countries of Southeast Asia‚ the Philippines offers the most obvious case of local strongmen through which to re-examine the scholarly literature sketched above. Scholars and other commentators have long emphasised both the predominance of patron-client relations and the persistence of a landowning élite in the archipelago. Elections – local‚ congressional‚ and national – in the Philippines have long been dominated by local politicians and ‘political clans’ known to enjoy not only political longevity but
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The Cultural Pluralism: CP 1 Sun Mi Hong West Coast University Abstract Cultural pluralism class has changed my view of people I see every day. As a student who is studying nursing at West Coast University‚ I will have patients from different nationalities. This class made me open up my mind to everyone I will treat later on in an equal and fair manner. Choosing to go to Japanese American Museum opened my mind to see how they have settled in United States and how difficult it was for them
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Quran View on Religious Pluralism Submited by: Muqadas Ghumman Submitted to: Mame Amat-ul Rafi Subject: Quranic View of other Religions Introduction While Islam stresses on the unity of humanity‚ it also recognizes human diversity and gives valuable principles to deal with ethnic‚ racial and religious differences in society. This paper discusses Religious Pluralism in the light of Quran and Hadith. Islam gives rights to all citizens of Muslim state; granting
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Cultural Pluralism is a term used when smaller groups within a larger society maintain their unique cultural identities‚ and their values and practices are accepted by the wider culture provided they are consistent with the laws and values of the wider society. In my neighborhood‚ (Brooklyn‚ East Flatbush) there are many people from different races‚ culture and creed. I am surrounded by Indians‚ Asians‚ Latinos‚ Russians‚ African Americans‚ West Indians and Jews and we all co-exist with each other
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the history of pluralism The fall of 1990‚ some 25 students joined Diana Eck for a course at Harvard University on “World Religions in New England.” Each week‚ the class would divide into teams to visit religious communities in the Boston area and then meet to discuss what we had learned. From Sri Lakshmi Temple‚ located close to the starting point of the Boston Marathon‚ to New England’s first mosque‚ established in the shadows of the cranes of Quincy’s shipyards‚ we began to discover and document
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Despite being very different countries‚ Africa and Australia share a phenomenon termed medical pluralism. This form of health care is indeed pluralistic as it “consists of the totality of medical subsystems that coexist in a cooperative or competitive relationship with one another” (Baer 2004‚ p. 109). Although medical pluralism is not recent by any means‚ it is still used differently in various cultures around the globe. This essay will first describe the array of healthcare strategies that form
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Collective Actors in Industrial Relations: What Future? IIRA World Congress‚ Track 4 Rapporteur’s Report 1 Thomas A. Kochan MIT Institute for Work & Employment Research And MIT Workplace Center April 2003 The term “actors” in industrial relations gained currency in John Dunlop’s Industrial Relations Systems (1958). He proposed that three parties—employers‚ labor unions‚ and government-- are the key actors in a modern industrial relations system. He also argued that none of these institutions could
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An analogue electronic circuits diagnosis with the use of evolutionary algorithms Piotr Jantos Damian Grzechca Jerzy Rutkowski Division of Circuits and Signals Theory Division of Circuits and Signals Theory Division of Circuits and Signals Theory Institute of Electronics Institute of Electronics Institute of Electronics Silesian University of Technology Silesian University of Technology Silesian University of Technology Gliwice‚ 44-100‚ Poland Gliwice‚ 44-100‚ Poland Gliwice‚ 44-100‚ Poland Email:
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In the article “Problems and Promise in Pluralism‚” Annalee R. Ward discusses the potential problems that might arise from religious pluralism and presents the potential impact and promise of religious pluralism that can benefit society as a whole. The author stresses the challenges religious pluralism presents to a person of faith in a society that favors the privatization of religion (Ward‚ 2004). Ward attempts to answer this following question: “If people are truly followers of a religion‚ how
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processes such as extermination and expulsion may remove the presence of a subordinate group. Significant for racial and ethnic oppression in the United States today is the distinction between assimilation and pluralism. Assimilation demands subordinate-group conformity to the dominant group‚ and pluralism implies mutual respect among diverse groups. The definition of ethnicity people value differently for each of the primary and secondary factors Primary whether it be Race‚ Nationality‚ Language‚ Religion
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