Cultural artifact

The world of Pojman On behalf of Pojman and his interpretation of universal moral principles “The individual realizes his personality through his culture, hence respect for individual differences entails a respect for cultural differences” The executive board of the American Anthropological Association (69) The executive board of the American Anthropological Association proposal was meant to acknowledge moral diversity in different cultures around the world. This fragment was part of an…

For the sake of my argument, A Bame. Nsamenang and Erick Erickson’s theories will be used in the following essay. With Erik Erickson representing the westernised culture around development and B Nsamaneng will represent the more cultural aspect of development as a human being. Eurocentric or a westernised culture can be defined as the focus or more narrow sized lens of the world based on European culture, history and values as being used as the universal standing of the world – excluding the…

yearly from 9 million to 15 million since the introduction of the Integrated Resorts as reported by Singapore Tourism Board (STB). Thailand, a developing country, depends on tourism sector to generate national revenue. The country is rich in its cultural history since Ancient Siam which arouse the curiosity of travellers. Today, Thailand is one of the country that tourist would visit to explore…

During the Qing Dynasty, many rebellions were started. Having numerous rebellions during the Qing Dynasty caused many Chinese to suffer. After the Qing Dynasty ended, China went under Communist rule was supposed to improve the Chinese lifestyle. It was soon realized that Communist rule wasn’t much better than the Qing Dynasty due to the amount of intense labor everyone had to experience. Which means that both the Qing Dynasty and Communist rule failed at creating a peaceful lifestyle for the…

Cultural Revolution Tsun Hin Ng 9E Introduction The Cultural Revolution was a movement that took place in China during 1966 to 1976 aiming to cancel traditional thoughts and practices such as confucianism and to strengthen the thoughts of communism. He also aimed to have a fair and equal community amongst the people. Background Information – Before the Revolution Before the Cultural Revolution, Mao launched a movement called the ‘Great Leap Forward’. This movement aimed on industrialising…

literature there is no agreement about the effects of cultural diversity on team performance. What is certain is that the role of multicultural teams has increased a lor in the latest years and multinational companies started to pay great attention on these effects. Generally cultural diversity can affect the team performance in three ways: ● People find easy to work and cooperate with whom shared similar values, attitudes and beliefes according to the cultural similarity theory; ● People tend…

The Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989, more popularly known as the Tiananmen Square Incident or Tiananmen Square Massacre, were a series of student-led demonstrations in Beijing during 1989. The student-led protests were forcibly suppressed by tanks and armed troops 2 weeks after the government declared martial law and mobilized as many as 300,000 troops into Beijing. The death toll is still widely debated.The protests happened during rapid economic and social developments in China. The students…

people carry from one generation to other. However, culture isn't standard because people through time and years can add new habits and traditions that might be found strange and rare. Cultural diversity is when people of different habits and traditions are introduced to each other's cultures and live through it. Cultural diversity might grow and develop problems because of the engagement between the controlling culture which is the majority and the minority culture. Many questions are asked and…

In this chapter, we will closely examine the concept of the “gift” in anthropological scholarship. The first section will focus on what constitutes a gift and the ambiguity of gift-giving in social life. Then we will look at the long-term debate between different scholars on the distinction between gifts and commodity. The third section will focus primarily on Marcel Mauss and his theory of the gift, while its successive section on the various criticisms of Mauss’ theory by different…

and ocean cruises. The difference between river cruises and ocean cruises are river cruise ship is smaller. It only can carry fewer passengers in the ship. But the river cruise’s price is almost same as ocean trip. River cruises are themed around cultural or historical events. In fact, the vast majority of our water travel is done by ferry. Ferry is a transportation that can fetch the vehicle to cross the sea. Ferry helps the car to cross the sea, it is very convenient for the car to reach…