There's a dark history behind America's achievement, but many American left it out of their history. ... Besides, I think not all Americans are from Europe, some are from Africa, Asia, South American, and many more, which Takaki will agree with me since he himself is an Asian American. ... For example, I see an Asian guy and assume that he is good at math or a black guy and assume that he can run really fast. ... For example, An Asian man is seen to be tied with Asian cultures, like chopsticks and talks like one, but the man was raised in a black community. ... I am born as a Malay r...

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These groups include the Africans, Asians, native-Americans, and Hispanics. ... In this paper I will be discussing the story of the Asian American woman and the Native-American woman. Asian American refers to many different groups. ... The Asian Americans have had many things written on them through out the years. ... These two cultures, Native-Americans and Asian Americans, especially differ in many aspects. ...

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The two chosen articles are "Growing up White in America" by Bonnie Kae Grover and "Growing up Asian in America" by Kesaya E. ... In Kesaya Noda's article, "Growing Up Asian in America" the dialogue, reveals that Noda's identity is more American than Asian. ... Although Noda doesn't walk around with a thought in her head that she looks Asian but someone is always there to remind her. ... In conclusion, Noda's identity reveals that she is more American than Asian. Noda writes about the society of stereotypes that treat Asian American with prejudice and how people make judgme...

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She was born in Thailand and prior to moving to America, lived in Bangkok with her parents and two sister's. ... E.S. came to America to get married after meeting her soon to be husband on the Internet. ... E.S. reports that she lives in a small rural community and has minimal contact with others of her same culture, however, the US census reports that the Asian population is growing daily in this country. According to the U.S.census bureau reports, the Asian population has increased more than any other group during the last decade, increasing by 43 percent. ... She does however report sp...

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In America, you can see the laughing Buddha when you visit the Asian markets. ... This is why Asians in North America want to have these statues in their stores and even homes to seek wealth and blessings from them. ... This representation of Buddha is often associated with the Asian cultures. In contrast to other Asian cultures, this Buddha is from East Asia; either from China, Korea or Japan, there is two exact replicated figures squatting and is placed side to side. ... Earlier we indicated that there is a group of the Asians of about 2000 people in the America who were immigrants that wer...

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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. ... Jean Baudrillard argues that "Disney functions as a kind of simulacra for the American society and past. ... Disneyland exists because it conceals the fact that it is the real' America.""...... ... "To most Americans, exotica means the tropics- whether jungle or desert. ... At the end of this are a variety of American styled Chinese restaurants that are somewhat insulting to Asians as it makes a really bad attempt to imitate s...

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She writes, I choose to describe myself on my own terms, as an American, rather than as an Asian-American. ... In this paragraph, the author emphasizes her resistance to the immigrants who label themselves Asian-American instead of just American. She felt proud of being an American. ... I was in culture shock when I first arrived to America. ... But those of us who turn our backs on immigrants misunderstand the secret of America's success and what it means to be American (339)....

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Tattooing Today In the United States of America, tattooing has changed dramatically from the way it was once viewed. ... Different cultures also used this practice and it spread from Egypt to Greece, Persia, Central Asia, and Arabia along the trade routes. ... Chatham Square in New York City became the birthplace of American style tattooing. ... Tattooing came to America and was used by the Mayans, Incas, and Aztecs. ... The Aniu of Western Asia used tattooing to show social status (Midre). ...

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In the past decade, there has been the substantial increase in the numbers of Asian immigrants to the United States (Oh et. al., 2002). In 1980, more than 3.5 million people in the United States were Asians and Pacific Islanders; almost half of the 6 million legal immigrants and refugees to the United States came from Asian countries (Vega, 1991). ... However, immigrant children are generally eager to embrace American culture and to acquire an American identity by becoming indistinguishable from their American peers (Zhou, 1997). ... The major issue with American immigrant children is do their...

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Cultural interaction had allowed for the impending impact to be staved off for a little longer – some Native Americans were employed as day laborers by the English, and some indentured servants had fled their English masters to Native American villages. ... Stockholders of the Virginia Company were expecting to receive a return on their investments, and the company intended to make this happen in a variety of ways, including the discovery of gold and other valuable minerals, trade with Native Americans, the production of forest products which would be used by the English Navy, the develo...

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This paper will focus on determining the effects of modern-day (1960-present) cultural relativism in Eurasia, as opposed to America, on business management and protocol. ... Many American people believe in the way of the American economy, However, The way America runs its finances is not necessarily right. ... A nave business mind will assume that the way business is practiced in America is the way it is practiced outside of America. ... An American manager would be most likely be unsuccessful in an attempt to move into an employment opening in an overseas division of a business, or a forei...

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(Blacks, Whites, Hispanics, and Asian), There are a number of many other ethnic groups throughout the world. ... For example, let's take an African American based magazine company and compare it to a Hispanic based magazine company. Based on my statement above, the African American magazine would, more than likely, have more African American employees than those of white or Asian origin. ... The African American magazine might include articles on topics that are important to that culture, such as more "black" men in the teaching field or even less significant things such as hair ...

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Popular culture and its natural process of development can be and is affected by virtually everything from other cultures (the recent Latin influence on American popular music), the weather (would Morrisey have happened in a country that didn't get as much rain?)... When it comes to popular music in a North American setting, there is some precedent that we can examine. ... As that war raged on, and the television cameras overseas broadcast images of death and destruction all over the jungles of Southeast Asia, the natural evolutionary processes of popular culture did their thing. ... The ...

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As it was mentioned in the preface, the main audiences of the book are two kinds of people: "professional communicators who are East Asian speakers of English, and their teachers in courses on professional communication, whether in Asia or elsewhere" and "professional communicators who are concerned with any communications which cross the lines of discourse systems" (p. ... Moreover, the book thoroughly discussed another core concept of the field – change of individualism and collectivism between Americans and Chinese. It is an overgeneralization as well as oversimpli...

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For example, in Asian countries the word "no" is rarely used, so that "yea" can mean "no" or "perhaps" (Fitzgerald 235). Therefore, an American traveling to Japan might be considered impolite if he ignores this rule. ... However in most cases one cannot answer with such straight talk as "no", in Asian culture, he would worry about the future of plainly said "no" (Suito 185), this would not be acceptable in that culture. ...

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The two characters in this story are Franny and Ginny, these are two African American girls Franny is about seven to ten years old and Ginny is about four to six years old. ... There hair is in many braids; with bobble ties and barrettes like most young African American girls wear their hair. This seems to be a stereotype of how young African American girls all wear their hair. ... on the side of the page there are single pictures of seven children there are tree African American children one girl and two boys, one Asian girl and three Caucasian children, two boys and one girl. ... I feel that...

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For example, international trade has caused the spread of most religions, such as Christianity, to Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and America (Masuda 67). ... The result of this is that in much of the world there is now a competition between two cultures, the local and the American. ... American culture is not by any means a world culture but it is making an impact on the world in various ways. Another result of global reach of Hollywood is when immigrants move to the United States they have a false idea of the American life. This causes people to act and respond to American life in a fals...

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This movie is an example of the British identity being challenged by an emerging Indian/Asian cultural force, especially when it comes to race, class and gender. ... According to the director, Gurinder Chadha, "'Bride and Prejudice' is a multi-national, multi-cultural crowd-pleaser that touches on American imperialism, the way the west looks at India and what people regard as backward or progressive. ...

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Schiller (1993) argues that this will be the case where American values and dreams will become common place globally. ... The outcome of such arrangement saw the introduction of BskyB into Asian countries, with Western soaps having been dubbed over in Hindu. ...

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The following questions are based on the article entitled "Leadership and Cooperation in Marketing Channels: A Comparative Empirical Analysis of the U.S., Finland and Poland " as well as reviewed the Video Module discussion of Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions both of which went above and beyond the textbook description and application of Hofstede's theory. (A) Define and discuss in SUBSTANTIVE DETAIL EACH of the five dimensions of culture as identified by Hofstede. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Hofstede's research is based on the informa...

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Cultural Relativism and Human Rights Cultures with their morals differ from each other across the world and with that indifference comes a conflict about which morals are right. James Rachels challenges the idea of cultural relativism. In this paper I review Benedicts concept and compare it to ...

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Fukuzawa was determined that Japan should benefit from the best of Western technological and economic achievements, and so embarked on a conscious programme to adopt into the Japanese context key elements of European and America life. ... Fukuzawa was worried that westerners may consider Japan was similar to China and Korea because they are located closely in east Asia.[2] Therefore, he suggested that Japan should move on by itself move to civilized nation of the West and leave others alone because China and Korea were still following the old way. ...

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