...Topic: Establishing a Construction equipment sales and distribution business into the new Republic of south Sudan Commodities : Caterpillar construction and mining equipment Country background Republic of South Sudan is a newly independent state which has been at war for over 30 years until it won independence last year. The country is vast rich in minerals barely has any infrastructure, no roads, electricity but has a big population. The state has been offered a lot if aid to help infrastructure development and I am sure the need for construction and mining equipment is highly needed. Internal environment Planning, Caterpillar will introduce a variety of products by starting with the most needed equipment as per the market assessment report. Earth movers like Bulldozers, Graders and excavators will open the market along drum rollers, loaders and electrical generating appliances. By introducing the earth moving and electrical generating equipment we will focus on road building, construction powering the growing manufacturing sector all primary needs in infrastructure development. Leading, Caterpillar equipment is widely used in the neighboring states but scanty in Sudan because the construction industry is just starting. However we expect that once Caterpillar through its dealership in Juba establishes itself, we will be in position to make a large impact on the market. Our dealership will manage the field marketing implementation while our corporate marketing division...
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...My research paper intends to explore whether ethnocentric education helps Sudanese refugee YOUTH to reclaim their culture or IF it ALIENATES alienated from Egyptian society and at the same time makes Egyptian society rejects them. I will explore the effects of resettlement on refugees economically, socially and psychologically. Due to persecution and genocide that the Sudanese people encounteEDr in the second civil war, they seek asylum in Egypt. I want to write about this topic for many reasons. First of all, I want to describe the tough life that the Sudanese people live. They are forced to leave their homeland and immigrate to any country seeking peace. Second, children are the most likely to suffer from stress disorder. These children...
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...Boddy (2007) manages to explore the values of traditions for Sudanese people in the historical context of colonial influence. Despite the fact that British imperialism has put its prominent contribution into the formation of modern Sudanese ideologies, it was not powerful enough in order to modify the existed culture. Likewise, Boddy provides a clear argument by referring to parallels between critics of FGM and the British imperialists through a racial implication and tragedy of the colonized. She truly explains why the practice of circumcision is considered a spiritual celebration by the culture representatives, stating that “each sex is…ritually completed, made whole and pure…Yet the circumcised female body is more; it is a metonym and an icon for embattled local society, an oasis of reproductive continuity guarded by its own scar tissue…and the defensive efforts of local men” .(Boddy 2007:90) Thus, this interpretation gives an insight into the reasons and cultural context of the appreciation of FGM practice. Though the cultural value for the Sudanese people, the response of British men and women always remained predictable. The emerged organization nicknamed “The Wolves” as the organizations in Egypt believed that it is possible to end the practice of FGM in Northern Sudan by providing the education, hygiene and law. Yet, as the ineffectiveness of these measures shows, no law can end the cultural practices, because culture comes from people’s hearts and beliefs. In contrast to previously...
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...After decades of conflict, the GoSS faces a massive task in leading recovery and development efforts, and the challenges of policy-making and implementation in Southern Sudan cannot be overstated. This chapter examines the key policy frameworks guiding government efforts to support long-term recovery and development, focusing on the over-arching vision of ‘taking towns to the people’, expenditure priorities and strategies for economic growth and governance. These policy areas are relevant to urbanisation in Juba for a number of reasons. First, policies on governance envisage a decentralised Southern Sudan in which Juba is treated equally with all state capitals in policy terms. However, implementation of the Local Government Act is already clashing with a parallel move towards the centralisation of key powers within the GoSS. Juba’s dual status as capital of South Sudan and of Central Equatoria State also raises particular challenges in relation to urban management. Second, the GoSS strategy for economic growth identifies agriculture as a key area for investment. So far, however, the growth in private sector activity has taken place in Juba and surrounding areas within Central Equatoria State, driven by the influx of government ministries, civil servants and aid agencies. Finally, the upcoming referendum on the future of Southern Sudan, due in January 2011, will have an important impact on policy processes. 3.1 ‘Takng towns to the people’ In 2004, a policy of ‘taking towns...
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...ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF MIGRATION | Advantages | Disadvantages | |1. Cultural and linguistic diversity: |Racial conflict: | |Considered a valuable resource |There are those whose this as a | |Over 200 languages spoken here |threat to Australia’s Anglo-Celtic | |A rich mix of traditions, cultures, |background. | |languages and beliefs: |Some groups are discriminated | |multiculturalism is now considered |against eg. Sudanese people in | |a defining characteristic of Aust’s |Tamworth. | |identity. | | |Food, music, customs enrich our | | |lifestyle. | | |2. Economic benefits:...
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...today or in the past. Adaptation chapter 18 Adaptation refers to beneficial adjustments of organisms to their environment, a process that not only leads to changes in the organisms but also impacts their environment. Food foraging is the oldest and most universal type of human adaptation and typically involves geographic mobility, Horticulture more permanent settlements , while pastoralism required mobility to seek out pasture and water cultural adaptation A complex of ideas, activities, and technologies that enable people to survive and even thrive. convergent evolution In cultural evolution, the development of similar cultural adaptations to similar environmental conditions by different peoples with different ancestral cultures. What does race mean and how does this impact racism? Biological race concept race In biology, the taxonomic category of subspecies that is not applicable to humans because the division of humans into discrete types does not represent the true nature of human biological variation. In some societies race is an important social category. In biology, a race is defined as a subspecies, or a population of a species differing geographically, morphologically, or genetically from other populations of the same species Racism, a doctrine of superiority by which one group justifies the dehumanization of others based on their distinctive physical characteristics, is not just about discriminatory ideas, values, or attitudes but is...
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...Good afternoon everyone, my name is and this is Today we are going to be discussing with you culture shock within Australia and how and why people who arrive in Australia from diverse countries, cultures and traditions are often affected and how they can be helped to feel culturally safe. We will explore the history of immigration within Australia and how it has developed over the years and why majority of people who come to Australia may experience culture shock. We will then discuss what we can do as a nation to make these people feel culturally safe within our country. Immigration is very popular within our country with thousands of people coming to and from Australia every year. Although many people seem to believe that Australia is the halfway point between the UK and the USA they seem to always not prepare themselves for what Australia has in store for them and how culturally diverse we are. Immigration has been common in Australia for over 50,000 years. Beginning with the initial human migration to the continent, when the ancestors of Australian aborigines arrived via the islands of maritime southeast and New Guinea. From the early 17th century onwards, the continent experienced the first coastal landings and exploration by European explorers, the convict transportation from Britain. From 1793 and 1850 nearly 200,000 free settlers chose to migrate to Australia to start a new life. Then came the gold rush from the 1850’s and by 1901 the Chinese were the third largest...
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...Linda Sue Park wrote a very interesting novel about the life of a boy named Salva called A Long Walk To Water. He was from a village in Sudan, but was chased out from war and lost his family in his journeys. Therefore, Salva had to go through shootings, tiredness, hunger, pain, crocodiles, and monstrous tides in his journey to find his family. Like Salva, individuals survived challenging environments in A Long Walk to Water with perseverance, hope, and luck. Salva had perseverance during his walk to a refugee camp and that helped him keep going even when he was at the bridge of death. He was starving, had not eaten or drank for a long time, but he kept on going, with every ounce of of his will Salva pushed himself. “He stumbled...
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...If you were in a tough decision about anything, would you care about yourself before others? It’s the question that everybody probably hears and debates it with themselves. I would care about others before me, because it’s a loyal action, and that action can change people’s point of view on you. The novel, A Long Walk To Water tells the story of Salva and Nya, teenagers living in South Sudan that have to struggle each day with their own issues. Nya has to walk 12 hours a day just to get water from a local source, and when Salva got more mature he helped out those people living there. He and his coworkers went down to Nya’s area of the country and they built a well. Another example, is the article, “In South Africa, volunteers deliver water to ease drought emergency.” There was a drought two years ago in South Africa, and government officials sent down trucks of water to give to those poor townspeople. These two major stories represent the quote, “one must care for oneself before they can help others.” Before reading A Long Walk To Water, I agreed with the quote (#8), “One must care for oneself first before one can help others.” I agree with this quote, because I come before anybody else. If my friend and I were in a life crisis when people were shooting at us, I would obviously be scared and try to save myself. Once I got to safety, I would try my best to help out my friends. In the book, A Long Walk To Water, on (58-59 Park) three women from his group gave dying people, their...
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...A Long Walk To Water 1.) Based on the first chapter and the title of the novel, I think Nya was going to the water hole to collect water for her family. 2.) I think the other people left Salva behind because he was a child. The others thought Salva would complain about hunger and the heat. They felt that Salva would hold the group back. 3.) Salva was relieved that the woman was a member of the same tribe as he was. However, he was still unsure if she would be friendly toward him as he approached. I think the woman could be unfriendly toward a child of her own tribe because, Salva was still a stranger to her. The woman didn't know Salva’s past or if he would lure danger toward her. In a result to this the woman could be unwelcoming and inhospitable to an individual. 4.) Nya does not want to take her younger sister Akeer with her to the pond because she is only 5 years old she will walk slow,complain, and the walking distance is to grueling fir a 5 year old. This relates to Salva because that is how the groups of people looked at him, as being the weak link, the one that will slow them down. The one who is to young for work so he can’t benefit the group in anyway. 5.) I think Salva’s journey will be different now that he met Marial because Salva wont feel as alone he will have someone to relate with, laugh with,and someone to keep him distracted from the question he wonders about the most “where is his family.” 6.) When Salva’s uncle wakes him, Salva hears someone crying...
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...cattle south to the Kiir River basin in Abyei during the dry season. At the establishement of the Anglo-Egyptian condominium, Messiria were predominantly located in the province of Kordufan Northern Sudan geographically. In 1905, while after the Ngok Dinka were allocated in Bhar ez Gazel South Sudan. Continued raids by the Messivia into Ngok Dinka territory, the British distributed the Nine Ngok Dinka chiefdoms into Kordufan. The reason was three-fold; ▪ To protect the Ngok Dinka from raids by the Messiria and thus pacify the area. ▪ To demonstrate that a new sovereign power was in control and, ▪ To bring the two enemy tribes under common administration. The peoples began to take separate path with onset of the first Sudanese civil war 1956-1972. In particular 1956 massacre of 72 Ngok Dinka in the Messiria town of Babanusa. The Ngok Dinka was thus drawn to the Anya nya. While Messiria were favored by the Khartoum based government and became firmly associated with the North. The 1972 Addis Ababa Agreement that ended civil war in Sudan included a clause that provided for a referendum allowing Abyei to choose to remain in the North or join the autonomous South. The referendum was never held and continued attack against Ngok Dinka led to the creation of Ngok Dinka unit in the small Anya Nya II Rebellion which begun I upper Nile in 1975. The discovery of oil in the area, among other North-South border region, led President Gaafar Nimeiny to try the first of many...
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...From 2005-14, South Sudan was effectively a one-party state. Disagreements and compromises within the ruling elite had to be worked out under the umbrella of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), which from 2005 onwards, began making an uncertain transition from a guerrilla movement to a political party with state power 15 November, 2013—While officially opening the new offices of the SPLM Secretariat in Juba, Kiir announces that he is dissolving all political structures of the SPLM, which include the highest executive organ, the Political Bureau and the National Liberation Council (NLC). He explains that the structures have lapsed because the National Convention has not met to elect new membership within their five-year lifespan. He says that only the office of the Chairman and the Secretariat will continue to function. 6 December—A group of senior SPLM politicians sacked by Kiir holds a press conference at the new premises of the SPLM Secretariat while Kiir is on an official visit to Paris. Machar leads the group, which includes Rebecca Nyandeng (wife of the late John Garang), Pagan Amum Okiech, Deng Alor Kuol, Alfred Ladu Gore, Oyay Deng Ajak, Majak D’Agoot Atem, Madut Biar Yel, Gier Chuang Aluong, Peter Adwok Nyaba, Chol Tong Mayay, Taban Deng Gai, Ezekiel Gatkouth Lul, John Luk Jok, Kosti Manibe Ngai, and Cirino Hiteng Ofuho. They call on Kiir to hold a meeting of the SPLM Political Bureau—which he has reportedly declined to do since the March meeting—to discuss...
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...HLTHIR403C. Work effectively with culturally diverse clients and co-workers Author John Bailey Copyright Text copyright © 2008 by John N. Bailey. Illustration, layout and design copyright © 2008 by John N. Bailey. Under Australia's Copyright Act 1968 (the Act), except for any fair dealing for the purposes of study, research, criticism or review, no part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior written permission from John N. Bailey. All inquiries should be directed in the first instance to the publisher at the address below. Copying for Education Purposes The Act allows a maximum of one chapter or 10% of this book, whichever is the greater, to be copied by an educational institution for its educational purposes provided that that educational institution (or the body that administers it) has given a remuneration notice to JNB Publications, Disclaimer All reasonable efforts have been made to ensure the quality and accuracy of this publication. JNB Publications assumes no responsibility for any errors or omissions and no warranties are made with regard to this publication. Neither JNB Publications nor any authorised distributors shall be held responsible for any direct, incidental or consequential damages resulting from the use of this publication. To Order this Publication This publication can be ordered in a wire bound...
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...NCVER Cross-cultural training and workplace performance Robert Bean Robert Bean Consulting The views and opinions expressed in this document are those of the author/project team and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Australian Government, state and territory governments or NCVER Publisher’s note Additional information relating to this research is available in Cross-cultural training and workplace performance: Support document. It can be accessed from NCVER’s website . To find other material of interest, search VOCED (the UNESCO/NCVER international database ) using the following keywords: cross cultural training; cultural awareness; workplace learning; capacity building; training provider; employee attitude; employer attitude. © Australian Government, 2008 This work has been produced by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) under the National Vocational Education and Training Research and Evaluation (NVETRE) Program, which is coordinated and managed by NCVER on behalf of the Australian Government and state and territory governments. Funding is provided through the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. Apart from any use permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part of this publication may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Requests should be made to NCVER. The NVETRE program is based upon priorities approved by ministers with responsibility for vocational education and training (VET)...
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...Material Diversity Worksheet Answer each question in 50 to 150 words. Provide citations for all the sources you use. 1. What is diversity? Why is diversity valued? “ The term “diversity” is used broadly to refer to many demographic variables, including, but not limited to, race, religion, color, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, age, education, geographic origin, and skill characteristics. America's diversity has given this country its unique strength, resilience and richness.” ( U.S. Department of Interior). It is what this country is all about, being free to be whatever we want to be. 2. What is ethnocentrism? In what ways can ethnocentrism be detrimental to a society? Ethnocentrism is where one culture will judge another on by their own beliefs or convictions. This is very detrimental to a society because they only see one side of things, and that is their side only. They will not give anyone a fair shot to disprove their beliefs or ideas, because they already have it in mind that they are wrong or a “plague” to their way of thinking. This is how many people get hurt or killed because of this. If you look at Hitler this would be a great example. 3. Define emigration and immigration. The term emigration and immigration are the same thing they just mean things to different people depending on their viewpoint. The definition for immigration is for a group of people moving from their national origin to settle somewhere else. As to...
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