This method would also avoid the use of secondary data, like students" statements, that would not give the same quality or reliability of data. ... However a researcher could take the middle ground and hold on to the importance of providing a detailed description from first hand experience spent with the students whilst still giving the ethnography a theoretical background on which to develop. ... It would be important to provide a "public account of the role of self" to give readers an insight into the possible influence of the researcher on the description. ... This method would also a...

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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...

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My purpose is to inform those interested in the subject as well as give recommendations to management and other people who may want to implement a strategy for improving their employees' or their own communication skills. ... In the report I will cover areas such as the preparation for the first meeting, the introduction, the conversation, gift giving, business issues, and the conclusion, which will include results and recommendations. ...

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The most important thing which culture gives us is an identity or an understanding of which we really are. ... On the social level a culture gives humans a way to organize themselves. ... It also gives societies a work life and political structure. ... It gives a group of people a unique way of thinking about beliefs, values, and ideals. All of these different aspects of culture give humans an understanding of how the world works and how they live and act in their own environment. ...

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The bushman are pretending to be people they are not, giving the tourists what they want. This also gives tourists the wrong impression and significantly aids in the ignorance of the !... Kung effectively employ talking and joking to avert the escalation of a fight, but perhaps the most important mechanism for maintaining goodwill is the hxaro exchange, a system of gift giving; which not only fosters friendly relations, but also serves to circulate goods and even maintain environmental balance. ...

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Introduction In this world of plurality and polivocality, it has become a challenge for both educators and learners to negotiate their voices and opinions on a number of things the way that they should move forward and hence give the pedagogy a go, keeping the tunnel open for any sort of heightened understanding between parties concerned. ... It is my belief that the way to achieve this is by giving students a voice in the learning process, and by assisting them in finding connections in the curriculum with their own life and interests. ... Previous Experiences of Teaching My previous method ...

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It would not be straightforward for KFC to succeed far and wide, on the off chance that it supplied the American tastes without giving any thought to the expanded societies and customs of neighborhood buyers in diverse countries," he said. ... It would not be simple for KFC to prospered around the world, if it introduced the American relishes without giving any thought to the diversified cultures and traditions of community purchasers in different nations." he said (American Fast Food in Chinese Market, 2009). ...

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The beginning of the exercise required a written assignment where the U.S. students were to give a definition of what they though culture shock was, and an experience with culture shock had by them, or someone they new. ...

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.- taken from www.marykay.com Mary Kay, being one of the leading cosmetic industries aims to give women not only a quality product, but to make them become active in the company. Following the American Dream, Mary Kay gives women the opportunity to not only buy products but also to become their own independent seller. ...

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Culture CULTURE What is culture? Culture includes language, ideas, beliefs, customs, codes, institutions, tools, techniques, and works of art, rituals, and ceremonies, among other elements. The existence and use of culture depends upon ability possessed by humans alone. This ability has been called the capacity for rational thought. The term symboling has been proposed as a more suitable name for the mental ability of humans, consisting of assigning things and events certain meanings that cannot be grasped with the senses. ...

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Immigration: Mass Media Influences on the General American Population The mass media industry has influentially shaped American society's behavior on immigration into a strict systematic view that immigration is a necessary tool needed to strengthen the economy, stabilize cultural diversity, and exp...

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The Multicultural policy for Victorian Schools (1997) gives the following objectives for multicultural education: • multicultural education allows students to explore the meaning of culture and how culture operates, share their cultures with each other, and explore that which they share across cultures. ...

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The Yanomamo Known for their fierce, aggressive nature and frequent violent disputes, the Yanomamo are a primitive tribe of Indians that live in almost complete seclusion in the dense rain forests of South America. They are one of the oldest examples of the classic pre-Columbian forest footmen. Little is known about them because of their jungle isolation, but because of the destruction of the forest, foreign influences are beginning to interfere with the tribes way of life. From their physical environment, subsistence, clothing, marriage variations, religion, to cultural change, it is quit...

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Term Paper "The Effects of Residential Schooling (Industrializing) on the Aboriginal People's rooting from the aspect of colonization and western religion at its helm. The residential school system acted as a method to reshape the future of the Aboriginal culture. " Since the earliest contact...

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Although there are very few examples of pop culture giving a social critique today, one stands out in my mind, South Park. ... During this as a staple of the South Park series, Kenny dies, yet unlike other times we follow him to hell to find him giving Satan relationship advice on how to communicate with his lover Sadam Hussein. ...

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Cultural Policy and History of Italy Italy is, for lack of a better word, a rather young state with it's origin in the year 1860. The first laws that were past by the state were in the years of 1908 and 1909 and they had to due with the culture of the country as a whole. Since the country is known very much for it's history originating in its own culture, those were the first laws that were past. They guarded the history of the country and its artistic assets located within the region (and rightly so). The maintenance of these historic landmarks and areas was considered to be on ...

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American Native Family Therapy Introduction "Ethnicity is deeply tied to the family, through which it is transmitted. The two concepts are so intertwined that it is hard to study one without the other- (McGoldrick, et al. 1982). The view of culture, while not specifically related to a group's ethnicity or race, is the same. A family is a small cultural group with its own set of beliefs, values, mores, and rules. Ethnicity remains a major form of group identification and a major determinant of these family patterns and belief systems. ...

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For most fans, the most important aspect of a rugby team is its win-loss record. However, for someone interested in how human society works, and in particular how organizations are structured, create an ongoing culture, manage conflict, support or discourage change, adapt to their environment, and d...

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Counseling is an interactive process characterized by a unique relationship between counselor and client that leads to change in one or more areas (Trickett, Sept. 9, 2003). Multicultural counseling requires the recognition of: (1) the importance of racial/ethnic group membership on the socialization of the client; (2) the importance of and the uniqueness of the individual; (3) the presence of and place of values in the counseling process; and (4) the uniqueness of learning styles, vocational goals, and life purposes of clients, within the context of principles of democratic social justice (Lo...

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Counseling is an interactive process characterized by a unique relationship between counselor and client that leads to change in one or more areas (Trickett, Sept. 9, 2003). Multicultural counseling requires the recognition of: (1) the importance of racial/ethnic group membership on the socialization of the client; (2) the importance of and the uniqueness of the individual; (3) the presence of and place of values in the counseling process; and (4) the uniqueness of learning styles, vocational goals, and life purposes of clients, within the context of principles of democratic social justice (Lo...

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It is a time-proven trend that a dominant culture will try to force its methods and what it deems as "normal" on the other cultures that live within its constraints. When the dominant or more mainstream culture expects the non-dominant culture to naturally assume its belief systems, thinking pattern...

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Executive Summary Charlie Eitel has been hired by Fenway Partners, the owner of Simmons bedding company, to turnaround the company. He would like to spend $7.2 million over three years to implement the Great Game of Life (GGOL) which is an experiential program assisting employees to reach their full potential at work. He already removed big barriers for new direction by adopting a new set of core values and changing the organizational structure in his first six months at Simmons. The GGOL program has been experienced by Simmons top managers and it has been piloted at the Charlotte plant with ...

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In the United States there are many people who know how to speak different languages because they emigrated from different countries. Language is the basis of any culture, so if you take away the language you take away the culture. It is this loss of language that has taken today's generations from ...

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This essay will give a brief insight into cross-cultural marketing and attempt to examine four cross-cultural issues that concern international marketing research: Measurement Unreliability; Equivalence; EMIC versus ETIC; and Ethnocentricity. ...

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Language & Culture No one in other majors will be more sensitive than us about the relationship between language and culture since we are English majors. The exact nature of the relationship between language and culture has fascinated, and continues to fascinate, people from a wide variety of backgrounds. That there should be some kind of relationship between the sounds, words, any syntax of a language and the ways in which speakers of that language experience the world and behave in it seems so obvious as to be a truism. It would appear that the only problems deciding the nature of the relat...

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