imagined and expected. I would rather call it a “positively challenging experience” as I am exposed to a completely foreign culture and challenged to adapt myself to it but the learning process of this new culture has greatly excited me. At the beginning‚ I inevitably experienced a certain amount of cultural shock‚ given the vast difference between Vietnamese culture and American culture. Cultural shock is a state of anxiety that results from cross-cultural misunderstanding. One incident that gave rise
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Communication and the Conflicts between Chinese Culture and Western Culture Abstract There are many matters of cultural conflicts in intercultural communication of Chinese culture and western culture‚ and it seriously affects the course of communication. So‚ it is necessary for us to find the in-depth reason and make some plans on how to improve the ability of intercultural communication. This is the right way to avoid the cultural conflicts. There are several culture conflicts: the conflicts on privacy
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Florence for two weeks now‚ I have experienced many differences between American culture and Italian culture. When I first arrived‚ I was so excited and everything was so new that I did not immediately notice these differences. Everything was a blur! We had orientations and tours during the first week and each instructor mentioned specific aspects of Italian culture that we needed to be aware of. But‚ since I had only been here for two days‚ I had not witnessed these differences. In “Culture Shock and
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The two essays that I have chosen are "This One’s for the Birds" by Paul Finkelman and "The Case Against Tipping" by Michael Lewis. These two essays in particular have some things in common‚ but they do have some significant differences between the two. In this paper I will try to compare and contrast these two essays and hopefully bring something to the reader’s attention that wasn’t there at first. In the first essay‚ "The Case Against Tipping"‚ the author‚ Michael Lewis talks about whether
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Here‚ we describe estimation and hypothesis-testing procedures for the difference between two population means when the samples are dependent. In a case of two dependent samples‚ two data values—one for each sample—are collected from the same source (or element) and‚ hence‚ these are also called paired or matched samples. For example‚ we may want to make inferences about the mean weight loss for members of a health club after they have gone through an exercise program for a certain period of time
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taking it to fill my pre-requisites requirement. Now that the class is coming to an end‚ I realized that I learned so much about my culture‚ self‚ and my community that I was unaware of before. There were …topics that I thought deeply about and realized that I can really relate to race‚ language‚ the book I never really realized there was a difference between race and ethnicity. Usually when people mention it ‚ they are mentioning them as synonyms of each other; nor did I know that there were
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conduct of its own affairs for example Brazil‚ Zimbabwe or Zambia. The Jewish people do not make a state since it is not a political unit but Israel is the state. Government is according Everyman’s Library (1973:228)‚ it is an intermediate body set up between the subjects and the sovereign to secure their mutual correspondence‚ charged with execution of the laws and maintenance of liberty both civil and
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Class #2- January 28‚ 2013 Review * Distinction between Nation & States * Nation Is more of a cultural thing * States is more of a political thing * Some nations can exist but not be part of a given state * Idea came from a British liberal named Jeremy Bentham * Worried more in this class about the different Nation-States * Use this term for what is normally referred to as “Countries” * Countries= varied interactions * Cooperation
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Black Culture Then and Now: What’s the Difference? Our society has changed drastically in the past year or two‚ especially black culture due to recent events that happened in our society. A death of a black teenage male‚ caused by a police officer‚ encouraged some in our society‚ mostly black people‚ to show their true colors and express their feelings. Many people rioted‚ looted‚ and protested. Those events resembled things that happened many years ago. So in some ways black culture is the same
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Just how different and similar can the Brazilian and American cultures be? Brazil is located below the equator in South America‚ on the other hand‚ The United States of America is located above the equator in North America. Because of the difference in location‚ Brazil speaks Portuguese derived from Latin roots while Americans speak English derived from Germanic roots. Both cultures place emphasis in family. The American culture sees family as less important than a career. Americans have their twenty-four
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