First, without concerning about cultural differences, PTT focuses on expanding the business within the country, but ExxonMobil’s goal is to be the largest business in the world. This shows the different aspects of these two businesses in operating their organization. Also their business sizes
(HelloSiam, 2002) Thailand has been known as the land of freedom as the word "Thai" simply represent freedom as a result Thailand proudly declares that they were not colonised. This also allow Thailand to preserve its special one and only one culture, traditions and language. (Abercrombie&Kent, 2014) Thailand has become one of the world's most famous destinations due to its diverse natural landscape, rich historical culture, distinctive historical and modern buildings, some best hotels in the world
Western Democracy The first norm of Thailand that has a substantial effect on the country’s perception about Western democracy is Thai Buddhism. Religion has been proven to have a significant influence on a state’s political system as Andrew Nathan, a Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, argues that, “Religion forms an important component of political culture, and, thus, should have a powerful democracy.” As per one’s understanding, a powerful democracy that is meant by Professor Nathan
smooth flat surface with no bars, no dissimilarity and a motto to connect each other with one culture. 2. DEFINING CROSS-CULTURAL MARKETING
2000). In saying that the societies and cultures in today's world lack intrinsic essence in their beliefs, traditions, and practices, Durkheim is underlying that these societies have no innate feelings for their own cultural identities, and that these identities have been formed out of the necessity to bring people together to form a society. If Durkheim were to simply take into account all the religious and cultural turmoil going on, she would see that a cultures beliefs, symbols, and practices do hold
Chiang Mai accommodation, even by Asian standards, is quite cheap. There are various accommodations here – from cheap guesthouses with a minimum set of services to first-class hotels. Boutique hotels decorated in traditional Thai style and located close to the historic city center are especially popular today. Some of them were built in the past 6 years and offer an excellent service, and the most are so small that they have no more than eight rooms and a swimming pool. Most hotels in Chiang Mai
this paper, our group has defined ‘nationalism’ as the sense of attachment and loyalty to the country cultivated through a collective ‘national identity’, defined as the conception of a country as a distinct entity with collective symbols like its culture, memories, values or traditions. Singaporeans today are unable to articulate what being Singaporean means (Mahbubani, 2013). The absence of a widely held national identity hinders the development of nationalism. This lack of nationalism has been
Having studied such varying accounts of cross cultural encounters happening within the long nineteenth century, spanning from people from all over the East and the West, and all of them coming from different positions of power and backgrounds, with all of their observations being heavily punctuated by different motives and biases, helps one gain a lot of perspective over the entire situation. The impact that the dealings of these people have had on the world as we now know it also becomes clearly
appeal for the legal ownership of the guns to protect themselves, while some others insist that the permission of the legalization of firearms can only put people in danger. In this essay, I will discuss this topic based on different countries’ gun culture and will talk about the following aspects: history and thinking inertia, social condition, relevant laws and the masses’ opinions. ⅡCore Issue Whether holding firearms personally
(van Dijk 1993b: 131) CDA objective is to perceive language use as social practice. The users of language do not function in isolation, but in a set of cultural, social and psychological frameworks. CDA accepts this social context and studies the connections between textual structures and takes this social context into account and explores the links between textual structures and their function in interaction