Cross-dressing

Pride and Freedom True freedom is a subjective and diverse concept. It will likely vary in meaning from one person to the next due to different time periods, race, gender, culture, and social class. What one person may think is a freedom, may be different to the next person. Pride and Prejudice shows a variety of freedoms and lack thereof throughout the novel. It shows how the pride of a woman can sometimes take the place of her freedoms. Pride and Prejudice is set in the Georgian period,…

Intercultural communication differences are unavoidable when people from different cultures communicate with each other. In some aspects, those differences may make people exciting contacing with a new culture. However, most of time, cultural differences cause unpleasant feelings to one in a new environment. In this analysis of the film “Anna and the king”, the differences between Siam (Thailand) and England cultures will be demonstrated through four concepts: power distance, gender…

Nonverbal communication is very important in conversations between people. It is also very problematic, what can be observed by every person individually, when received message was misunderstood or taken not as the sender wanted it to be decoded. However, if nonverbal conversation is such a problem in regular contact between people, it can be assumed that intercultural communication may be even more problematic. Stella Ting-Toomey (1999: 114) in her book wrote that nonverbal communication in…

Hofstede developed a model that identifies four primary dimensions to assist in differentiating cultures: Power Distance, Individualism, Masculinity, and Uncertainty Avoidance. Hofstede (1980) defines his self-constructed dimensions in the following way: 1. Power Distance. The first dimension of national culture is called Power Distance. It indicates the extent to which a society accepts the fact that power in institutions and organizations is distributed unequally. It’s reflected in the…

The movie Biutiful (2010), directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, presents a plurality of situations in which cultural interaction is at work. Among the many themes, the nature of the relationship between workers of different ethnicities is particularly thought-provoking. The film sees the story of Uxbal, Spanish man of a poor background, who acts as a liaison between immigrants of different ethnic groups (Chinese and African), providing them with work; he is also a mediator between these…

The purpose of this essay is to determine the challenges that an employee of a company would face if they were to begin work in an entirely different country and culture from their own. Based on Geert Hofstede's five cultural dimensions, we can see what makes each country different, and how employees would have to adapt to working in a different country. First in the essay, Hofstede's theory will be discussed briefly. Next, two countries, Canada and China, will be compared in regards of the five…

In today's world, the need to understand people from other cultures is becoming more important and unavoidable as the world changes in different aspects of life. The ability to communicate effectively with other individuals from other cultures is called intercultural competence. To be interculturally competent, an individual must have the correct knowledge and skills to effectively communicate with an individual in an intercultural context. Intercultural competence is made up of a few essential…

2.2 Rawls’ Idea of People and State With regard to the people and States, Rawls uses different terminologies with its own significance which at times leads to distortion and ambiguity with confusion. He uses the idiosyncratic definitions of the terminologies of peoples and States that assigns to distinct characteristics to the different regimes whereby the definitions of Peoples and States is hard to grasp. The terms States and Peoples as used by Rawls is in fact has different connotations.…

Popular Culture Introduction Culture refers to characteristics and knowledge of a given group of people that is defined by several factors, for instance, language, nations, tribe, religion, habits, music, cuisine and social habits among others. According to the center of Research on Language Acquisition, culture refers to shared patterns of conducts and interactions, intellectual hypotheses, and understanding that are acquired through learning. The word "culture" stems from a French word that…

James Paul Gee, in “What is Literacy?”, expands on the definition of discourse by breaking it down into its two vital parts, primary and secondary. According to Gee, discourse provides us with identity kits, which vary based on cultural and socio-economic factors, and our abilities to participate and share meaning with others in the world. The distinction between primary and secondary discourses lies in the physical and abstract acts of being, belonging, absorbing, engaging, and producing, as…