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    their business with a very rigid and professional posture‚ Brazil handle their business with a more open communication policy‚ whereas South Africa has a very casual approach to handling their business. Technology can be a helpful tool with cross-cultural communications between America and all the other countries in the world. With video conferencing‚ many executives from around the world have the ability to talk to each other from their very own offices. Technology has eliminated the expense for

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    Did anyone benefit from the Cultural Revolution? Few people would deny that the Cultural Revolution is one of the most significant events in China’s history‚ with its extraordinary effects on many groups of the population. The main aim of the revolution was simple: having risen to power‚ the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) wanted to reform the Chinese population so that they followed the communist ideology – the favour of absolute social equality. While the initial impression of this aim seems positive

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    Issues Today: Universalism vs. Cultural Relativism One of the most pertinent issues of the past twenty years has been the conflict between two different ideologies of human rights on a national scale‚ universalism‚ and cultural relativism. Universalism holds that more “primitive” cultures will eventually evolve to have the same system of law and rights as Western cultures. Cultural relativists hold an opposite‚ but similarly rigid viewpoint‚ that a traditional culture is unchangeable. In universalism

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    I am going to discuss Shafer-Landau’s argument on Ethical Relativism‚ specifically his stand on Cultural Relativism. 1. Cultural Relativism says that a society’s or cultures basic ideals are considered morally right. 2. Cultural Relativism cannot make sense of moral progress. 3. Cultural Relativism contradicts itself because different societies can have different views. 4. Cultural Relativism doesn’t account for morality’s true nature. In support of Premise #2: Shafer claims “If a person’s or

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    DÍAZ’S DROWN: A STRUGGLE FOR CULTURAL IDENTITY 1 Junot Díaz’s Drown: A Struggle for Cultural Identity Against an Unjust Society DÍAZ’S DROWN: A STRUGGLE FOR CULTURAL IDENTITY Junot Díaz’s Drown: A Struggle for Cultural Identity Against an Unjust Society Junot Díaz’s Drown is a compelling and surprising set of short stories‚ each affecting the reader in a different way‚ but all making an impression. These stories follow a variety of characters‚ often depicting the experience of the immigrant experience

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    The document ‘Remembering China’s Cultural Revolution’ creates a melancholic feeling. An anonymous writer who was a victim of the brutality of Cultural Revolution in China writes it. The document‚ written in 1966‚ gives an account of events that led the writer to live an awful life. He describes his life as miserable; the future holds no good to him‚ as a direct victim of Mao Zedong paradigm‚ he endures a lot of suffering‚ he swears to avenge his suffering. The author‚ a victim of human rights violence

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    “were taking the capitalist road.” Mao called for a wave of criticism against “reactionary bourgeois ideology” in 1966. Thus began the decade-long Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution that would have devastating and far-reaching impact on modern China. The

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    As technology continues to develop in our modern world‚ so does our cultural identity. From the beginning of the Internet in the early 1990s‚ people have already started relying on computers to store and share files within companies and shared groups of people. As the Internet’s development accelerated to the 2000s‚ the identity of individuals began to change. The world-wide web’s name itself tells us what it is; information constructed on a web with world-wide information. For people with access

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    were asked questions gleamed from the documented writings of the cited researchers. The research supports the hypothesis that these women suffer depression and rejection due to cultural differences. The complication of trying to thrive in a society that is different from their cultural up bring and retaining their cultural identity intact posses the issues of identity. The women are faced with the vast opportunity of the western woman. In the

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    Foundation of Mythology Mythology in Academia‚ Society‚ and Cultural Context In society mythology seems to be commonly associated with Greek and Norse myths. According to Dictionary.com online (n.d.)‚ a “myth” is a story of tradition usually depicting a hero or event to explain cultural behaviors‚ events‚ or natural phenomenon. Based on personal experience when the word “myth” is used one usually associated it with made up stories to explain the seasons‚ landscapes‚ or one example is in reference

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