Cultural hegemony

Cultural relativism offers an opportunity for a panoramic comprehension and appreciation of cultures as if they were your own. Understanding cultures other than your own can be viewed in fashion similar to solving the puzzle known as the Rubix cube. The array of assorted colors signifies misconceptions, misunderstandings, and the mistakes of not being willing, or able to identify with societies other than one 's own. This can be due to observing one’s own culture with preeminence, or…

thousand years history of China, they were many different revolutions appear, most of them had shown what should be improved or even needed to change to maintain a better quality of the nation life in different eras. The May Fourth Movement, the Cultural Revolution and the June Fourth Movement are famous and familiar revolutions in contemporary Chinese history. The leader of China initiated some of the revolutions, because he knew there were inadequate policies to get a better and comfortable…

Levinson (1986) through a series of thorough interviews with both men and women developed a comprehensive theory of adult development. He proposed a theory based on a series of phases that adults’ experience as they develop. The highlight of Levinson’s theory is the life structure, which is the fundamental pattern of a person’s life at any particular time. An individual's life structure is generally formed by the social and physical surroundings, where for most individuals, life is primarily…

A rather depressing movie, “The Blue Kite” recalls the story of a small, poor family in China, in the 50’s and 60’s, during the hundred flowers movement, and the ‘cultural revolution’. We follow the family through various phases of their lives, starting from the 50’s, at the start of the communist regime. One could say the initially positive outlook in the Chinese community is visible in all the characters living in the compound. However, we see this positivity turn to discontent and a feeling…

Introduction Patterns in Classical China • China born from isolation Isolation caused China create its own identity Invasions from neighboring regions happened rarely With the decline of the Shang dynasty there was relatively little chaos • Intellectual theory and heritage Harmony of nature Ying and Yang, everything is balanced by an opposite Dao used to appreciate, but avoid excess appreciation of opposites • Patterns in Government Dynasties or family of…

even attack “counterrevolutionaries”. Often, education took a back seat to these revolutionary missions and children who were seen studying were viewed with suspicion (“Cultural Revolution”). Despite the revolutionary significance of this time period, the state of the Chinese education system during the early years of the Cultural Revolution was, to some extent, detrimental to the ideal China that Chairman Mao had envisioned. Not only did thousands of children lack proper education and…

Diversity is the force of many dimensions that become the building blocks to numerous organizations existing. People from different genders, ethnicity, national origin, and sexual orientations make up for the diverse workforces that did not exist due to discrimination and other societal issues that created a barrier for companies. Now, as a society, we have managed a great amount of diversity through implementing laws and allowing global experiences that has created corporate culture a thing for…

differences in culture and morality and than refuses the idea of a universal morality due to the differences in culture. If the Middle East has different morals than the United States, there is no such thing as universal morality. Finally the argument is concluded by stating that if their is no such thing as a universal morality, then morals are relative to ones culture. If morals are not universal then how are they determined? "Class Notes: Meta-ethics." Introduction to Ethics (class Notes:…

diverse have a constraint to the type of care implement in a health and social setting. Some cultural diversity is Hindu, Buddhist, and Muslim individual. The culture place different constraints with care on food, treatment, communication, and daily life style. It can be difficult to make adjustment in care without adding a cost. Cultural diversity is influenced by many different factors as in figure 3. Cultural diversity with the elder have different education level, religious practices,…

“History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do this.” This was said by communist philosopher Karl Marx. His words essentially mean that the past has no use, the only thing that matters is the present. This greatly shaped the revolutionary communist leader Mao Tse-Tung’s thought process. Mao Tse-Tung led China between 1945-1976. During his time in power, he implemented many changes, both economically and socially. Mao…