With the development of globalization, personal mobility has prompted an expansion of international marriage as a social phenomenon. This includes a great source of conflicts, whether or not a marital relationship between partners of different nationalities becomes highly advantageous. As Jones (2012) noted, the numerical…
Introduction Normative cultural relativism is a moral theory that sees moral rights and wrongs to be necessarily dependent on a particular society, culture or community’s moral norms. Thus, one can simplify it to a simpler statement whereby a normative relativism ‘tells us how we ought…
“Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter” This great proverb was a favorite of the influential author, who wrote Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe. Achebe realized the value of storytelling. As a writer, the story…
What I see as a perfectly normal thing to do could be absolutely appalling to someone who was raised in another culture. As an example, I work at a US retail store that gets visitors from around the world, many of which are from Brazil….
I always thought that because I am born and raised in a Vietnamese household, I already have a firm grasp on the concept of overcoming ethnocentric biases and be unprejudiced and/or more understanding when it comes to other religious and cultural practices. However, that is…
Ethnocentrism is a tricky subject. It is when a person believes they are better than another person, when in reality they are both humans, which means no one is better than anyone else. This belief is what creates a hostile environment in our country because…
The purpose of this essay is to explore a Canadian Immigrant’s personal experience with multiculturalism in Canada. This was conducted through a one-hour interview in which I sat down with a Canadian immigrant and posed a number of questions that gave me insight into their…
People are shaped by their culture to a great extent because the culture has influenced us to think and conduct in a specific way and we’ve learned to believe our own culture since the day we were born. It’s universally acknowledged that humans cannot avoid…
Have you ever suffered from discrimination? Nowadays discrimination was reduced than past. However some people continue to suffer from racial discrimination. By the way, what is discrimination? Discrimination is treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against a person who…
What is Culture? Culture is the customs, social instructions, art, and achievements. Culture is forever changing, shaped and modified by the changing of the times, the advancement technology, the terrain, and many other factors. As a nation develops and changes so too does its culture….
What is culture? Culture is a big concept, and it is not just an identification of a country, it is something that represents at all of us. There are many meanings about culture. Some people thing that is just “have education” or “be part of…
Why is it important to study other cultures? It is important to study other cultures because if you don’t learn about other cultures you could get the totally wrong idea about anything, or you could just be self-centered about your culture and start something bad….
Culture defines us, it is a way of life. It determines how one thinks, how one feels, and how one behaves. It can change one’s perspectives on sensitive topics or what one thinks about another. Culture changes the way one views others and the world…
Culture is a way of living which is unique to each and every specific groups in society. The way of communication, language, foods, beliefs, costumes, traditions and customs are diverse from each group. A society has different cultures which brings its a life with various…
Cultural Appropriation, by some it’s seen as an adoption culture being stolen away from a dominant group. Mostly, people view cultural appropriation as simply the adoption of some particular cultural aspects of another culture. Cultural appropriation is starting to become more evident in everyday life…
In the essay “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan, Tan claims the concept that we tend to speak totally different languages to speak with one another which our intelligence is judged by the approach we tend to speak. As a fictional author, Tan is astonished by…
Introduction The goal of nursing is to provide ‘culture-specific and universal nursing care practices in promoting health or well-being or to help people to face unfavorable human conditions, illness, or death in culturally meaningful ways (Jarosova, 2014). The purpose of this concept analysis is to…
In a literature view, diversity has been used to describe the configuration of groups in a workplace environment. Diversity is measured to be an individual of groups which raises to analytical differences amongst members. Similarly describes diversity as differences in viewpoints consequential in potential interactive…
Introduction As social decent variety increments crosswise over races, ethnicities, dialects, nationalities, strict contrasts, and globalization, social assorted variety in the working environment has expanded as sexual direction is spoken to in a general public.’ While the media and contemporary writing receive the rewards of…