American Native Family Therapy Introduction "Ethnicity is deeply tied to the family, through which it is transmitted. ... To deny a family's ethnicity and cultural background is to deny the essence of the family itself. Culture plays a major role in whether or not a family in crisis seeks help as well as what sort of help the family will accept. ... American Natives Given that the family therapist inserts herself into the very fiber of the family, it is absolutely necessary for that therapist to be aware of the cultural issues from which that family bases its beliefs and values. ...

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There is a heavy emphasis on family, religion and social issues. ... Even after having children, or becoming able to support their family on their own, the couple will continue living as an extended family. ... Family is also a strong value in Vietnamese culture. ... Extended family simply is not a valued by Americans. ... We value employees from varied backgrounds as they enrich our culture and support our commercial success. ...

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The residential school system acted as a method to reshape the future of the Aboriginal culture. " Since the earliest contact between Canada's Aboriginal people and European settlers there has been conflicting values concerning family relationships and child-rearing practices. ... "The program received full support from the churches and the department of Indian Affairs. ... The superintendent general of Indian Affairs assured him that the Indian expenditures were a "good investment instead of being supported from the revenue of the country would contribute largely the same." ...

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Abstract Ravaged by war, violently pushed out of their home country, separated from their extended family and friends, and evacuated to a foreign country where they have no commonality, Vietnamese refugees faced the worst after the end of Vietnam War in 1975. ... Upon arriving in the United States, Vietnamese refugees were settled sparsely in four temporary refugee camps across the nation and entered "U.S society primarily through the family sponsorship method" (Do 36). After getting sponsored, however, Vietnamese refugees faced emotional, social, and psychological difficulties ad...

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McLeod highlights the fact that the relationship between the hidden curriculum, the culture of the school and the family background of students is an important factor in shaping students' attitudes to school and their outcomes. ... This paper supports McLeod's contention that there needs to be a fundamental shift in thinking about cultural diversity as an indicator of 'other', toward the reality of a society which is culturally plural and an education system which reflects this at grassroots level. ... Thus students may develop a broader awareness of community at loca...

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I always wondered how come there was never an Oriental family, or an Iranian family. ... This was my only knowledge of what a family was, or could ever be. Throughout the last five decades this family concept has not changed as much as it could have. ... Although we did have shows which also portrayed African- American families, these families still had the same structure as the above, the only difference was that they were not Caucasian. ... For once, I would like to see the nuclear family portrayed ...

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Immigration: Mass Media Influences on the General American Population The mass media industry has influentially shaped American society's behavior on immigration into a strict systematic view that immigration is a necessary tool needed to strengthen the economy, stabilize cultural diversity, and expand collective intelligence. Immigration has always been a major topic for discussion for people interested in national and international affair of the United States since the founding of the nation. Immigration has many influences on the United States since it is a social necessity for economi...

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If a student's family can barely pay for food and rent, taking a loan from a bank is probably not in their future. Educational materials stressing the historical influences and cultural values of the dominant society, supported by a bombardment of outside media, cheat students in two ways. ...

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I live everyday making sure I am doing what he called to me to do and my choices always are determined by if I think God would want me to do that because I want to someday go to heaven and rejoice with my family members that have passed away before me. ... I believe what is worth dying for is my family and some of my closest friends. I have had such a huge support system in my life that I would do absolutely anything for them if it came down to it. ... I also was born in a military family and strongly believe in the right of equality and that everyone should be treated equally. ...

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It is occasionally performed within Aboriginal, Christian and Muslim families who have emigrated to the US or Canada from some Muslim countries where it is practiced as a social tradition. ... No physician's help was sought because the family believes in faith healing. ...

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The average customers during the restaurant hours are older, with family or friends accompanying them. ... This goes into the concept that these positions, "Having been created largely by and for men, these social practices tend to reflect and support men's experiences and life situations and, therefore, maintain a gendered social order in which men and particular forms of masculinity dominate. " (Acker, 1990). ... Alongside the removal of food, the atmosphere in general changes from a slow, family restaurant to a very much upbeat party scene. ...

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Everyone has encountered a "freak" at one time or another, whether at the mall or on the street or at a family function. ... He supports the idea that a subculture's authenticity is distorted and manipulated by society and profiting industries. ... Elizabeth Wilson discusses punk subversive fashion and how interpreting them only through stereotypes, " misses the possibility that to create one's identity in a shocking and deviant way that is none the less well supported within a subculture may actually contribute to the building of self confidence, a sense of self and even optimism,...

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In order for a person to appreciate their family, friends and all the other people around them, one must understand what culture is all about. ... Social culture involves kinship and family. ... It is noted that the cultural orientation of the ethnic group consumers has helped to establish and maintain, through vendor loyalty, plenty of small retailers supported by an inefficient, multi-tired distribution networks. ... (4) Family structure and decision-making...

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It is a time-proven trend that a dominant culture will try to force its methods and what it deems as "normal" on the other cultures that live within its constraints. When the dominant or more mainstream culture expects the non-dominant culture to naturally assume its belief systems, thinking pattern...

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Most contemporary foraging groups, such as the !Kung and other Bushman tribes, are viewed as a "primitive- people. Some have even gone as far to say that they are "the last representatives of the Stone Age."" While it is true that these people have the most similar culture to what we believe primiti...

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Counseling is an interactive process characterized by a unique relationship between counselor and client that leads to change in one or more areas (Trickett, Sept. 9, 2003). Multicultural counseling requires the recognition of: (1) the importance of racial/ethnic group membership on the socialization of the client; (2) the importance of and the uniqueness of the individual; (3) the presence of and place of values in the counseling process; and (4) the uniqueness of learning styles, vocational goals, and life purposes of clients, within the context of principles of democratic social justice (Lo...

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Counseling is an interactive process characterized by a unique relationship between counselor and client that leads to change in one or more areas (Trickett, Sept. 9, 2003). Multicultural counseling requires the recognition of: (1) the importance of racial/ethnic group membership on the socialization of the client; (2) the importance of and the uniqueness of the individual; (3) the presence of and place of values in the counseling process; and (4) the uniqueness of learning styles, vocational goals, and life purposes of clients, within the context of principles of democratic social justice (Lo...

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1. Introduction 1.1 Background In the course of the most recent years it has gotten to be basic that some huge leading firms are extending their products in a lot of nations and becoming tremendous both in size and financially. Something intriguing can be found is the point at which these sorts of firms need to achieve another market far from the local market, the marketing managers need to settle on the decision either to take a similar strategy as the one implement in their local market or to change it to fit in with the host nation. At the point when picking the universal marketing strategy...

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Hence I see my philosophy of teaching reflected in and supported by the theoretical model of Mary Louis Pratt's "contact zone". ... The Context of the Activity The students I teach here at University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh are of between 18-21 years, who are mostly from well-off middle class families (in Bangladesh practice) background. ...

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The company was founded in 1870 by Zalmon Gilbert Simmons as a family business. ... After 1978, Simmons stopped being a family-run business and it changed many hands. ... When Eitel came on the board, he added three more core values (caring, empowerment, and supporting) and this created the acronym CHOICES that comprised the components of the core values. ...

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I have gained information from expert research in journal articles in order to support my ideas. I also used secondary information from books to illustrate all supported data. I also viewed a relevant video to support my research. ...

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