Cultural heritage is the total of contributions by a community that are held to be legacy which is inherited by the past for the benefit of their future. This includes literature‚ buildings‚ monuments‚ artifacts and others. As what Edward Burnett Tylor (1871) said: “Culture is that complex whole which include knowledge‚ belief‚ arts‚ moral‚ law‚ custom and other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.” Cultural heritage can be physical‚ natural as well as non-physical heritage
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I’m a rock-addict. Rock-addict? A two-word noun brings up an image of a long-hair freak screaming hectically in rock music concerts‚ moving his head up and down. A darkly dressed emo with gigantic chains. A Steven Tylor look-alike. WRONG. Obviously I have clothes in black and white‚ but my wardrobe is spacious enough for multi-colored costumes and accessories. Without colors‚ life would be a grey-scaled movie‚ vintage but tedious; and I absolutely don’t want to be the main actress of it.
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at men and women in society. The long term vs. short term of the Dominican Republic is recorded at 13 while the United States has a score of 26. This means that both countries have a normative culture that is suspicious to change. (Geert Hofstede.) Looking at the Geert Hofstede score of both the Dominican Republic and the United States‚ the countries have some similarities and differences in their managerial implications. The Dominican Republic is more of a collective culture that believes in power
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Specifically‚ Boas‚ in The Methods of Ethnology‚ argued against the various traditional evolutionary theories proposed by Morgan‚ Marx‚ Tylor and Spencer. Stating simply that these theories had a particular resilience‚ but lacked any sort of empirical evidence‚ Boas argued that the evolutionary theory was based on the counterfactual assumption that our culture was the most advanced and all others were merely following us (Boas‚ 134). After attacking the diffusionists by noting that their data was
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Available from: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_pwwi/is_200603/ai_n16098734/?tag=content;col1 [Accessed 14 March 2012]. * Geert Hofstede‚ 2011. Geert Hofstede Cultural Dimension 2011. Avaiable from: http://geert-hofstede.com/india.html [Accessed 17 March 2012]. * Geert Hofstede‚ 2011. Geert Hofstede National Cultural Dimensions 2011. Avaiable from: http://geert-hofstede.com/dimensions.html [Accessed 17 March 2012]. * IBM‚ 2005. Arcadia Group consolidates core systems to IBM ^ i5‚ for enhanced
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“Organization culture comprises the deep‚ basic assumptions and beliefs‚ as well as the shared values that define organization membership‚ as well as the member’s habitual ways of making decisions‚ and presenting themselves‚ and their organization to those who come in contact with it.” Clegg‚ Kornberger and Pitsis‚ 2008 The dictionary definition of a culture is “the ideas‚ customs‚ and social behaviour of a particular group of people or a society”. An organisation is made up of individuals and
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Innovation: The Role of Sociocultural Context. Journal of Management‚ Vol. 31 No. 3‚ pp. 381-402 5. Hofstede‚ G.‚ 2001. Culture’s consequences: Comparing values‚ behaviors‚ institutions‚ and organizations across nations. Thousand Oaks‚ CA: Sage. 6. Geert Hofstede‚ Cultural Dimensions of India‚ [online] Available at: http://www.geert-hofstede.com/hofstede_india.shtml Accessed on 11th January 2011 7. Casestudy.co.in‚ New Coke: A Classic Brand Failure‚ [online] Available at: http://casestudy.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Classic_Failure_Coke
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Business Report of Lenovo Section 1 Introduction Lenovo was found in 1984 in Beijing and it is the world’s second-largest PC vendor. According to the last official statistic‚ Lenovo consolidated turnover of 146.6 billion Yuan and Lenovo employs nearly 40‚000 people. Lenovo is a well-known national brand in China and Lenovo is serving customers in more than 160 countries. In order to expand overseas business and access to world-class brand‚ Lenovo carried out an acquisition of the former
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| THE 101: Cross Cultural Issues in Tourism & Hospitality | Assessment No.2 | | Ariana Janjua | 201111790 | Culture‚ as defined by Geert Hofstede‚ is the "the collective programming of the mind distinguishing the members of one group or category of people from another". (Hofstede‚ 2011) It is due to the research carried out by scholars such as Hofstede and Fons Trompenaars that we are able to understand cultural values‚ and the difference in cultures more thoroughly
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Cultural environment in East Europe countries – Bulgaria Eastern Europe is a region that encompasses many different cultures‚ ethnicities‚ languages‚ and histories. Accorfing to Geert Hofsede the culturale is a conflict source and that the cultural differences are a disaster most of the times. Hofstede has created a cultural dimensions theory which represents a framework for cross-cultural communication. According to Hofstede‚ these framework describes the effects of a society’s culture on
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