Every society and culture has different ways of interpreting and defining occurrences by the way their own culture or society functions. "A society ’s culture‚ consists of whatever it is one has to know or believe in order to operate in a manner acceptable to its members"(Geertz 242). The rituals‚ customs‚ ethics and morals that are attributed to the cultures have caused these differences. To understand how the people of one culture interpret a situation or event‚ one must evaluate the attributes
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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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There was a world of difference between the two cultures ‚ Europeans and Native American. Europeans had established communities where they lived and worked. Native Americans had settlements but they moved around a lot they were nomadic . Europeans were usually Christians ‚ but Native Americans believed more in the existence and powers of many other spirits . They had strong‚ central leadership while the Natives tended to do things in harmony ‚ consensus . They also had a little regard for
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seen before‚ it was a four-wheeled vehicle that transported you from one place‚ to another. This is the many of the changes in American Culture. From taking a snap in a Kodak camera to shooting President Mckinley‚ America has been quite different ever since the early 1900’s. Some in a great way‚ and some in an inadequate way. This era was named The Progressive Era. Americans in the first years of the twentieth century felt the newness of their place in history. Looking back on the very late nineteenth
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Slide 3-4 The European Union and Russia have a strong trade relationship. Bilateral trade and investments continue to grow rapidly. Since 1997 the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement has been the framework of the EU-Russia relations‚ regulating the political and economic relations between the EU and Russia. One of the main objectives of this agreement is the promotion of trade and investment as well as the development of harmonious economic relations between the EU and Russia. EU imports from
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When the Europeans landed in the Americas‚ they were surprised to find that other people had already populated the land. These people came to be known as Indians to the Europeans‚ and Native Americans to us today. They were called Indians due to the fact that the Europeans at first thought that they were in India‚ as they stumbled across the Americas whilst looking for a quicker shipping route to India‚ not knowing the fast land masses that separated Europe and India. Eventually though they discovered
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]Early European Colony: While Arab and Malay sailors knew of Mauritius as early as the 10th century CE and Portuguese sailors first visited in the 16th century‚ the island was first colonized in 1638 by the Dutch. Mauritius was populated over the next few centuries by waves of traders‚ planters and their slaves‚ indentured laborers‚ merchants‚ and artisans. The island was named in honor of Prince Maurice of Nassau by the Dutch‚ who abandoned the colony in 1710. Captured by the British: The
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eventually led the American colonists to realize that they did not need the British any longer. The colonists felt that they themselves‚ were not Englishmen but members of their own society within the American colonies. By winning the French and Indian war the British were entitled to the land east of the Mississippi River to the Appalachian Mountains. As the Americans began to move westward thinking that if they fought the war in the colonies‚ they were entitled to that land. While the American soldiers
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During the American Revolution‚ the British forced 13 It’s American Colonies to move to new lands with the Indians. Long after‚ the 13 colonies had settled in the new lands‚ the British King‚ forced the colonists to pay taxes without passing a law. Later‚ it resulted the American colonists to put their foot down and take control of the situation. It resulted in many events and many things ended up happening. Long after the French and Indian war‚ Britain became very poor‚ and they needed money. Britain
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Cross Cultural Encounters This piece of text reflects clearly the cross cultural differences of the Europeans and the people of Western Africa. It does not mention the relationship in the 15th and 16th centuries with the Portuguese traders who revered the Benin people‚ if you look closely at the way that it has been written‚ the biased opinion towards the European community is quite unfounded. The Europeans had little knowledge of the Western African people; they heard stories of sacrifice cannibalism
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