handle Russia and that was the United States o The US was weakened by the Vietnam war, withdrawing troops from Asia and was stopping Chinese containment • The death of Mao lead to a power struggle inside of China • China wanted to work with the United states to stop the expanding Soviet power • China pressured California governor Ronald Reagan to back away from restoring relations with Taiwan as he ran for
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people who speak the same language, have same religion, share the same history. But what about the countries like Swiss that have multiple language? So it cannot be defined objectively because of this conflict. 3. Q: What is cultural
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India is still known for discovering the Zero. If we talk about science and technology, then India is becoming one of the world's leading producers of computer software and with increasing Research & Development centres, it is experiencing a steady revolution in the field of technology. It is the third nation to found a national space agency called ISRO after the USSR
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reduced. Now TNCs are free to decide whether they will use imported or local raw material. Now TNCs are free to use their brand names. Now TNCs can increase the permissible extent for foreign equity from 40 to 51 percent FUNDS POURING IN 2004 India China Brazil Russia 3.2 60.60 18.20 15.40 2005 5.5 72.40 15.10 14.60 Figures in $billion 2006 15.7 70.00 14.80 28.40 2007 24.57 82.70 37.40 27.80 FDI leaps 56% in 2008 FDI in 2007-08 will be $30 billion. Mauritius and Singapore are the
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Britain had expanded capitalism by developing stock companies which financed even bigger trade missions. Increased wealth of course resulted by the increased investment, but it only affected as small percentage of the population and did not create cultural influence from capitalism. Mercantile capitalism only affected a small percentage of the population, whereas industrial capitalism impacted majority of the population. Industrial capitalism was something altogether different, both in practice and
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The rapid growth of Chinas economy over the past four decades has been greeted with largely unquestioned assumptions that increasing affluence would lead to a happier, wealthier more equitable society. Have the benefits of Chinas economy growth been distributed equitably and what are the social implications of this modernization process? Despite its remarkable economic growth which has been consistently high for a prolonged period of time, it has been unable to distribute the benefits of this growth
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social condition within a nation, in which the authentic needs of its population are satisfied by the rational and sustainable use of natural resources and systems. This utilization of natural resources is based on a technology, which respects the cultural features of the population of a given country. This general definition of development includes the specification that social groups have access to organizations, basic services such as education, housing, health services, and nutrition, and above
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Artists that explore text in art include: Barbara Kruger, Yukinori Yanagi, Katarzyna Kozyra, Jenny Holzer, Wenda Gu, Shirin Neshat, Miriam Stannage, Colin McCahon and Jenny Watson. Artists such as Jenny Holzer, Wenda Gu and Shirin Neshat explore the cultural implications of language in art and the importance of language to identity through the inclusion of text that reflect a postmodern concern with the way we receive information in our contemporary society. Jenny Holzer is an American conceptual artist
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Printing press is used for printing many copies of a text on papers to form a book or similar kinds of reading material. Around 1446 several print masters were on the process creating effective technology of printing with movable metal type. The rapid cultural change in Europe fueled a growing need for the rapid and cheap production of written documents. A number of people had previously attempted to make a metal type movable printing press, but it was not until a method was invented for producing metal
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Nationalism in china Introduction China,officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a sovereign state located in East Asia; it is the third biggest country in the world.China is obviously not a unified nation-state but one that comprises multiple ethnic groups, some of which can even be seen as nations. China have 56 recognizedethnic groups, and Han is the biggest group, more than 90 percent are Han, and the main minorities are Mongol, zang, dai, zhuang. In the early year of china, minorities
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