... of western countries. The consequence may be highly developed cities with advanced high technology but without history. A matter of course, people have different opinions for the future development of Chinese cities. There is a point of view that our modern cities should have distinguishing features and competitive ability. To some extent, a city should have its characteristics as a person ... term one. As a result, when making the urban planning, we should expand our horizon into the future and think of our descendants' life. Furthermore, sustainable development of Chinese city in the co...

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... idioms and their translation, pointing out that, due to the differences in geographical environments, historical developments, social systems, religious beliefs and customs and traditions, there are existent unique elements in Chinese and English. Then some methods are put forward to their translation. Introduction Edward Burnett Tylor, a British social anthropologist, said in his Primitive Culture (1871), "Culture is a kind of ... will benefit us to understand idioms clearly from a cultural perspective and know how to translate them properly. In other words, in order to raise people's ...

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... value and the importing western cultural value has become nationwide recognized. Confronted with the enormously coming western culture and product nowadays, my point is that, we Chinese are having a kind of attitude that combined with partially acceptance, partially refusal and partially development. Firstly, we are NOT taking the "whole-refusing" conception. China is an ancient country with a ... ", which has down from dynasty to dynasty, from generation to generation for thousands of years. This kind of typical Confucian value has been largely vanished into by the end of Chinese emper...

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... of the ethnic group consumers has helped to establish and maintain, through vendor loyalty, plenty of small retailers supported by an inefficient, multi-tired distribution networks. It makes the Chinese State-owned retail business far from being profitable let alone the foreign commercial institutions. Similarly, Griffith and Ryans indicate that cultural overtones in marketing operations are derived, to some extent ... marketing as well. For instance, in the United States foreign culture is not the exclusive domain of foreign citizens. In this new multicultural age American citizens cou...

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... other fine goods from their trade and tributary dealings with the Han dynasty. They then redistributed these products throughout their realm which then in turn helped to create a demand for Chinese goods in central Asia. The constant trading of goods helped establish a reliable network for the exchange of trade goods. Thus the nomads became middlemen in trade between different groups ... trade routes were established Ex. Silk road. There were also political implications to the contacts between the nomadic peoples and the sedentary. For you see Chinese states experienced tense relations ...

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... . It's important for those that are traveling to another country to have cultural competence because without it they could disrespect the other culture and create problems between each culture. In chapter 6 of The Peace Corps Cross-Cultural Workbook, it shows the four levels of cultural awareness. The levels of culture awareness are listed like this; Unconscious incompetence, conscious incompetence, conscious competence ... of them tried to find tutors as soon as they could, but they weren't able to get English speaking teachers, so they had to do with teachers that only spoke Chinese. M...

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... not assert itself among the great nations of the world without full recognition and practice of these two principles. That is why Chinese philosophy as the root of education was responsible for our obvious shortcomings.[3] Fukuzawa was opposing the Chinese teaching because such vigor was his belief that in this age of transition, if this retrogressive doctrine remains at all in young ... 's minds, the new civilization could not give its full benefit to this country. In his determination to save the coming generation, he was prepared even to face single-handed the Chinese scholars of the ...

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... the country and resistance to Technopoly. The resistance fighter is aware of the advantages and disadvantages associated with technology. Technology is therefore seen as unnatural, controlling, and dangerous. In chapter 11 Postman gives examples of people who resist the American Technopoly. An example of a resistance fighter is a person who ignores a poll unless they know the questions asked and ... why. As Postman introduced in chapter 8 ("Invisible Technologies"), the form of a question can produce many different answers. It may also restrict us from seeing solutions to problems that m...

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... the pictures inside the book that were of foreigners. They tried to make it clear to the boy that you should not learn anything else besides the Chinese culture; everything else to them was abnormal. "This woman at the spinning wheel is also a foreigner, we use the right hand to spin but ... the identity he is learning in school and the identity his family members tell him to be. His family has the right to teach him the Chinese culture traditions as well as allowing him to experience new cultures. Without the experiences and education of a new culture this boy will be ignorant to ... th...

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... the world for its low price and creatively designed furniture. In order to penetrate the market in China, IKEA made a great effort to learn Chinese culture and Chinese consumer's preference. In 1998, to meet local laws, IKEA started its first retail operations in China as a form of joint venture which helped ... people who understand local needs better and helped adapt better strategies accordingly. The company changed its products slightly on account of the knowledge that Chinese apartment were not very big and people required functional, modular solutions (Chu et al, 2013) What is mor...

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... the world for its low price and creatively designed furniture. In order to penetrate the market in China, IKEA made a great effort to learn Chinese culture and Chinese consumer's preference. In 1998, to meet local laws, IKEA started its first retail operations in China as a form of joint venture which helped ... people who understand local needs better and helped adapt better strategies accordingly. The company changed its products slightly on account of the knowledge that Chinese apartment were not very big and people required functional, modular solutions (Chu et al, 2013) What is mor...

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... , Apple took actions to solve this kind of problem. Apple began to audit and inspect its suppliers. Those audits have found consistent violations of Apple's code of conduct, according to summaries published by the company. In 2007, for instance, Apple conducted over three dozen audits, two-thirds of which indicated that employees regularly worked more than 60 hours a week. In addition ... ...

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... expatriate staff are sent abroad without any cross-cultural training. (Baumgerten 1995, 207) Also, there are additional problems of CCT. Most of the companies offering training provide only brief environmental summaries and some culture and language preparations which mainly focus on the development of technical ability and other job-related skills. Furthermore, most training is rather a short period of time. (Baumgerten ... ...

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... expatriate staff are sent abroad without any cross-cultural training. (Baumgerten 1995, 207) Also, there are additional problems of CCT. Most of the companies offering training provide only brief environmental summaries and some culture and language preparations which mainly focus on the development of technical ability and other job-related skills. Furthermore, most training is rather a short period of time. (Baumgerten ... ...

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... Self is divided into five parts, with each part having several chapters and a separate section of reprinted related readings by other authors. It is a user/student friendly textbook with each chapter having neatly spelled out objectives, a summary, a list of terms, discussion questions, activities and end notes, as well as, illustrations, figures and important terms highlighted in bold face type. ... In Part One, the authors offer the basics. Chapter 1, "A Systematic Study of Dress," includes the classification system for the study of dress in different cultures which was first develope...

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... do have a unique character that is different from foreigners in other places, and this somehow marks the common ground for Singaporeans. Furthermore, Singapore's CMIO (Chinese, Malay, Indian, Others) model of multiracialism is also a unique feature of the Singaporean community. Few countries have such diversity in races and cultures, and ... the people are able to accept these differences and come together as one community. However, this is easier said than done. In 2011, a mainland Chinese family who complained about the smell of the curry cooked by their Indian Singaporean neighbors spa...

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... Creole Culture throughout this time period. The book is a phenomenal read and it could even appeal to the general public. In the first chapter, Hall goes through the colony chronologically under the French rule. Hall begins with a discussion of the people who were originally sent to Louisiana ... powerful Indian presence or accomplish other feats allowed the Africans a stronger cultural presence in Colonial Louisiana than in other slave areas. In the fifth chapter, Hall states "The Africans arrived in an extremely fluid society where a socio-racial hierarchy was ill-defined and hard to en...

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... nations, they only used the "military" for self-defense and only against Mongols (a blanket term for all barbarians at the time in china). Divine Providence played a huge factor in Chinese government; the Chinese believed that the emperor was mandated from heaven. Supreme executive power was given to those who were blessed by god in an aquatic ceremony, not by a mandate from the ... masses. The Romans used a mandate from the masses more effectively, but only soldiers and senators voted, the poor proletariats were left out. As always, the Chinese were taught strict obedience and the hier...

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... Host country are very "culturally close" (For example, Vancouver and Seattle) then it is obviously not necessary to have a preliminary visit. In my case, since I came from a Chinese origin and have adhered to the Chinese ways of doing business, it is extremely essential for me to take this step. Another useful technique that an organization can provide is language training. Again, I would ... for a work term, I went to the Hong Kong branch of the company and had a meeting with a supervisor who spent half a year in Switzerland before. Since we are both from the Chinese culture and share ...

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... items. Zheng He and his crew not only negotiated with Indonesia, Siam, Malaysia, and India, but even as far as the Arabian ports of modern-day Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Chinese culture was spread this way and eventually fused with surrounding societies. Although Zheng He is known as a figure much greater than life in modern eyes, Confucian scholars made serious attempts ... ally who could attack the infidel Muslims from the south." (127). His desire to secure military allies contrasts with that of Zheng He, who sought only a formal acknowledgement of Chinese sovereignty, trade in rare goo...

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... the Western culture because of their preference in living. "Ungentlemanly behavior. It's a British sport after all". This cultural view on dancing does not differ much from my Chinese cultural values. From what I know, the Chinese really emphasize on cleanliness, modesty, and good behavior. Dancing and outward displays of affection goes against all of these three elements in that in a sense it seems ... to imply that it was ok to indulge in self-gratification. However, as an American born Chinese, I do feel that dancing is appropriate at times, and I do not feel shameful about it. Compr...

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... this rhythmic land of China, you are greeted by a beautiful lagoon and a replica of Beijing's Temple of Heaven. Traditional Chinese music fills the air as you pass by dazzling pools and well-landscaped gardens. Into the next phase of the ride Chinese dragons capture your attention and are presented in such a way that an impressionable youth would get the idea that China ... and chopsticks as if this great nation of an indescribable historical background has nothing more to offer to the present. At the end of this are a variety of American styled Chinese restaurants that are somewhat ins...

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... now is multicultural country with a variety of backgrounds, skills, attitudes and experiences. The influences of multiculturalism can be found when looking at food, media, festivities and more. There are authentic Chinese, French, Indian, Italian, Lebanese, Greek and Vietnamese restaurants appearing everywhere and with our ACB channel on TV, people are exposed to foreign films, documentaries and other variety shows. Some large ... groups of similar cultural background such as the Chinese communities introduce different aspects of their way to other people. They celebrate Chinese New Yea...

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... known for originating from local traditions and cultures, world music itself is "boundless and boundaryless" in terms of the accessibility of the music as stated by Bohlman (Bolhman, Chapter 7, 2002, p. 143). Bolhman goes on to distinguish world music as a genre that includes different artists, countries and continents and describes how world music has shaped a network that is no ... longer geographically centered. Instead, world music has created transnational communities bounded by the Internet and recording technology, making it possible for anyone to encounter and easily access worl...

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... symbols that are familiar and appropriate for a particular culture. Thus, if an American wants to communicate with someone from China, the American could go to the Chinese emojis menu and select the emojis that Chinese speaker would understand. By creating a way for emojis users to contribute to the emoji alphabet we increase our ability to communicate across cultural and language barriers. Ben ... ...

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