up of settlement. Secondly‚ it was the promoting of trade. Thirdly‚ they worked for the government. And finally‚ they served the community (Provided social services). The first contribution the immigrants made was building the settlement. The Chinese coolies and Indian labourers cleared the jungles making land available for expansion of towns and plantations. The coolies were employed in almost every sector of work including construction work‚ plantation work and in mines. Indian convicts helped
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The ultimate thing to do is to learn the language and culture for any country in order to show respect for that culture. Business communication is relatively equal across the borders. How business is handled will be different in each country. The Chinese handle their business with a very rigid and professional posture‚ Brazil handle their business with a more open communication policy‚ whereas South Africa has a very casual approach to handling their business. Technology can be a helpful tool with
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(Lansford 1). Every culture has its own myth that explains about the nature of that particular culture. The Chinese culture has been around for many centuries‚ its myths have accumulated into varies stories of gods and their culture. China is the world’s oldest continuous civilization (Cotterel 9). Evidence show the earliest Chinese civilization to be found around 1650 B.C. The beginnings of Chinese mythology‚ started around the Wei and Jin Dynasties. Influenced by alchemist ideas‚ Taoist and Buddhist
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Which society and culture have the greatest impact as the world past and today‚ Chinese or Western?" During the 2000 years of the past. China has achieved the world’s highest level in form of technology and income. However look back to the past two centuries‚ china has become weak when compared with certain other countries. The Chinese nation has made many brilliant contributions to world civilization. However‚ china was reduced to a colony and semi colony for a time. Consequently‚ China lagged
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have been the lone romantic who gave up everything for sex” (pg.6). Kingston believes this to be a sound argument because as she also states right after‚ “Women in old china did not choose” (pg.6). To Kingston‚ this means that her aunt‚ like all Chinese women‚ were not married because they fell in love and they wanted to live happily ever after. They married because they were told to marry. Love wasn’t a factor‚ so that is why her aunt could not have thrown everything away for this
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from harmful effects. South Africa and China both modernized in their own way. China attempted to modernize from the struggles that were present in the country. In China‚ modernization occurred later than then most countries; this allowed the Chinese to use other countries as a model. China began to focus on important industry’s that would help their country prosper. They began to advance in military‚ science‚ and technology‚ and established a strong economy by selling products to other nations
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The Chinese Spring Festival The Chinese New Year or more commonly The Spring Festival (Chun Jie in Chinese) is the most important festival in China. It has more than four thousand years of history. It is based on the Chinese lunar calendar which all Chinese people use. The celebrations begin the first day of the first lunar month and end the 15th‚ although the most important day for Chinese people is new year eve‚ this day you have to be with your family and have dinner all together‚ so if you
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Intercultural and Intergeneration Communication within the Chinese American Families In recent decades‚ migration waves have brought to the United States large numbers of Asians and Pacific Islanders (API). Well over two-fifths of all non-amnesty persons admitted in the U.S. in 1991 were API.[i] The trend of increasing API immigration is clear and the API portion in the U S. total immigration steadily grew from the 1972’s 28.7 percent to 1985’s 44.2 percent. According to the U.S. Census Bureau
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promotes immigration. But throughout the history of immigration‚ the Canadian government has discriminated against Chinese immigrants. In the following paragraphs‚ I will be looking at when the first members of the group came to Canada‚ why they came here‚ and also prejudice & discrimination. The first group of Chinese immigration came to Canada at around 1858 for economic needs. Chinese immigration into British Columbia began with the discovery of gold in the Fraser valley. Most of them are settled
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Chinese culture 1. Chinese Tea Culture China is the homeland of tea. It is believed that China has tea-shrubs as early as five to six thousand years ago‚ and human cultivation of teaplants dates back two thousand years. Tea from China‚ along with her silk and porcelain‚ began to be known the world over more than a thousand years ago and has since always been an important Chinese export. At present more than forty countries in the world grow tea with Asian countries producing 90% of the world’s
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