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    Cox‚ Du Bois‚ and Ida B. Wells-Barnett all had similar ideas. They all experienced racial segregation related issues whether it pertained personally to themselves or not. The topics they discuss are important to our society today because they inform us on issues of the past that persist today and give us insight on the progress we have or have not made. We can compare our personal experiences in our lives with theirs‚ and recognize how fortunate we are not to have gone through some of the exact struggles

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    VIETNAMESE VS. AMERICAN Vietnam’s admission to the World Trade Organization together with the normalization of trade relations between the U.S. and Vietnam has opened great opportunities for many American companies to do business in this rapidly growing country. However‚ cultural barriers can adversely affect business transactions right from the negotiation process. American companies seeking a successful cross-cultural negotiation in Vietnam should understand‚ tolerate‚ and adapt to the differences

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    COMM120 Intercultural Communication: Journal Report 1 Name: Ng Txx Hxx‚ Pxxxxx (SXXXX075I) http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/02/15/f-audio-photos-immigrant-canadian-children.html Children of immigrants caught between 2 cultures Second-generation Canadians open up about bullying at school‚ cultural conflict at home By John Rieti‚ CBC News  Posted: Feb 15‚ 2012 3:04 PM ET  | | | | | At Winnipeg’s Churchill High School‚ Ronia Arab just looks like a typical student. But

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    Chapters/Topics Chapter 1: Developing a Sociological Consciousness Study all terms What are sociology and the sociological imagination? Who coined these terms? Sociology: Scientific study of social interactions and social organization Sociological Imagination: the ability to see how our private experiences & difficulties are reflective of the structural arrangements of the society & time you live in Coined by C. Wright Mills Is sociology a science? What type of science? Yes‚ sociology

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    Cultural Differences Between TQ and Traditional Organizations Some of the contrasting differences between modern TQ organizations and traditional organizations that pre-dated the quality revolution are summarized below. Organizational structures: Traditional management views an enterprise as a collection of separate‚ highly specialized individual performers and units‚ linked within a functional hierarchy. Lateral connections are made by intermediaries close to the top of the provinces. TQ views

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    |Chapter 3: Culture |[pic] | |Chapter Overview | | |PART I: CHAPTER OUTLINE |[pic] | |What is Culture? | | |Culture and Human Intelligence |

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    CHAPTER 1 – GLOBALIZATION AND INTERNATIONAL LINKAGES A. INTRODUCTION 1. International Management Defined as: the process of applying management concepts and techniques in a multinational environment and adapting management to different economic‚ political and cultural environments 2. Multinational Corporation (MNC) i. Has operations in more than one country ii. Has int’l sales iii. Has managers and owners of various nationalities B. GLOBALIZATION AND INTERNATIONALIZATION

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    Personality The word personality itself derives from the Latin word persona that refers to a theatrical mask work by performers in order to either project different roles or disguise their identities. Personality is the unique combination of emotional‚ attitudinal‚ and behavioural response patterns of an individual. Personality can also be described as the psychological characteristics that both determine and reflect how a person responds to his or her environment. Although personality tends

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    controllable in a sense that if the parent company Disney would have done their homework. Through market research they would have known that the people of France would have reacted the way that they did. 3. What role does ethnocentrism play in the story of EuroDisney¡¦s launch? ?X Ethnocentrism plays a role in the story of EuroDisney because Disney perceived that their one culture knows best how to do things. This was not so true and now they find are trying to dig themselves out of a hole. They never stopped

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    Groups and Organizations Humans are social creatures who interact together in groups including family‚ friends‚ social‚ business‚ and religious associations. Different social groups will impact our behavior be it the informal groups or the formal groups such as large bureaucracies. Understanding the characteristics and dynamics of these groups are important. (Murray‚ Linden‚ Kendal 2012‚ 102) What constitutes a group? Can people waiting at the bus stop or persons waiting to be interviewed

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