Cultural studies

later the Cultural Revolution, ‘attacks were launched against people in high positions who inflated their own image and demanded deferential behaviour from subordinates.’53 Mao did this in order to re-affirm his beliefs of supporting the lower class within the Chinese Communist Party. Though these ideological reforms were not at the forefront of the Great Leap Forward, they are still significant in the change that occurred during the period and these reforms also helped lead Mao to his Cultural…

America’s history with the oldest members being around thirty-five years old and the youngest around fifteen years old. PewResearch Center conducted a study in which they asked Millennials to describe themselves. The members of this generation described their generation as narcissistic, self-absorbed, and wasteful. When those from previous generations study the Millennials though, they find them to be self-confident, relational, and extremely diverse. Why are the members of this generation so…

Richard Rodriguez believes that the Americanization of a bilingual child will result in their public gain. “Aria” by Richard Rodriguez is a heart-wrenching piece of writing about the full Americanization of Rodriguez resulting in his native language of Spanish being forgotten and the full submersion into the English language. Many of the events Rodriguez faced in his life are present to many other bilingual students’ today. These events that bilingual students’ are facing will strongly influence…

The concept of generation has evolved throughout times, expanding globally and socially on a vast area of interest. The global generations have encountered major traumatic events which are now historical in the 20th century. In fact, the growth of global communication, broadcast, and technology has enhanced the way people communicate from national wide standpoint. As well as technology itself, varies of device such as television, radio, automobiles have been invented during those times to make…

To this day, Mao Zedong remains the most potent figure in the public imagination of the People’s Republic of China. Mao was a founding member of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the ideological progenitor of Chinese socialism, a commander in the war of resistance against Japan, the revolutionary leader of the People’s Republic of China, and its longest serving leader. Even in the years after his death, from 1976 to 1991, Mao was used to frame the ensuing power struggle for leadership of China…

products of the society’s upbringing and that there is no moral code that is superior to another moral code because of the drastically different cultures each society possesses. Therefore, relativists believe it is intolerant of us to judge other cultural practices as immoral, unethical, or wrong. Opponents of relativism argue that if relativism were to be adopted, we would not be able to say the actions of another society is bad . Furthermore, if relativism were to be adopted, our belief of…

The cultural norms are structured on the Organizational Culture Inventory (OCI) circle. The standards of the top mirror expectations for behaviors that concur in higher-order needs for expansion and satisfaction, while those positioned underneath echo expectations for behaviors that spotlight on meeting lower-order needs for security. Similarly, cultural norms situated on the right area of the circumplex are expectations concerning interactions with employees, whereas cultural norms placed on…

agree with is known as Cultural Relativism. This view states that “moral standards are relative to cultures or societies.” (Shafer-Landau, 293) I like this view because I believe that people should be able to live their lives according to their own moral standards. Cultural groups and societies should be able to dictate what is good and what is bad on their own. A moral code should not have to be validated by a god, people can be the authors of morality. The views of Cultural Relativism are very…

perception of marriage has changed drastically since the beginning of the 1900s to present day. A significant amount of this can be attributed to the experiences and events faced in each generation. As authors Neil Howe and William Strauss explore in their study, “The Next 20 Years: How Customer and Workforce Attitudes Will Evolve” insight into how each generation has influenced the other with its new developments of values and perceptions is provided, thus ultimately giving reason to why…

It stuck me when I read Moran, Harris, Moran (2011, p31) “You have to acknowledge cultural differences without becoming paralyzed by them.” I therefore started a corrective measure of learning to live with other cultures. At first I discovered that most of my problems were direct interpretation of situations in my culture, comparing it…