idea of freedom from materialism through purification of desires and the dismissal of personal identity. Reincarnation is also quite central to Hindu belief along with an array of other ideologies and attitudes. The idea and value of diversity embraces both acceptance and respect. It means understanding that each individual is unique, and understanding and recognizing all of our individual differences. These can include an array of characteristics from race, ethnicity, and gender, orientation, including
involving changes, what we call acculturation. First defined as the phenomena raising from the continuous and direct contact between people from different cultural backgrounds, as well as the changes operating in these different cultures (Redfield, Linton and Herskovits, 1936 pp. 149), we can advance that it is the way two different cultures are interacting to threat their differences. Further researches clamed it is a process with different observable phases with often a dominant culture involving a transformation
In my thesis, I analyse Neil Gaiman’s American Gods which highlights that a stable national identity is not possible, and the oppositions imposed by national narratives are limiting for the nation and its people. Yet, fiction can help us become aware of the illusion of the binary oppositions, and their inherent limitations in defining both personal and national identity. In chapter one, I discuss the definition of myth and their function in society as a way to give meaning to life. The myths can
Foer's contention that the sport of soccer represents the equivalent of higher culture to a certain segment of the population, namely the lower class, providing a source of unity to disaffected groups who may not feel that the embrace of national identity, shared so readily by the affluent, has been extended to them. While in many countries, such as Spain or England, the shared support of a soccer team may allow for a temporary lowering of long standing cultural
Abstract This paper makes a modest attempt to analyse the various issues faced by the immigrants as portrayed in Lahiri’s novel first novel The Namesake. The story of the novel is set in United States, Calcutta hovers in the background. . It is out of her experiences of the bizarre identity crisis on the part of those who have remained as immigrants and those who were traumatized by homelessness, that the contents of the novel The Namesake were derived. Jhumpa Lahiri admits that as the novel conveys
within Malay/Islamic-dominated organizations or values-driven workplace. However, notably emerging and fast dominating among them is convergence work i.e. examining the spiritual employee situated in a workplace with three combined characteristics - diversity, spirituality and religion, and collectivism. This growing interest in convergence work in Malaysia suggests that research is aligned with recent thought leaders advocating towards a much needed approach that is inclusive and integrative in understanding
on CSR; d. identifying the relationship between CSR activities and value types; e. the impacts of CSR activities on the consumers. Consumer behaviour will be a big part on this study since it will also help identify if the CSR activities will bring good effects on them or will make no interest and impact at
historical process, which has attempted to incorporate European states over the last sixty years. The idea of an union between the European states has been developed from the 50s to the current system (the European Union), throughout different evolutionary phases. Mainly on a economic level and recently more political, this development has sought to unify different systems and national identities (Malloy 2005). The 1989 events definitely mutated dynamics and directions of the European integration. After the
many do not practice pure Islam but syncretic versions of it. Hence in this essay, I will first examine the different ways in which indigenous animist beliefs have influenced the practice of Islam in Indonesia and reasons behind it. I will then analyse how modernization has changed the extent of influence of animism on the practice of Islam in Indonesia. Defined by Edward Burneet Tylor in Primitive Culture (1871), Animism is the belief
In this essay I intend to analyse the relationship between work and alienation in industrial and post-industrial societies. In particular I will identify the source of this alienation as well as the impact it has on the individual and the society by examining the research of several sociological theorists, including Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber and C. Wright Mills. The Transition Subsequent to the Industrial Revolution, which took place in the United Kingdom in the late 1700s, numerous agrarian