Soul Train and its Cultural Impacts Via ‘Making’ The television program Soul Train was undoubtedly a watershed moment in entertainment media (specifically televised ‘bandstand’ formats). What started as an attempt to re-brand‚ or re-cast‚ blacks in mainstream American media quickly became a cultural‚ social‚ and economic phenomenon of its own. Although the show is seminole for a whole host of reasons in terms of achievement for black entrepreneurs‚ musicians‚ and the like‚ what I find more compelling
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Globalization and its impact on Indian Economy: Developments and Challenges Globalization (or globalization) describes a process by which regional economies‚ societies‚ and cultures have become integrated through a global network of communication‚ transportation‚ and trade. The term is sometimes used to refer specifically to economic globalization: the integration of national economies into the international economy through trade‚ foreign direct investment‚ capital flows‚ migration‚ and the spread
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the same amount of success that Wal-Mart has had for nearly 30 years. Having to work within the social-cultural environment has been challenging for Wal-Mart domestically and globally. These challenges created only minor set backs for the superstore giant. Learning from its experiences‚ good and bad‚ Wal-Mart continues growing as the largest retailer in the world. Wal-Mart’s social-cultural values have worked well for them. When a company is looking at its beliefs‚ they must consider their employees
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CURTIN UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF HUMANITIES (DEPARTMENT OF CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT) IDENTIFICATION OF THE IMPACT OF HOFSTEDE’S CROSS-CULTURAL DIMENSIONS ON THE DETERMINANTS OF PROJECT SUCCESS AMONG MANAGERS IN PRIVATE SECTOR ORGANIZATIONS IN MIRI‚ SARAWAK‚ MALAYSIA Uyi Rapheal Edomwandagbon 7e0b8198/14 Mitrabinda Singh Research thesis presented as a part of the requirements for the award of the degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE (Project Management) June 2012 Acknowledgement My
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You are here: / Why / Socio-cultural impacts The socio-cultural impacts of conventional tourism described here‚ are the effects on host communities of direct and indirect relations with tourists and of interaction with the tourism industry. For a variety of reasons‚ host communities often are the weaker party in interactions with their guests and service providers. The impacts arise when tourism brings about changes in value systems and behaviour‚ thereby threatening indigenous identity.
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The Impact of Cultural Differences on English Learning and Teaching I. Introduction Nowadays‚ culture plays a very important role in the foreign language classroom. Because cultural differences may give rise to misunderstanding that exists in intercultural communication. So the teaching of culture in the English classroom has been becoming a heated topic and people pay more and more attention to the cultural studies and intercultural communication in recent years. Therefore‚ culture teaching
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Question: “The benefits of Transnational Corporations (TNCs) operating in Less Developed Countries outweigh the negative impacts.” How far would you agree with this statement? A transnational corporation (TNC) is a firm that has the power to coordinate and control operations in more than one country‚ even if it does not own them. There has been a movement of industrial activity from Developed Countries (DCs) to Less Developed Countries‚ due to the lower production costs in LDCs‚ allowing TNCs
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Accepting/understanding the local political system. 36. Understanding the locals’ world view. 37. Taking a local perspective on the culture. 38. Understanding the local value system. 39. Seeing things from the locals’ point of view. 40. Understanding cultural differences. 41. Being able to see two sides of an intercultural issue.
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illustrate the changes and development of the creative/cultural industry due to the effects of globalisation. Globalisation‚ according to the Collins Dictionary is “"process enabling financial and investment markets to operate internationally‚ largely as a result of deregulation and improved communications". “The cultural industries have moved closer to the centre of the economic action in many countries and across much of the world. Cultural industry companies can no longer be seen as secondary
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VIET NAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF HO CHI MINH CITY UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND LAW NGUYỄN TẤN VINH IMPACT OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT ON ECONOMIC STRUCTUAL CHANGE IN HO CHI MINH CITY Major: Code: Economics 62.31.03.01 Supervisor: 1. Dr. Nguyễn Tiến Dũng 2. Dr. Lê Tuấn Lộc DOCTORAL THESIS SUMMARY Ho Chi Minh City - 2011 1 INTRODUCTION 1. Problem statement Industrialization and modernization of the economy and proactive international economic integration are the pressing
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