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Fashion, Cultural Theft, and Ethnic Influences

was the case in Darwin when an Aboriginal tribe brought a case against a textile manufacturer for the use of scared symbols on the...

Comprehending Cultural Relativity

version: "Radical cultural relativism holds that the beliefs, values, and modes and organization of behavior of one culture can ne...

New Media Technologies and Their Cultural Implications

currently exists does not give content providers absolute control over how users use their material, but it can place some prohibi...

Cultural Assumptions in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and E.M. Forster's A Passage to India

beyond the fact that the English essentially control them and find a level of peace somehow. But, in the end it seems that each ch...

Corporate Sector and Cultural Diversity

twenty-five percent African-American, ten percent Asian-American and seventeen percent Hispanic -- had plans to leave their curren...

Black Studies and America's Cultural Assumptions

home, psychologically, is that all things French are worthy of being known, while anything that is the color black is associated w...

Historical, Cultural, Political, and Business Issues in Good as Gold by Joseph Heller

more than a few nonwhite faces, he would immediately head for another resort" (Buhle, 2003, p. 71; Heller, 1979). Buhle ar...

Spanish Language as Cultural Expression

in a particular cultural and language community-that is, language allows us to be able to communicate in a culturally appropriate ...

Cultural Understanding and Security Management

security risk. To understand who the role may vary the role of security management needs to be considered in terms of different or...

Cultural Diversity Benefits

the aspects such as morals, ethics and the use of tools such as empowerment (Veiga, 1993). This will be reflected in the way they ...

Researching Language Across Cultural Lines

to this perspective is the fact that external forces also impact the linguistic development of a region, and as a result, linguist...

Families, Gender, and Cultural Roles

paper, well examine the structural-functional paradigm and determine how it pertains to the role of gender in the family. Well the...

Mappings, Feminism and Cultural Geographies of Encounters by Susan S. Friedman

cultures" (Friedman 5). This is what Friedman attempts to offer her readers in this text. Part I focuses on the encounters betwe...

Cultural Images in the Media

The broader version promoted by Hall is that a "text" of any kind - "be it a book, movie, or other creative work - is not simply p...

Personal Essays and Cultural Backgrounds

Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) was a Russian novelist who passionately portrayed the ongoing class struggle between the peasantry and t...

At Risk African American Male Learning and a Discussion of Cognition and its Cultural Influences

2004). "The majority of reporting states-26 out of the 46 responding to the latest survey-have dropout rates ranging from 4.0% to...

Cultural and Economic Overview of Colombia

The population of the country is 42.9 million, and the median age of the population is about 26 years (CIA Factbook, 2005). The gr...

Different Cultural Applications of American Management Concepts

If we want to examine this we can use Hofstedes model of cultural diversity to show areas of difference. Hofstede, looking at cult...

Mayan Technological, Cultural, and Socioeconomic Development

Mayan culture (Brady, 1995). There appears to be little differentiation in individual wealth levels as can be determined from exa...

Cultural Differences and Management Issues Affecting Mexico

a business traveler in Mexico must be cognizant of cultural differences and attitudes in order to be successful. Whether one is br...

Cultural Gatekeepers and Search Engine Politics

established social, historical, cultural significance, and have become a major educator of students throughout the world (Introna ...

Personal Ethics and Cultural Values

employees and put customers second (Value decision making). The student may want to use personal examples in this section to illu...

Importance of Cultural Intelligence

that agents deal with people and therefore: "maturity and a keenness to human nature as...

Cultural Variations Between Islam and America

Texts of the Worlds Religions" presents Islam as a religion which stresses that an individuals submission to Allah is what is most...

Taking a Deliberative Approach to Cultural Conflicts and Its Advantages

fundamental operations of a given community, not the least of which includes issues of law, politics and economic strength. In sh...

Indian, Chinese, and Japanese Cultural Development

about three or four percent of the population with either Buddhist, Daoist or Muslim at one or two percent ("China," 2005). Japa...

Nursing and Cultural Diversity

a strategic factor in a broader movement toward social transformation that stresses social equity (Downey 249). This transformatio...

Cultural Audit of Hilton Hotels

factors. Holton already claims that they are the most well known hotel chain in the world with a very high level of brand recognit...

Cultural Differences Between How Japanese and Americans Communicate

in which: "most of the meaning is either implied by the physical setting or presumed...

Workplace Cultural Influences and Increasing Vanguard West Airlines Diversity

this year; (2) initiating programs internally among management and employees to increase awareness of race or sex in the appointme...