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    Dating back to Aboriginal history, education systems have not been the ideal structure of learning for students. Integrating children from reserves into nearby public and residential schools take away from their culture. Having gone through discrimination and racism in the classroom setting, Stephen Harper, in 2008, apologized for the Indian Residential School system (Statement of Apology, 2010). Consequently, an education act was made effective to build a new foundation for Aboriginal education…

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    The Onion Of Culture

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    and mainstream theory of national cultures is known as the onion metaphor introduced by Hofstede in 1991. According to it, cultures are defined by strict political national boundaries, emphasizing nationality and the importance of nation-states. The onion model describes different layers of a culture, meaning that in the surface of the onion there are the practices of culture, that is, symbols, heroes, and rituals. The core of the onion depicts the core of a culture including basic assumptions,…

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    into their religious ideals. However, their first attempt wasn’t successful, which leads them to target the children and this resulted in the making of the residential schools. The outcome of the school systems was to turn the children against their culture and to forget it. Ever since the Aboriginals and the Europeans came in contact with each other, they’ve always had different outlooks on things. The Europeans believed…

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    understand their culture, they went to the new world with one mindset, which is to conquer and impose their ideas and beliefs on the people they encountered. The Spaniards justification for their acts is that, the Europeans has surpassed all other people in intelligence, physical dexterity, and they are the more superior race. Which qualifies them to govern the other parts of the globe. The saw the native people an inferior race, they disrespected them, destroyed their cities, cultures, and…

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    Theory Pakistan ideology was based on the “Two Nation Theory”. Which meant that Muslims and Hindus are two separate nation and both nations are quite different from each other. Basically the “Two Nation Theory” means that economic, cultural, political, social and religious differences between two major communities. The ideology of two nation theory is actually responsible for the partition of Subcontinent into two states. The struggle for the creation of…

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    to work in communities with clients who had similar or same cultural and ethnic backgrounds to their own. However, with the changing dynamics of the world, the ethnic and cultural compositions of communities have now become cosmopolitan. Different cultures have different systems of health beliefs to explain what causes illness, how it can be cured or treated, and who should be involved in the process. The extent to which patients perceive patient education as having cultural relevance for them…

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    easily and do so frequently. Does this aid or threaten cultural diversity? In this essay, I will be weighing up the positives and negatives of being connected to different communities due to today’s technology, and the effect this could have on the cultures of the world. In today’s world, the internet is a widely used utility, with a wide variety of uses. One of the biggest affordances is that it lets us communicate with people from all around the world, people we would not normally be able to…

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    cultural identity. What are we celebrating on January 26 and what does it mean to be Australian? Traditionally, it's about celebrating the First Fleet's arrival in 1788 and recognising the early convicts and settlers. The fact that our language, political and legal institutions are inherited from the British Isles, not anymore. The cultural left tells us that it's all about multiculturalism and celebrating diversity and difference, with some even arguing that Australia Day should be renamed…

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    People have migrated from one place to another with different purposes. Some of them were prompted by longing for better living conditions while some by political or geographical reasons. Migration continues today too. The impact of the new environment on the migrants has been diverse. The arrival of a new community evoked diverse response from the native people too. The immigrants who moved away from their home environment could not create a space for themselves in the new nation they adopted.…

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    In the class reading “The Hold Life Has,” Catherine Allen talks about her life as an ethnographer living among indigenous peoples and discusses their culture and ways of life. A major aspect of the indigenous culture is the growth and usage of coca leaves. The leaves have been used in the Andes by the natives for generations. However, these leaves are unfortunately also used to create cocaine. With the United States’ “War on Drugs,” the coca leaves have become a source of contention between…

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