Topics
Modern culture, medieval culture, and ancient culture: A comparison
Aspects of Western culture that reveal a conflict at the heart of society
Why culture is vital and why what is vital has to be better understood
How to cope with competing cultures
Where does culture come from?
Why art, politics, religion, economics and labor are all manifestations of culture
Outline
I. Introduction
a. Brief definition of culture
b. Brief overview of how cultures have developed to bring us to the present day
c. Thesis: As culture is the expression of what is in men’s hearts, minds and souls, taking the measure… Continue Reading...
different cultures—Western and Eastern (American and Japanese specifically). The study found that Western culture promotes a linear approach to positive emotional experiences while Japanese culture promotes more of a dialectical approach to positive emotional experiences. Americans were found to distance themselves from negative emotions over time, recalling fewer and fewer negative instances in their lives as they become older and experiencing fewer negative emotions in unpleasant circumstances than young Americans, whose emotions are more heavily impacted by situation and who tend to dwell more negative emotions (Grossman et al., 2014). In comparison, Japanese adults showed little difference from Japanese youths in terms… Continue Reading...
the sign hanging over the stand, like a cultural guardian angel, pointing to the hats to show how Western culture is available for sale to the South Koreans not just in the form of food but also in the form of attire. Secondly, the hats themselves are a Western fashion statement. They stand out as a cultural statement of globalism. As Hansen points out, in the era of globalization, "dress has been analyzed, by and large, as representing something else rather than something in its own right"[footnoteRef:1] -- which means that the hats in the picture are not just hats but rather a symbol of how South Korea… Continue Reading...
Catholic Philippines and what that experience is like.
The Philippines is very much a combination of Eastern and Western cultures, as it consists of an Asian people who have been settled and colonized by Western societies for centuries. Thus, there is a major Catholic presence and culture in the Philippines that is as much a part of the dominant culture as Catholicism is in South and Central America. According to the country's 2014 census, 90% of Filipinos are Christian (Philipppines in Figures, 2014). The origin of this major Catholic group in the Philippines begins with the arrival of the Spanish 500 years ago. They are the ones who… Continue Reading...
the aboriginal people is the claiming and use of the land. The western culture of ownership did not exist within the Aboriginal nation. Within the aboriginal culture land has a completely different meaning, it has a life of its own, and rather than belonging to people, people belong to the land with a spiritual, social and physical connection to that land (Clarke, 2014). A key element is the perception of land as a mother, with aboriginals having a responsibility to care for the health of the land and water on that land (Pettit, 2015). When aboriginal people, with a strong spiritual connection… Continue Reading...
Western culture, Western culture dominates much of the worldwide conversation about globalization and industry.
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One of the most significant challenges of globalization is that it is not a universal positive.…[…… parts of this paper are missing, click here to view the entire document ]…it can lead people to ignore the needs of other communities, even innovators that live in those communities. While Western solutions may work in some situations, it is important to keep in mind that Western solutions and approaches are not universally applicable. “What works in… Continue Reading...
Fitness Industry in Hong Kong
Hong Kong is a densely populated, coastal city in Asia, where both Eastern and Western cultures meet. In this city-state of 7 million persons, the potential for the fitness industry (fitness clubs) to find consumer demand is evident in the government's recent emphasis on health and fitness as well as the entertainment industry's usage of body image to convey an impulse among consumers to mimic what they see. At the same time, Hong Kong has a distinctly Asian desire for fitness workouts that are more dance-oriented than in the West. Choreography is a big draw for Hong Kong fitness club users and the more… Continue Reading...
Western cultures do categorize their music as music. Also, cultures might have talked about music in ways that were simply different from the Western concept. It is also possible that pre-literate societies conceptualized music but there is no recorded evidence of their musical knowledge.
Besides that main flaw, the article "What, in the World, is Music?" offers a good starting point for how to conceptualize different types of music. The strength of the argument is in the ability of the author to recognize John Cage's work of silence as a… Continue Reading...
taking, but it is possible that the women were also influenced by the western culture. The women were mostly children of immigrants and they were no longer bound to follow their strict culture this might have led them… Continue Reading...
