Cultural norms

Should members of cultural minorities be encouraged to maintain their cultural traditions, or to assimilate into American culture? According to sociologist Louis Wirth, “a minority is a group of people who, because of their physical or cultural characteristics, are singled out from the others in the society in which they live for differential and unequal treatment, and who therefore regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination”. A portion of America thinks that cultural minorities…

The Current State of New Zealand Tourism: Years ago, if someone mentioned New Zealand in a sentence, they wouldn’t know where it is or what you were talking about. Now New Zealand has grown, and is still growing today. One of the biggest reason now that New Zealand has been recognized more is because of our tourism industry. Tourism is one of New Zealand’s biggest export industries earing $11.8 billion of New Zealand’s current exchange earnings. New Zealand has a reputation of this clean green…

Overflowing with dramatization, grievousness and loathsomeness, this phenomenal family story of life and death mirrors China 's century of turbulence through the eyes of Jung Chang 's three generations of family: her grandmother, mother and inevitably a life account of herself. In this book, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, we get to see the painful effects of Mao’s personality cult, and his painful policies. At age of two, Yu-fang, Jung Chang 's grandmother had her feet bounded. She was…

diverse work place. One gets to see new talent and use it for their business. Businesses tend to grab different ideas from different employees as all the employees have different capabilities and way of thinking. Every country and culture has different norms and values and different ways of working, diversity helps them to learn and use new ideas and talents and implement them in their…

Have you ever had the fantasy on traveling around the world? Have you ever had any imagination about the friendly local people you meet during traveling or the stunning natural sceneries of some foreign countries? The answer for me is yes. Apart from that, photo-taking is one of my favorite hobbies and I am always dreaming to use my special camera angle to record the beauty of the nature, the precious moments and deliver the lifestyles of different cultures and countries. I had an opportunity to…

INTRODUCTION Tourism in India is in its developing stage and there are many factors which are engaged in speeding up this reaction. It has a great economic significance in our country. In India, the historical significance along with cultural and geographical diversity attracts the tourists thereby making international tourism appealable. Now, we should know why tourism in India is becoming so prevalent. There are various forms of tourism; educational and sports tourism are also some among them…

positive or even negative relationship. Specifically, environment as a stimulus to tourism, constraints to tourism, tourism impacts on environment and etc. (Hall, 1999). According to Stefanica & Butnaru (2013), the environment by its natural such as cultural-historical, social climate potential build the motivation of tourist to travel, and this statement are slightly same with Dan push and pull factor. Tourist will more likely choose to survey…

An unforgettable experience is an event that has a great impact on a person’s life (An Unforgettable Experience, 1969). The experiences that I want to share are the trip in Taman Negara and Redang Island. Firstly, I would like to introduce the two tourist attraction, Taman Negara and Redang Island, which I visited before going into the essay. Taman Negara was established as King George V National Park in 1938. Then, the park was renamed to Taman Negara after independence. Taman Negara, two words…

Cultural Revolution happened from 1966 to 1976, it also called “The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (Phillips, 2016). The main persons of the Cultural Revolution are Mao Zidong, Liu Shaoqi and also the gang of four. Furthermore, it was a decade-long period of political and social chaos, which caused by Mao Zedong’s order, to use the Chinese masses to reassert his control over the Communist Party(Phillips, 2016). In the following, to introduce the background of Cultural Revolution,…

changes are in the way that ethnography is written and described. As previously discussed postmodern theory was characterized by a shift of agency back to the subjects of the ethnography allow individuals to talk and provide narratives of their own cultural practices. This was no previously down by early anthropologists such as Malinowski. The postmodern anthropologists shifted from have a descriptive almost god…