behaviors, values, and beliefs collected and learned during a lifetime. Individual identity, as the centerpiece of an individual’s place in society, is the mechanism through which worldviews are shaped. Identity may seem a nonessential study of little consequence in comparison to more explicit and trenchant topics, but actually is very consequential. Identities and worldviews are, after all, what have defined and created our reality as we know it. Movements toward social equality and political progressiveness
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America (US) Political Discourse Student’s Name University Affiliation Comparative Study of Metaphor in British and United States of America (US) Political Discourse Abstract This study offers a research on the application of metaphor in the discourse of cultural and political aspects between these two countries; The United States of America and Great Britain. As a result, this is an analysis of the various factors related to the perspective in terms of the cultural and socio-political phenomenon
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integrated global reality, more ruled by international corporations and organizations, and economic and ecological interdependencies, than national and political ideologies and issues. Fueled by global communication, technological networking, expanding transportation systems, economic exchange and competition, and the growth and spread of a global culture, globalization is seen both as a positive and as a negative trend. What are the main features of globalization, what are the future possibilities, and
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challenges was the predominate culture in Arab countries, because MTV is knowing of using it is open western culture and sometimes contents were known to air sexual explicit and annoying or irritating programs to young people. Arabic countries are religiously and politically sensitive region. The majority there is Muslim and have some behavior considered prohibited, not like western people the majority consider to be Christian. The Arab people culture is interwoven with the penetrating
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Cultural Identity Project: German-American Liberty University Online PACO 504 European ethnic groups began immigrating into America during the colonial period and immigration continues to this day. As each European culture assimilated to the English American culture immigrants intermarried and developed a so-called “melting pot” or “salad bowl” of culture, traditions, and values (Hays & Erford, 2014, p. 389). German people, as they made their way to a land of freedom and promise, experienced
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following? a. Cultural diffusion b. Caste system c. National culture d. Social mobility c. National culture The United Kingdom and United states value ______, whereas Japan and South Korea value ________. a. caste system; class system b. aesthetics; ethnocentricity c. individual freedom; group consensus d. quality of life; quantity of life c. indivual freedom; group consensus People from which of these cultures are casual about time and maintain flexible schedules? a. Japan
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Things Fall Apart Political Structure Okonkwo’s plight in Things Fall Apart underscores the value of his community; he goes to great lengths and eventually martyrs himself in an attempt to keep intact his society’s way of life. His ascension to be a leader in the community is marked by success in combat and physical prowess, which renders him “one of the greatest men of his time” (8). Although the Umuofian government is militant and unremitting, it has some semblance to the United States government
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1 Comparison of the Understanding of Various Political Concepts by the Lost Boys and from the German Perspective Due to the more radical growing Islamization, the conflict between non-Arab southern Sudan and the Arab government of the north emerged again in 1983. During the second Sudanese civil war (1983-2003) about two million people were killed and even more southern Sudanese were displaced. More than 27,000 boys fled from Sudan to other countries such as Egypt, Ethiopia or Kenya. Most of them
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Cultural Assessment Being culturally competent means more than having an awareness for a culture different than your own for the majority culture. Cultural competency involves having an open mind-set and respect for the unique cultures, values and principles of all diverse ethnicities. I had very little interaction with the Haitian culture until I started working at a very culturally diverse facility. While completing my nightshift rotation, I had the pleasure of befriending someone from Haiti
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Rand’s rise to the prominence coincided with a broad cultural, political and social change in America that took place in the context of the Cold War. Fighting against the common enemy in the war had briefly improved the relations between United States and Great Britain on one side and Soviet Union on the other, but once the war ended any hopes of more permanent cooperation faded quickly. If 1945 Yalta conference had closed on an optimistic note, then Potsdam meeting a few months later already ended
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