Culture of Afghanistan

In today's world, the need to understand people from other cultures is becoming more important and unavoidable as the world changes in different aspects of life. The ability to communicate effectively with other individuals from other cultures is called intercultural competence. To be interculturally competent, an individual must have the correct knowledge and skills to effectively communicate with an individual in an intercultural context. Intercultural competence is made up of a few essential…

female western student and male Muslim student under the topic of jihad in the lecture room at America. The lecturer said Islam is a religion of peace and tolerate, than, the female students asked about the world most trouble part from West Bank, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, there all place with Islamic terrorism. And the issues of Taliban and terrorist were raised. At the last of their argument, the female student who has no idea to argue was said that “if you think that (the western are the…

Armadillo, (Mentz, 2010) is a Danish documentary that follows a platoon of soldiers as they complete a tour of duty in Afghanistan. The filmmaker follows the men and observes each personally as the war progresses. This is done through the use of camera work, graphics, editing and sound. Mentz (2010) structures the story of the documentary chronologically. This is shown by onscreen text. He begins by filming the solders preparing, their final goodbye to loved ones, time at the camp, challenges…

recent times, displaced persons arriving and settling in Australia are from Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and African nations including Somalia, Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan. Each of these population groups brings their own cultural and linguistic attributes to Australia. Also included in the broad sense of Culturally and Linguistic Diverse communities are Indigenous peoples and those with a disability. Culture is the beliefs, values, knowledge and…

The Limits of Power In chapter 1, “The Crisis of Profligacy,” Bacevich portrays Americans as wanting too much. We are depicted as a society that is bedazzled with a culture of “full of rights”. We as Americans expect others to accommodate to our lifestyle because we always want more. It describes our modern society, who ever has the most money wins, work and blow it on useless things and forgetting the meaning of life in possessions. It has allowed americans to consume without limitations. As a…

Clarkston is a small city in the heart of Atlanta. The city is mostly composed of diverse immigrant populations from different parts of the world who have come either as refugees or on migration that has different races, languages, religions, and other groups. Clarkston Community Health Center is a nonprofit organization that provides free Medical service that runs every Sunday from 10 am to 2 pm. According the website clarkstonhealth.org (2013), it is mostly designed to establish a…

In general, there will always be conflict and the hardest conflict to solve is social conflicts because you are dealing with people who practice differently religious and of a different culture. Therefore, because of different cultures there will always be some type of conflict in the workplace, homes or in our everyday surrounding. Furthermore, in the process of trying to solve resolved an intractable issue that it might not be resolved by communication or negotiation techniques because they…

values, attitudes and tastes among cultures (Usunier, 1993). Cultural values have long been recognized in the marketing literature as a strong influence on consumer motivation, lifestyle and product choices. Indeed, cultural values are often expressed through consumption behavior (Tse and Wong, 1988). Cultural influences what is purchased as well as why, how, when, where and by whom a product is purchased (Ricks, 1983). Therefore, it can be assumed that “culture impacts every aspects of…

While observing the family I notice they were intrigued with all of the colorful flowers and the message the exhibit displayed. One thing that I loved about this family is that they were engaged with their children and teaching them the customs and culture of America. Since they were speaking a language I understood the conversations they were having with the two children I was able to follow. Unfortunately, Spain doesn’t celebrate a holiday like Thanksgiving; the closest holiday would…

Every person spends their life searching for an identity. Sometimes that identity is straightforward, other times it is obscured by problems and attitudes and cultural perspectives that are beyond the individual’s control. Race, religion, skin colour, geopolitical and socio-political constraints that make the journey tortured and hazardous. The school I attended in Australia can be described as extremely multicultural. Every one in my class (including the teacher) is a migrant or refugee from…