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    Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Canada Name Institution ­­­­­ Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Canada Question #1 The chief aim of this paper is to contrast and compare anti-Semitism in Canada – predominantly modern Canada – with different forms of racism. For instance‚ the most popular practice of anti-Semitism in Canada is Zionism and nationalism. Most considerations of anti-Semitism in Canada and of the Jewish community more usually‚ have taken place separately from typical

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    PERSONALITY While motivations are the energizing and directing force that makes consumer behavior purposeful and goal directed‚ the personality of the consumer helps guide and further direct the behaviors chosen to accomplish goals in different situations. Personality is an individual’s characteristic response tendencies across similar situations . Thus‚ two consumers might have equal needs for tension reduction‚ but differ in their level of Dimension Promotion-Focused Prevention-Focused Motives

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    cultural relativism allows us to understand another culture on its own terms. We can analyze how the elements of culture fit together without judgment. Ethnocentrism - the tendency to use one’s own culture as a yardstick for judging the ways of other societies. It can create in group loyalties or lead to harmful discrimination. An example of ethnocentrism as used in the travel industry‚ we hate SPAM. We’ll NEVER rent‚ sell or give away your information to ANYONE. An example of cultural relativism‚ What

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    Contact between cultures

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    The main reason was to take possession of its land and resources and the riches were used to deal with another country. As there was an increase for the demand of food and other goods‚ they would establish a trading route for export. Ethnocentrism and Racism Ethnocentrism refers to: ‘’negatively judging aspects of another culture by the standards of one’s own culture. To be ethnocentric is to believe in the superiority of one’s own culture’’ (Jandt‚ 2010:84) Racism means a form of discrimination based

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    Because this structural-functional approach designates universal components of political system without dictating what those structures should be or how they should function‚ the theory allows for analysis of various types of systems without ethnocentrism. An individual system can be analyzed with this approach when the political scientist identifies the various structures and their functions. The political scientist can also evaluate that individual system for efficiency and effectiveness in the

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    found in the text? 1. Individualism 2. Achievements and success 3. Activity and work 4. Science and technology 5. Progress and material comfort 6. Efficiency and practicality 7. Equality 8. Morality and humanitarian 9. Freedom and Liberty 10. Ethnocentrism and group superiority (Kendall‚ 2014 pg. 74-75) Which ones do you embrace and why? The ones that I embrace are individualism because what you put into life will make you better than what you are. If you push yourself to do better in life then

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    In The New Americans by Ruben Martinez‚ the author provides insight of the life experience of several families as they emigrate from their homeland and migrate to America in hope to finding a better life. The following text will briefly examine each family and their experience‚ but critically analyze the experience through defining and relating sociological concepts and theories. By the end the writer will explain how in reading this book has helped in understanding cultural pluralism in American

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    Background to lounge suites This report is aimed at developing a market segmentation that profiles different groups of consumers for lounge suites which are commonly known as sofas in Malaysia. Sofas come in a variety of styles and can be made of fabric or leather. Furthermore‚ there are numerous types of fabrics and patterns that lounge suites can be designed in. Some lounge suites can also be multi-purpose and double as a bed. This essay will be covering the profiling of market segments‚ identification

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    What did nations do in order to become even more powerful? They colonized. Such was the case during the 15th to 17th centuries. An emerging Spain partook on a conquest to seize the world by imposition of their beliefs and lifestyles to different tribes. The film La Otra Conquista features the effects of this cultural imposition on the Aztec civilization and how colonialism was able to shape them into the people that they are today. Before continuing on‚ it is worth to note that there are certain

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    Humans are born from and return to earth at death; human beings and nature are bound up each other. Yet‚ the technological modern world has shaped humans to be oblivious of nature and the ethnocentrism has positioned human beings above all other things. Nature has become resources for people and nothing more than that. David Abram‚ the author of the Ecology of magic‚ travels into the wild‚ traditional land in search of the relation between magic and nature; the meaning nature holds in the traditional

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