Cultures have developed slang deliberately to exclude people outside their group. ... Types of slang include swearing, local or dialect expressions, and words with a specialized meaning for a group of people, none of which should be used in any type of professional writing. ... The use of slang in modern speech is apparent by listening to any conversation; phrases like "I could eat a horse" or "Jamie is a fox" are easily understood by everybody. ... To the average American these two phrases mean "I am very hungry" and "Jamie is very attractive"; but to people of other cultures, these two phras...

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For example, the introduction of McDonald's and indigenous fast food restaurants reflects changes in the Japanese diet, eating behaviors and social patterns. ... Eating and social patterns within such establishments suggest that they provide opportunities for intergenerational commensality, conviviality and intimacy that are less evident in some of the traditional Japanese fast food establishments, where snacks and meals likewise are quickly served and quickly consumed. ... We also would go often to The Gap shops, which have a large assortment of American casual attires, are very popula...

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The Argentine culture is very special in the way they relate with people. ... In the relation of people that are very close Argentine society may value the person for what they did and not for who they are. ... The most explicit things in the argentine culture: the first language is spanish, some typical foods are the asado (the most typical argentine food) and the other can be the guiso although, some families still transport their culture from one generation to another and eat some food that is not common in Argentina, for example, in my case Arabic food. ... people have no obligation to ...

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According to this conception, culture refers to people's everyday sense-making or meaning-making experience. ... First, communication, like what people from the transmission perspective would agree, involves at least two persons. ... Fourth, communication is the process whereby people come to some sort of understanding of an experience. ... For example, if we agree on "eating an apple a day is good for our health," then a reality is established and it is our "mutual agreement" that "eating an apple a day is good for our health." Otherwise, there will be two or more "realities" among us, i...

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This is not a problem in my culture, save those few health conscience people who say I will die by heart disease. ... My act of eating cow would be considered a moral atrocity. ... If we also look closer into the example given in the beginning of this paper we can see that the immorality of eating beef is not based on moral principles, but different beliefs. The example of a Hindu culture, being outraged at the Western practice of eating cow meat is based on the religious belief that dead relatives are reincarnated into animals such as cows. ... However, what the two cultures do share is t...

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Historically anthropologists have tended to view consumption as either internal (consuming or following certain practices in order to survive), or external (species adapt to their environment and eat/follow certain practices based solely on the abundance of particular items in their surroundings). ... For example the Ju/"hoansi of South Africa place emphasis on having enough food to eat, and beyond that point are quite content to relax and consider themselves wealthy as long as that condition is met. ... Thus the notions of poverty and affluence are not fixed, and again as the text mentions,...

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American business management tends to assume that we have the best business schools, the best business people and subsequently the best business procedures. ... Disney had a difficult time realizing that the Europeans were accustomed to eating at a set time every day (Fjellman, 1992:11). Where Americans are content to wander around the parks eating at various different times as well as "eating on the go", a larger majority of European guests would converge on the restaurants all at the same time and expect to sit down for a leisurely lunch. ...

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It seems that the overall point Newman tries to make is that people feel a need to know what appropriate behavior is in order to function as a society. ... As Shneebaum relates in the section about the British man who did a study of the Murat people (Schneebaum 107). ... We have a certain level of ethnocentrism when we try to examine the eating of other humans. Cannibalism definitely does not fit our mold of a "civilized" society, and it goes to show that it is simply a widely held social construction that people are not to murder and eat other people. ... The Akaramas were not any less ha...

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But to truly conform an entire region of people you must first strip them of what they believe in. ... They were forced to eat, dress, and speak our language. By creating new needs of the people and preparing individuals for their roles as consumers; Schools controlled by central governments victimized not only the indigenous people, but society today. ... The indigenous people are not the only society affected by progress, or the culture of consumption. ... Something Robert Bamsey once said, "We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't l...

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Because of the diverse cultures, many people in the US have learned more about the outside world without having to travel to other countries. ... In a community with a diver's culture, opinions and decisions are made after analyzing and understanding others peoples point of views. This helps bring the people in a community much closer to each other. ... We can eat the type of food we crave at anytime and anywhere because food from all cultures is easily and readily available. ... People in such communities know their duties and will always have the interest of fellow members of their comm...

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He's not sure how to interact with people in authority, has no clear idea of how to make friends with people from different cultures, finds that food and eating customs are different, that religious practices are different. ... One of the most disturbing problems faced is that some people are prejudiced against others from different cultures. ... He misses his family and friends, and he finds it difficult to adjust to the norms and values of the native people. ...

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The study on Udaipur showed that people tend to spend most of their money on the festivals [ CITATION Ban07 l 16393 ] which obviously has religious connections which can also imply people's devotion to their Gods. They actually choose to spend over the festival celebrations rather than making sure that they eat better and healthy food. ... Sometimes the religious factors form the cultural factors and resist the development of people. ... The culture of poverty usually has values which binds people closely together unlike big cities. ... Other people who usually are unable to get out of ...

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This change in both oneself identification and other peoples perception of a person is, for many, an integral part of the decision to become pierced. ... People are the sum total of their relations with others and as such any person can be effectively regarded as their skin alone. ... In some cases this merely increases the motivation and in others it leads to secrecy or alternatively attempts to change people's opinions. ... Many people profess to a feeling of greater acceptance of their bodies. ... This occurs to such a degree that our society now suffers from previously uncommon ea...

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This is also common, the people here said, "You in the end is a global village?" ... Because it is so convenient and affordable, more and more people have already done so. ... For example, people may move from Italy to North America. He's going to get used to eating new foods, such as hot dogs and hamburgers. He also will enjoy the food of the people through his spices, a new method of wide use. ...

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Basically, individualism refers to the value tendencies of people in a culture to emphasize the individuals" identity over group identity and individual rights over group obligations. In contrast, collectivism refers to the value tendencies of people in a culture to emphasize the group identity over individual identity and to put group concerns over individual concerns. ... The members of these cultures give priority and respect to people who are in high status position. ... People in these cultures expect to be respected and valued on personal qualities rather than by their position or ti...

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Cultural Perspectives in "Mariah" Whether it is realized or not, people view the world they reside in by means of their cultural experiences. ... While they are dining, the narrator realizes that "the other people sitting down to eat dinner all looked like Mariah's relatives; the people waiting on them all looked like mine" (Kincaid 1222). ... (Kincaid 1217), relaying her personal inability to understand or relate with this new culture and its people. ...

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There is a particular group of people that do not know one another, that come from all walks of life, all different religions, but they came together for the one thing they do have in common -the "Twilight" saga. ... In today's popular culture one of the only ways to reach many people is through media and I feel that even though Meyer did not overtly intend to include anything about her faith, certain values important to her (which are also the values of the LDS) were bound to slip in somewhere within the story. Dracula, written by Bram Stoker in 1897, a fantastic book partially based ...

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Hiding in a place of her clothing and wishing she was back in her environment with her people who were not that much different from her. ... If one will look into the history perhaps they will find that beauty was always something that people were leaning towards too. ... (Korhonen 339) So who shapes the images of how attractiveness looks like and why are they so important to the people and their societies? American culture has not only helped create the anorexic young woman whose eating disorders are tied to a low sense of self-esteem--approximately 90 percent of sufferers are female; vario...

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KFC has found long ago that Chinese people want the site down and eat with utensils or perhaps Western sticks instead of just having a simple fast- sustenance and return to work (Chinaabout, 2013). 3.2 KFC′s overall marketing strategies The original items of KFC are chicken with homemade side plates, wraps, plates of mixed greens and burgers. ... Product and Position According to marketing manager, 2009 there are a lot of new products that are sold in the Chinese market, and some of them have special recipes for Chinese people. ... "Truly, we are consistently hunting down new tastes which f...

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Racism as practised against Aborigines, has been defined as; "Conscious or unconscious belief in the inherent superiority of people whose descent is of European background, which entitles all white people to a position of dominance or privilege determined by racial origin." ... Europeans in No Sugar are portrayed as having a strong sense of ownership of the land, whereas the Aboriginal people are seen to belong to their land. They aborigines in this play live in abject poverty, typifying the circumstances of the vast majority of their people. ... When he cuts a h...

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These different "groups- of people have different patterns of behavior. ... Muslims, by religious decree, are not allowed to eat pork, or pork-related products. ... Different needs of people in different countries affect the business and economy relative to each country (Belkaoli 88). ... Many American people believe in the way of the American economy, However, The way America runs its finances is not necessarily right. ... Managerial styles in an overseas business must fit the needs and styles of the local people (Robinson 137). ...

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Thrusting their ideas of what to eat, what music to listen to, and how to dress, making all human practices predictable and therefore profitable. ... These organizations provide proper training and web space to the people of the developing country. With this web space, people deep in a rain forest or in the center of the world for that matter, can sell their homemade woven baskets or other crafts to people on the other side of the world. This enables people of these countries to participate in the global economy on something like their own terms. ... The argument is as follows, throughout the ...

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When we look at movies such as Aladdin, we get a clearer sense of exactly how Disney attempts to undermine the culture and the people of these nations. ... Yet another stereotype that complies with the idea that arranged marriages are normal in the Arab world and that wealthy people consider those not of the same status as inferior to them. ... Diners can enjoy live traditional Moroccan music as they eat and have exotic belly dancers running around seductively dressed. Not much has changed over the years in people's attitude to the Arab world and countries such as Morocco. ... The D...

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When we examine the role of history in intercultural communication, we gain an understanding of how our past influences our communication skills with people from other cultures. ... It also made me an affectionate person, comfortable with physical attention from different people. ... I have grown to define my group of people purely based on behavior, and because of the amount of time spent at the family business I learned to place more emphasis on relating to people than finding differences. ... Personal and Cultural Characteristics During any social interaction, people present themselves w...

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They argued that Africans were inferior to them and that such people did not belong to the human race but deserved to be enslaved. ... Africa's population consisted of civilized, organized, technologically advanced people,2 long before the arrival of the European enslavers, who tried to suggest they were backward people. ... This connection was to the extent that when a runaway woman in Kingston3 was caught and punished, the only way her owners could get her to eat was to solicit her shipmate's help in talking to her. ...

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