use of conventions and techniques.”1 Cultural identity; “the identity of a group‚ culture or individual as far as one is influenced by one’s belonging to a group or culture.”2 The epic drama Australia‚ (2008)‚ by award-winning director Baz Luhrmann‚ is the second highest grossing film in Australia’s history. Australia is set during the Second World War. A context and time different from ours and therefore one‚ which allows for an examination of cultural identity and those values‚ beliefs and
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Cultural relativity is the process to understand that all beliefs‚ customs‚ and ethics are relative to the individual within his own social context. In other words‚ “right” and “wrong” are culture-specific; what is considered moral in one society may be considered immoral in another society. And since there is no something as “universal standard of morality”‚ therefore we have to use the culture’s own value system to judge the culture. It is closely related to ethical relativism‚ which is to judge
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CULTURAL BARRIERS IN COMMUNICATION Introduction Differences in race‚ sex‚ religious beliefs‚ lifestyle and sexual orientation are among many cultural differences that may affect how people communicate in the workplace. Resolving communications problems caused by cultural differences requires patience‚ understanding and respect. A major mistake is forming opinions before even engaging in communications. Opinions reached before an opportunity to discuss the matter makes resolving conflict difficult
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A cultural universal (as discussed by George Murdock‚ Claude Lévi-Strauss‚ Donald Brown and others) is an element‚ pattern‚ trait‚ or institution that is common to all human cultures worldwide. Evolutionary psychologists hold that behaviors or traits that occur universally in all cultures are good candidates for evolutionary adaptations.[1] Some anthropological sociological theorists that take a cultural relativist perspective may deny the existence of cultural universals: the extent to which these
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Cultural diversity in the Mediterranean I 1- Culture and identity: Cultural identity as a construct: Identitas (lat. = the same): Nature is the same and it evolves at the same time Being and becoming Meaning and experience Social constructionim: “It is concerned with showing how members of a group go about constructing a world of common experience” (David L. Preston) Internalized attitudes and behaviors The Big Other (Lacan and Zizek): “ The [Big Other] is
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Read carefully the following piece of text. What does it tell us about cross cultural encounters? In analysing this text and what it tells us about cross cultural encounters‚ we must ask and answer several questions. What is the interpretation of the text? What do we understand from the text? How was the text wrote? Who was it wrote by? And‚ is it representative of both sides? In interpreting the text we see that it is a piece taken from the “Trial of Chief Ologobosheri” and
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Analyse Skills‚ Knowledge and Aptitudes Needed for Effective Management within the Cultural Sector Introduction The cultural sector is one of the most important industry in the world today. It has become a part of economy growth in many countries‚ having involvement from various creativity areas such as arts‚ advertising‚ media‚ design‚ and etc. Horkheimer and Adorno (2002) originally used the term cultural industries to refer to industrially produced commercial entertainment: broadcasting
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Have you ever heard of cultural appropriation? The bottom line is it’s a modern euphemism for theft of different elements from one culture into another. I appreciate that cultural appropriation can be a very challenging and confusing issue for some to understand but one simple illustration is the adoption of rap music into white culture in the late 1900’s. Rap music initially emerged as a result of the civil rights movement in America essentially as a way to bring attention to important social issues
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Understanding and Celebrating Cultural Diversity in America ` Many people mistakenly use phrases such as “American culture‚” “white culture‚” or Western culture‚” as if such large‚ common‚ and homogenous cultures exist in the United States today. These people fail to acknowledge the presence of (1)cultural diversity‚ or the presence of multiple cultures and cultural differences within a society. In reality‚ many different cultural groups comprise the United States
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Criteria 4 - Power: Three dimensions of power: First is equivalent to pluralism where the voice of the problems is not compressed by the power but instead heard. The second dimension is where the problems are supressed by the use of power which suppresses conflicts problems are kept out of political or decision making process by removing them thus it quiets the whole community (Belcher 2014). The third dimension is where the people who being shaped without them even knowing. Lukes maintains that
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