Ethnocentrism - is judging another culture solely by the values and standards of one's own culture, especially with concern for language, behavior, customs, and religion. Cultural Imperialism - the practice of promoting and imposing a culture, usually of politically powerful nations over less potent societies. Cultural relativism - is the view that all beliefs, customs, and ethics are relative to the individual within his own social context. In other words, “right” and “wrong” are culture-specific;
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Topic: Tourism Impacts (Socio-Cultural) TREN 3P11 Unit 4 Review (Questions + Answers) Polynesian Culture Centre Who owns PCC? University owns PCC, have professional dancers Who are working in the PCC? University students How authentic is PCC’s cultural presentation? * Taro potato blended becomes purple, tasteless, nobody wanted to taste it * Genuine Hawaiian food Staged Authenticity: * Shortened and abbreviated version of the cultural performance * Highlights
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reasons for the break-up of the Volkswagen and Suzuki partnership Volkswagen’s annual report In March 2011, VW termed Suzuki as its 'associate' in its annual report. The disagreements between the two partners only escalated. Cultural mismatch In order to the cultural differences, they failed to build mutual trust.European companies were fast in making decisions, but sometimes things are a little different in Japanese culture. Disagreements in technology sharing Volkswagen and Suzuki failed
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Assignment 4 – Where I Stand and Why There are different attitudes and opinions to assimilation. In the text “Where I stand and Why” by LaToya Powel, some different attitudes to assimilation are expressed. The text is about LaToya and her family’s assimilation in New York City. She’s interviewing her grandfather who migrated to New York City from Lumberton, North Carolina, in 1957 to get a job and a better life for his family. Her grandfather, Franklin Powell, and his wife Shirley Ruth Powell
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One of the responsibilities of students is to study. Students must fulfill this responsibility in preparation for them to have a better future and for their great contributions to the nation. Through this, they can discover their talents, improve their social skills, develop their values, expand their knowledge, and so forth which lead them to become productive citizens and great contributors for the betterment of the present society along with the great demands and needs in the current times. Studying
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attempted to employ culturally relative methods to his research, and have made great improvements in accepting foreign cultures and societies. We must also, realize that this ethnocentric version is in most cases more accurate than we can picture. Cultural relativism is critical to our understanding of unknown ethnics, religions and cultures. Without it, we are focused solely on misconception s and wrong assumptions, which is what Miner was trying explain. We should being able to personally step back
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Education System and Cultural Interaction In Relation to Technological Advancement Name: College: Purpose This proposal seeks to serve the purpose of providing a topic and basis for research for examination during the semester. Topic To explore Jamaica’s system of education, cultural interaction and the available natural resources in relation to the development of the country’s technological advancement. Introduction Every country has a culture that allows it to pass traditions and beliefs
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World Mythology Final Exam 2. The term myth is one that is not easily defined and my definition of the term has changed over the length of the semester. In our first essay I defined myth as “a story or narrative that attempts to explain something in a certain culture.” Looking back now I can see that I had a pretty good base for the definition but after learning so much about myths around the world I find it even harder to define myth now than before. It seems that the more I learn about
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Over time, the multi-generational workforce will influence the organizational work ethic, perceptions of organizational hierarchy, work relationships and ways of managing change. The literature suggests that as a result of differing experiences and perspectives, strongly held attitudes and diverse motivators, there will be an impact on two specific areas of human resource policy and employee development: retention and motivation. To successfully retain and leverage talent of all generations, the
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Experts argue that one reason for implanting special training programs is the need to avoid lost business “due to cultural insensitivity”. Explain other reasons why Sony implemented the training program. The researcher expressed various reasons for which Sony implemented the training program. Reasons for which Sony implanted these programs are as follows; Prevent high job turn-over rate, return on investment and creation of an international cooperate culture. Sony Corporation implemented this training
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