There is a mixing of culture across national boundaries (71). ... In other words, a new culture is in the making that rises above the old political and geographic walls (Kulver). ... The Internet, fax machines, satellites, and cable TV have taken away the old national cultural boundaries (Masuda 67). ... Web access allows anyone to explore the histories, politics, economics and societies of the most inaccessible regions. ... A nation is a political concept, and is unquestionably very different from culture (Blij 56). ...

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Technological advances continue to communicate our ability to stretch the boundaries and the use of any personal cellular phone technology or to improve the network can interact with another person from a totally different culture. ... If you want to see the capital, the globalization of goods, the free flow of labor and services all over the world, by a very large business company, it has a huge control world economy, beyond national boundaries. ... Globalization can be seen in five different ways; political, economic, technological, cultural and environmental. ... They are: to change the gl...

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This is because the stability and sustainability of social cohesion and adhesion is founded on the some fundamental values that benefit people across various cultural boundaries. ... A community that respects the rights of every person prevails because people are able to engage in nation building activist when their working environment and political system does not discriminate against them on any basis. It is recommendable for the political system and the political, leaders across the world to ensure that the governance and resources distribution policies that they adopt are founded on the ...

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The globalization of the world, in terms of economic convergence, greater political participation between different groups and nations and greater cultural interchange has tremendously enhanced the role of translators and translation. ... All too often, ideas become stagnant since they are relegated to a certain geographical location or a cultural boundary since the work exists only in a single language, whereas if translated, ideas become more potent due to greater debate and discussion. The texts of Ancient Greece and Rome, translated into several languages, gave the world some of the most...

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Globalization is essentially a process by which an ever tightening network of ties that cut across national political boundaries connects communities in a single, interdependent whole, a shrinking world where local differences are steadily eroded and subsumed within a massive global social order (Mowforth and Munt, 1998: 12). ... In sociological perspective, "tourism consists of the of phenomena of space movement connected with voluntarily temporal change of place in space, change of life rhythm and environment accompanied by making personal contact with the visited environment Mpofu (20...

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Cleveland (1960) has found that expatriates who functioned well tended to be rated relatively high on technical skill, belief in their mission, a sense of politics, evidence of cultural empathy, and clear organizational ability. ... The boundaries of information-based orientation programs led to diverse attempts to expose trainees to supervised second cultural experiences, real or simulated. ...

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Introduction For hundreds of years people have put some message in the type of clothing they wore. Long ago people started wanting to stand out from the "crowd " and be different from other people by means of changing their clothing. Some examples of these "standing out " became very popular and wer...

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In other words, this elitist definition of culture has enormous social, economic, and political implications. ... In addition, this traditional notion of culture has tended to be static, that is, it assumes that "culture" can be put into distinct categories or within set boundaries. ...

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At that time, "the people within national boundaries were viewed as essentially homogeneous" and such assumption implied that "everyone in a particular nation shares certain core characteristics" (W. ... Over six generations, which covered about 100 years, we could tell that politics and economy are always two great factors to influence people's way of thinking and their values. ...

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