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    contrast ETHNOCENTRISM and CULTURAL RELATIVISM. Discuss how you have experienced OR witnessed both concepts in our American Society. Ethnocentrism is viewing your own culture as more superior than any other culture‚ that all other groups are measured in relation to one’s own. Ethnocentrism can lead to cultural misinterpretation and it often distorts communication between human beings. + while cultural relativism is "the concept that the importance of a particular cultural idea varies from one society

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    Culture/Arts To define arts and culture all types of creative expression must be considered ranging from individual to collective and also from grassroots to institutional. Auckland Council. (2012). The Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute believes that culture as a word has become enormously confused. The denotation of culture includes the following six fields yet many more do exist; Language which is and the most developed channel of expression and yet also the oldest human institution‚ Arts &

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    The Cultural Revolution was a movement in China during1966-1976. This revolution was a power struggle within the Communist Party of China. This struggle grew to include large portions of Chinese society‚ which eventually brought the People’s Republic of China to the brink of civil war. The revolution was launched by Mao Zedong‚ the Chairman of the Communist Party of China‚ in order to regain control after the Great Leap Forward. During the Great Leap Forward campaign Mao Zedong loss a significant

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    Globalization and Cross-Cultural Issues in Project Management Dennis G. Ballow‚ Sr.‚ MAED‚ PMP’ Project Management Knowledge Transfer‚ Inc. Abstract With hot topics like globalization and cross-cultural opportunities in the Asia Pacific rim‚ one might think it would be easy to research the implications of cross cultural issues. Rather‚ what the writer found was a significant discussion all around the periphery but little in-depth analysis. Discussion prevailed on the socio-economic and technological

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    RUNNING HEAD: NEGOTIATIONS RUNNING HEAD: NEGOTIATIONS CROSS CULTURAL NEGOTIATIONS MS302-ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR KAPLAN UNIVERSITY JULY 2‚ 2012 [Pick the date] Authored by: Andrea CROSS CULTURAL NEGOTIATIONS MS302-ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR KAPLAN UNIVERSITY JULY 2‚ 2012 [Pick the date] Authored by: Andrea | ANDREA REED | | | | ANDREA REED | | | Cross Cultural Negotiations Negotiation is a process in which two or more parties exchange goods or

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    Kolbe Cathedral Mao ’s Cultural Revolution Grade 10 After the collapse of China ’s Great Leap Forward‚ initiated by the Communist Party‚ Mao Zedong had lost a lot of momentum he had gained in the pursuit of his ideal nation. In an attempt to take back the control he once had in reforming China ’s political and economic policy‚ Mao launched the Cultural Revolution‚ a movement that intended to disintegrate Chinese

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    The Cultural Revolution as an Unintended Result of Administrative Policies Because the Cultural Revolution wounded so many patriotic Chinese‚ the question of its cause haunts current politics. Its violence - including widespread physical attacks against intellectuals and local leaders - was its most unusual aspect‚ the thing that calls for explanation‚ the experience that tends to overwhelm other memories of 1966-1968 in many Chinese minds. The Cultural Revolution obviously tapped frightening

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    The authors describe cultural relativism in this chapter. They explain cultural relativism with some examples such as Callatians‚ who lived in India and ate the bodies of their dead father‚ and Eskimos‚ who are native people of Alaska and had distinct moral codes‚ such as marriages‚ sexual practices‚ and infanticide. For instance‚ infanticide was common in Eskimos’ society of the early and mid-20th century. The customs seemed that they had little respect for human life. So‚ the two examples seem

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    The Flaws of Cultural Relativism Renowned philosopher Peter Singer once said: “...from a still larger point of view‚ my society is just one among other societies‚ and the interests of members of my society are no more important‚ from that larger perspective‚ than the similar interests of members of other societies… Taking the impartial element in ethical reasoning to its logical conclusion means‚ first‚ accepting that we ought to have equal concern for all human beings." What Singer is saying

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    standards. This is because of the use of cultural relativism‚ which is the belief that something is good or wrong if and only if it is approved or disapproved in a given culture. Right and wrong values vary from society to society; therefore‚ there is no standard base to judge what is universally right or wrong between the different cultures. Because of this‚ societies may disagree about the morality of what is right and wrong. Gensler believes that if cultural relativism is true‚ then there are no

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