... assert the differences between pre-modern and post-modern culture and thus rejects the perennialists" point of view, by describing modern nations as "mass nations" which are different from the "small elite groupings known as "nations" in antiquity and the middle ages." He also acknowledges the modern nation as a "legal political" community as well as a "historical culture-community." Smith also describes ... the predominance of one nation above the others and attempts to instil a common culture, thus creating a nation state. If these attempts are successful, an annhihilation of many pre...

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... 1999). Even though Western culture puts emphasis on verbal communication, other cultures such as Asian and African do not give words that same value in the therapeutic process. Language has a small function in traditional healing processes. For example, African people tend to represent in dancing, singing, ceremonies and rituals what Western people think and talk about (Maiello, 1999). In Japan, ... refugees; and how to provide culture-fair, culture-sensitive or culture-relevant therapy" (Tseng, 1999). Cross-cultural communication highlights and challenges how one may assume communicatio...

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... generally involves travel for recreation, leisure, religious, family or business purposes, usually for a limited duration. Tourism is commonly associated with international travel, but may also refer to travel to another place within the same country. In sociological perspective, "tourism consists of the of phenomena of space movement connected with voluntarily temporal change of ... place in space, change of life rhythm and environment accompanied by making personal contact with the visited environment Mpofu (2009)Both tourism and globalization can have positive and negative impact on ...

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