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People from different cultures respond to pain differently because every culture responds to pain different medical beliefs. In this essay I will focus on East Asian cultural aspect of pain management. East Asians are people from china, Japan, Taiwan and Korea. People in east Asian cultures tend to endure pain because showing pain is perceived as sign of weakness, health care professionals should not be challenged with complains about pain and also assertiveness is associated with having poor…

will include different philosophies and thoughts on the way people interact within that culture. Such philosophical ideas that are implemented in the East Asian culture is the concept of facework. In the East Asian cultural setting, countries like South Korea, Japan and China follow a concept that is the basis of respectful and mindful jesters in everyday life. The concept is called Facework, and has a certain degree of representing themselves in every interaction in their lives. The types of…

III. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY & EMPIRICAL APPROACH III.1 INTRODUCTION The Chapter 3 investigates the research methodology and empirical approach that going to be used in this dissertation. As stated in the Introduction Chapter, the overall research project aims/objectives are to identify any constraints, flaws, and problems of implementation the ASEAN Mutual Recognition Arrangement (MRA) Agreement on Engineering and Architectural Service scheme in the street level in Indonesia. Moreover, it will…

External Invasions: Cholas and Mongols – tunnels, first Indian dynasty to conquer SE Asia, Cholas coming to area with an idea that they might be able to control the area, Phlembang (capital) overthrows the Cholas and kicks them out, Cholas helped to break down the Srivajayan empire, Mongols made it to Nanchao, 1292 - Mongols fleet from China to Java and attacked Java, Mongols never conquered SE Asia SRIVAJAYA – 9th century – MARITIME STATE - No major agriculture area - Cholas came out in the…

emphasis on educating its people, ranging from young children to grown men and women, in Islamic texts and the Arabic language . Muslims also now enjoy being able to do hajj to Mecca and study abroad in Muslim dominated areas such as Malaysia, Central Asia or the Middle East . With it, however, has come issues, such as the spreading of radical Islamic thought that has spread within the groups in China’s…

students were “ill-adapted” and were unable benefit from how the teachers taught. An explanation that was given that could have contributed to the way they students felt was that they were not familiar with the concepts of learning that are taught in East Asia. (Chen) The teaching methods that many Western countries use are different from what is done in Eastern Asian countries. As such it takes time and an open mind to understand how people from another country learn, they grew up learning in a…

The article Clash of Civilizations begins by speaking on why there will be a clash of civilizations, where he gives a total of six explanations, and then he focuses by acknowledging that these clashes will take place on cultural fault lines whether they be distant countries, neighboring countries, or internal cultural borders within a specific country. This section mostly hits on the clash between the ideologies of the west vs. Islam. The author then goes on to explain how the civilizations of…

Coast-to-coast exchanges were not new, but complimentary to the Silk Road; “maritime trade routes had for centuries already linked China to the Indian Ocean, the east African coast, and even via the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean.”. Merchants in Central Asia to China still convened exchanges in high values. Exchanges dating back from the first century were still in effect with high consumer demands. Goods were limited when traveling transcontinental because of the dangers of sea expeditions…

1. Indradhwaja is an Asian country whose Socio-politico-legal order is similar to India. It has 20 states which include multicultural, multi-lingual and multi-religious country. It is a country where a majority of the population (approx. 60%) follows ‘Pihu’ religion. Other prominent religion is ‘Soham’ which constitutes about 25% of the population and is in the majority in the state of Panchtara out of twenty states. Whereas in 13 states, Pihus are in majority. In its various parts religious…

Travel and tourism is an important economic activity in most countries around the world. Indonesia is one of the world’s most remarkable geographical areas where the various natural and cultural resources offer major tourism attractions. Basically, the Southeast Asian Country of Indonesia consists of more than 17,000 tropical and volcanic islands that straddle the equator between the Indian and pacific oceans. Indonesia is a home to more than 300 ethnic groups with approximately 500 spoken…