Civilized Natives In the 16th century‚ the ethnocentric Europeans believed that Natives weren’t civilized and cultured people. “They caused a huge genocide on the Aboriginal people; leaving only around 800 000 Aboriginal Canadian citizens today.” (Manjikian‚ notes‚ 2013) Unfortunately‚ the Europeans were wrong. The Natives were very civilized and cultured human beings. This can be proven by multiple factors but only three will be analyzed: religion‚ art and creation stories. First of all‚ Natives
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1. Explain‚ in detail‚ the aspects of IKEA strategy that make it a Hybrid strategy. IKEA follows a combination of 2 generic strategies‚ making their strategy one that is considered a ‘hybrid’strategy. Cost leadership – • IKEA’s strategy is based on selling high-quality‚ Swedish designed‚ self-assembly furniture products at low price. The low price strategy seeks a achieve a lower price than competitors while maintaining similar perceived product and service benefits to those offered by its
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Muslim women are and should be in general. This is troublesome for Westerners may‚ and many times do‚ develop the notion that Muslim women are in need of help and “saving” by the Westerners for they are oppressed at the hands of men. This is an ethnocentric perspective for Westerners judge the culture of Muslim women according to the standards of their own culture. This may also
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The Workforce Today A lack of understanding and acceptance in any industry causes prejudice and ethnocentric thinking to occur. The American workforce is not only made up of those who may be from a single minority‚ but from multiple minority groups. Harvey and Allard (2011) give the example of not only a black male‚ but a black‚ gay male. This is something that both employees (professionals) and managers must take into consideration. As noted in the text‚ although we like to say we believe that
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to control women within their society and promote the practice of inequality. On the contrary‚ Professor Skinner believes that such cultural practices should not be eliminated and “…accuses feminists who want to abolish clitoridectomy of being ethnocentric.” Professor Skinner attempts to cover the cultural aspect of this issue‚ implying that African women themselves volunteer to perform clitoridectomy and decodes the cultural meaning behind such practice. Such cultural meaning is that of male initiation
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In the Declaration of Independence a statement is made that all people are equal and have as humans the immutable rights to life‚ liberty‚ and the pursuit of happiness. This statement is a promise to all people that the United States is a country where everyone should have the opportunity to reach their greatest potential. Saul Alinsky states in his book Rules for Radicals‚ “The spirit of democracy is the idea of the importance and worth of the individual‚ and faith in the kind of world where the
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Germans were particularly obedient to authority figures as this was a common explanation for the Nazi killings in World War II. To do so he studied 40 Americans all of whom were male. This is a small scale sample which only represents males and is ethnocentric to American males; therefore it would be difficult to generalise findings to the wider population and other countries. The unnatural
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hymeneal blood stain. An American human rights group condemned this practice‚ as well as reports of forced virginity tests on hospital patients‚ students and applicants for government jobs. Here is the question: Is the human rights group being ethnocentric in judging Turkish customs by American cultural norms‚ or is it correctly identifying abuses of women that must be corrected? And does it help if we further
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The Roman Empire and the Han Dynasty of China were great empires that still have influence on us today. As they developed‚ they formed some similarities in government‚ but there are more obvious differences between them in religion and commerce. The Roman empire and Han Dynasty both had a great leader who led them to their Golden Ages. In China‚ the emperor Wu Ti significantly expanded Chinese territory from Central Asia to Manchuria and Korea to Northern Vietnam‚ establishing the Pax
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bad side to it. The good side was that China was well protected from intruders. However‚ the bad side to this was that it was it more difficult for China to have contact with other cultures. (Document 2). This also led to China becoming very ethnocentric. Yu was a very important figure in ancient China. Ancient China was in need for water since it was surrounded by deserts and mountains. The solution Yu had to this problem was that he opened passages for the streams throughout the provinces
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