Report on the Cultural Adaptation on the PG Students in Middlesex University Executive Summary: When new students attend university in a new culture from their own culture‚ behaviors and expectations change. According to Zhou at el (2008)‚ traditionally researchers thought that culture shock was only about medical conditions. Historical theory has changed to contemporary theory of acculturation. This theory contains of cultural learning‚ stress and coping and social identification. We found
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World Telecommunications IncWorldwide Telecommunications‚ Inc. is a telecommunication company that is rapidly growing; Worldwide Telecommunications Inc.‚ is not only increasing their financial margin‚ but also doubling in employee size. Worldwide Telecommunications‚ Inc. believes it is important to ensure their employees of both genders and every race‚ faith‚ nationality and physical capability have access to equal opportunity and likelihood of success. Below we will evaluate the positive and negative
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Multiculturalism Taylor White Ultimate Medical Academy Multiculturalism Multiculturalism is when several cultures coexist without one dominating another in the same geographic area. America has been considered a “melting pot” for exactly this reason. The population is more diverse than it has ever been and is continuing to grow rapidly. Some say that this multiculturalism movement is a good thing while others view it as a bad thing. I will explain why I believe multiculturalism is a positive
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CULTURAL DIVERSITY If somebody asks me to describe the world in one world‚ diversity will be my answer. Research has shown that we have about 200 countries‚ 21 religions and 6500 languages all over the world (google.com)‚ which make our world becomes a colorful and copious globe. America is also considered to be a small version of the world. This essay will explain the development of cultural diversity‚ its effects on our lives and how it can impact human behavior. We all know that culture
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TRUONG LAN Topic: In the context of globalization‚ should college students have a few years learning and working abroad? As the world is opening and on-going globalized‚ many people assume that a few years learning and working abroad is really beneficial to students‚ enhancing their employment opportunities‚ having themselves developed and giving them intercultural experience. Personally‚ I am not an exception to this. First‚ college students learning or working abroad are more likely to be employable
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According to the Caribbean scholar Edward Kamau Brathwaite (1974) Creolization is the process through which the various groups in the Caribbean society absorb each other’s cultural product. Our Caribbean culture as we know it today was born out of many different cultures as the Jamaican national motto reads ‘Out of Many One People’. This change in the pre-emancipation days was brought about by the main components of acculturation and interculturation. Acculturation where the enslaved Africans
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1. Most people wouldn’t realize it but cultural appropriation have been around for more years than any of us ever knew. Cultural appropriation didn’t just start in the United States a couple of years ago‚ it actually started all the way back in Africa 4 million years ago. The reason I say 4 million years ago is because the oldest living person in the world was dated back 4 million years ago in Africa. Over the years explores‚ philosophers‚ writers‚ and artist all around the world have studied and
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Cultural appropriation is a toxin to ethnic communities around and throughout the world. Cultural appropriation has come to the forefront of modern consciousness in recent years‚ mostly because of the age we live in where we are all connected to what’s happening at all times. What is cultural appropriation? Cultural appropriation is the adoption or use of elements of one culture by members of another culture‚ this subsequently robs a cultural group of it’s cultural identity and pride and mocks it
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Cultural Appropriation is the taking up of outside cultural elements by others of another group. This is usually between an oppressed culture and a dominant culture whereby the dominant culture inherits theses elements through the oppressed cultures.(Eden Cacede‚ 20 January 2015‚ our culture are not your culture). These culture are know as the Imitating culture and there cultures can then be seen as the holders of the particular practices that are inherited‚ and to observers these practices can be
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Sandip Roy-Chowdhury‚ the author of “Just a Little Red Dot: Long Before Bindis Began to Dot the Faces of Hollywood‚ a School Teacher Used Them to Educate About Culture” like the other authors‚ did highlight cultural appropriation. However‚ she did provide a suggestion to diminish cultural appropriation; education. Maria Sen‚ a teacher of Indian background is the focus of the entire article. Sandip uses education to make her argument regarding cultural appropriation versus cultural appreciation.
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