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The Importance of Cultural Skills in Reaching Multicultural Students

chief factor in effective learning in a multicultural classroom. The hypothesis can be presented that:...

Skirts; Culture and Influences

than limited to only fashion, opening up a wider variety of influences. This Turkish-Cypriot, was actually born H?seyin Ca...

Counseling Ethnic Minorities

at once the most primitive and most efficient means of communication throughout time: the art of narration, or storytelling. Huma...

Cultural Policy

held true until the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s began to introduce legislation that has subsequently dismantled the legal s...

Getting Real with Diversity and Leadership

2001 at its Fayetteville, North Carolina call center (Hold the Phone, 2002). DiversityInc Magazine rejects euphemism, whit...

HOFSTEDE'S CULTURAL DIMENSIONS: U.S., VIETNAM AND CHINA

Some years later, Hofstede added a fifth dimension, that of Long-Term Orientation. LTO determines the degree to which a society em...

Continuity in the Culture of African Americans

5 pages and 5 sources. This paper relates the concept of cultural continuity as it can be applied to a view of the African Americ...

Communicating Across Cultural Lines

With more diversity in industry every day, cultural issues come into play in addition to other barriers to smooth operation. This ...

James Rachels and Cultural Relativism

within cultures, and its important that these relative differences remain. However, he goes on to criticize, these are not issues ...

Tahar Ben Jelloun's The Sand Child, Maryse Conde's Crossing the Mangrove, and Storytelling

will take place when the news is heard of Sanchers death: "While he strode in haste towards his parents house, the men, forgetting...

Hispanic Immigrant Treatment Regarding Drug Use

the problem. B. Reluctance to seek treatment. C. Less believe in positive outcome of treatment. D. Direct confrontation can be cou...

eCommerce Report

country where less than 5% of homes have an internet connection (Anonymous, 2000). With markets of this size growing at this rate...

Rereading America by S.B. Heath and Gary Columbo

Trackton, that power has become constrained due to the atmosphere in which the residents find themselves. Their way of assimilatin...

National Identity and Ethnic Music

band Yothu Yindi, has asserted that popular music provides a useful tool to propagate Aboriginal political awareness: (Dunbar-Hall...

Cultural and Political Views of the Vietnam War

ideological battle within. After the Geneva cease-fire agreement of 1954, Vietnam had been subdivided at the 17th Parallel into n...

Kuala Lumpur's Petronas Towers

a somewhat anonymous international style which was not particularly Malaysian. The winning architects, Cesar Pelli and Associates,...

Global Importance of Food

medicinal properties of onions and garlic, these foods are believed to be base in some respects; more significantly, both onions a...

Political Power, Supernatural Rituals and Anthropology

in society provide numerous functions while at the same time explaining mans origins and how man relates with nature. Many of the ...

Anthropology, the Western Pacific Trobriander Islanders, Bronislaw Malinowski and Male Bias

male bias. The purpose of using Malinowskis work as an example of the male bias which permeates both historical and contemp...

Zen Buddhism of Japan

suffering, and that this suffering could only be escaped through giving up selfish desires. This spiritual "enlightenment" could b...

Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in a Consideration of Whether or Not Cultural Anthropology is a Science

to an invalid who is totally dependent on her parents for her care. The tragedy here, as is true in many respects in the cross-cu...

Racism Experiences in Post World War II Great Britain and the Black Community's Responses

black people choosing to leave the country. Post-War Race Relations The post-war immigration in the late 1940s and 1950s in...

Cultural Considerations When Counseling Latino Clients

(Degado-Romero, 2001, p. 207; Pumariega, 2000; Koss-Chioino and Vargas, 1999). Researchers have also found that generally Latinos...

Ownership of Cultural Property

property, these "Rs" are restitution, restriction and rights. Restitution would return items to the current governments in place ...

Uhry's Driving Miss Daisy

by employing a chauffeur. Miss Daisy has strict ideas of what is right and proper, and having been brought up in Jewish social cul...

Self Concept and Personality

was. In addition, children from abusive families are likely to grow into abusers themselves. Now, were not intimating that...

Catholic Italian Culture

of all immigrants. Borrowing from their special talent with food, Italians grace the country with their wonderful cuisine and jov...

Terrorism and Accounting

the regulations. For example, Prince Salman, Governor of the Riyadh Province is known to have said "If beneficiaries had used ass...

East Asia's Cultural Values and Competition With Western Europe and North America

of creating a tripolar global environment. Bergsten (2001) further asserts how the only way to prevent such a detrimental occurre...

History of Traditional Costumes for Chinese Weddings

reciprocate human generosity, and therefore there is a custom of offering food, money, etc. in the name of the deities that is oft...