CULTURES AT BOTH ENDS OF THE WORLD The world we live in is made out of a vast differing quality of distinctive societies. One of the main contrasts within this diversity of cultures is the differences between the East and the West. Eastern and Western cultures differ with one another in a wide range of point of view. In this essay‚ I will discuss how the distinction between the two varies and how it influences the behaviors and practices of individuals. First and foremost‚ I would like to point
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| 2 | INTRODUCTION | 2 | 3 | 3.0 TABLE MANNERS 3.1 SERVE PLATE 3.2 BUTTER PLATE 3.3 GLASSES 3.4 FORKS 3.5 KNIVES 3.6 SPOONS 3.7 OYSTER FORK 3.8 DESERT SPOONS AND FORKS 3.9 SALT AND PEPPER 3.10 FINGER BOWLS | 3-6 | 4 | 4.0 MAJOR FESTIVALS 4.1 CHRISTMAS DAY 4.2 HALLOWEEN NIGHT 4.3 DECORATION AND ACTIVITIES OF CHRISTMAS 4.4 CARD 4.5 GIFT GIVING 4.6 TRADITIONAL CUISINE 4.7 HALLOWEEN TRICK OR TREATING AND GUISING | 7-10 | 5 | 5.0 THE BIRTH 5.1 THE CHURCHING
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practice of promoting a more powerful culture over a least known or desirable culture. It is usually the case that the former belongs to a large‚ economically or militarily powerful nation and the latter belongs to a smaller‚ less powerful one. Cultural imperialism can take the form of an active‚ formal policy or a general attitude. A metaphor of colonialism is employed: the cultural products of the first world "invade" the third-world and "conquer" local culture. In the stronger variants of the term
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I NTERNATIONAL CULTURE Contents Objectives of the chapter Introduction 131 Places and people differ. The Japanese tend to be very polite‚ the Australians characteristically blunt. Red means “danger” or “stop” to the British‚ but in Turkey it signifies death and in China‚ good fortune. In France getting into a grande école tends to guarantee good job prospects whereas in Saudi Arabia the wealth and status of your family is far more important. What is culture? 131 The importance
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Chinese Culture - The Culture of Shanghai Shanghai University 30.11.2012 Shanghai – Brief Overview Shanghai is an important commercial harbor and the most important industrial town of the People ’s Republic of China. The administrative area has more than 23 million inhabitants. The status of the town corresponds to that of a province; the town is subordinated directly of the central government. Shanghai is an important traffic interchange and an important cultural center and educational
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Culture exists in every society. It is the specific learned norms based on attitudes‚ values and beliefs. Culture is often based on long standing traditions that have been passed from elders to the younger generation. It can be evolved through societal and religious influences. Changing culture‚ though difficult‚ can be done through choice or imposition. When cultures are isolated they tend to stabilize and change is slow or ceases. When culture makes contact with other cultures‚ a type of cultural
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Canadian pop culture plays a big part in our everyday lives. We may not notice that Canadian pop culture even exist‚ however media revolves all around us. The type of content that I enjoy is listening to Indie/Alternative music and I enjoy wanting lifestyle videos such as The 1975 and watching lifestyle videos on youtube. The type of content I watch/listen are not Candian content‚ but instead they are produced in the United States. This seems to be the issue for most people because Canadian Content
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Squad numbers at the back of player’s backs were first used on August 25‚ 1928‚ in a match between Wednesday (now Sheffield Wednesday) and Arsenal. From then on‚ until as late as 1993‚ squad numbers were assigned according to the position on the field that the player played on a match day and were usually ranging from 1-11 for the starting line-up and from 12-16 for the substitutes. The following was the traditional method of squad numbers:- 1.Goalkeeper 2. Right full back (right side center
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PRINT CULTURE Walter Ong is generally considered one of the first scholars to define print culture. Print culture embodies all forms of printed text and other printed forms of visual communication. These views are related as the printing press brought a vast rise in literacy‚ so that one of its effects was simply the great expansion of written culture at the expense of oral culture. The development of printing‚ like the development of writing itself‚ had profound effects on human societies and knowledge
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Our organization Nature Iraq does really important work to support the Mesopotamian Marshlands. Our work has changed the environment for the better. For thousands of years‚ the marshlands influenced the culture by living near water this means that they have to build boats to get around. There are lots of fish which they can hunt and use for food. They gather reeds and straw to build homes. The freshwater made a lot of opportunities for them to trade the goods that they produced. Then‚ in the
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