... with the population growth, resources reservation and environment protection. An American scholar once said that the sustainable development of city is to seek the harmony between environment, economy and society. I think the key point is that short-term development couldn't impede long-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 course of modernization ... has its own connotation and feature, not only obtaining economic and social susta...

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... rose to be great nations and also out lasted Rome. These constant border attacks are the main reason for the construction of the Great Wall of China, which could not be completed before the fall of the Han Dynasty because of the raised taxes needed to construct it. The Roman Empire started a similar downward spiral when it raised taxes to support its military. Decentralization played a key factor in the disintegrating of the two empires. By constantly ... , not by a mandate from the masses. The Romans used a mandate from the masses more effectively, but only soldiers and senators voted, ...

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... use to express themselves or to interact with others. Some of the key symbols we use include spoken or written words, graphic designs, hand signs, body gestures, audiotapes, movies, music, and so on. This is a KEY component is the communication process and in our understanding of culture as a sense-making experience. The meaning of symbols, all kinds of symbol (such as Chinese or English writings), is socially constructed. People assign meanings to ... the symbols they create (e.g., red is a lucky color during a wedding in Chinese tradition; red represents danger in traffic lights). Tha...

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... 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 to erase the memory of the great eunuch navigator, fearing a return of these expensive expeditions and the little they brought. " &apos ... ;In less than a hundred years the greatest navy the world ... ...

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... life, but I would also be curious as to why this person was here and observing my every move. However I"m sure that different people and cultures respond in different ways. I suppose at first I"d be a little timid and shy towards an outsider into my group of friends, it would take me a little time to warm up to an individual whom I've never met before. I"d almost be on guard ... attempt to communicate with him or her, asking them various questions; such as what is you name, where are you from, and why are you here; this would give me the chance to "feel" this person out and give me some...

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... since 2001, it seems gradually obvious that the concussion, the collision, the combination and development between Chinese traditional 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 ... power of destruction. The conclusion follows. In today's world-connected...

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... and expressing. Understanding the words, phrases and sentence structure is just the superficial one; and understanding the content, essential meaning and the cultural connotation of the language is the deeper one. Furthermore, in order to convey the different features of themes and styles with the appropriate approaches and ensure the perfect conformity between form and content, translators should try their best to seek some equality between the source language and the target language. With regard to the standard of the translation, many famous translators of the Chinese and ... from th...

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... cultural practices that we can easily observe throughout other people. People who adapted themselves to believe in follow these cultural practices think that the best thing to do is to get them involved in these kinds of cultural practices. One of the things that we can say that would be weird from people from other cultures to observe can be people's worryness about their ... it really is. This can become a seious problem because it can cause damage in people. Sometimes, girls who are pretty and have a nice body to show up, believe that they are getting fat and they start to eat less a...

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... meet local laws, IKEA started its first retail operations in China as a form of joint venture which helped IKEA recruit local 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 more, ... in order to lower the barrier of high prices for Chinese people to buy IKEA products, and solve the problem of high import taxes, IKEA built a number of factories in China to cut th...

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... meet local laws, IKEA started its first retail operations in China as a form of joint venture which helped IKEA recruit local 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 more, ... in order to lower the barrier of high prices for Chinese people to buy IKEA products, and solve the problem of high import taxes, IKEA built a number of factories in China to cut th...

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... 's values on a right to their culture. Take the Chinese culture as an example. For Western marketers to be successful it is important for them to respect the Chinese government's claim for guoqin, which means, "to consider the special situation or character of China". The western marketers should understand that the Chinese and the Chinese government deserved the right to claim the guoqin be respected (Yang, 1994). From the anthropological perspective, all market behaviors are culture ... -bound. Both consumer behavior and business practices are performed to a large extent by the culture ...

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... 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 this is what made Singapore special. The very fact that there are so many different races living ... adapt to them. In order to establish a Singaporean identity, it is pivotal that the people are able to accept these differences and come together as one community. ...

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... are not European, questioning their influence on American civilization. In his "America: The Multinational Society" essay he said " Is Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, which includes Turkish marches, a part of Western civilization, or the late nineteenth- and twentieth-century French paintings, whose creators were influenced by Japanese art? And what of the cubists, through whom the influence of African art changed modern painting- I think that it is true that American civilization ... consisted through multinationals, rather than monocultural influence through Europe. What I would like to a...

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... such as: "What I am trying to say-, "In short-, "I mean that-, and "The point I want to make is ." In addition to his use of key phrases, Postman's repeated use of enumeration is found throughout the book. For example, in chapter 3 ("From Technocracy to Technopoly"), Postman describes (using enumeration) the four interrelated reasons for the rise of Technopoly in America (52-53). Postman also likes use transitions to lead into ... paragraph or chapter. An exceptional example of his use of transitions is found in chapter 10 ("The Great Symbol Drain"), where he states; "I will reserve for...

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... many different ingredients bonded together by boiling in a common broth. In a melting pot, immigrants to America and are culturally melted down and molded into Americans. The belief that people who come to America should assimilate into Americans was a mainstream idea until as little as fifty years ago. The melting pot image was created shortly after Americans became united politically. During this time, many immigrants either ... their cultural heritage. For example, a Chinese family immigrates to America. Upon arrival, the family decides to renounce all of the characteristics of their...

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... built upscale Asian Garden Mall or Phước Lộc Thọ with fresh experiences and characteristics; quite different from the prevalent American mall. Although built and owned by an ethnic Chinese, Frank Jao, Asian Garden Mall is the centerpiece of Little Saigon, exhibiting more Vietnamese ethnic pride and cultural tenacity (Lieu 41). According to Aguilar San Juan, Asian Garden Mall "is not an ordinary California-style strip mall" but it ... 's the "heart" of the Vietnamese American community (Juan 9). The mall is also a designated meeting site of younger Vietnamese Americans with the att...

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... understand the communication process of peoples from the past to the current communication. She used cultural systems as of way of learning and transmitting information which led to changes in communication and social organization. Mead essentially wanted there to be quality children over a high quantity of children (Sellar, 2013). She wanted women to gain independence and show that they were strong and fierce individuals. Elise Boulding was one of the key players at the beginning of the ... education. Explicit education processes facts elicited from peace research while implicit attemp...

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... as the Sahara Caravan route, the Silk Road, and the Spice Route and barbarian contact, but was ultimately dissolved through the foundation of increased European dominance due to the naval advancements and the founding of America. These events affected the globalization by increasing the contact of the different civilizations and increasing the dominance of one culture over the others. The trade routes are the first factors to focus on that led to globalization. The Silk Road was a trade route in which Chinese people ... traded silk through the European ... ...

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... for historians to be completely unbiased and correct. Historians pick and choose the facts they wish to represent and assigns a meaning behind the facts; they may try hard to be objective and unbiased, but it's near impossible to hold a completely objective view. Literature, while does not explain cause and effect, is the "bearer of cultural significance," and therefore is up to the reader to interpret and understand the significance of literary text (Patterson, p 9). Literature can not ... , such as geographical clues and cultural traditions. The Rig Veda is considered the earliest piec...

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... to fill in. This form listed all the subjects available to year 11 and 12 students and I was to tick the boxes of the subjects I wanted to take and return it ASAP, as all other students had already returned theirs. I knew little about the subjects being offered and what I did know came from my reliable peers and many of my choices were based on facts of who else was taking which classes. I ... remember coming to the line in which Aboriginal Studies was offered and ... thinking how boring. I didn't really want to take any of the subjects on that line and ended up avoiding it. I ticked th...

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... can be applied by Hofstede's cultural dimensions for both Japan and United States. Power distance is a way to explain how the culture deals with inequalities in society (Jandt, FE 2007). Japan is regarded as a country with high power distance tend to believe that power and authority are facts of life (Geert-hofstede.com, 2014). The culture teaches their people that they are not equal in this ... world. The people with no authority tend to have respect, or fear ... of the people who are stronger or older. There is a word called "honne and tatemae " to avoid confrontation, caused by reje...

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... through obtaining knowledge of them and undermining cultural distinctions. Within the scope of Orientalism Said recognized the de-humanization of the Orient through textualization, the de-civilization through sexual misinterpretations, and misrepresentation of the Orient in everyday media, depicting their agentless cultures. The initial act of the West differentiating the East from "us" and "them" (45) set off the process of de-humanizing the Orient. Said analyzes how this dichotomous act activates the imagination of the unknown. Thus, the unknown knowledge of "them" becomes ... either ...

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... through their history. No, just recently, the Catholic Church is very concerned about women sexuality and pregnancy. Sexual taboos are also much known. The discourse on sexuality is present in all religions, but almost always in the form of taboos, and usually the mandatory compliance refers almost exclusively to women (Biernat et a.l, 485). But the most interesting facts are that talking about sex is a taboo ... . Even in the 21 Century where people are more open-minded there is still problems with the idea of talking about sex, and this censorship affects negatively to women. Some ... ...

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... efficiently, and learn about the differences in cultures. When Peter got to Fuling, he quickly discovered that almost nobody spoke English there except for his students and Adam. Both 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. Many people ... has a lot to learn about the culture, and he also doesn't fully grasp all of the differences between the way things are done in Fuling, and the way things are done in the United States. Cultural competence is possible if one exec...

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... free " fought for his King. This proves the strengths and habits the Western culture influenced on the soldiers fighting in the Battle of Gaugamela. Additionally, from taking this battle into consideration, Hanson's theory was even more supported. The Western way of war was more culturally influenced rather than technologically influenced because of the soldier's efforts. It is proven in history that the Chinese were developing technological influence on their warfare. They ... were inventing gunpowder and advancing their war technologically. Whereas, in the West the soldiers and people...

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