Now their musical cultures have become almost extinct. ... The most probable reason is that, in the colonial days, the younger generations began to take on western culture. Also, as they lived with local people, they probably wanted to demonstrate their adaptability skills by replacing their culture with a western culture. ... For example, teenagers sent by their families to study in Singapore, Australia, USA and etc. are under a lot of pressure to change their outward way of life, social attitudes and values and so on. Is this music culture change in Sabah gradual or abrupt? ...

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Sociology Essay How useful is the concept of elite' for understanding the distribution of power in either Britain or the United States? Introduction In America perhaps only race is a more sensitive subject than the way we sort ourselves out in the struggle for success. The eminent sociologist Rob...

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These areas remain `Excluded Spaces' or `Places Apart' (Power and Tunstall, 1995; Lupton, 2001) that are often cut off from `mainstream' society and whose inhabitants often feel they have little stake in the wider society and develop `cultures' of their own which are perceived as threatening (in an older terminology these places would be termed `dangerous places'). ...

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