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Cultural Influences on Medical Care; Indian Hindus

is in charge of all domestic affairs. Younger newly wed couples will often live with one set of parents, even if they are going to...

The Top 5 Global Media Companies: Ownership, Corporate Linkage and Political and Cultural Implications

the Western world. Most of this ownership, in fact, rests in the United States. The corporate connections of these media...

Examining the Personal and Cultural Background of an African-American

source suggests that while the decision to marry a white person must of necessity be a personal one, there are things that should ...

Cultural Capital: Muhammad Ali

capital can be made into monetary wealth but one must also understand that cultural capital is not necessarily only involved with ...

Elderly and Cultural Behavior

bias that exists in the media - particular in television but also clearly apparent in music, advertisements and all other entities...

Languages of Native Americans and Their Importance in Cultural Relativity and Promoting Diversity

languages are a significant cultural resource, a cultural resource which is too often overlooked by mainstream America. He emphas...

Cultural Differences Examined

this concept. In exploring family and cultural issues and belief systems that emanate, how has that affected Maries personal belie...

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...

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...

Spanish, Inca, and Aztec Cultural Similarities and Differences

reality, however, the Inca and the Aztec viewed themselves superior to the Spanish and even to the other Native American cultures ...

Blues, Growth, and Cultural Wisdom in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

a reference to "St. Louis Blues" by W.C. Handy which is one of the very first, and most popular, of blues songs (Morrison 25). F...

Comparative Cultural Analysis of American TV Series' Friends and Three's Company

Company to the top of the Nielsen ratings. Its premise was simple - Jack Tripper needed a cheap place to live while completing hi...

Celebrating Cultural Diversity in the Classroom

that honors cultural diversity, the teacher begins the same unit by reading a Native American folktale that describes the first fo...

Cultural Diversity Honoring in Changing Classrooms

backgrounds and honored each for its individuality and uniqueness. Now imagine how these students might feel if they went from t...

Cultural Differences Between Tehran, Iran and Los Angeles, CA

three hours would be almost laughable in Los Angeles - and if a person doesnt like food (or is too full), there is little hesitati...

Comparing Chinese and Western Mediation Models and Considering Cultural Differences

(Noesner, 1997). Active listening teaches that numerous steps can be taken when conflict does arise to resolve it in the most exp...

Cultural Impact on Brazil's Criminal Justice System

place great emphasis upon "inclusive definitions, neat conceptual distinctions, and broad general rules" (Scuro, 2003) rather than...

Alexander the Great's Artistic and Cultural Innovations

were possible under the enforced peace in the Empire under Alexander. Philosophy had in Alexander a supporter and it flourished. T...

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 ...

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...

Cultural Collage of Morocco

The issue of freedom as it related to ethnic and religious diversity appeared to be caught in a perpetual holding pattern, inasmuc...

Cultural Control and Knowledge Workers' Research

seen with many of the older crafts, or knowledge transfer, though training (Polanyi 1973). This may also be seen as the acquiring...

Taste and Cultural Capital

Honda will win; the next Lexus; and so on. There is always an ongoing battle, and an ongoing desire for new tastes to feed....

Spirituality, Cultural Ethnocentrism, and Narcissism in 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

of the Old South, which is where she bases her identity. She sees the antebellum era and everything about the Southern values in t...

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 ...

U.S. and Japan Cultural Memory Influences of the Atomic Bomb

the United States make it as clear as possible that there was to be no more armed conflict. This second attack was instrumental i...

American Cultural Icon McDonald's

Quito, Ecuador, antiwar protestors burned the statue of Ronald McDonald; in Paris, protestors smashed in the windows (Walker 2003)...

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...

Starbucks Organizational Culture

Starbucks changed the lifestyle of Americans. The founder wanted to offer the public a 'third place,' a place between work and hom...