The traditional cultural values of Western society are deteriorating under the influences of corporate politics, the commercialization of culture, and the impact of mass media. With society's dependence on television entertainment, it has found itself controlled by the oppressive power of 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 ...

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... lands. Beneath these basic archetypal storylines, however, lies a wholly European perspective: in each work, European protagonists seek adventure and wealth in a distinctly European sense, concerned primarily with benefitting themselves as members of Western society while overlooking any negative consequences. These European characters, then, must necessarily have non-European counterparts who form the reverse side of the Western ... brushed, oiled" (Conrad 31). The natives mentioned on the same pages, however, are evaluated in a completely different manner. On one hand, the chief accou...

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... is always the case when broaching the forum of semiotics, there are many varying and sometimes conflicting theories that place different emphasis on certain aspects of the "sign". By drawing from specific areas of these approaches, it becomes obvious, however, that semiotics is an inseparable and integral part of performance. Ferdinand de Saussure, a Swiss linguist who has been hailed ... and the communication of it, is intrinsic to many theatrical genres, making the breakdown of the language used integral to understanding the meaning of performance as a whole. The concepts derived from ...

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... to be able share knowledge about the world's oldest living culture. In just over two decades, Bangarra has produced over thirty original works and has also collaborated with other Australian performing arts companies such as the Australian Ballet and the Sydney Theatre Company. This Company consists of sixteen professionally trained artists who each obtain an Aboriginal ... a way of celebrating special ceremonies, expressing their feelings and beliefs towards such as religion, stories and ancestral heroes. There are over 260 different unique varieties of Indigenous dances that origina...

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... does it justice." Walter Benjamin When Europe designed itself as the centre of "Enlightenment", also know as the Age of Reason, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it did so with the knowledge that 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 ... , but also "primitive" peoples. Kant, one of the last Enlightenment thinkers, said that the enlightenment is the emergence of man from his self-imposed infancy. In this way an...

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... the historians who studied and researched these events and data. Because it has a great deal to do with the interpretations of historians and the elites I believe in general history is fixed, not only with the chronology and events that took place but also in the interpretations of the historians. The idea that ... we do add to the making of history. "As we change throughout our lives and from generation to generation -as we are different from our parents and grandparents and as our children and grandchildren will be different from us -so history changes." History becomes more of a fixe...

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... in Calcutta, she continues to follow traditional Bengali ways in her preparation of food. The word 'approximation' within the quotation expresses her detachment from the Bengali culture, while showing she is desperate to maintain these traditions at all costs. However, as the story progresses, more evidence is expressed ... items, 'she concedes and makes him and American dinner once a week as a treat, Shake 'n Bake chicken or Hamburger Helper prepared with ground lamb.' The word 'concedes' implies she has given into this lifestyle and has begun to accept such ways, p...

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... our understanding and exploration of societal 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 ... English Canon. It also consists of predominantly white male figures, the canon did not mean to do this but simply reflected cultural context. Works from these authors and poets do not receive the recognition they deserve. Upon entering the English Canon, works are granted certain privileges;...

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Generally, people will relate or define diversity as all characteristics that will differ one from another. This is very important concept especially now in the 21st century when people from different geographical and cultural origins interact. However, independently of what circumstances diversity is referred as, many fail to understand that diversity encompasses everyone ... trying to implement a sustainable diversity environment in the company, mainly by improving talent development programs and strong evidence of leadership inclusion. KPMG manage to meet different criteria with which Dive...

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... convincingly argued, cultural relativism theory asserts that all fundamental moral values vary throughout culture-to-culture and time-to-time. Consequently, cultural relativists claim that moral truths are internally determined from within a culture as a result of cultural experiences and interactions. Cultural Relativists thus propose that the moral permissibility of an act is solely contingent on its culturally acceptability, thus rendering ... . This provides further evidence that we ought to accept cultural relativism, a position where we can know for certain that our actions are mora...

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... and Internet commerce. There are several factors which can either enhance or deter a nation's willingness to conduct business online. Nations are distinct on several levels, ranging from the individual level purchase preferences and concerns about security to national telecommunications infrastructures and regulatory issues intended to encourage or protect a country. These differences can best be understood ... International/Cross-national Level Issues, National Level Issues, Regional/Industry Level Issues, Firm Level Issues, and Individual Level Issues. The International/Cross-national ...

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... to the world economy. Western powers are not only in charge of economic and political aspects at a global level but are also in charge of cultural aspects. Dating back from colonialism, with the help of tourism as one of their mechanisms, they have directly or indirectly been imposing their cultural products (music, food, movies, dances, clothing and technology) as well ... negative impact of tourism and globalization can also be shown through environmental erosion which is a consequence of tourism, particularly in the mountain areas, especially in areas with soil surfaces (Boers & Bosh1...

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... assurance of true devotion, and abandonment of old rituals and 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 ... to year. Upon the administration of Christianity in the new world, the friars were unable to sustain indigenous followers with the peculiar attitude the indigenous had towards secular justice. A number...

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... enrich their experience of belonging. However, individuals lacking a sense of social stability and a secure home are limited from attaining a long-lasting connection to the wider community. In Skrzynecki's "Migrant Hostel," the migrant's inability to connect with their culture has left them with an overall sense of displacement and loss of identity. A sense of dislocation is established in "comings and goings ... the simile indicating that they were united by fear, therefore stressing the human need of finding a community to belong to. The migrants' affiliation with others from their own...

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... Grossman, "The free essential exchange of literary ideas, insights and intuitions "a basic reciprocity of thought facilitated and enhanced by the translation of works from other cultures "is a decisively significant, even defining phenomenon. (52) and it attests to the need of translation in the modern world, as ... need for translation as one of the most important elements of human advancement. The lack of translations, especially when seen with reference to books from the Islamic culture and other East Asian nations may be considered one of the primary reasons for the lack of concord...

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... segregation had accentuated assimilation, for the "preparation" had been adequately achieved. In comparison, to the policy of segregation, the policy of assimilation introduced the separation of Aboriginal children from their parents and the indoctrination of the children into non-Aboriginal ways, thus having a profound influence on Aboriginal family life. The policy of "assimilation" was officially adopted in ... of the government policy was to encourage the "absorption of Aboriginals both racially and culturally, into mainstream white society" . The policy of assimilation coupled with t...

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With the rapidly changing population demographics of 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 ... systems via telephone lines (Sembor, 1997). Teacher education students are using distance learning technology, multimedia, and e-mail to engage in cross-cultural and diverse regional interactio...

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... principle to the tourism advertising for the given destination. The debate on globalisation versus localisation of marketing parameters has intensified over the last few decades with positions ranging from beliefs in the homogenisation of consumer demands to the idea that markets remain culturally diverse despite the increasing interconnectedness of the world. Relating the globalisation ... approach to a tourism context, it is, however, doubtful whether tourism destination promotion would benefit from total standardisation. This very much rests with the fact that tourism destinations ex...

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... constitutes popular music has been the subject of much academic debate. As Richard Middleton contends, attempting to define popular music is "riddled with complexities" (1990, 3). Studies of popular music encompass a range of approaches from musicological, whereby music is commonly analyzed as a text, to sociological, which tends to focus on the social uses of popular music and ... Ltd. (EMI Group), Sony Music, and Universal Music Group. Popular music is an international multi-billion dollar industry that has been dominated by the United States, with some important contributions from th...

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... influence attributors" interpretations of experience. Cultural differences in dispositional attributions are seen as resulting, in part , from the more individualistic cultural conceptions of the person acquired by individuals over development in Western Cultures, as contrasted with the more holistic cultural conception of the person adopted by individuals over development in non0Western cultures. Emphasizing the ... than of prosocial behaviors. All subjects made greatest reference to the context in explanation of prosocial behavior, an affect resulting from the greater number of norma...

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... decline of national feelings over time, however, Gellner considered it to be a necessary consequence of the very focuses described by them; being the "increase in trade flows across frontiers"# from the liberals, and the identification of the proletariat with other exploited masses rather than the ruling classes, for Marxists. Thus, the modernist theory claims that one can explain nationalism ... in which members were easily identifiable through their capacity to communicate amongst themselves. This also allowed for the idea of the "foreigner" as somebody who could not communicate with th...

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... children (Maiello, 1999). "Psychotherapy can be defined broadly as a special practice involving a designated healer (or therapist) and an identified client (or patient), with the particular purpose of solving a problem from which the client is suffering or promoting the health of the client's mind. The practice may take various forms, such as a religious healing ceremony, a special ... of the mind (Tseng, 1999). Varma (1988) defines Western individual psychotherapy as an "interaction, indeed a contract between two autonomous adults, operating at about equal level with each capable of as...

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... regulations, (c) make sure that the potential courses of action reflect the different worldviews involved, (d) consider the positive and negative consequences of opposing courses of action from the perspective of the parties involved, (e) consult with cultural experts if necessary, and (f) select a course of action that best represents an agreement of the parties involved. In the case presented previously that involves ... values may contradict the clients' values or the contextual values. For example, in the case of the client with HIV depicted in this section, counselors need to be awar...

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... regulations, (c) make sure that the potential courses of action reflect the different worldviews involved, (d) consider the positive and negative consequences of opposing courses of action from the perspective of the parties involved, (e) consult with cultural experts if necessary, and (f) select a course of action that best represents an agreement of the parties involved. In the case presented previously that involves ... values may contradict the clients' values or the contextual values. For example, in the case of the client with HIV depicted in this section, counselors need to be awar...

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