... relation to nationalism, asserting that "nationalism is primarily a political principle, which holds that the political and the national unit should be congruent."# In terms of citizenship, Gellner believes that citizenship rights were launched by the French Revolution, and that the unpleasant and degrading conditions of the proletariat brought about by the Industrial Revolution provided both opportunity and a motive for a growth of ... ideas and practices. Thus, for Smith, the nation in the modern world is "a named human population which shares myths and memories, a mass public culture...

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... . There was increased concern in the 1970s and 1980s with how to deliver mental health counseling for minorities, migrants, refugees, sojourners, and foreign students, closely related to the emerging human rights movement in the United States, as well as the growing migration of non-European minority groups into European countries, (Tseng, 1999). Although is easier to notice cultural issues when they ... , and practices involved in the healing of the mind (Tseng, 1999). Varma (1988) defines Western individual psychotherapy as an "interaction, indeed a contract between two autonomous adult...

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... an "unenlightened periphery" was thereby constructed. Thus an irreducible and fundamental bipolar structural opposition was constructed. "Enlightenment", by definition, was characterised by light, and assumed that all human beings were equal in so far as they were led by the light of reason. As such it was distinguished from the darkness, which supposedly characterised the Middle Ages, but also "primitive" peoples ... prejudices of a Eurocentric community. Setting racial prejudice and exclusion as the prevailing cultural dominant, through policies of "protection", assimilation and integ...

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... and hoarding - thus, making us feel that Torvald sees Nora as a slightly amusing yet endearing character, whose concerns are of no great importance. To a contemporary society, in which feminism and equal opportunity laws govern the treatment of the sexes, this form of address is patronising, arrogant and insulting. The notion of a woman's duty to her husband and family has been replaced ... . This theatrical movement mimicked the cultural revolution of the 1960's and 70's, and indeed the movement in semiotics towards ideological distinctions as opposed to linguistical. Freedom of speech ...

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