups are associated with values and actions that are communicated or understood through culture. Culture ordinarily describes life as time given every individual conforms to certain rules that shape a fraction of their culture. Adolescent substance abuse is influenced greatly by his or her culture (Griswold et al. 2008). Certain cultures agree to
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(Rachels 618). This claim is known as Cultural Relativism. "Cultural Relativism‚ as it has been called‚ challenges our ordinary belief in the objectivity and universality of moral truth. There is no such thing as universal truth in ethics: there there are only the various cultural codes‚ and nothing more. Moreover‚ our own code has no special status‚ it is merely one among many" (Rachels 618). It is clear that the answer to the question of ethics is‚ Cultural Relativism. The subject of murder is
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2007 The Cultural Impact of Information Systems – Through the Eyes of Hofstede – A Critical Journey Michael Jones University of Wollongong‚ Wollongong‚ Australia mjones@uow.edu.au Irit Alony Central Queensland University‚ Rockhampton‚ Australia i.alony@cqu.edu.au Abstract With the increasing levels of multiculturalism in today’s business and the proliferation and essentiality of information systems‚ development and management of IS needs to be considered in light of the cultural factors
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