In an age where television and music dominate children's culture it is easy to fall victim to these false representations of the Oriental world, namely Asia and the Middle East. ... In order to fully understand how Walt Disney exerts such influential control over children's culture and how it portrays Eastern cultures, it is important to understand both how Disney works and the concept of Orientalism. ... These films take place in the Middle East and Asia and it is interesting to see how interpretations of the Arab and Asian world are falsely represented. ... This was a period wh...

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Fukuzawa urged middle class people in Japan to nurture a civilization because they have knowledge and intellect. He used examples from Europe to show some middle classes did there such as the lays of polictial economy and changed the way of commerce by Adam smith. ... Granted that a nation's destiny depends upon the education of its people, there must be some fundamental differences in the education of Western and Eastern peoples. ... For example, there was a concern among some not to lose the soul of the nation in the rush towards modernization, which leaded to the popular slogan, "Easte...

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His Fourfold Cultural Balance theory states there were four distinct zones (Europe, Middle East Africa, India, and China) of civilization development that were marked by a unique culture. ... The Caravan routes traded Middle Eastern African luxury items, such as ostrich feathers and precious metals, with the Europeans. ...

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In the Bulgarian public mind at the time, words like "Protestant" stood about halfway between "Eastern Orthodox" and "Muslim", i.e. they were of a moderately opprobrious nature, usually implying "too strange to swallow". ... The patriarchal quality of the Bulgarian ethnic society ran in a somewhat parallel manner to the Victorian middle-class patriarchalism. Small wonder, then, that the British authors who enjoyed the greatest popularity among Bulgarians were among those who expressed lower-middle-class views. ... With his Protestant pragmatism, outspoken nationalism and lower-middle-class mor...

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She was sitting in a room quietly trying not to pick up her head, afraid of what she might see if she will. Hiding in a place of her clothing and wishing she was back in her environment with her people who were not that much different from her. Feeling uncomfortable from all the glances people were throwing her way, perhaps trying to figure out what she had done wrong or haven't done when she should've. She knew that she was different. She knew that the moment she moved to this place and from the first time went outside. ...

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INTERCULTURAL MISCOMMUNICATION Intercultural miscommunication and misattributions often underline intercultural conflict. Individuals coming from two distinctively different cultural backgrounds have unlike value assumptions, expectations, and verbal and nonverbal communication habits. Intercultu...

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Abstract Marketing is a term usually reserved for the process of marketing a product, service, or idea to the final consumer in a certain market. However, the purpose of this paper will be to show how culture's elements and specifically language can impact the marketing process of an organization. ...

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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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• Grade Level: Undergraduate