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    Cultural Anthropology

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    food scarcity‚ which means the mother is not as well nourished as she could be. She and her husband decide that their older child is a higher priority‚ and they opt to end their newborn baby’s life. Considering the concepts of ethnocentrism and cultural relativism‚ discuss the practice of infanticide. This would be a hard thing to personally swallow - in our society‚ killing a child is a horrific brutal crime (post birth). When i thought about this question I immediately related the situation

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    Cultural Diet

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    Our American culture is impacted by high obesity rates. We often are sucked into fad diet plans and exercises. Particularly in the black community we do not put our health first. Our cultural diet does not consist of dishes with health in mind. We are riddled with obesity‚ hypertension‚ diabetes‚ and etc. All of these disease can be prevented by diet. Why is my community plagued with these preventable diseases? There is a lack of consciousness and education of health. The working or unemployed does

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    Introduction A key to manage effectively across national and cultural boundaries‚ which is critical to the success (Browaeys and Price‚ 2011)‚ lies in the understanding the different means of in various cultures (Trompenaars‚ 1993). Hence‚ basic cultural analysis should be conducted to better plan the new manufacturing business unit in Brazil where there are many differences from the Swedish culture. The famous analytic models from Hofstede (1980) and Trompenaars (1993) are applied to identify the

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    Cross Cultural Communication Mohamed Elamin Date: 02/23/2011 City University of Seattle Abstract This paper is about comparing and contrasting the American style of communication and that of Bahrain. Different countries have their own interpretation for every single issue based on their culture background and their way of thinking. The most significant characteristics of American culture are: individualism‚ equality‚ competition‚ freedom and privacy‚ action orientation‚ directness‚ particularity

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    Cultural Pluralism

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    Cultural Pluralism Since the immigrants first arrived from other countries to the United States‚ they were having a hard in the U.S.A. It is long‚ hard and painful. They thought they could have a better life in the U.S.A; the true is there was many problems are waiting for them. Because of immigrants usually don’t speak the dominate language of U.S.A‚ so the only jobs they could do is the lower class job with low paying. So immigrants are having hard time to live in the U.S.A; But sine have more

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    cultural experience

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    Mercedes Lechlitner S102 Katy Kelly April 1‚ 2014 Cultural Experience Describe In preparation for this reflection‚ I began by thinking about what cultural event I would most like to attend‚ what would work for the assignment and what would also benefit me in my personal life by actually forcing me out of my comfort zone to experience things I never have before. Because Christianity is such a huge part of my life I immediately thought I would want to do something based on another religion

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    Managing Cultural Diveristy

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    "culture is too fundamental to be solved through tighter definition". Greater implication for the managerial tasks‚ however‚ comes from the cultural diversity. Cox (1993) defines diversity as “representation‚ in one social system‚ of people with distinctly different group affiliations of cultural significance”. Factors differentiating these people include cultural background‚ race‚ education‚ age‚ physical and cognitive ability among other. (Seymen‚ 2006) These criteria indicate that difference is significant

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    Cultural Universal

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    Cultural universals are specific behavioral elements that are common to every culture. Anthropologist George Murdock compiled a list of cultural universals‚ including sports‚ cooking‚ courtship‚ dancing‚ family‚ games‚ music‚ religion‚ and marriage. Although Murdok’s universals are found in every culture‚ the way in which they are expressed varies from culture to culture. Funeral rites are practiced in every culture in some form. A funeral is a ceremony marking a person’s death. There are universals

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    Cultural Transformation

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    Univ 102 . 10 May 2011 Cultural Transformations of Little Red Riding Hood The story of “Little Red Riding Hood” began as a fairy tale passed down through the centuries‚ especially by peasant women to their daughters since folklorists often belonged to the peasant culture (Tatar 3). The peasants who were farmworkers and domestic laborers needed something to do while working tediously‚ so they told each other tales. That’s why the Little Red Riding Hood story’s original plot had a peasant

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    cultural diversity

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    Below are four scenarios pertaining to cultural diversity. For this assignment‚ you will prepare a research paper that focuses on one of these scenarios‚ analyzing what happened‚ what the consequences either are or might be‚ and how the situation can be corrected and/or prevented in the future. These must be concrete suggestions that could actually be implemented rather than vague references or opinions. While the situations have been fictionalized‚ there have been actual situations that are very

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