... nations and greater cultural interchange has tremendously enhanced the role of translators and translation. The growth of the internet with easy access to information makes knowledge sharing easier but the need to be acquainted with languages increases exponentially. Lawrence Venuti, commenting on the great communication boom says, "Instantaneous communication facilitates the expansion of markets and outsourcing of production in ... to greater debate and discussion. The texts of Ancient Greece and Rome, translated into several languages, gave the world some of the most important politi...

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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 ... 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 evolut...

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... limiting, as different signs and meanings have varying connotations to separate cultures and social groups. Whilst Saussure defines the signified and signifier as "psychological"#. He focused on the linguistic sign and "phoncentrically privileged the spoken word"#. He accepted that the entire system of signs existed in a personal understanding or interpretation of sound-images and their concepts, yet felt that this was arbitrary. Never did he broach ... brazen and offensive. Moving into a personal spectrum, if a member of the audience happened to have recently become engaged to her long...

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... this industry for over 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 implementing a diverse workplace ... according to DiversityInc (DiversityInc, 2015) almost 40 per cent of the employees have adhered to at least one. These resource groups focus on incentiv...

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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 ... religious and/or economic differences. Internet availability can possibly be affected by both short and long term grudges, and specific trade barriers to cross-national com...

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... 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 in a cross-cultural investigation undertaken among ... measures. Responses were therefore analyzed with both sexes and orders of responding comb...

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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 through ... experience into a new place. Gogol and Sonia (and later Moushumi), collectively make up the last characters that are u...

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... nationalism. Finally, I will concentrate on Smith's "ethno-symbolist" theory which places nationalism in the more historical setting of ethnic communities. He concentrates on the psychological effects that continued, created and transforming 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 ...

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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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... to people from cultures that differ from that of the counselor. Potential Applications Providing an extensive case illustration of the use of the Transcultural Integrative Model exceeds the scope of this article. 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 ... closely on this subject. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION The focus of this article was to propose a transcultural integrative model of ethical dilem...

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... to people from cultures that differ from that of the counselor. Potential Applications Providing an extensive case illustration of the use of the Transcultural Integrative Model exceeds the scope of this article. 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 ... closely on this subject. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION The focus of this article was to propose a transcultural integrative model of ethical dilem...

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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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... of television viewing, corporate profiteers are quick to substitute the lure of material luxury and consumer gratification for the fading spirit. Consumers are only now beginning to realize the political power they wield as a collective buying force. Union pickets and grassroots economic boycotts have tested the power of the buying force on a small scale. As the public tires of the shallow gratifications and empty promises of consumerism, it ... will return to large-scale boycotts to control the abusive tactics of corporate policy. As the public becomes acclimated to life around the tel...

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... 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 ... used to promote a positive self-concept and cultivate positive relationships between students from diverse backgrounds in geographically diverse areas. This efforts have included videoconferences, comp...

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... , white cuffs, a light alpaca jacket, snowy trousers, a clear necktie, and varnished boots...hair parted, brushed, oiled" (Conrad 31). The natives mentioned on the same pages, however, are evaluated in a completely different manner. On one hand, the chief accountant is an individual with personality, while on the other "black shapes [crouch]," "black shadows of disease and starvation [lie] confusedly," and one "creature ... 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?'" (Gung...

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... 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 to ... quick to formulate policies favoring tourism over indigenous people in an attempt to benefit their nations from tourism. A good example here is th...

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... attention to popular music 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 "fit" was ... practices. Subcultural theory has incited numerous criticisms since its inception during the 1970's. Some of these include its focus on groups of young males and neg...

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... 's well being and in turn the well being of their families. The other comparison between the segregation and assimilation policies and the impact they had on Aboriginal family life is in accordance with the traditional male role. Following the removal of their children, Indigenous men generally lost their purpose in relation to their families and communities. Often their individual responses to that loss took them away from their families: on drinking binges, in hospital following ... race" children were particularly targeted for removal, non-Indigenous parents and families also lost chi...

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... their sense of belonging to their homeland. Ultimately, the positive interactions within the family allowed them to connect to one another and their heritage, which enriched their experiences of belonging. Individuals ostracised from a society are prevented from gaining a strong sense of acceptance and identity. Paul Keating's "Redfern Speech" reflects on the impact of the exclusion of Indigenous Australians, thus stressing the need for the acceptance and recognition of their culture. Keating promotes the ... need for self-reflection in the personification," Australia once reached out f...

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... , it seems that cultural relativism provides legitimate support for the deprivation of human rights across the world. As Neil Levy argues 'moral relativism leaves us unable to make necessary criticisms of human rights abuses, of the systematic oppression of women, indeed, of the very destruction wreaked by the colonial powers on their colonies. Judging other cultures is not the first step down a road that leads to genocide ... ; it is the necessary preliminary to coming to the aid of the victims of injustice' Objective moral realism appears to be a much more convincing ... ...

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... behaviors. Passion conferences are built on the mission of "calling students from campuses across the nation and around the world to live for what matters most." With such a specific target audience, fulfilling the Passion mission is entirely contingent upon how the event directors make the conference culturally relevant to college students. Pardo's piece states that the Mexican friars attempt to control the morality of the indigenous population by utilizing confession ... interpretations of God's message. Oppenheimer claims that religions adhere to practices that are not always religio...

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... solely among middle aged respondents the idea of a relaxed, open Danish mentality exists. The fragmented and unemotional meaning structures existing among the English respondents towards Denmark suggest that their cultural images mainly are attitude-based rather than value-based. Their cognitive nature and on-the-surface character suggest that this particular other is not salient to the respondents" way of perceiving the world and the Self. Simultaneously, up-to-date ... and could very well be combined with the more culturally specific meanings existing on individual markets. By means o...

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... and the progression of the therapy are the ethnicity and cultural background of the patient, the social context, the environment in which the therapy is conducted and the attitude that the patient may have toward psychotherapy. Associated with the clinical experiences of working with patients in foreign societies, or working with minority groups, literature on intercultural psychotherapy began to appear in the 1960s. There was increased concern in the 1970s and 1980s with how ... to improving intercultural therapy since it imprisons the professional and the client in their own racial an...

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