Cultural studies

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…

(iii) Dialogical Multiculturalism: This actually is different from the former two as it represents the practical level rather than the policy areas. This was primarily developed by Parekh (2000) who suggested “multiculturalism explains well how the cultural communities should relate to one another. It also prioritized that only the norms and values of different cultures within a given context cannot bring about peace and solidarity rather by creating an open and equal dialogue between the…

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…

Bilingualism isn’t something that people should be making others have or taking away from others, people should choose to have or not have it. Of course many people have different ideas of what Bilingualism is. For Espada, he believes that people should not be made to be bilingual, or to lose their own culture. For Rodriguez, on the other hand, he believes that it is a lot more convenient to become bilingual with a public language like English. Even if somebody looses their private languages…

The Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution were revolutions in China that contradicted each other. They were two major events and program that China set in motion during the 1950s and 1960s to help China become the world’s super power country. They were programs set in motion by Mao Zedong after 1949. In the movie, “To Live,” you can see that there were many hidden messages that imply the hard times during the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution. Fugui’s two children were killed…

Every culture has their own ideas of art, literature, customs and other original views according to their culture. These ideas about one’s culture are called universals. People have their own universals but the great part of universals is not having them but also sharing them with other cultures. By sharing universals of one's culture with others it can change people from another culture. When one applies Kwame Anthony Appiah’s idea of Universals in Cosmopolitanism to the character, Nwoye in…

beforehand will most likely have an easier time communicating with other people in college. They were previously immersed in different types of culture as they probably traveled around more. First-generation college students (FGCS) are those with less cultural capital, and they will have a harder time making friends in college. During their college years, they will need to gain the capital others have by learning how to speak around people of different religious, ethnic, and civil backgrounds.…

The final anthropological concept that has influenced one of the character’s behavior in a specific scene in Guardians of the Galaxy is cultural symbols. Peter’s language has had an influence on him and has caused him to stick out within the film. One scene specifically is when Peter and his group of misfits are brought to Kyln, the high security prison. During the night when other prisoners…