Year 8 Critical Review – Different Cultures… How does Jolil feel trapped between the two cultures in the short story Kiss Miss Carol by Farrukh Dhondy? In this essay I shall be discussing and looking at how Jolil feels‚ distressed between two different cultures that he is living in‚ at school and at home. Jolil feels stuck between the two cultures because his family are Muslim. Their culture is Bangladeshi and he is living in Britain in the East End of London. In ‘Kiss Miss Carol’ I think Farrukh
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Every society and culture has different ways of interpreting and defining occurrences by the way their own culture or society functions. "A society ’s culture‚ consists of whatever it is one has to know or believe in order to operate in a manner acceptable to its members"(Geertz 242). The rituals‚ customs‚ ethics and morals that are attributed to the cultures have caused these differences. To understand how the people of one culture interpret a situation or event‚ one must evaluate the attributes
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It is well-know fact that different people have different opinion and this saying can be also used in the culture. For that reason‚ different cultures would make people have different behaviours.Culture can be defines as “the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one human group from another” (Hofstede 1984‚ p: 21). Culture is consisting of language‚ political‚ values‚ belief‚ food‚ cloth‚ etc. And those elements make people have different behaviours. Therefore‚ there
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many different cultures in the world. Some of them share the same characteristics‚ whereas some are the complete opposite of one another. For example‚ the Sumerians‚ Akkadians‚ Babylonians‚ and the Assyrians all share common religious beliefs‚ literature‚ and architectural styles. Each detail about these cultures truly describe how unique they really are. Religion has been known to cause issues between cultures because they believe so differently. However‚ three out of four of these cultures have
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Team Performance Management Emerald Article: Overcoming the problems of cultural differences to establish success for international management teams Malcolm Higgs Article information: To cite this document: Malcolm Higgs‚ (1996)‚"Overcoming the problems of cultural differences to establish success for international management teams"‚ Team Performance Management‚ Vol. 2 Iss: 1 pp. 36 - 43 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13527599610105547 Downloaded on: 26-01-2013
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RE: Culture In today’s multi-cultural society it is most likely that we all have or will interact with people from other cultures. The only aspect of interacting with people from other cultures that sometimes proves difficult for me is the issue of language and accents. For the most part I have no problems understanding most dialects’ yet there are some that are very difficult for me to understand so listen intently. If I know that I am meeting with a person from a culture and I am not familiar
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Culture is our way of life. It includes our values‚ beliefs‚ customs‚ languages and traditions. Culture is reflected in our history‚ in our heritage and in how we express ideas and creativity. We can see that in the world we have many countries‚ many societies therefore we have many cultures in the world. Many factor such as‚ Environment‚ Belief‚ Religious‚ and Popularity. At present every country in the world has more stronger relationship because of high technology. There are many people who have
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A Comparison of Chinese and Western Culture Different countries have different cultures. Chinese and Western culture are often used to compare. There is an old saying: East is east and West is west; never the twain shall meet. These two cultures will never melt together. They have their own value and belief. In this essay‚ I will further explain the differences between these two cultures in the following aspects: Self‚ religion and education system. First of all‚ Chinese believe in collectivism
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111-S June 7‚ 2007 Meeting New Cultures Meeting people of other cultures has helped me to become a better person. Some people do not know how to meet or become friends with people of other cultures. A lot of people need to learn how to understand the cultures of different people. For example‚ there are several kinds of people that you could meet‚ be friends with‚ and learn a lot from. I have encountered people from some of the Indian tribe cultures; as well as the Mexican‚ Latino‚ Irish
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In this essay I will be comparing the two poems from two different cultures‚ background and traditions. Search for my tongue and presents from my aunt in Pakistan are about identity (who they are) and searching for their roots. Presents from my aunt is about a mix race girl who describes the clothes and jewellery she has receive from her aunts in Pakistan. The girl contrasts the dazzling clothes and jewellery to the boring everyday English clothes. In both poems the message of the importance of
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