... potent due to greater debate and discussion. The texts of Ancient Greece and Rome, translated into several languages, gave the world some of the most important political institutions because they were disseminated far and wide by the work of translators who spread the idea to various corners of the world. The full value of translations and their use as invaluable tools of cultural and ... be developed to a professional level." (3). It is the professional aspect of any translated work which ensures that along with form, content is also transmitted to the audience; otherwise the soul of ...

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... of provider and pressure was put on them to meet these social expectations. Women were viewed "possessions" of their husbands and were expected to fulfil their role within the family as both carer and supporter. In this play, the male lead, Torvald, calls his wife, Nora, his "little squirrel", which, in linguistic terms, creates images of a busy creature concerned with ... was originally performed in, audience reactions ranged from vehement outrage to simple disbelief. Yet, not all modern society would take such a lax view as popular Western culture on the connotations surrounding the ac...

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... symbols and rituals of nations and nation states have had on communities and how they allow for the continued importance of nationalism in their minds. In "Nations and Nationalism" Gellner attempts to answer the question of why nationalism is so pervasive in the modern world. He believed that the economies of industrialized states depend upon a homogenizing high culture, mass literacy and ... an educational system controlled by the state. In a sense, a Marxist ideology can be found in such theories, exemplified by Nairn, who believes that nationalism is the product of the uneven developm...

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... and political values, rendering it to be widely admired by all. Scholars uphold works from the Literary Canon with the highest regard and proceed to manifest these works into school curriculum for literary study due to their powerful influential nature and complex ideas embedded in these texts. The Literary Canon allows us to dissemble and delve into a multitude of perspectives enabling us to ... regularly refined and filtered with new regulations to advocate those texts encompassed with profound messages and their ability to handle delicate issues such as the human condition and the evol...

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... 60 years and always kept their will to provide the excellent service. On the DiversityInc top 50 companies for diversity, Kaiser Permanente lands on the 2nd place, being the top 10 for past seven years. According to DiversityInc (DiversityInc, 2015), the healthcare company deserves to be at the top of the chart since they make it a priority in their business strategy and aim to ... Magazine (DiversityMBA, 2012), Kaiser Permanente was the first company to adhere to the MBA Hall of Fame program. This program awards companies on their efforts in diversity and inclusion in the workplace in...

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... to having a global market. A nation's sensitivity towards foreign cultural contamination and influence strongly influences their degree of toleration. In order to take full advantage of Global E-Commerce, one must have an understanding of national and cultural differences and how these differences shape the levels of technological adoption, Internet usage, and Internet commerce. There are several factors which can ... regarding national policies and international frameworks for global commerce (including e-commerce) and the risks for new barriers or impediments that could arise as the glo...

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... the way they explained the causes of other people's behavior. While westerners tend to see individuals as autonomous and motivated by internal forces, many nonwestern "collectivist" cultures take a holistic view that emphasizes the relationship between individuals and their surroundings. Miller's research sheds light on how the invisible handoff cultural upbringing can influence the way we perceive the people in our world. The ... first part of this study focuses on the impact of cultural meaning systems of the development of everyday social explanation that explored ... , comparison was...

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Pulitzer Prize winner, Juhmpa Lahiri, effectively conveys the theme of the alienation experienced by immigrants assimilating into a new place and the exposure of two cultures, relative to how one's 'home' reflects on their identity in the novel, The Namesake. This bildungsroman novel, set in both India and America and which follows a Bengali family's attempts at assimilating within American culture, portrays this theme throughout. Lahiri conveys this theme ... experience into a new place. Gogol and Sonia (and later Moushumi), collectively make up the last characters that are used to c...

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... However, a point can be made about its potential applicability in a variety of settings. Garcia et al. (1999) conducted a confirmatory factor analysis study that showed the complexity of ethical dilemmas faced by counselors working with HIV/AIDS populations. They found that counselor ratings of the dilemmas loaded onto eight categories, namely, disclosure, family/social, legal, health, death, ... and sexual orientation. An argument can be made that the latter two variables involve culture as a source of variability. The authors of this study concluded that counselors addressing dilemmas...

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... However, a point can be made about its potential applicability in a variety of settings. Garcia et al. (1999) conducted a confirmatory factor analysis study that showed the complexity of ethical dilemmas faced by counselors working with HIV/AIDS populations. They found that counselor ratings of the dilemmas loaded onto eight categories, namely, disclosure, family/social, legal, health, death, ... and sexual orientation. An argument can be made that the latter two variables involve culture as a source of variability. The authors of this study concluded that counselors addressing dilemmas...

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... race" children were particularly targeted for removal, non-Indigenous parents and families also lost children. This impacted on Aboriginal family life because in some circumstances it led to breakdown in those relationships between the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal parent. "How do you tell your father that it's okay: that it wasn't their fault; and that his whiteness and maleness in a patriarchal society that should ... the prohibition and discouragement of the Aboriginals involvement in their traditional culture. This in effect, prevented the continuation of an ancient culture, deprivi...

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... Benedict explains that the warriors 'felt good' after committing the acts, despite the innocence of the victims, even though such an act would be unthinkable in our society. The notion of moral diversity becomes even clearer with Lous Pojman's observations 'Eskimos allow their elderly to die by starvation, whereas we believe that this is morally wrong. The Spartans of ancient Greece and the Dobu of New ... Guinea believe that stealing is morally right; but we believe it is wrong. Many cultures, past and present, have practiced or still practice infanticide. A tribe in East Afri...

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... corporate consumerism through both commercials and regularly scheduled programs. The American pubic has been numbed by the unending parade of fabricated television illusions that keeps it preoccupied with the ideals and values of consumerism. Consumerism is the myth that the individual will be gratified and fulfilled by consuming. The consumer feels that the buying and owning of commodities will act as a cultural ... rebirth or renewal. While consumerism offers the goal of owning a product, it lacks the fulfillment of the typical American citizen. Consumerism offers only short-term ego-g...

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... ), some international companies have taken advantage of globalization to seek for new opportunities to grow their enterprises, reap the benefits of the economies of scale, increase their market share, suppress competition, and achieve global dominance. With the help of world organizations that have further liberalized global trade through the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) it has been extremely easy for Multinational Corporations ... example, travel agencies and tour operators such as European cars are mainly subsidiaries of western TNC's and most of their earnings are rep...

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... consumption as a signifier of a group's style, outlook, and focus. Willis advocated a structural homology evaluation "concerned with how far, in their structure and content, particular items parallel and reflect the structure, style, typical concerns, attitudes and feelings of the social group" (Willis 1978, 191). Thus, for Willis and other subcultural theorists, it was argued that a " ... incited numerous criticisms since its inception during the 1970's. Some of these include its focus on groups of young males and neglect of girls and their relationship with youth subcultures, its inher...

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... represented primarily as groups sharing appearances, motives, and behavioral traits. In the majority of the film's scenes involving both Europeans and natives, the distinctive personalities and physical features of the former group stand in sharp contrast to the latter's sea of stereotypical white turbans and loincloths, the indistinguishable bodies chanting in unison. Such overgeneralization is exemplified when Cutter asks ... , " 'Is there no end to the torture that an Oriental mind can think of?'" (Gunga Din). He, like other Europeans in the film, assumes the homogeneity of "Orien...

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... a return to barbarism are certainly reflected in colonial Australia. The British held the Indigenous people to be ignorant and barbaric, yet white Australia was founded by the ignorant and "barbaric" - criminals, white trash, penal scum from England, and their wardens. The law in Australia is a reflection of the prejudices of a Eurocentric community. Setting racial prejudice and exclusion as the prevailing cultural dominant, through policies of "protection", assimilation ... and integration, the theft of children, and other violations of human rights that still ... ...

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... the United States and the substantial growth of diverse multicultural groups, teaching professionals are being challenged as to how to provide quality comprehensive educational and support services to their increasingly diverse student population. The growth rates between 1980 and 1990 range from approximately 13 percent for African Americans to 108 percent for Asian Americans (Sue, 1991). It is estimated that by the turn of the ... century, approximately 30 percent of the United States population will ... students acquire in school are being reinforced by computer availability and inte...

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... thing as a specific traditional "Aboriginal dance." One of Bangarra's theatre pieces I have watched is called "Mathinna," it tells the story of one young Aboriginal girl's life journey and the social issues and hardships that she went through during the early days of Australia's colonization as the British settlers relocated the Aboriginal people from their tribal lands and kept them captive, enforcing western systems and values onto ... , staging, music and choreography all draw strong distinctions about cultural differences. Learning Contemporary dance has really showed me the d...

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... part of history is made by the interpretations and analysis of the historians, it is their opinion of what took place and their perspective that is then written as facts and thus taught as "history". This has nothing to do with all of "us" as was written in the article, "The facts about what happened may not change, but how we interpret those facts changes and will ... develop as people and their cultures continue to change over time." With the notion that history is not a fixed idea, history becomes vague; "Approaching the West" gives the assumption that "History is what we make of it"...

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... lasting sense of belonging to the house. The parent's attachment to the garden is conveyed through the simile "tendered roses and camellias like adopted children " which compares the positive quality of their home life to the humdrum" nature of their work, the colloquial language contrasting their lack of interest at work to their devotion at home. The family's relationships with each other ... , they are still connected to their culture. Their connection to their heritage is furthered through their consumption of Polish foods such as "kielbasa" and "salt herrings," the symbolism revealin...

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... teaching any valid form of biblical principles. This flexibility to rethink the ways in which a sermon should be delivered and how the listener experiences the message creates a confrontation of issues that are similar to those encountered by the Spanish upon the cross-cultural interaction with the Nahua tribes of Mexico-how religion should be administered, assurance of true devotion, and abandonment ... Oppenheimer claims that religions adhere to practices that are not always religious but instead "aggressively social" in that American's seek the sense of belonging through their involve...

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... is that a given set of cultural images is specific to a given cultural entity as it is based on the present and historical ties between the two places. Considering these, either by using them actively, or refuting them if their meaning is detrimental to the destination, should be central to marketers. Furthermore, utilising meanings that are established through other contexts than tourism promotion makes ... markets globally may not constitute a problem on more peripheral markets, as a weak cultural image is more open to new meaning components than a strong cultural image. In the case of...

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... is not sufficient. Ethnic matching of client and therapist is not the solution to improving intercultural therapy since it imprisons the professional and the client in their own racial and cultural identities and diminishes the human element (Tseng, 1999). The clinician also needs to be aware of the role of family in the patient's culture and the family hierarchy that has been established that may have an influence on ... . A clinician may judge behavior that is considered normal within the patient's particular cultural context as pathological and thus over-pathologize the patient. In tu...

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