Different Cultures Come Together in Tucson The Tucson Meet Yourself Festival is a great opportunity to familiarize yourself with different cultures‚ that live right in our city. You get to experience these great cultures that thrive in our community‚ by sampling the cultures food and watching and listening to their traditional dances and music. There is everything there from Vietnamese‚ Greek‚ Mexican‚ Native American‚ Chinese‚ and many more cultures featured at this event. I was lucky enough to
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Running head: ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE GREETINGS 1 Contrastive Analysis: English and Vietnamese Greetings Nguyen Thi Bich Hang University of Education ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE GREETINGS 2 As we all know‚ differences in culture are one of the main problems leading to a failure of communication. Thus‚ if learners want to develop their communicative competence in the target language‚ besides listening and speaking‚ they should improve a wide knowledge about sociolinguistics. Usually in daily
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The culture of Asia is the artificial aggregate of the cultural heritage of many nationalities‚ societies‚ and ethnic groups in the region‚ traditionally called a continent from a Western-centric perspective‚ of Asia. The region or "continent" is more commonly divided into more natural geographic and cultural subregions‚ including the Central Asia‚ East Asia‚ South Asia (the "Indian subcontinent")‚ North Asia‚ West Asia and Southeast Asia. Geographically‚ Asia is not a distinct continent; culturally
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which they become husband and wife or a relationship between married people or the period for which it lasts”. Although there are many classifications and characterizations of marriages given in dictionaries and the text which was given to read‚ these only give a brief description of all the types and varieties of family types and marriages in the world today. As mentioned in the text‚ there are various types of family structures and different types of marriages but they would be looked at in
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The differences between two cultures There are so many countries in the world. As my grandmother taught me that each country has its own tradition and culture for example Japanese has kimono for its special festival‚ Kungfu is significant symbol of China or Pizza and Spaghetti are the characteristic food of Italia. Therefore when I came to America‚ I decided to search everything about this country. Then after 5 months in there‚ I found that Vietnam and The USA are very different from living style
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Wedding” there were quite few similarities identified between American and Indian cultures in terms of weddings. Such as the hiring of and event planner of wedding coordinator‚ the grouping of families and a lot of dancing. Yet‚ the film also identified some different aspects. Going back to the “bridal shower”‚ while all the family and friends of the bride come together with her and celebrate before the wedding‚ its different in both cultures. The bridal shower depicted in the movie was illustrated
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The differences between European and Native American culture plays an important role in how two interact. European’s whole society is built on the idea of “private ownership”‚ the more land someone had was equated with that person’s status and wealth. (Lecture 1‚ slide 20) They have a very distinct division on what is sacred and secular‚ they even believed that the secular world was there to serve them. (Lecture 1 slide 21) Native Americans had a completely different perspective. Not only does the
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distinct culture‚ or way of life. Some societies may incorporate their culture into their literature; the Native Americans‚ for example‚ are widely known for doing so. On the other hand‚ certain sets of people may base their culture upon a great piece of writing; Puritans‚ a group of people who separated from the Church of England and fled to the Americas for religious reform‚ are famous for basing their way of life upon the Bible. Both Native Americans and Puritans have similar elements of culture‚ such
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Communication Between Different Cultures Some people say why is important for us to study intercultural communication? Another question which sometimes arises what is intercultural communication‚ which I sometimes ask myself. Intercultural communication is a very important subject. It teaches us how to manage differences. Culture is a very important thing in a person’s life. It is the identity of a person. It answers the question who am I. It is a set of principles and values which a person
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Does culture affect cork situation between different countries because of their culture values? We chose this subject because it often constitutes a matter of understanding in most of the biggest companies in the world. The culture is something hard to evaluate and to explain. Most of people who decided to work in another country are exposed to its culture. At this time‚ there is always a culture shock‚ which is created by the critical incident: the contact between two different cultures. The
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