start of the extract, we are firstly introduced to Obi’s parents and we learn the sacrifices that Hannah has to makes to her new faith. The sentence “Hannah had stopped telling her children folk-stories” shows how Christianity has damaged the Ibo culture as Achebe has used a direct simple sentence as emphasis and to send a firm message. Furthermore, we learn Obi has many characteristics like her mother as they are both split and ambivalent about their religion and this is significant because Achebe
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the state subject to obscenity and morality. The contrast of a free and continuously developing media along with a restriction of this sort to preserve our nation’s culture and traditions is bound to give rise to various challenges that pose questions on the extent of the freedom to express. There is a constant hysteria about our culture being
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in Building Its Soft Power and Cultural Diplomacy Through Its Culture and Technology: Case Study of K-Pop Music Industry I. Abstract In these recent years, South Korea has becoming one of the influential soft power by attracting others by its culture, especially on it entertainment aspects. South Korea nowadays in this globalized world also in its attempt to build and strengthen its diplomacy through the cultures they have. The cultures of South Korea are now becoming trends not only for Asian people
S.A. , the overwhelming need of Japanese managers is for management principles and knowledge applicable to Oriental cultural tradition. There are few who would today seek major changes in Japanese culture to adapt the culture known to management principles . . . In Industrial relations, Japanese feel an impending need of guidance. The labor move- ment and growing competition appear to be the chief factors inciting recognition of
Paying attention to cultural systems is very important to any one whether leading or managing, therefore, knowledge is a fundamental principle in intercultural training, and is included in the cultural intelligence model. People have to know how cultures are formed, understood, and shared, in addition to how cultural explanations, sense, signs, can influence behaviors and approaches. This component of the model is thought of as "Acquire" because of the need to acquire information and knowledge that
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of history, language and culture in the process of becoming rather than being; not 'who we are' or 'where we have come from' so much as what we might become, how we have been represented and how that bears on how we might represent ourselves. Identities are therefore constituted within, not outside representation” (4). Consequently, what creates a nation,
politeness behavior in a way that takes into account the constraints on individual behavior that derive from the social setting without assuming that individual cultures are homogeneous or that there is homogeneity across cultures. The theory of relative face orientation We have discussed that Brown and Levinson’s (1987) face-saving politeness theory has been undermined for its inability to be applied universally. In surveying recent studies in cross-cultural communication, Mao (1994) mentions Janney