present paper contrasts the importance of two divergent approaches to training‚ approaches that are either universalistic (etic) or particularistic (emic) in nature. While most extant literature on cross-cultural communication focuses primarily on culture-specific-emic-approaches‚ this paper stresses the value of also drawing on pan-cultural-universalistic-approaches. We illustrate the utility of such an approach through the example of "politeness" theory (Brown & Levinson‚ 1978‚ 1987). Politeness
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Samuel Huntington‚ The Clash of Civilizations?: Islam and the West When taking another glance at Huntington’s “Clash of Civilizations?”‚ the provocative nature of his arguments and the fervent scholarly debate that followed are hardly surprising. Although‚ for myself‚ I remain troubled by one important question. Is Huntington completely wrong‚ as many propose‚ about a rising conflict between the nations of Islam and those of the West in the post cold war era? Huntington contends that the future
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Then said Jesus unto his disciples‚ Verily I say unto you‚ That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. And again I say unto you‚ It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle‚ than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. Source: Reginald‚ monk of Durham‚ younger contemporary and colleague of St. Godric‚ The Life of St. Godric (a twelfth-century British merchant)‚ written before St. Godric’s death in 1170. He chose not to follow the life of a husbandman
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Clash of Globalizations—Stanley Hoffman Effects of Globalization * Hoffman points out that globalization is occurring in a world still divided by great power antagonisms‚ such as nationalism‚ cultural diversity‚ increasing economic inequality‚ etc. * 3 effects of globalization on international politics * 1. Institutions (NGOs) favoring a ’global society’ seek to reduce the destructive effects of national regulations on the forces of integration * In other words‚ these institutions
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The Culture that I will focus on is Spanish Culture. Spanish Culture has a lot of factors and history ranging from music all the way to food and holidays. Spanish Culture has a lot of stuff that is able to separate them from other cultures and countries around the world. The languages that are used mostly in Spanish culture are Spanish and Latin. The majority of Spanish countries talk in either one or both of these languages. The next biggest idea of Spanish culture is food. Most families for
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The Progress of Culture As the debate about culture spread throughout the late years of the Victorian Age‚ more and more ideas emerged and the notion of culture began to assume his first definitions. Culture has always been generally identified as something that emphasise “patterns of behaviour‚ thought‚ feeling … that are passed on extra-somatically from individual to individual” (Brown 52)‚ therefore this explanation‚ that can be judged as simplistic‚ aligns itself with the widespread concept
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Samuel P. Huntington shocked the world in 1993 when he published “The Clash of Civilizations” in the journal of Foreign Affairs. Huntington states “most important conflicts of the future will occur along the cultural fault lines separating these civilizations from one another” (Huntington 1993‚ 25). He claims future conflicts after the Cold War will involve divides‚ disagreement and splits between cultures‚ races‚ religious beliefs. Huntington states his theory as “the fundamental source of conflict
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My Culture Culture was edited by Darrell L. Whiteman-a Professor of Cultural Anthropology in the E. Stanly Jones School of Evangelism and World Mission (1980s) who defined as an integrated system of learned‚ shared ideas that people in society carry in their heads‚ which in turn are expressed in the form of material artifacts and observable behavior that members of society shared in common. With this definition‚ I define it as the activities or work produced by a group of people by using their
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There are thousands and thousands of cultures within our world and society today. I have decided to observe a family that has a completely different culture than my family. The family I followed is a Hispanic family that is extremely close and very religious. The Rios family consists of five people: Fabiola Rios‚ Pablo Rios Sr.‚ Pablo Rios Jr.‚ Tania Rios‚ and Kiara Rios. The Rios family is very Catholic and extremely close. A typical Sunday with the Rios’ starts off with everyone getting up at
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The Wild West was a new beginning for many new people who were having troubles in their life. There were many reasons why people wanted to move west including farm land‚ new job openings‚ gold‚ and criminals came over because there was a lack of cops and some people just wanted to start over. To begin with many people came over to the Wild West in search of gold which would lead them to a better life of being rich. But often time’s people weren’t as successful as they thought they would be in search
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