Culture Essay Examples and Topics. Page 8

Many Japanese practices have been adopted in the western world due to the popularity of the culture. Among the many cultural practices of Japan, karate is the most practiced one outside the state.

The main goal or objective of this strong program is to develop a benchmark theory that describe and understand the impact of specific cultural variables on leadership and organizational processes and their effectiveness.

In this case, the child may prefer the culture that mostly determines how he looks, if the appearance makes others love to associate with the kid, but if they abuse the kid because of the [...]

Apart from performing magic, a shaman is an individual selected on a spiritual basis and who is highly trained and has power to communicate with both the living and the dead, hence at times referred [...]

It is very important to understand the order and the needs of the society of nowadays. Within the society in particular the representation is a term that is used to denote 'the use of language [...]

However, regardless of the integral nature of haiku for Japanese culture, the history and origins of its appearing are interesting enough The meditative nature of haiku verses is closely linked with the essence and significance [...]

The dance is the part of religion and culture, it is the vision of the world. The notion of a character in Yoruba culture is also an of humans' inner development.

It is important first and foremost to understand the meaning of the words myth, culture and historical context. As a result, the generations that come in take and accept it as their culture.

The Hourani are also known as Aucas; a term which means "the people of the jungle" Since a higher percentage of the population were fearless warriors, the Hourani are war-like people.

In this regard, the society has the implications that there is a mixture between different cultures, and through this, the different mixed cultures are amalgamated with no existence of any sort of intervention by the [...]

This was not the first introduction of Confucianism to Japan - Confucian studies had of course been pursued in Japan since the sixth and seventh centuries A.D.at the latest - but never before had the [...]

To portray the events of the twentieth and the twenty-first century I want to create a virtual time capsule that will be buried at this point and opened many years later.

In the fields of literature, and design, architecture, in addition to marketing business and the interpretation of culture, history and law are started to analyze on the basis of post-structuralism in the nineteen sixties of [...]

America happens to be one of the countries in the world that consists of different kinds of people including, the most dominant blacks and the whites and as a result, there has been a rich [...]

Multiculturalism is the practice of recognizing the existence of diverse ethnic and cultural groups in the society. This is because all the citizens have a right to own property and hence the gap between the [...]

The ideology is further supported by the fact that the poems reveal that the immigrants viewed America as a source of opportunity and equality.

The other reason behind the waning popularity of the kimono is the intricate design used in its knitting. In the beginning of the 18th century, the name of this garment was changed to kimono.

Culture is one of the main factors that differentiate human beings from other animals and it is a culture that informs the beliefs and behavior of individual members of society.

The major theme of this ethnography was to come out with factors that were possibly contributing to the wiping out of the Ainu and their culture.

50 years after the end of the war, the effects of the war have continued to influence the Japanese culture and have also affected its relations with other countries.

The implicit association test is a measure of the effect of the association between the representations of concepts in memory by different people.

Viramma's understanding of the world can be seen through her understanding of the past, present, and future, as well as men, women, and family, faith, belief, and spirits, good and evil, body and health, work [...]

He argues that human beings resist diversity and that this will continue to be the case for many years to come. People who are similar to the ones who live in a neighborhood will move [...]

He points out that multiculturalism leads to harmonious coexistence between the diverse ethnicities in a country as every minority and religion is respected.

This paper will attempt to investigate the origin of culture wars and Australia's involvement since early 1990, its relation with the struggle between Keating and Howard, the Media's role in promoting a focus on culture, [...]

They vary from one part of the world to another, and bring an almost unique flavor to the region that they belong to, shaping the lives of its people and their sense of culture.

The discussion of the concept of culture shock experienced by most travelers is the main aim of the current report. As a rule, the four stages of culture shock are applied to those people that [...]

Cultural Diversity is the multiplicity in human society in terms of attitude, social norms and customs. This results in a reduction in social solidarity and inhibition of social capital over the short run.

However, it is interesting to compare it to the story which took place at the dawn of the cultural and sexual revolution in Chinese society.

The presence or absence of natural resources in different parts of the world has influenced people's perspective of their understanding, usage and allocation of natural resources.

In his article "Race, Space and Class: The Politics of the SF Film from Metropolis to Blade Runner", David Desser had made a perfectly good point while stating: "...the themes and techniques of such films [...]

"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people".

In most of the cases, a change in the cultural context results in changing the personality of a person. The treatment of a child at the infancy stage largely affects the formation of this child's [...]

The article also seeks to give a detailed elaboration of the concepts and methodological approaches that can be taken in the quest to address the issue of interethnic systems while putting emphasis on the critical [...]

Japan and its culture truly represent the cultural compromise that determines the development of the entire Japanese spiritual tradition.

On the one hand, one of the merits of the book is the choice of the territory the author analyzes from a historical perspective.

The two minority groups selected for my research are African American people and Hispanic groups with whom I am familiar from my locality.

It was also observed that when hip-hop was practiced in Germany, the Old School of the US that was going to be taken over, was the message rap of Grandmaster Flash and the Glorious Five [...]

The material needs of the human society thus were predicated on the natural habitat in which they lived and this led to formulation of practices or culture that has often been termed as Cultural Materialism.

In its turn, this implies that the carriers of particular culture must be able to operate with highly abstract categories, as it is namely such their ability that creates preconditions for the emergence of civilization [...]

It was also Jing-mei's first visit to the country which for her, was purely to fulfill the wish of her dead mother to see her abandoned children.

This paper will focus on the basic advantages and challenges faced by ethnography today, and on the ways in which the book by Narayan discloses the fundamentals of the modern ethnography.

It is impossible to live observing the rules and traditions of the national customs and encounter the Western aggression shown in the media.

The plates have to be placed at the center of the table in front of the guest and the knives and spoons on the right side of the guest.

The North Americans have a rich and diverse culture that has made several influences on the continent and even in various parts of the world.

In the Jewish culture - both in the classical and the ancient time - the family formed and still is a basic unit of the society and whose role in the sustenance and development of [...]

In terns of traditional Chinese cultural values, purchase reaction that is geared to satisfy such needs as the need for affiliation, the need for achievement, or the need for power should not be termed irrational.

While most of the music in the Emirates has a local root, some are "imported" by immigrants and assimilated into the UAE culture.

When the Saharan region started drying up in the middle of the second millennium, the Bantus migrated to the rainforests of Central Africa.

Those high on the indices are national cultures in which power inequality is high and generally endorsed or accepted by both the powerless and the powerful.

On the other hand, the Sikhs have very strong religious believes, whereby every dawn each member of the Sikh community has to wake up and join the rest of the family in prayers to Waheguru.

The novels Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih and Beer in the Snooker Club by Waguih Ghali brightly reveal the story of two male heroes who are in constant search of a [...]

Incases people of the opposite sex are greeting each other; it's the man who is supposed to initiate the greetings and offer his hand to the woman but not the opposite.

First I clearly expected that it if the parents and close family members who convey the identity to their children stayed together, then the conflict between mainstream expectations in the American way of life and [...]

The author is against amodern primitivism', as the new movement leads to the crisis and ruins all the Western culture which developed for many years The new primitivism penetration in the modern Western culture is [...]

The first theory of explaining the culture is based on importance of symbols and language. Mead emphasized the importance of role of language and its forms in the human social structure and shaping of culture.

It will help in a favorable response to the message if it appears to be reasonable and fair to both the receiver and the sender.

Some of the well known and whose existence has extensively been documented over the years include the Aborigines in Australia, the Maori from New Zealand, the Red Indians in the United States, as well as [...]

This facts of his biography that cover this participation include organizing the branch of the American Indian Movement in Cleveland, the participation in costumed protests in Plymouth, a symbolic demonstration in Mount Rushmore, the protests [...]

This ending of the calendar is construed by many to signify the end of the world. And the doomsday theory advocates have interpreted it to mean the end of the world.

After investigating the problems on different campuses and analyzing them I made the conclusion that one problem occurs in every campus: this is the problem of parking. The problem is parking and the number of [...]

The Japanese learned to view the world from the perspective of traditional versus modern values after the Meiji Restoration in 1868 following the opening of Japan's doors to the world.

The main contribution of the book is that it tells us about the style of life of African people, about their rituals and traditions by the very participant of that life, not by the side [...]

The article deals with the studies done by Professor Richard Nisbett of the University of Michigan in exploring the different ways in which Asians and Americans relate to spatial and pictorial objects and which points [...]

Most improper and incorrect views of other cultures and races is the result of stigmatization which is never disproven due to the segregation of the country and the overall lack of opportunity for people to [...]

Thesis: In the book, Patriotism, Shinji commits seppuku, and this act is significant to him because it demonstrated his loyalty to the country and his friends, his strong moral character in the face of dilemma, [...]

This paper analyses the movements and the efforts taken to protect the cultural nationalism in Canada, and providing the idea that the reasons for such actions were not limited to opposing the Americanization, or specifically [...]

But even he failed to foresee the tragic consequences of the development of these institutions1."There is no document of civilization which is not also a document of barbarism".

In the current analysis of the barbaric features of Western civilization the due attention will be paid to Conrad and Kafka's works as well as Werner Herzog and Truffaut films.

Research questions: The following research questions have been identified according to the implications of online BBS communities in shaping of identity for the Wemer subculture: What is the role of "new-found" capitalism and material progress [...]

With many Mexicans having migrated to the states, many have adopted the American and the blacks way of life which they have taken back home after their stay in America.

So it is due to this fact that most of the Taensas are getting discrimination in most of the activities like in business, sharing of the economic resources and the land rights of these people.

The dances the slaves performed were distinct in that they were against the culture of the slave owners and yet they were blended in with the culture of the slave owners.

Under the leadership of the despotic ruler, Hitler, they spread in most part of the world and especially in the Eastern regions.

The Goths created their own subculture, as they could not accept the extravagant and extroverted lifestyle of the Punks. The evils, sins and pain of the society are a matter of beauty to the Goths.

The jian sword is the most commonly used and most commonly practiced sword in the martial arts of the Chinese tradition not just as a weapon but as a symbol to their culture.

This is a matter of pressure to the teenagers and this creates stress in them."Early adulthood is the settling down period and most reproductive age.

The Muslim culture and community follow the Koran in their expression of grief. The expression of grief is, therefore, more pronounced and vocal.

This very paper will focus of the assignment of this kind its main task is to find out whether the character of the Celtic Warrior as seen in the traditional historical thought is a product [...]

The main difference between the Chinese and Japanese concept of loyalty is that the Chinese people emphasize their loyalty to their family as a top priority.

If we start to understand the concept of ME by viewing the history of pages, it is obvious that throughout history, Americans were the first to hear that African-Americans were not very intelligent and were [...]

It is the presence of this diversity and the need to handle it efficiently which forms the background of Rafael Rodriguez four challenges of cultural diversity.

It may be a communication problem that involves the frustrations that come with the lack of understanding; the verbal and nonverbal communication of the new culture.

Each one of the three broad categories has its own strengths and weaknesses in portraying culture as a vital contributor to ethnic conflicts.

The questions that are raised by recent research in this context are whether banning headscarves is not cultural imperialism because it means the death of another culture.

This culture was called as the Harappan Culture or the Indus Valley Civilization and takes it name from the ruins of ancient city of Harappa discovered in 1921 and other ancient cities discovered in the [...]

The demarcation of the land was allowed without allowing the inclusion of the opinion of the indigenous people since their participation was not guaranteed.

In light of the foregoing, the essence of the paper is to zero in on the explorations of the cultural transformations in a particular society substantiating notions that culture is dynamic and is always subject [...]

Thus, the major characters of the book by Eugene Jeffers are L'Yon, the man from Le Val Joyeux who leaves his settlement for Paris in order to find his parents; Noah Bennett, the person who [...]

The emotion of love among the Inuit people was not often expressed especially between spouses In all these three cultures, the feeling of love towards one's spouse was not necessary for marriage.

The next point we are going to discuss is the way this culture or perhaps it would be better to say the system of aesthetics influenced Chinese art and architecture in particular especially within the [...]

Below I attempt to look at the assumptions held by the hosts, while drawing on the case study of Martha and Reza.

The culture of Jamaica is a rich blend of the ways deriving from both Spanish and British eras which affected lives of the people on this small island.

It was this division that left America with little understanding of how the rest of the world lives and how the country can effectively help others even in times of war.

At the crux of every of our social and culture activity, it is a food that makes us identifiable to the rest of the world and associated with the people whom we matter the most.

Reinders wrote that the word "Zen" originated from the "Sanskrit word dhyana " and that "was transliterated into Chinese as channa and abbreviated to chan; zen is the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese character chan".

The Euro-Americans ignored reservation boundaries; they used the weakness of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which was not able to defend the sanctity of the reservations.

This is first and foremost because of the fact that lots of Mesoamerican glyphs bear similarity to real objects such as creatures, people, natural features, etc, although in a stylized manner.

For example, Venus was the goddess of love, and her son Cupid was considered as the god of love; Pan was the god of the jungle, while Hymen was attributed to the domain of marriage, [...]

In conclusion, it emerges that health and longevity were major reasons as to why food was fundamental in the Chinese way of life.

One can realize the close interconnection between the culture where he or she lives in and interpersonal relationships he or she has, only being put under the circumstances that test his or her ability to [...]

The purpose of current essay is to provide the analysis of Thanksgiving Day's historical cultural patterns of celebration in the past and now.

To champion the rights of "peoples," as multiculturalism does, is contrary to the foundations of traditional democratic freedoms which have their roots in individual rights, not group or peoples' rights. The dilemma is the popular [...]

According to the analysis in these countries majority of these people are catholic, that is 70 %, the Protestants are 23%, and 6% have no affiliation.

The USA's influence on the Rest of the world is maintained in terms of economics, politics, social institutions, and even the personal psyche of individuals.Dr.

The despair of Celianne in "Children of the Sea" as she throws herself into the ocean is felt by the male narrator of the same story when he embraces death and by Grace's mother in [...]

These parameters include the following: Individuality-Collectivity Distance from the governing spheres Masculinity Femininity Uncertainty avoidance Colombia, one of the state that had been analyzed according to this methodology, and moreover it is in the epicenter [...]

It borders the Pacific Ocean on the west and south, on the north is the United States; on the east, it borders the Gulf of Mexico.

For instance, the national museum in Singapore has a variety of roles which include the following, many public programmes like cultural fairs are facilitated in this museum, and workshops on culture and heritage are also [...]

The history of India, if we take a look at it, gives us a clear view of the reasons for the process of migration and indentureship of Indians to Trinidad and Tobago at the end [...]

Since the human body represents the individual's unique base of operations in the world, it is not surprising that endless energy is devoted to polishing and strengthening it.

The essence of debate rests on the lack of mutual understanding among the African women stressing the importance of preserving traditions and Western women emphasizing the right of choice.

The discussion aims to probe the pros and cons of the kind of commodification it promotes and how it reflects the nobler mission of this cultural institution as the dwelling place of art and culture.

The focal problem presented in the given case study refers to the cultural defenses between the US and Jordan, the two countries that incorporate the western and eastern identities.

In the scenario involving communication with the Middle East, experiences that demonstrated imperialistic intentions on the side of the West will have to be accepted as the experiences that need to be processed and viewed [...]

The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast the traditional wedding in the UAE culture as applied to the olden days and modernity.

This report will investigate the growth and influence of Japanese pop culture through anime, video games, and the film industry. The game was created by a Japanese studio and is built on the concept of [...]

It should be noted that the festival is held for several days, and its primary purpose is to prepare the visiting people for the main celebration. The center of all activities that bring the majority [...]

While Hofstede was the pioneer in the sphere of cross-cultural studies, some aspects of his classification have been subject to criticism by other scholars.

Japan is well known for its tendencies to emphasize groups over individuals and have people work at the same company throughout their careers."Cross cultural studies" identifies the concept of wa, or harmony, as central to [...]