What is Western Culture? Western culture is a body of knowledge derived from reason. This foundation of reason has made possible a vast accumulation of understanding related to reality or nature‚ including human nature. This understanding is represented in several core ideals and values‚ which include individualism‚ happiness‚ rights‚ capitalism‚ science and technology. Western culture can also be referred to as advanced culture; this is because its ideas and values promote the development
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ASN301 Circulation of Asian Popular Culture Week 1 Introduction Announcements • No tutorials in Week 1. • Students should read and prepare discussion: Reading for Week 2 Tutorial: Siriyuvasak‚ Ubonrat and Hyunjoon Shin. “Asianizing KPop: Production‚ Consumption and Identification Patterns among Thai Youth” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies‚ 8.1 (2007): 109-36. Discussion: How does pop music‚ especially J-pop and K-pop‚ function as a form of “soft power”? What are the principal barriers
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Abstract The factors of culture shock are various. Different values‚ beliefs and customs can create information overload. Besides‚ language barrier reduces the understanding of the new culture and makes people feel isolated. In addition‚ the difference in food is one of the main factors of culture shock. Original eating habit is not easy to change‚ so it becomes more difficult to fit in. Moreover‚ people from different social structures cause culture shock. Furthermore‚ the individual differences
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Bible and Culture Culture is at the heart of who we are. We interact and react to the world based on the culture we have developed. When encountering cultures different from our own there is an almost automatic judgment. We quickly find differences and disparities and judge that culture against our own; often sitting in judgment of the other culture’s ways of operating‚ not even entertain the idea that our way may not be optimal. We as humans are quick to set ourselves and our ways (our culture) above
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to a collision in culture‚ would you completely change your original culture‚ modify it to a certain extent‚ or not make a single altercation to your identity? In The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri‚ Gogol is caught in the midst of colliding cultures and responds by adapting to the host culture‚ the American culture. Throughout Gogol’s life‚ he faces an identification crisis and a crisis in balancing between the Bengali and American culture. Gogol slowly moves to the American culture and erases majority
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Cultural Uniformity versus Heterogeneity. Cultures differ from organization to another depending upon the leaders of the organization on how they shape organizational culture. It is merely dependant on the core business of the organization and vital values that needs to be embedded in an organization. They are many organizations who adopt uniformity in their organization cultures whereas others they adopt heterogeneity prospective in their organization culture. Nowadays many organizations prefer to
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thousands of different foodstuffs and combinations of foodstuffs are capable of achieving the same end-that of survival. The variety of substance‚ which are consumed as food by various people of the world is truly remarkable; though for any given culture group‚ the list of accepted foodstuff is usually severely curtailed. For example‚ North American Indian tribes traditionally ate over hundred kinds of seeds‚ roots and nuts‚ while the South American Indian tribes ate monkey‚ iguanas‚ grubs‚ bees and
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Business Culture Definition: A blend of the values‚ beliefs‚ taboos‚ symbols‚ rituals and myths all companies develop over time Culture has been defined differently by people. The different definitions attach to culture is based on the differences in the orientation of the people. Whether written as a mission statement‚ spoken or merely understood‚ business culture describes and governs the ways a company’s owners and employees think‚ feel and act. Your own business’s culture may be based on beliefs
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similar physical characteristics. It also refers to the culture or identity of a people. By merely knowing one’s race‚ people can affix several meanings to that person’s background. Race seems to be a very crucial part of the formation of ones identity. There is also more of a tendency to describe culture in terms of race. For example‚ there is a "Black culture" or "Latino culture" in the United States that can be easily described. This culture‚ however‚ is not just dependent on race alone.
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In all cultures‚ there are different dimensions that can be categorized into a continuum. Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck have functions of cultural patterns such as common human problems‚ preferred solutions and most importantly‚ a continuum. A continuum is how things are rated by percentages. For example‚ happiness. It could be either more or less in certain situations. In Hofstede’s dimensions of culture‚ there are two topics and only one can be higher in certain cultures than others. The country I
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