Culture industry

Every August, National Day Parades will showcase performances from different cultures, highlighting how Singapore is a multiracial country, a fusion of cultures due to its immigrant past. Although my grandmother would dismiss expatriates from other countries as “waiguoren” or foreigners, our ancestors were “waiguoren” too. Straits Chinese traders, coolies from Java and merchants from India flocked to Singapore to search for a better life during our colonial days. No matter where these foreign…

was in the past, there are still issues with diversity and inclusiveness in many industries. Writer Meghan M. Biro talks about some of the most common issues in diversity in the tech industry in her article titled “Let’s be honest about diversity: Age matters too”. In this articles she explores how age is not always included in the current diversity discussion and that it is a prevalent issue. The technology industry faces many issues with diversity. The majority of tech employees are white and…

history of popular music culture, common experiences among people of different cultures were shared by way of music, dating all the way back to the early 1920s from wax cylinders to vinyl records to cassette tapes. With rapid improvements in technology over the past three decades, the audio encoding format, the mp3, which would become one of the most innovative inventions of the 20th century, has led to many unforeseen problems and changes to the way popular nusic culture interacts, posse, and…

The disagreement over Westernization has had significant cultural and historical consequences for the entire Middle East region over the past few decades. Western culture being based on the rationalism, liberalism, human rights, secularism, etc. has little resonance within the Islamic civilization and often even contradicts it. Globalization is thereby raising people’s concerns about the massive influx of the Western values in Islamic countries. In fact, in Huntington and other Western analysts…

literatures, mostly about developed countries, on fear marketing and ethicality. The Vietnamese consumer perception of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices and the examples of unethical fear marketing practices in the food and beverage industry in Vietnam are then discussed. Subsequently, some possible suggestions for the diminution of these unethical marketing tactics in Vietnam are proposed, including the voluntary adoption of CSR of firms, more powerful competition regulations,…

traditional relationships of cause and effect; some by deliberately blurring the line between fact and fiction” with this said, Johnson explains cinematic techniques that Burton has used in his cinematic films that have made them part of the evolved pop culture…

2. The extend of the spread of democracy, rights, and other western ideals have had positive effects on the world because of; the blooming of technologies, the spread of cultures, the equality and protection of minority groups, easy access to goods and services, the progression of human rights, an abundance of job opportunities, and helping the world to become a better safer place. “The blooming of technologies” has had a positive effect on the world because; it has given us the privilege to…

1. Identify and compare both the intended structure and the intended culture of PICC with the actual structure and culture at the end of the case. The intended structure at PICC as imposed by CEO David Dunnigan, was to be an open, honest, non-bureaucratic, and non-hierarchical organization. His intentions for such a structure represent that of an organic organization. An organic organization is one in which jobs and responsibilities are broadly defined, there are frequently changing roles, and…

white Australia We may be living in a time where social and cultural equality is becoming an important issue and topic in many countries. However here in Australia Indigenous Australians are still being oppressed and marginalised by a dominant white culture. Aboriginal youth have been born into this dominance but arguably suffer from the stereotypes the most in today’s society. The films Yolngu Boy and Black Chicks Talking highlight these issues and how cultural issues can interplay with…

Dispute 1 The Canadian Magazine Dispute Student University of the People The Canadian Magazine Dispute 2 To what extent do you think the U.S.-Canadian magazine dispute was motivated by genuine desires to protect Canadian culture? Canada has a deep and abiding passion to safeguard their heritage. Nearly one hundred years of persistent advocacy continue to permeate the land to defend their right to block all efforts to disintegrate their home-grown ideals. The…