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Buddhism's Cultural Transitions

China is great, but Kitagawa (1980) argues that it truthfully had not had a vital influence on the principles inherent in Chinese ...

Cultural Diversity and the Dynamism of History by Sasaki Takeshi

what governs overall cultural behavior. Working upon the assumption that, for at least the most part, people live their lives out...

A Globalization View

governments (405). For example, the terrorists attacks on the World Trade Centers in New York City on September 11, 2001 caused "s...

RV Travel, the Retirees, and American Culture

is a relatively expensive endeavor as RVs do not get great gas mileage. In addition, their RV is not often their home. It is their...

Color Perceptions from Cultural and Scientific Perspectives

Underneath those cell layers is a layer of brown melanin (Raxworthy, 2002). By opening and closing their melanophores, a term use...

James Rachels and the Theory of Cultural Relativism

as backward and wrong. They are even more critical of such practices as infanticide, a practice affecting female infants among th...

Math Classrooms and Cultural Sensitivity

walls (Books, 1998). Different constructs determine children who are useful and those who are not as well as those who are used (B...

Cultures, Communications, and Comparisons Between Do the Right Thing and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

to give them their blessing before the evening is over. What is interesting to see is that Joanna has turned out just as the Dr...

'Rational' Case Study

their beloved - not as a child abuser but as a victim of society who needed the help and guidance of his family rather than the co...

Caucasian and African American Interracial Marriages

in order to claim her white heritage she would essentially have to have her mother along to prove she was also Caucasian (Hubbynet...

South Florida, Pediatric Asthma, and Health Promotion

of increasing costs still further and marginalizing greater numbers of individuals and families who no longer can afford the highe...

Ethnocentrism v. Cultural Relativism

are utilizing an ethnocentric approach or a prejudiced approach. When we are more open to facts rather than our own expectations ...

Overview of Customary Law

to a time when the only law was Trial by Combat . This was how the Anglo-Saxons saw the role of justice in solving their problems ...

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...

Violence at Schools/Research Issues

color as well as students with emotional and behavioral disorders" (Austin, 2003; p. 17)? Can educators achieve better results by...

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...

Ownership of Cultural Property

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

U.S., Mexico, and Cultural Perspectives on Management

can be seen as nothing more than the relaying of facts. Adler (2001) provides an example of this cultural politeness in the form ...

Razor Advertisement Analysis

by men which are targeted at women, as gift-buyers, but they would tend to emphasise the advantage to the buyer, rather than to th...

South Africa's Culture and Human Resources Management Practices

in a proportional presence that is different to another country. To consider this we first need to look at the evidence of HRM pra...

Should Cultural Artifacts be Returned to Their Countries of Origin?

1. "claims concerning the restitution of cultural properties to their ocuntries of origin" 2. "restriction of imports and...

1960s' Television and the Star Trek Series

was signed by some of the greatest names in science fiction, such as Poul Anderson, Harlan Ellison and Theodore Sturgeon (1966: St...

Cultural Oppression in Rabbit-Proof Fence and Storyteller

- and still is to a great degree - the focal point of cultural existence speaks to the way in which Silko (1989) reveals the strug...

Middle East Culture and Negotiations

and her Middle Eastern neighbors. Well then embark on a literature review to determine the main differences between the nations - ...

Kim, Kim, and Lee's 'Modes of Foreign Market Entry by Korean SI Firms' Reviewed

An emerging market is "a country making an effort to change and improve its economy with the goal of raising its performance to th...

Japan Questions Answered

individual judgement in the name of spirit" (195-196). While military traditions are honored in the US, they are not innately asso...

The Balkans A Short History by Mark Mazower

Indeed, the organization of nationalism was spurred on due to the role played by patriotic clergies. Mazower (2002) indicates ho...

Western Civilization and Hebrew Cultural and Religious Contributions

as deeply related to their existence. AS Spielvogel indicates, "According to the Jewish conception, there is but one God....God...

Non Western Homosexuality Judged

other cultures are quite different and thus cannot be expected to be like western cultures. The judgments that would initially ...

Law Enforcement, Cultural diversity and Community

of ones skin or the culture one has grown up with. Diversity, it can be said is as individual as the way in which one approaches p...