Cultural appropriation

Question 1: Why is encouraging “cultural diversity” so important in organizations? Explain the main advantages for the individual, the organization and the society in general Introduction: Before we begin to talk about the reason “cultural diversity” encouraged in organizations so important. We need first know what cultural diversity is. According to the book named “cultural diversity versus economic solidarity” (Parijs, 2004), it mentioned that the very notion of cultural diversity is far…

a. What were the goals of the Indian boarding schools? Since the time of Thomas Jefferson, there has been an attempt to assimilate the Native American tribes into the European way of life. After the removal and resettlement of the eastern tribes to the Indian Territory day schools are set up to teach the children of the tribe the “right way” of living. This approach proves unsuccessful due to the children’s exposure to their parent’s and their tribe’s traditions at home. This lead to the…

Cultural relativism may be defined as a theory that advocates the idea of subjective morality. To extrapolate, this theory entails that “different cultures have differing moral codes” and these variances are merely arbitrary. Although this is a seemingly sufficient theory, there are key issues with this school of thought. James Rachels suggests several issues with accepting cultural relativism. He criticizes cultural relativism by stating that the theory is absurd as it entails severe…

Disney endured major difficulties in Paris and received a huge backlash in its practices from the French claiming American cultural imperialism. They faced backlash when it came to the dress code standards which were deemed unacceptable and against France’s labour laws. It is alleged some training was perceived as invasive and totalitarian which was the opposite in Asia and were easily implemented with the view of Disney’s core values as the “happiest place on earth” (thejhannanarepublic, 2015).…

Ethnographic fieldwork in anthropology is seen as the most important source of new knowledge about society and culture. There is no simple recipe for fieldwork. The overall main aim of fieldwork is to develop as intimate an understanding as possible of the society or culture being studied. Traditionally the aim of fieldwork was to account for the workings of a particular society but not to explain how it emerged. Anthropologists such as Kroeber and Evans-Pritchard have since stressed the…

I have a friend that experienced a life altering spiritual and physical journey. What she thought would look good on a resume turned into something greater. After she took the plunge in joining the United States Peace Corps, she had many days and nights where she thought about throwing in the towel and returning to a familiar place. Because she felt isolated, and out of place. However, the positive energy she was feeding off from the Tanzanian people never let her quit. She spoke so eloquently…

The story of Wang reveals that CCP did have the ability to mobilize the masses and carry out mass revolution. However, the tragedies of Liu-Wang in the Anti-rightist movement and Wang in the Great Cultural Revolution indicates CCP’s deeds about the women’s liberation and the improvement of women’s rights do not match its words. At first, it incorporated the women’s movement into more extensive mass movement However, after the found of People’s Republic…

SLIDE 1 Today’s marketplace is increasingly diverse. A form of diversity includes the generational differences of the persons employed in the workforce. Because each generation has differs from the next there are challenges in managing the four generations of persons employed in today’s workplace. It becomes crucial that managers and employee alike realize the ways in which the needs of each group of persons differ from the others in order to understand their strengths and weaknesses (Bartley,…

People are categorized by their age from the date of their birth to the current time. Age not only influences one’s life span but the time period they were raised in, the life changing events they’ve gone through and the different lifestyles they became accustomed to. In the United States the generation of Baby Boomers have been overly studied and critique by researchers, with their influx of birth rates from the years of 1946-1964, and their overwhelmingly demand of hospital delivery rooms,…

Exam 1: Bourdieu’s Theory of Capital Bourdieu’s studies resulted in three theories of capital: social, cultural, and symbolic. He also intensely discussed Habitus. Social capital is the value that comes from social networks that allow people to achieve things they couldn 't on their own. Some examples of this is sharing information and resources, providing assistance, and establishing trust. Personally, an example of this is a social group I am a part of. It is a group of about fifty moms who…