In a culture where silence is golden and spoken words can be vague or meaningless, body language and gestures are very important. Japanese culture is considered 'high context,' implying that individuals depend far less on words to convey significance than they do on nonverbal prompts. The Japanese, who represent social contrasts in nonverbal correspondence, value group needs over the individual...
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Did you know that the global health care industry is one of the world’s largest and fastest growing industry that estimated about 5 trillion dollar spent every year? Yes it is. From this fact, it shows us how important health care system to human being regardless of different cultural background or nationality. It become important since people get sick and...
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Mass Media is an umbrella term used to describe any technology created in order to form a line of communication with the masses. It is often the first port of call for many people to get information regarding local and global news; as well as a source of entertainment in the form of Film, Video Games, and Music. As culture...
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Intercultural communication is the interaction between people from different cultural backgrounds. Intercultural communication enables individuals to interact with others from different cultures and being aware of culture differences.It also helps individuals to undetstand each other’s cultural differences and to communicate effectively without misunderstanding which enhances teamwork. The culture that I have chosen is Japanese culture. Tea consumption is a part...
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2020 has a new winner to start the Chinese New Year. We are talking about the rat that began its cycle on January 25, which will last until February 11, 2021. According to the experts, this will be the year of profound changes where we will have the opportunity to start a new and different path, eliminating all that does...
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When did high school apprehension and presumption start? Many children of post-war America, despite everything battling about the heritage of the 1960s as they reel toward retirement, consider themselves results of the Jammin resistance that broke the common decencies of the 1950s. Chronicled in melody and saw by the new electronic media, the impudent adventure of the '60s counterculture appeared...
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In the global world, we can change our living country many times. It could be because of journey, work or study. They are different situations but all of them has a same problem, “Culture Shock”. For example students always likes to study abroad, because of many reasons. They prepare themselves to face with hard days, and problems. Nevertheless almost all...
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Double consciousness is a reoccurring theme seen throughout almost all African American literature. Coined by W. E. B. Dubois, one of the most famous writers of the Reconstruction era, the idea of Double consciousness stems from the perception of the world not only as seen through the eyes of black individuals, but also white people’s perception of the black community....
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Introduction The world is over taken by a digital age. Everywhere you go you see adults, teenagers and children walking around with their eye on a screen instead of the world around them. Even in museums, displaying our creative history, children only pay attention to their smartphones. But can we blame them? Looking at a still image on the wall...
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Introduction The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) issued it’s guidance “ Compliance and the Compliance function in banks” in April, 2005; where compliance was defined as “ an independent function that identifies, assesses, advises on, monitors and reports on the bank’s compliance risk, that is, the risk of legal or regulatory sanctions, material financial loss, or loss to reputation...
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INTRODUCTION On the eve of independence, the African countries ranked among the least developed, least industrialized and least secure place in the world. The nationalist movement didn’t know what lay ahead for them. According to Thandikaa Mkandawire a Malawian economist, Africans were naive about the prospects for a democracy and high level of accountability by their new leadership. He further...
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Culture shock is the feeling of disorientation experienced by someone when they are suddenly subjected to an unfamiliar culture, way of life, or set of attitudes. Culture Shock is a term used to describe the anxiety produced when a person moves to a completely new environment. This term expresses the lack of direction, the feeling of not knowing what to...
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The Woman Warrior: Memoir of Girlhood Among Ghosts is a memoir written by Chinese-American author Maxine Hong Kingston that focuses on female characters from various backgrounds, tales, and traditions. The events of the book unfold in a non-chronological order, with stories taking place either in China or America and at different periods of time. Despite the distance of the two...
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Alexander Hamilton was the singular most unlikely candidate to become one of the founding fathers of the USA. He was little more than an orphaned son of a prostitute, growing up in St Nevis, a forgotten spot in the Caribbean, yet he underwent a meteoritic rise to power, became George Washington’s right hand man and almost singlehandedly sustained the USA...
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By definition, popular culture refers to influential principles, practices, beliefs, music, art, literature, fashion, dance, film, cyberculture, television, and radio which are recognized and appeal to the majority of society (Crossman, 2019). In the 21st century, the term ‘teenager’ is widely used, referring to youth aged between 13 and 19, but it wasn’t always so common. Pioneered in 1950s America,...
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Abstract Agriculture is an important part of Ancient China. Farming has always been the nature of Chinese culture. The influence agriculture had on the culture and tradition, the development in science and technology, and the society in that period can be obtained from several historical texts and books. In this paper, we study the agricultural practice and reforms made in...
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Langston Hughes was an African American poet and activist beginning in the 1920s, during the Harlem Renaissance, a movement that encouraged people to embrace of black culture as American. Hughes was a prominent advocate for African American culture that was separate from but regarded equally to white culture. In his poems, he criticizes assimilation into white society by African Americans,...
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Chinese culture has been long considered as one of the most popular and oldest in the world. As we know one of the most popular art in Chinese culture is the melodious and pleasant folk music. The various Chinese culture also includes many different kinds of art such as Beijing Opera, Calligraphy and Traditional Chinese Painting. In general, in China...
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INTRODUCTION United States of America is the third largest country with the population of more than 300 million people and globally powerful. But for many people from other countries who arrive for their different needs like academics, business purpose were not aware of American culture and they struggle a lot to adapt to such culture based on religion, language, values...
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The idea that America has been slowly eroding culture around the world and expanding their own influence has been hotly debated over the past number of years. Philippe Legrain argues in his article that Cultural Globalization most definitely does not equal Americanization. Legrain details the positive aspects of Globalization, how it increases individual freedom, frees people from the chains of...
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Pregnancy and childbirth are arguably the most significant periods in the lives of many women across the globe. Whilst the stages of pregnancy and childbirth are consistent biologically worldwide, the traditions surrounding them, the care of both the foetus and the mother, the amount of medical intervention and gender roles all differ substantially between varying cultures. Specific cultures explored in...
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“A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty is a suspenseful short story of a poor, elderly African American grandmother who annually made a dangerous and grueling trek from her home far away from the town of Natchez, Mississippi to the doctor’s office in town and back again to her remote home. She made this journey every year to pick up medicine...
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There are many opinions on the media and the cultures of the world and also the impact it has on them. In my belief it depends on the situation however. Sometimes the media can have a very positive effect on the world and its different cultures and subcultures. In the case with the hippy life as discussed on pages 270-276...
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Black Friday shopping is a Thanksgiving tradition for most Americans.In 2017, more than two-thirds of American adults shopped over Thanksgiving weekend, either in stores or online.But do you know how the black Friday tradition started? In the early days, Thanksgiving became the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season in the decades after President Abraham Lincoln made it an official...
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The logical definition of culture in The Cambridge Dictionary is “The distinctive customs, achievements, products, outlook, etc., of a society or group; the way of life of a society or group” (p568). From this definition it is possible to understand that culture is directly connected with people’s religion, food, clothes, lifestyles, language, music, traditions etc.… United States is considered as...
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The annual American holiday celebrating the Autumn harvest in the United States is modeled on the three-day harvest feast shared by the Pilgrims of Plymouth and the Wampanoag Indians in 1621 in Plymouth. Thanksgiving Day was the first holiday celebrated in America, (Hilstrom 21) and is today a federal holiday celebrated annually on the fourth Thursday of November. The meaning...
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Everyone has a heritage. We all came from somewhere, otherwise we wouldn’t exist. It’s literally in our DNA. Cultural heritage tells us about where our ancestors came from, their beliefs, religion, history, traditions, language and what their way of life was like. It’s not only important, but interesting knowing you’re a product of many generations. Knowing your heritage makes you...
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Introduction According to Wikipedia, Chop sticks are eating utensils shaped in pairs of equal length and usually tapered at one end. They have been used in many parts of Asia especially in east Asia in countries like China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Singapore, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, Thailand, Korea, and others [1]. They trace their origin in China in the early...
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Analyzing the culture of the USA is a complicated project that requires one to engage in expanded research to learn about the cultural variety in the U.S. The reason for this is that America has not only one perception of a single country but many others with different traditions and customs. This research study will start to address the areas...
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For many youth cultures have changed over the generations, for parents and teens, the gap has grown even wider to some. Young people have faced similar challenges to each other, but each generation is unique and experiences situations that shape their attitudes and behaviors. However, when entering into any particular culture, although influences exist, it is still usually a conscious...
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