... ) assumes that post-colonialism refers to the texts produced after the colonized countries became independent. If Dobie emphasizes post-colonialism to the product which is produced after colonization, then Aschroft et al (2001) argued that post-colonialism deals with the effects of colonization on cultures and societies. The British was not only colonizing the colonized country, but also engrafting their culture to ... . The term hybridity has frequently been used in post-colonial discourse to mean simply cross-cultural exchange. Hybridity as defined by Aschroft et al (1998) is the creati...

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... portion of his article, he expresses his ethnocentrism. Ethnocentrism is defined as the tendency to judge the beliefs and behaviours of other cultures from the perspective of one's culture(Robbins et al. 2014:19). Geertz did just that when he expressed how he was treated in a certain "Balinese"" way without mentioning how he got acquainted with his subjects in a relatively 'certain' way ... study in an approach called cultural text. It is a way of thinking about culture as set of significant symbols "words, gestures, drawings, natural objects "that carries meaning(Robbins et al. 2014:25...

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... unique circumstances that the adopted children are racially Chinese but are being raised by White parents, a 5-item ethnic marginality subscale adapted from the Belongingness and Ethnic Identity Scale (BEIS; Mohanty et al., 2006) was additionally used to gather data on the adoptee's experience with birth and adoptive cultures. The scale was specifically designed to assess trans-racial adoptee's ethnic experience and is ... ...

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... in the organization. The outcome of this can mean that the staffs in Sweden are more into group responsibility and thus, the outcome for their efforts is group-based (Kastenmüller, et al. 40). This is not the case in America as the employees are more individually responsible and thus, the results got are more due to individual efforts. Therefore, the efforts by ... ...

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... obvious limitations of the exercise in simulating a full-blown culture shock experience. Culture Shock is a complex psychological phenomenon, and our modest goal was to simulate some aspect of it (Merta, et al, "Simulating Culture Shock in Trainees," Journal of Counseling and Development, 1988, v 66, p242)." I think that the way the exercise was conducted provided for great success between cultures, but the only ... ...

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... images have a more potent impact (1995). It is well known that a combined visual and audio presentation enhances learning and further, can effect attitudes and behavior than audio alone (see Rubin et al., 1986 cited in Strouse, 1995). While the visual imagery is significant in its effect, merely merely listening to the tunes even while not viewing television also experiences the reinforcement. Thus ... ...

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