... culture. One way Lahiri conveys the way in which a home is a reflection of one's identity, as well as the theme of the alienating experience of immigrants assimilating into America and the exposure of two cultures, is through the use of the characterisation of Ashima and the development of her identity. The experience of the Ganguli's attempts at assimilating into American culture is portrayed within Ashima's difficulty ... Ashima's alienated views on American culture. For example, Gogol and Sonia are the reason for Ashoke and Ashima's adoption of Christian holidays such as Christmas an...

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... they abandon Western ideals; these critical exceptions to the rule serve to further illustrate the dichotomy itself. Both Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Gunga Din portray Europeans and indigenous peoples in starkly different ways. While Europeans are differentiated as individuals and granted a relatively positive connotation, native populations are characterized en masse in a negative light and often using dehumanizing ... to drink" (Conrad 30). Indigenous peoples are portrayed in this way throughout the novel, treated not as human beings but as animalistic, indistinguishable parts of "...

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... frameworks for global commerce (including e-commerce) and the risks for new barriers or impediments that could arise as the global market matures. These trade agreements are subject to their own historical development and also to the historical political barriers of the countries participating. Even today, there are countries that refuse to do business with one another because ... Legislation and legal policy have an impact on businesses and on individuals as they pursue electronic commerce activities. The protection of corporate and personal information as well as privacy issues and co...

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... are cumulatively listed, to establish that while they reside in Australia, 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 revealing the interactions that brings them together due to their traditions. The last line identifies the family ... to the family's assimilation and naturalisation into Australian society by becoming "citizens of the soil" through the imagery associated with sustenance. However the negative connotations of "when this one is pulle...

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... barrier. In such a scenario, young and old alike, the politician and layperson, as well as the ordinary traveler and seasoned diplomat seek the services of people who may translate information and knowledge effectively and appropriately so as to ease human interaction. The globalization of the world, in terms of economic convergence, greater political participation between different groups and nations and greater cultural interchange ... the curtain, that we may look into the most holy place; that removeth the cover of the well, that we may come by the water.(Grossman 50), stressing upon...

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... no teleological frame works for interpreting age and cultural diversity in conceptualization, and (c) the role of cultural communication in the acquisition of everyday social knowledge. The purpose of present research is to demonstrate the impact of cultural meaning systems as a third variable, independent of such subjective and objective determinants, which must be taken into account to explain age and cultural ... coding scheme, outlined in table 1 pg 16) Results and Discussion Analysis revealed no significant effect of sex or of order of explaining prosocial as contrasted with deviant ...

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... on the role of language as the most effective form of signification. Text, 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 the relationship between signs within a system highlight the intention of a performance, whilst specific individual signs give emphasis to particular themes and themes and points of focus. This ... unconscious acknowledgement of pre-ordained concepts ... ...

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... what was relevant to the indigenous, the friars could find ways to permeate the day-to-day lives of the Nahua. Passion leaders utilize social media, television, and the Internet, as a mechanism to engage the cultural and social themes of the young generation. With this understanding of what interests the youth, the directors create an adrenaline-pumping, concert like event complete with celebrity keynote speakers ... , light shows, and famous Christian rock bands. The directors of passion opt for a conference design based on its cultural relevance ... ...

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... 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 at any level not just the minority. Consequently, many successful multinational organizations aim to encourage and develop ... to be a visible diversity leader and in conjunction with the National Managing Partner work restlessly to insure that diversity and inclusion is at the heart of the company. ...

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... has been easily swayed onto the path of consumerism through the deceptive and clever advertising of mass media. Do Americans realize the lack of morality and humanitarianism in a world based on media image and satisfaction of ownership rather than the meaningful cultural experience of an earlier time period? As America settles into its nightly routine of television viewing, corporate profiteers are quick to ... 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 tes...

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... 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 and/or Torres Strait Islander heritage from different areas across Australia and one ... Gubbi" (Sunshine Coast, Queensland), "Papuanyo" (Centural Desert, Northern Territory) and "Nikania" (Northwest Australia). There is no such thing as a specific traditional "Aboriginal dance." One ...

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... new regulations to advocate those texts encompassed with profound messages and their ability to handle delicate issues such as the human condition and the evolution of cultural values that are still prevalent to this day, this exemplifies the notion that some of the beliefs that we upheld in our modern age may have been overlooked in earlier eras, an example ... of this would be the concept of female representation. The English Canon acts as a guide for scholars as it provides a diverse range of sophisticated texts that are guaranteed to satisfy and enhance cultivated thinking. The gate...

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"Truth is not an unveiling which destroys the secret, but the revelation which 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 that all human beings were equal in so far as they were led by the light of reason. As such it was d...

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... the West" state that history is not a "fixed" idea and that "we" as a whole make history in our interpretation and the things 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 fixed idea due to the fact that history is produced and becomes ... deciding what will be taught and becomes the facts of history. First of all, a big part of history is made by the interpre...

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... Gay, 1994; Sleeter, 1995). Some would argue that justice and equality have always been the focus of schools in America, but there is a body of historical and contemporary evidence which demonstrates that the schooling experiences of most students of color, as well as many white students from economically poor backgrounds, are inferior to those provided to white students from middle ... Wide Web to extend the available learning resources. Electronic mail and multimedia technologies promote communication and interactions between diverse groups, with the purpose of helping the students lea...

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... in general is understood does not, to any significant degree, involve the culturally determined perceptions which exist on the demand side independently of the communication aspect. The image formed by potential tourists can be conceptualised as a three-split structure involving impressions, attitudes and values. Impressions are based on actual actions and events in a given culture which ... . Furthermore, utilising meanings that are established through other contexts than tourism promotion makes the claims of the advertisement seem less interest laden and hence more convincing, as the ...

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... 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 an objective evaluation, be that a universal moral standard or ... western philosophical principles, irrelevant. The investigation of cultural relativism requires its application to events of moral ambiguity, so as to explore its ability as a legitimat...

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... 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 are blatantly apparent between the patient and the ... not shared by many other cultures in the world. "The European middle-class male individual tended to be the yardstick for the definition of mental health" (Maiello, 1999). By using this as a criteria...

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... links. "Culture, language, land and identity were stripped away from children in hope that the traditional law and culture would die by losing their claim on them and sustenance of them" . As noticed in the segregation policies, cultural links were lost, while living in non-indigenous homes the children were discouraged or prevented from seeing their aboriginal families, in turn this ... fault; and that his whiteness and maleness in a patriarchal society that should have been enough to protect any person's family, did no good because of the nature of the relationship with his partner?" ...

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... standards. On the social and environmental fronts, globalization has broadened people's knowledge, created respect for indigenous cultures, contributed to the protection and conservation of historical monuments as well as the physical environments. One of the major problems with tourism is the way it is structured in the global economy. The industry is generally controlled by the developed West, in ... country received overseas, the tourism industry collapsed overnight leading to a decline in economic growth and unemployment. Tourism and globalisation may also benefit indigenous peoples ...

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... Dick Hebdige, Iain Chambers, Angela McRobbie, and Paul Willis. A major focus of the CCCS was the study of youth culture and subcultural analysis; subsequently, popular music was perceived as central to adolescent resistance, understood as key to the development of sociology of youth, and viewed as a crucial realm of youth consumption practices and identification. Thus, popular music research since the 1970's has ... politics, and hippies and "bike boys" of the 1960's and punks of the late 1970s were understood as representative of this view. The consumption of popular music was recognize...

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... Constructivist Model (Cottone, 2001) and the Collaborative Model (Davis, 1997), this proposed model is titled the Transcultural Integrative Ethical' Decision-Making Model (hereafter referred to as the Transcultural Integrative Model). In terms of ethical theory, this proposed model is founded in both principle (or rational) ethics (Kitchener, 1984) and virtue ethics (Freeman, 2000; Jordan & Meara, 1995). ... making under the proposed model. These include reflection, attention to context, balance, collaboration, and tolerance (Tarvydas, 1998). Reflection concerns counselors' awareness of ...

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... Constructivist Model (Cottone, 2001) and the Collaborative Model (Davis, 1997), this proposed model is titled the Transcultural Integrative Ethical' Decision-Making Model (hereafter referred to as the Transcultural Integrative Model). In terms of ethical theory, this proposed model is founded in both principle (or rational) ethics (Kitchener, 1984) and virtue ethics (Freeman, 2000; Jordan & Meara, 1995). ... making under the proposed model. These include reflection, attention to context, balance, collaboration, and tolerance (Tarvydas, 1998). Reflection concerns counselors' awareness of ...

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... 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 development of regions within a world capitalist economy. "As capitalism spread and smashed the ancient social formations surrounding it, they always tended to fall apart along the fault-lines contained inside them. It is a ... proletariat with other exploited masses rather than the ruling classes, for Marxists. Thus, the modernist theory claims that one can explain nationalism with relative ease as a consequence of high divisions ...

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