Term Research Paper SIU YAT HIN Professor Peter G. Prontzos POLI 1160 October 29‚ 2014 Asian Collectivism Obstructs Capitalism Principle in Economy Capitalism is popular in North America‚ Europe and most of the developed countries‚ capitalization seems unstoppable and was carried across the world by broader processes of globalization such as imperialism and‚ by the end of the nineteenth century‚ became the dominant global economic system‚ in turn intensifying processes of economic and other globalization1
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with different cultures‚ lifestyle and behavior. It is so obvious that Indonesian is more traditional compared to French‚ where most Indonesian is scared to make mistakes and be judged by people around them yet French are more open to mistakes and judges from the surrounding. In this reflective learning‚ I will compare French and Indonesian by using Hofstede model. There are five dimensions in Hofstede’s theory‚ which are Power Distance‚ Uncertainty Avoidance‚ Individualism/Collectivism‚ Masculinity/Femininity
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appealed to me in the way I can compare it to the Bible. As it seeks to promote individual liberties‚ I parallel how God gave his people freedom to his people by their free wills. Ideologies like around moral order‚ a stance differing from involuntary collectivism‚ and restraints on human passions convinced me of my stance in the conservative political party. Among the topic of an enduring moral order‚ as a conservative‚ I believe that moral truths are unchanging. Basic rights and wrongs like: theft‚ murder
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Individualism and Democracy Why do we inherently choose to address our differences by either ignoring them or fighting about them? From a young age we are taught to conform to what is normal and reject what is not. In elementary school we learn from our friends to shun and bully kids who are different. We pick on the boy who is short and does not play any sports. We won’t play on the playground with the girl who always dresses in old fashioned clothes. We mock the child who talks with a lisp
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COLLECTIVISM Collectivism focuses on the government’s responsibility of providing health and social care services to society which is funded by taxation and National Insurance. This approach is an example of a political response to meeting the needs of identified welfare. In all societies there are groups which are more vulnerable than others such as children‚ the elderly and people with mental or physical impairments. In some society’s‚ their care will be seen as the responsibility of the individual
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Individualism - the lack of it or the excess of it - has often been considered a major problem in the modernization of China. In the early decades of this century reformers championed individualism in opposition to traditional authority in both thought and social life‚ and especially in opposition to the "Confucian" family system. Others contended that what thwarted China’s modernization was not the absence of individualism but rather a surplus of it. The common term for "individualism"
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YiQing Ruan Socy 201 11/19/2013 The Negativity of Excessive Emphasized Individualism In America Individualism is an ideal that most people have aspired to in America. The word itself has a very positive meaning in American cultures. Individualism is something that defines the United States; it is something that makes the United States unique compared to other countries; It is something positive‚ something good‚ something most people would want to obtain. Most Americans tend to over
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name the top 10 things they associated with Russia. The top four were communism‚ the KGB‚ snow‚ and the mafia. The sole positive association Russian art and culture came in dead last. Moreover it was also named -Cold‚ dark‚ drowning in vodka‚ and ruled by the KGB. That’s how the West sees Russia. When most people think about the “American culture‚” images of Coca-Cola‚ hot dogs‚ baseball games‚ big cars and suburban mansions come to mind. Underneath the layers of TV advertising and hyper-consumerism
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Prometheus found the advantage of ego. He realized that a society needs people to have a sense of self to contribute to his brothers and sisters. Another hero‚ Howard Roark in The Fountainhead‚ goes against the natural current of collectivism to stand up for individualism‚ “But the creator is the egoist in the absolute sense‚ and the selfless man is the one who does not think‚ feel‚ judge or act. These are functions of the self.” Men need to express ego to have a sense of oneself
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American way of life because power distance is obvious‚ while it may not always be in the Russian culture. “Power distance is defined as the extent to which less powerful members of society expect and accept that power is distributed unequally” (Jandt‚ p.168). Geert Hofstede explains this power distance and how it is measured in his cultural dimensions theory. Hofsetede’s theory explains the influence of a culture on
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