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Technology & Social Media’s Role in Cultural Competence Education With the internationalization of technical exchanges and the increasing popularity of social media in the everyday lives of today’s society, the need for cultural competence education has become the focus of educators as well as the technical community. Cultural competence is the capacity to change one’s attitudes, values and behavior so as to be open and flexible with other cultures and has become increasingly crucial for…

than 2 then dummy is equal to 1. The coefficient on the interaction term between the ADR and performance is negative and significant when the LTO dummy is equal to 1. It suggests that cross-listed firms from countries with the higher LTO value become more sensitive to the poor performance compared with the non-cross-listed firms from the same country. For the firms in the countries with lower than US LTO index, the interaction term is positive, which means the firms become less sensitive to…

1.0 Introduction 1.1 Athlete’s Profile The male athlete that has been chosen is currently competing competitively in athletics and his main events are 800m, 1500m and cross-country. He is 19 years old and has been in the sport for 6 years. He has participated in many track competitions organized by Singapore Athletics Association and also by other external organization. He has also won numerous events such as the Orange Ribbon Run (5km) in his age group. 1.2 Mental Skill Questionnaire The…

individual, communicated from one generation to the next” (Matsumoto, 1996). Taking into account this concept there is a difference between the broad concept of culture and the cross-cultural negotiation, which by the matter of our study is the best approach to the negotiation between Dutch and Colombian culture. In this sense, cross-cultural…

values, religion, traditions, and ideas. Not all cultures are identical to one another; some may or may not share the same characteristics depending on what region that country or society falls in. Before implementing counterinsurgency, one must be cross-cultural competence by having cultural awareness. This essay will offer cultural awareness of Spain focusing on three Operational Environment (OE) variables. Discussions will cover areas such as physical geography, military conflict history,…

1. Introduction This study explores how five contemporary international artists who work and create artwork with “migration” as a theme, and how they have conceptualized their artistic and social identities through their personal experiences. Through these five artists, the study seeks to understand and explore how displacement is used as a technique to express their life experience. The five artists chosen to demonstrate this approach are Jacob Lawrence, Tracey Moffatt, Gerald Machona, Suh…

Semantics, the study of meanings, is often confused with verbal disputes. Verbal disputes happen when there is questioning over what word to use. Semantic disputes happen when there is debate over what something means. Denotation is the actual meaning of a word. On the other hand, connotation is the feeling someone gets from hearing or using a word. Sometimes people will say a word to show the feeling that words gives off rather than use the word for it’s actual definition. For example, people…

The ethnographic case studies written by Marcel Mauss; The gift, thieving a chance by Rebecca prentice and Tongan women and migratory circuits of wealth by Ping-Ann Addo are all uniquely different, representing different traditions as well as different concepts based on their way of life. However, these three case studies, regardless of the differences in their concepts of culture, all represents similar traditions. These case studies all follow the rule of reciprocity, exchange, gifting and…

Alibrandi” by Australian author Melina Marchetta published in 1992 has identified and addressed a set of underlying cross-cultural communication challenges posed by language, different cultural background, and religion. Through exposing the miserable experiences that migrants suffer and the crippling challenges that they face, our society has gained a…

“Culture” can be defined in many ways. UNESCO has defined culture as the whole complex of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional features that characterize a society or a social group. It includes not only the arts and literature, but also modes of life, the fundamental rights of the human being, value systems, traditions and beliefs. Culture related undertakings contribute to an increase in the intellectual potential of populous and the building of a conscious, open and…