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    Cultural Diversity

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    Cultural diversity in the Mediterranean I 1- Culture and identity: Cultural identity as a construct: Identitas (lat. = the same): Nature is the same and it evolves at the same time Being and becoming Meaning and experience Social constructionim: “It is concerned with showing how members of a group go about constructing a world of common experience” (David L. Preston) Internalized attitudes and behaviors The Big Other (Lacan and Zizek): “ The [Big Other] is

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    Influence of Hip Hop & Rap Hip hop and rap as a musical genre is a very controversial subject for nearly everyone. Its influences are powerful‚ both positive and negative. There are many positive influences of hip hop‚ and a few examples are the breaking down of cultural barriers‚ the economic impact‚ and political awareness of pressing and urgent issues. Though there are many positive influences‚ there are many negative influences as well. Some of the more heated debates of the negative influences

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    Cultural Idintities

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    Introduction Cultural identity refers to the identity elements of a group of people or a particular culture‚ or even an individual who belongs and influenced by a certain group or culture. Different current cultural researches and social theories have examined cultural identity. Recently‚ a new type of identification has appeared which analyze the recognizing of the individual as a integrated subject within a collection of different cultural identifiers. These cultural identifiers might be the

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    Cultural Appropriation

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    Have you ever heard of cultural appropriation? The bottom line is it’s a modern euphemism for theft of different elements from one culture into another. I appreciate that cultural appropriation can be a very challenging and confusing issue for some to understand but one simple illustration is the adoption of rap music into white culture in the late 1900’s. Rap music initially emerged as a result of the civil rights movement in America essentially as a way to bring attention to important social issues

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    Cultural Intelligence

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    Staple here Cultural Intelligence TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction: Culture and Intelligence Defined 3 2. The concept of cultural intelligence 7 3. The effect of Globalisation on CQ 8 4. Aspects of Cultural Intelligence 10 5. Developing and Enhancing Cultural Intelligence 12 6. Profiles of Cultural Intelligence 14 7. Business benefits of Cultural Intelligence 16 8. Conclusion 18 9. References 19 1. Introduction: Culture and Intelligence Defined "Managing and leading

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    Cultural Imperialism

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    2008 AP Human Geography Mrs. Rutlege Cultural Imperialism By definition cultural imperialism is the practice of promoting‚ distinguishing‚ separating‚ or artificially injecting the culture or language of one nation into another. Usually the larger power or culture is imposing their culture on a smaller‚ less influential culture. Cultural imperialism can take the form of an active‚ formal policy or a general attitude. The question‚ “Does U.S. cultural imperialism exist?” might as well be rhetorical

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    cultural misunderstandings

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    Cultural Misunderstandings Darcy Lingg PSYC3540 – Culture‚ Ethnicity & Diversity Capella University March 2014 My example of a cultural misunderstanding is between a doctor and a Chinese patient. Are you drinking plenty of fluids? < Patient thoughts: I wonder why he is asking me that‚ what it is with these people and water > I don’t like the water here. It’s too cold. I don’t know what’s wrong with people here that they drink that. Really??? And what happens when you drink the

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    University College Dublin National University of Ireland Bachelor of Science (Singapore) Cross Cultural Management Pre Course Assignment Lecturer: Dr. Richard Tan Student Name: Zefanya Amarya Titiheruw Student Number: 1320 7826 Intake: BSc20 (B) Word Count : 4047 words Part I Summary of Article December 8‚ 2013 – a riot involving 400 people took place in Little India at around 9 pm. The situation arises after the SCDF (Singapore Civil Defense Force) located

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    Cultural and Parental Affects on Child Development How parent styles and culture can affect child development is an interesting question. Really the question isn’t how it can affect development but how will it affect child development. No matter where or how a child is raised it will be affected by both parent styles and culture‚ even if it’s a lack of them. Parents parent in many different styles. It would be close to impossible to cover all the different styles that people use or state

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    Cultural Relativism

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    (Rachels 618). This claim is known as Cultural Relativism. "Cultural Relativism‚ as it has been called‚ challenges our ordinary belief in the objectivity and universality of moral truth. There is no such thing as universal truth in ethics: there there are only the various cultural codes‚ and nothing more. Moreover‚ our own code has no special status‚ it is merely one among many" (Rachels 618). It is clear that the answer to the question of ethics is‚ Cultural Relativism. The subject of murder is

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