Political culture

Language is an integral part of every distinctive culture. It represents a way of life and a way of communication among those that share similar traditions, values, and heritage. The Irish people have consistently been faced with foreign cultures encroaching on their land and threatening not only their culture but also the Gaelic language itself. In Brian Friel’s Translations, the language barrier between the Irish and the English people is explored. The characters are faced with the difficult…

who the character was. Along with the addition of Solomon, as the male character, people of different religious backgrounds made an attempt to translate the poem by allegorizing it in order to make it fit in the Bible canon. For example, the Jewish culture interpreted the song as the love between God and Israel. Christians interpreted it as the love between Christ and the church. With the translation The Song of Songs from Marcia Falk, the Song of Solomon and the allegorized stories have created…

By looking at the two sub-topics, Political Geography and Economic Geography, we can see how the relationship between local and global processes in contemporary society in relation to the Global Economy. Political geography is the delineation and the categorization of particular places set by boundaries. The space within these boundaries contains a group of people willing to live by the rules set by others but also, a set of relations between groups and people. “Economic Geography is the study…

idea of human rights originate from western culture and then spread to non-western countries. Some people believe that the idea of human rights is a universal concept because human rights is a kind of universal values and most of countries agree and promote it. However, due to the different culture and social civilization, the understanding and implementation patterns are different between western and non-western countries. In order to affect native culture and establish hegemony in non-western…

predecessors from cultures all around the world regardless of what age they existed in, from their rise to their fall all have similar attributes, while maintaining a sense of individuality. Although they occurred in different time periods, both the French and Egyptian revolution share many similarities that range from their initial causes to how the revolution itself progressed. With all of this in mind, both revolutions retained a set of differences from many aspects, such as different…

Chris Rojeks chapter on 'Culture counts ' establishes that groups and individuals in society are placed in a way that subjects some of them to inequalities in relation to resources; whether it be economic, political, social or cultural resources (Rojek.C, 2007). Due to these inequalities Rojek goes on to explain that those who obtain power and dominance design culture in such a way that it protects and gives legit their state of rule and power over the masses, although this is never absolute…

refers to the presence of cultures different to the majority culture in a society. There are two approaches to cultural diversity: Multiculturalism, which institutionalises tolerance and inclusion by law and uniculturalism, which allows cultural minorities to express their culture but regards the majority culture as national ethos. The opposite of cultural diversity is the approach of monoculturalism, which aims for a homogenous society by only entitling the majority culture to express itself…

this article Jeffery Jerome Cohen, declares that he is creating a new “modus legendi”. That is, he is creating a new method of studying cultures from the monsters they engender (Cohen 3). He is ready to go against how cultural studies have been done in the past and form a new way of thinking and studying culture. Cohen goes one to make a few more comments on culture and history. First, “We live in an age that has rightly given up on Unified theory” (Cohen 3). Cohen is making a claim that the…

of the Christianity movement and morals of the United States in that it was much more free thinking. The 1960’s culture seemed to be very boring and unchanged following the 50’s until around 1967, when harmony with nature, communal living, artistic experimentation, a difference in the sound of music, and the widespread use of recreational drugs…

egalitarianism is one identity that is distinct yet debatable in today’s context. Today’s Australia is not a nation where everyone is equal as there are indeed, clear differences in wealth, clearly defined hierarchies in its competitive sporting culture and various ranks in the military. On and off, critics may step in and be obsessive in trying to point out examples of inequality such as 1993 Australian Education Union’s curriculum policy. Even so, cultural legacies that denotes…