Popular culture studies

Introduction More than 370 million people in over 90 countries (representing 5,000 different cultures) identify as indigenous people. They comprise 5% of the global population, and 15% of the world’s poor. Still, some countries deny the existence of indigenous peoples within their territory or argue that “all their citizens are indigenous“ (Dahl 5). Some groups of indigenous people are so small that their languages and cultures are endangered. The UN has not adopted a formal definition of…

society’s socioeconomic class system will progress over time if unaltered. Accordingly, humanity’s egocentrism and the detachment of authentic social interactions caused by technology will, in turn, force society to develop into a dystopia where the most popular and attractive are considered superior, and socioeconomic classes are inevitable. In today’s society, citizens are broken up into loose classes,…

messages transmitted through popular television media.” The deep web is mostly portrayed by the media as this dangerous…

products which represent places and their people, and therefore bring a perception of the world. Analyzing film seems to be a fascinating way to see how intercultural concepts represented in the world, and among people. My big fat wedding also is a popular Hollywood film which is relevant and valuable to the course of intercultural communication. My big fat Greek wedding is a Canadian-American romantic comedy film directed by Joel Zwick, released in 2002. The film tells a story about Toula…

scientific description of the customs of individual people and cultures. Understanding all the different types of cultures and how they function with sex and gender can help someone understand them more because they may not be so closed minded as they once may have been. It can help understand the concept of gender and the factors that impact its creation and expression and interpret and apply theoretical approaches to gender studies. This fits into Philippe Bourgois, In Search of Respect:…

schooling “must have meaning in terms of their experience, creating a confluence between their culture and experience” (p. 8). By capitalising on the latent potential offered by students’ cultural capital, teachers can give voice to suppressed Indigenous perspectives and values, developing active, engaging pedagogy and a learning environment that is conductive to culture. The ability to enrich education with culture is a skill known as ‘cultural competency’ (Universities Australia, 2011), and…

The profession of marketing in Vietnam is considered still being in its infancy (Nguyen & Rowley, 2015). It is, therefore, fathomable that unfair fear marketing tactics are still employed by several firms in the country, although they have long been perceived as controversial, and possibly unethical, by consumers in more developed countries. Cited by Arthur & Quester (2003: 12), Spence and Moinpour, 1972; LaTour, Snipes and Bliss, 1996 indicate that fear appeals generally impressively present…

If you want to look at how mankind has evolved overtime in a specific location, all you have to do is look at the cultural artifacts. Cultural artifacts show how a group or culture has changed overtime, because they show their progression. One area of cultural artifact that has slowly been contributing to the evolution across the world is technology. Technology shows how far each country has come because it shows how they have innovated. In the United States a great example of seeing how ways to…

still being enforced. It is the 21st century: Google is free, and so is communicating with people of different cultures. This problem is our exigence because it puts a harmful constraint on our society: how can we grow together if we fail to represent each other, and how can we represent a subculture that we refuse to understand? If we, as a society, move to better educate ourselves on cultures and allow the voices…

Govindarajan, 2003) , (Ghemawat, 2011) and (Levy, Beechler, Taylor, & Boyacigiller, 2007) often use the two terms alternatively. A global mindset as defined by Gupta and Govindarajan is “one that combines an openness to and awareness of diversity across cultures and markets with a propensity and ability to synthesize across this diversity.” (2003, p. 117), or in more simpler terms “the ability to develop and interpret criteria for personal and business…