Theory of Pan-ethnicity” In Redefining Race, Dina Okamoto investigates the factors that contributed to the development of Asian pan-ethnicity. She argues that Asian Americans do not consist of a monolithic racial group; they are of diverse national origins, languages, cultures, and generational statuses but socially constructed as a singular category through various mechanisms—through the state, structural inequality, ethnic mobilization, and leaders of ethnic organizations. Okamoto’s findings of the
(2006), despite several differences of approaches in the literature, each country has a certain image and a multifaceted structure. First studies on country image in the literature belong to the 1930s and 1940s (Katz and Braly, 1933; Klingberg, 1941). On those years, several researches were done on impacts of social psychological processes, economic, cultural and political events on country image. But in these years, national perceptions and prototypes are of particular importance (Katz and Braly
Abstract: This study was conducted in order to determine the consumer preferences of global brands instead of local ones. It is also designed to find out the buying behavior patterns of young Pakistani consumers Consumer evaluates products based on information cues, which are intrinsic and extrinsic. A number of factors affect the consumer purchase decisions. The results suggest that most important factors that influence a consumer’s final decision are the price and quality of the product in question
Name Elena My Name Cary Ann Vincent Class Applied English 132 12 June 2015 Research Project General Topic: Culture Restricted: Western and Chinese More Restricted: Traditional festival Topic Chosen: I am more interested in the culture of traditional festival and know a little about the difference about the festival of Western and Chinese, and I find it has pretty charm. On the other hand, I want to make use of this opportunity to know more about the western culture and history to expand my view
1. Introduction : This study is to understand the Sikh religion, its architecture, its history, evolution and relationship between its architecture and culture. It is important for us to understand the faith and philosophy of Sikh religion before we touch upon its architecture. This paper discusses about the cultural beliefs of Sikhs and attempts to study the historic growth of Gurudwaras, its evolution since 1604. Every architectural style has its own identity such as Sikh Architecture as a whole
Cultural associations and the historical memory of the Guanches in Tenerife, Canary Islands. Tenerife is one of the seven islands of the Canary archipelagos. It was conquered by the Spaniards in 1496 after almost a year of fighting with the Guanches, the indigenous population that lived on the island. The Guanches were a pastoral society of goat herders which after the conquest were completely assimilated by the new settlers. After the conquest, new customs and ways of life settled on the island
Williams’ study of culture became the extremely prominent book Culture and Society (1958). Work for that book also involved a series of studies of cultural production, with the plan of understanding the history of industrial capitalism in relation to the forms of communication that were an essential part of it: the press, advertising, education, the new media. The Long Revolution (1961) brought these studies together and marked Williams’ insistence on the importance of struggles for the public ownership
possibilities, development, and increased knowledge, there are also prominent concerns about the negative impacts such a powerful language has on local cultures. For English Language Teaching practitioners, much of the discussion about linguistic and cultural imperialism spins around the issue of whether language teaching should involve culture teaching. Teaching American or British culture in ELT, in our case, is essential; it helps form
identity begins to develop in an individual when that individual is of early adolescence. There are many models that illustrate this process, some of which are described within this paper. Many theorists have chosen to make this topic their topic of study, including Erik Erikson, James Marcia, and Jean Phinney. Each of these theorists used the models of previous theorists to construct their models, so although they all share several similarities, they are each different in their own way. The transition
As I aim to study the institute of madrasa through the lens of language I will be explaining the two major perspectives that I will be employing for the linguistic analysis. The first tool will be the speech act theory which has been developed to understand institutions