Boozer March 27‚ 2014 Throughout the world‚ every culture has introduced their own versions of the “Rites of Passage”. The coming of age when you pass from being a child into adulthood. Some rites are as simple as a dance or the painting of faces‚ while others are as extreme as forceful circumcision and sleeping with other men’s wives. Regardless of the circumstances‚ it’s never easy becoming a grown-up. As a part of the Western Culture‚ we seldom observe‚ have knowledge of or understand the
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Child Rearing Practices within Different Cultures Every parent has their own way of raising a child‚ and there are many different ways to doing it especially within different cultures. In America everybody has the right to raise their children however they feel is best‚ usually parents follow the roles their own parents took when they themselves were raised. Today there are many cultures that have different ways of child rearing and there are many consequences that come along with the way the
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whales” is a simile and this is effective because the torrential rain that comes with a hurricane becomes like the sea and the tree’s become like whales. Also when she says “Come break the frozen lake in me” it is as though being away from her own country has made her uncomfortable with herself and she feels that the arrival of the hurricane can break that and help her be herself again. The thing that connects her to the place that she comes from is the hurricane and the way the hurricane is described
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Change in Time A culture’s sense of time is based on how that culture views the past‚ present or future. Americans have a very different sense of time compared to China and France‚ our view of time is time is important and shouldn’t be wasted on trivial things. Americans believe deadlines are more important than building relationships or getting comfortable with big decisions. China has a very different point of view on time‚ it’s to be cherished and used to build relationships and to make better
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encountered The notion of one’s culture being superior to other cultures is in regards to ethnocentrism. One experience in regards to comparison is the home cooked meals. When I was younger I would compare my family meals to my friends families‚ in regards to the preparation and choice of foods. 2. Compare and describe the nature of families in individualistic and collectivistic cultures. Provide examples from at least two other cultures. The collectivistic culture thinks of “we” and the individualistic
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Atsushi Nakamichi 9/26/12 Having people from different cultures living in the same country is good(or not good) for the country. Having people from different cultures living in the same country is good for the country. Each country and person has own culture‚ so every people is different. However‚ we can get new things such as‚ culture‚ language‚ and food from them. It will be good for our country. The first thing is language. In Japan‚ we speak Japanese. Nowadays‚ it is changing. Some
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differences of intelligence among various cultures. Members of society create meaning and understanding from the cultural environments in which they embrace. Intelligence can be best understood in cultural context. In this sense‚ behavioral actions that are considered to be intelligent in one culture may be unintelligent in another and vice versa. Researchers in Africa‚ Asia‚ and other international cultures found that people in non-Western cultures ideology about intelligence differs fundamentally
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Advertising has changed the market and consumer culture of America. In the 19th Century‚ those changes in the market paralleled changes in the modes of transportation and communication and urban growth. Today‚ advertising on the World Wide Web has become a recent phenomenon because most consumers surf the Internet daily. Advertising is a deeply pervasive part of all lives lived in consumerist economies. The average individual in Western society is bombarded with several hundred adverts per day
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It is well-know fact that different people have different opinion and this saying can be also used in the culture. For that reason‚ different cultures would make people have different behaviours.Culture can be defines as “the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one human group from another” (Hofstede 1984‚ p: 21). Culture is consisting of language‚ political‚ values‚ belief‚ food‚ cloth‚ etc. And those elements make people have different behaviours. Therefore‚ there
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that composed of different characteristics‚ personality etc. This is how to communicate with marketing stimuli that based on the social factors based on their society to have a decision making and have a response when it comes to marketing mix which is the 4p’s product‚ price‚ place and promotion. Every organization have an own target market and it divided into different segmentation. For example‚ your organization selling meat products and your place is in the area which country is not eating meats
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