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Expansion of our enterprise into Africa will provide a host of challenges and opportunities to our core value of diversity. Before venturing into this new land, significant regard is required for the culture differences between our own company and employee cultures and that of the national and individual cultures of local nationals to hire for our expanded operations, in order to mitigate the risk of cultural collision (Daniels, Radebaugh & Sullivan, 2015, p. 50-51). As the individual group…

dishes. All around me I heard everyone other than me talk in Portuguese which made me feel like an outsider. My friend did tell me snippets of the conversation when he thought it was necessary, but for the most part I did not know half of the conversation at the dinner table. I felt like an outsider the majority of the time since I did not speak their native language. I did connect with some of his cousins who spoke both Portuguese and English. With his male cousins, I mainly ly talked about…

28 USD from 1980 until 2016, the last recorded is12028.60 US dollars. However, 70% of the population live in poverty. Languages and Religion Equatorial Guinea official languages are Spanish(since 1844), French (to join the Francophonie 1983) and Portuguese (adopted in 2010). It is the only sovereign African state in which Spanish is an official language. Other spoken languages in the country are Fang (most spoken), Bubi(2nd most spoken), Annobones, Combe, Ndowe, and Pichinglis. The majority of…

PRESERVING BILINGUAL SCHOOL IN INDONESIA Do you think that learning foreign language is important? How about entering the children to bilingual school? Will it increase their second language ability? In fact, there were many researchers and experts had been discussed about the effectiveness and ineffectiveness of bilingual education. One of the reasons why the bilingual schools can be unacceptable studies is when the study did not appropriate statistical tests (Rossell & Baker, 1996). On the…

world exposed to multiple languages. These people have to communicate and proceed using different system than monolingual speakers. Some previous studies have been reported same advantages and disadvantages on bilingualism. Therefore some advantages for example are, the creativity and the quicker solving mathematical problem for some researchers. Also being bilingual speaker has some cognitive effects that domain such as the intelligence or knowledgeable and the language ability in children and…

Beginning from a1292 to present day, respect transformed from respectus which had been utilized in numerous forms. Borrowed from the classical Latin origin, based on an action of looking back, consideration (“respect, n.”) comes from the original meaning. Respect is mostly associated with relationship created with another person or a particular view or opinion. According to The Oxford English Dictionary, the etymology has not increasingly shifted over the centuries, yet describes respect in…

One way to address this problem is to require students to take two years of foreign language to graduate high school. By requiring two years it allows the student to become accustomed with the language; it also mirrors the minimum requirements for entry into college. According to François Grosjean, the author of Bilingual: Life and Reality, most of the world’s population is bilingual. While quantifying bilingualism is tricky, Grosjean reports these rough measures: Europe: 56% Great Britain: 38%…

The term “Hispanic” broadly refers to the people, nations, and cultures that have a cultural link to Spain (“Hispanic,” n.d., para. 1). The terms “Latino” or “Latina” refer to people with cultural ties to Latin America and people of nationalities within the bounds of Latin America (“Latino,” n.d., para. 1). The term Latino can be used to refer to males or females, whereas the term Latina is used to refer to females only. The terms “Hispanic” and “Latino” can be used interchangeably to…

Why can’t “mestizaje” be only understood as a fusion of indigenous people and, Spaniard or Portuguese? Mestizaje, or racial mixing, can’t be labeled as a “fusion of indigenous people, and Spaniards or Portuguese”, because there are more than those cultures for the overall view of Latin America. For example, Africa and Asia have made an impact. Africans made it to the “New World” with the conquistadores…

DIVERSITY AS A RESULT OF IMMIGRATION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES: Immigration in France is widely being influenced by its former colonies in Africa, morocco, Algeria, Vietnam and a little part of India mainly Pondicherry. The influx of immigrant population were high as a result of World War I and II. Post World War, the soldiers who fought were given French citizen ship in a manner of paying tribute to their service to the country. As a result France has not only accommodated people of different…