Culture industry

Influence argues against the appropriation of the culture by artists and corporations. An Alexie claim that “Nepotism is as common as oxygen” rests upon the assumption that “white poets have helped their white friends [and] brown poets have helped their brown friends because of nepotism.” By doing so, talented artists who do not belong to a certain group, face exclusion from widely spread publications, which in turn shrinks the pool of literary culture. Adding to Alexie’s argument, Latham…

ETHNICITY AND IDENTITY OF FILIPINO SEAFARERS Members Dela Torre, Roger Kenneth Tanjuaquio, John Patrick Posmasdero, John Louie Bales, Joshua Louie Materiales, Paulo Submitted to: Prof. Gerson Tuazon SS021-A45 Introduction: The Filipino Seafarer Labor Force The Philippines is the one who supplies more than one-fourth of competitive and globalized labor for seafarers. The employment contract combines the rules and regulation of the Philippine Overseas…

Tourism may have many different effects on the social and cultural aspects of life in a particular region or area, depending on the cultural and religious strengths of that region. The interaction between tourists and the host community can be one of the factors that may affect a community where tourist may not be sensitive to local customs, traditions and standards. The effect can be positive or negative on the host community. One will be introduced to an international area of Mozambique which…

The most debatable reason for such transfer can be global competition pressure. Transferring policies and practices across their subsidiaries is looked as an incentive on the basis of competitive advantage (A Review of Theories on Transnational Transfer of HR Practice within Multinationals, Tianyuan Yu, in May 2009). According to Kostova T. (1999) in order to achieve synergy and effectiveness, MNCs often go for transnational transfers of their HR policies and practices that replicate their…

linguistic diversity, No. 20 for economic diversity, No. 67 for economic class diversity and No. 81 for household diversity. Other categories measured other qualifiers for Houston, such as educational diversity (Houston ranked No. 6 in the nation), industry diversity (No. 27), racial and ethnic diversity (No. 37) and language diversity (No. 49)” (Rhodes, 2015). A perfect example of diversity within a Fortune 500 company is Macy’s department store. Macy’s makes diversity a priority, when in…

corporate culture of F.S. emphasizes the role of people. It is believed that a united effort and cooperative work lead to high customer satisfaction. Therefore, F.S. would be able to reach its goal of being recognized as the finest hotels and resorts in many locations. In 1999, F.S. decided to expand to France and introduce a property in Paris. The underlying problem was how to successfully introduce a property in Paris while balancing the cultural disparities between the F.S. culture…

Culture plays a important role when making choices and the impact of culture on global organizations. Cultural sensitivity defined as being aware that cultural differences has an effect on value. Education these days and job industry are constantly changing under the effect of globalization and world development as globalized world is now given great importance. The processor of globalization has pushed the economic and technical power of certain group within the rich knowledge and skills…

ethnicities, cultures, and even states just to experience their food. Two of my interviewees were from different…

All 7.5 billion people in the world eat differently. Eating diets or habits vary in many different ways, it may be from culture to culture, city to city, and sometimes even from person to person. There are many options from where to chose to eat. There's meat, vegetables, grains, cereals and many more. There are people who prefer to eat just meat, others all vegetables and others have no preference and simply eat what they want in the quantity they want. Humans mix all this options together…

To what extent do you think the U.S.-Canadian magazine dispute was motivated by genuine desires to protect Canadian culture? I believe that U.S. and Canadian magazine dispute is motivated by the Canadian government’s desire to protect Canadian culture and local magazine from foreign completion. Although Canada is a second large country in the world, it has less population than the State of California alone. Therefore, the market of newspapers and magazines are much smaller that in the USA.…