... languages. However, when we look through another human science, culture doesn't use language to understand human behavior. We can use anthropology as an example in this case. Anthropology is the study of living peoples, their beliefs and ideas. It gives us an idea about the society and culture ... and imagination. When they have feelings on a certain thing, they could record their thoughts in an abstract way by drawing them down. For example, the 3D street art painting artist, Julian Beever had done an art piece named "politicians meet their ends." This reminds me about ... than not, la...

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... and human systems. In one of the largest engineering projects ever undertaken the Chinese built the Grand Canal. The Grand Canal is an excellent example of humans altering their environment to better suit their needs. The Chinese were able to use the Grand Canal as highway for commerce and ... crops or wares while relying on the market to provide other necessities (McNeill, pg. 123). The rise in the use of gunpowder is another example of human inventiveness shaping history regardless of geography. Gunpowder reshaped the system of war and forever changed the way countries would be ruled b...

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... care of them once they are older. Women were the ones who technically took care of the whole family by having their daily routine of chores. For, example taking care of the children, making sure there was food, cleaning over the animals, milking the animals, carrying wood to be able to cook and many ... make sure there was enough clean water to be able to cook, clean, wand wash. They would even walk miles just to have clean water. A perfect example of Confucian that took place was in the film of Mulan. Throughout the film there are lots of scenes where I visualized where filial piety too...

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... authentic compared to Western culture. Asian culture is more commonly known as being foreign and exotic compared to Western culture and our customs. An example of this is my Asian cookbook. Recipes used in this cookbook are very exotic because of the many different uses of spices. Spices to ... because all countries in Asia have their own customs, culture and cooking methods and are often mistaken for being the one, similar country. For example my sushi rolling mats are typically used in only Japanese cooking where as people often perceive that Asian cooking as in my Asian cookbook all t...

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... adequate training. However, researches show that there are still many large multinationals that are reluctant to take such steps, mostly due to the reasons of cost and shortsighted goals. For example, "only 13 percent of the European firms provide their expatriates with access to cultural awareness courses, though a further 47 percent now provided briefings for culturally challenging postings.'" (Price Waterhouse, 97 ... fully, not to mention the "Singlish." Therefore, since language itself is already a major part of a country's culture and history, it is important for organizations to ...

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... the Chinese desire to seek their own path to socialism led to the tensions. One of the reasons behind the tensions is ideological. For example, the Chinese emphasis on the peasant revolution instead of following the Soviet emphasis on the urban working-class revolution was something that the Chinese could ... socialism. Another one of the reasons behind the tensions is political. There were many political events which caused much unhappiness among the Chinese. For example, the Soviets did not provide any concrete help when China faced the 2nd Quemoy-Matsu crisis in 1958. The Soviets, on ...

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... these considerations into account when diagnosing. Abnormal behavior cannot be approached universally because there are Culture-bound Syndromes, meaning that a specific condition is only found in a specific culture. For example, Koro is a culturally-bound syndrome in China where men believed that the penis can shrink, become impotent and sterile then cause death. Symptoms include reduction of penile volume due to ... problems. Another cultural consideration in diagnosis is culture blindness, where the clinician is unaware that what is abnormal in their culture may be completely normal in...

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... labour which is actually an international specialization of a task: resources of a place do not necessarily find their utilization in the surrounding areas. For example, the smartphones sell throughout the world are made in China (for Samsung for example), but designed in South Korea and the rare metal needed for a part of these goods' production can be found in Congo. So between the ... that it takes almost no time for the information to pass through, thanks to the development of transoceanic fiber optic networks. To take again the production of smartphones as an example, this would no...

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... cultures, natural resources, and goods. The nomads took these goods with them and these goods often peeked the interest of sedentary peoples. An example of this is when the Xiongnu, a Turkish-speaking people from the Mongolian confederacy received silk and other fine goods from their trade and tributary ... traditions, beliefs and values indigenous to their societies. As people traveled amongst these different cultures a certain amount of cultural exchange took place. An example of this is how the Xiongnu adopted Chinese agricultural techniques. The Xiongnu also wore silk, ate with chops...

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... life for their futures. A learning environment that a typical humanistic person would create a setting in the classroom on what the teacher would be teaching. For example a second grade class-room's lesson for the semester is on the universe, which would include the stars, planets, comets, and the planets orbits, the ... just by creating an environment that would open up the students mind to see how the lesson of science works. By creating a setting as the example I just stated allows the student to learn in a manner that would be in a much more less complicated way of comprehending the...

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... scientifically based replacement for herbal and primitive form of healing. 4. Interdependence- this refers to partial dependence of two socio cultural groups on an item of exchange that they both need. Example is exchange of canned goods and live stocks. People in urban areas would like native chicken from rural areas, while people in rural areas would treat canned sardines as a real ... in exchange of paracetamol particularly in remote areas. 6. Hegemony - this is the opposite of integration in such a way that the partial vital function is forced to surrender to a bigger unit. Example ...

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... to feel and know the ancient Chinese culture. Reversely, a Chinese learner can try to study the china history and through which he can better understand and use the phrase. For example, an du chen cang, which indicates one thing while doing another to cheat under cover of a diversion; you won't understand why it means it unless you know the historical story ... hair-hare, deer-dear, generally there are only two in a pair so it's easy to distinguish one from another; but the amount of homonym is much larger in Chinese. For example, the sentence 'jiu jiu jiu dian lai jiu dian he ni l...

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... very difficult to determine the source of cyberattacks. Nations can plausibly claim that the attacks may have originated from within their country but their governments did not initiate them. For example North Korea denying hacking into computer systems at Sony pictures in retaliation for a film depicting the country's leader. But the country praised the attack as a good deed. Many cyberattacks ... will not be lethal and will not even result in permanent damage to physical objects. This is of extremely dissimilar from all traditional weapons of war. For example the very complex stuxnet ...

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... China? Well, there are Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism. All three of them have a different point of view from the other, and some of them have some things in common. For example all three religions don't have a god, and Buddhism has a lot more rituals and prayers then the other two. So they all have there different qualities and uniqueness. First of all ... is not very popular except for in China. The symbol that represents Daoism and what it means is YinYang. YinYang is basically that one cannot live without the other. For example, Yin is usually associated with earth, darkness, wat...

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... satisficing in their approach. Populism, rather than pragmatism guides their policies. The two hundred plus holidays in a year that the Indian government employees enjoy at significant economic costs, is an example. However, all this should not lead us to believe that authoritarianism has been the panacea for all economic woes of developing nations. Countries like Zimbabwe and North Korea, with despotic ... for democratic change. Even in the relatively well to do authoritarian states, there is a constant under current in favour of democracy which manifest itself from time to time: Tiana...

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... even have to introduce rewards or encourage couples to have females. GLOBALISATION Globalisation is the process of international economies, societies and/or cultures being integrated into a common world community. For example, large corporations are taken over companies in other countries. This influences the economies of those countries as well as their standard of living and social behaviour. This can be seen ... China are also being influenced by their culture, diet, beliefs, etc. Also, the world is becoming a smaller place, with improved and faster air travel as well as electronic c...

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Violated! A Report on Social Norms My mother always told me that there are things that you just don't do. For example, horsing around in Church, being loud and yelling at the table or in public, picking your nose, etc. While your mother may have simply called this "behaving," sociologists call these ... often very strictly enforced and offenders are often ostracized or outright rebuked for their conduct. Also, such norms are more rigorously held to in certain situations than in others. For example, it is a social norm that people should be decently covered in public, but a woman wearing a sw...

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... been invented, the inventor then had to find aplication for it. Some other devices, invented to serve one purpose, eventually found most of their use for other, unanticipated purposes. For example, Thomas Edison's phonograph. When he developed phonograph, he wanted it to be used for preserving the last words of dying people, recording books for blind people, announcing clock time, teaching ... . reproduction of music was not one of the uses. However, later, jukeboxes were created by arranging for a phonograph to play music at a drop of coin. Through this and several other example in the ...

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... the boxing community. They are led to feel a sense of belonging to this community, when really they are being demoralized in many ways by their managers and fight promoters. For example, when the boxer reaches the adult age of eighteen, their manager can take a twenty five percent of their earnings, which many people feel is inappropriate and not fair for the ... surrounded by ropes. Parts of society feel strongly towards not just the mere fighting and injuries caused, but the thought of people actually dieing in an official licensed sport. For example, do you feel that it is right for ...

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... . So, in 1979 the "One child" policy was imposed. This allowed families to only have one child. If the policy was broken there were drastic penalties for the families, for example fines, physical abuse or even the death of the children. Even though the birth rate was lowered to 18 per 1,000, the policy was very strict and caused great debate ... behind the penalties. Many people believed that the "One child" policy was totally unacceptable because of the terrible methods used when the dealing with people who broke the law, for example, the child may have been murdered in a brutal way. Al...

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... penetrates the human body well, but some of the original wave is reflected off tissues, bones etc. The returned waves are used to build a picture of inside the body, for example in scans to check on babies while there are still in the mothers' womb pre-natal scan'. The body absorbs some energy, but it is a lot less damaging than other ... penetrating waves - for example, X-rays. The ultrasonic waves can also be used for a variety of medical uses, such as to study and treat hard-to-reach body areas. Uses for ultra sound were first ... no radiation, and avoids the possible hazards "such ...

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... even have to introduce rewards or encourage couples to have females. GLOBALISATION Globalisation is the process of international economies, societies and/or cultures being integrated into a common world community. For example, large corporations are taken over companies in other countries. This influences the economies of those countries as well as their standard of living and social behaviour. This can be seen ... China are also being influenced by their culture, diet, beliefs, etc. Also, the world is becoming a smaller place, with improved and faster air travel as well as electronic c...

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... thought they needed to use violence to conquer these poor little countries. they try to rescue every little country they thought was suffering such as India just to give one example. They thought that this was their duty to civilize these countries and force their culture on to them thinking it would help the countries thrive. the Europeans thought it would ... face during the imperialist movement. In response to this scholars patriotically joined together in the hope that great China could once more stand as a self sufficient and powerful country. For example Feng Guifen who writes the...

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... and thanksgiving for Vietnamese and Chinese people. Studying and working far away from home make it more difficult to see other family members often or at the same time. For example, in my family, my siblings and I studied far away from my home and lived in different cities. Due to different school schedules, my siblings could not be there when I went ... . To sum up, many Asian countries follow the same lunar calendar, so they have some similarities in Lunar New Year. Due to being neighbor countries, Vietnam and China are a good example for those; nevertheless, both countries still have...

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... that Americans are more individualistic and more informal than the Chinese. One significant difference between Chinese culture and American culture is that Americans value individualism more than the Chinese. For example, in China, parents raise their children when they are young, but once the children grow up and become adults, they in turn support their parents. Parents and children are mutually ... Chinese formality, Americans always behave informally. This is another one of the most important differences between two countries' cultures. Americans focus more on equality, but care les...

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