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    Chinese Cultural Values

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    The cultural values of a country influence its national psychology and identity. Citizens’ values and public opinions are conveyed to state leaders through the media and other information channels, both directly and indirectly influencing decisions on foreign policy. The Chinese is one of the world’s oldest cultures, tracing back to hundreds and thousands of years ago. There are more than fifty ethnic groups in China who are fully diverse. Culture includes religion, food, music, language, morals

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    experiences into meaningful internal understanding. Values are shared ideas about what is right/true and beautiful. They help us understand culture by guiding behavior in society and shaping the social norms in a given culture. 2. Discuss four American values. How do we know they are values – give examples? Four American values (from the Kohl’s model) are change, time & its control, future orientation, and materialism/acquisitiveness. Change

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    Chinese Cultural Values

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    Introduction Cultural values are the core principles and ideals upon which societies exist. Those values reflect several parts of a community, including customs, traditions, rituals, and religious beliefs among others. Cultural values are passed along from one generation to another and define the way of our everyday life. With the increase in globalization, it is important to understand cross-cultural values, and as parents or educators who are involved in the process of raising the next generation

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    Chapter 10: Do you think it is possible for an outsider to accurately discern about the underlying cultural values of an organization by analyzing symbols, ceremonies, dress, or other observable aspects of culture in comparison to an insider with several years of work experience? Select a percentage (e.g., 10%, 70%, etc.) and explain your reasoning. Outsiders can discern certain cultural values of an organization by analyzing symbols, ceremonies, dress, and other observable aspects of the organization’s

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    Christianity & Cultural Values There are certain values changing and remaining the same after a 1000 year. Values is a person's principles or standards of behavior; one's judgment of what is important in life. One of the values would be Christianity, this value is the religion based on the person and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, or its beliefs and practices. Another value would be culture, which means the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.

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    individual culture has many cultural truths that a group of people follow and believe in. Cultural truths are principles, values, or standards important to a group of people, which display moral behaviors that are respected and immoral actions that are scorned at. Also, cultural truths are norms in a society that you are born into and are expected to do daily because they shape the lifestyle of a group. For example, during the Anglo-Saxon period, there were a number of cultural truths that were applied

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    ATHENS IS THE PLACE TO BE!! Athens is an independent city state in ancient greece that has many cultural values. Athens was formed of the Mycenaeans. The citystate of Athens is independent because seas and mountains separate it from the other city states in ancient greece. Athens is a well rounded city state that supports educations, military involvement, and government. . To begin with, Athens education was extremely important. Only boy citizens attended private schools and would learn about poetry

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    American Cultural Values

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    When discussing America and its pervasive issue with crime, it is important to note the cultural values that not only make America but also break it in terms of encouraging criminality and objectivity of crimes. Furthermore, there are three major cultural values that are held most dear to the American public: freedom, success, and individualism. To begin, freedom is at the core of the American culture. In America, freedom can be defined as the notion that, “individuals are guaranteed rights and

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    Moral and values is some of the things we learn as we grow up and these morals and values we learn from our parents and friends and also from our cultures and some of them you get to develop them as you grow up. The is so many ways to develop ones morals and values and cultural relativism and ethical subjectivism is of those ways that are used to develop morals and values. Schick and Vaughn (2010: 354) defines cultural relativism as follows “ is the doctrine that what makes an action right is that

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    My Cultural Values

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    My beliefs, morals, values, and views on my culture are based upon my upbringing, the values within my family, and the norms adopted by my culture. However, I can’t only thank my family for whom I am today; my personal experiences and feelings have had a huge impact on my cultural views and experiences. I went to Puerto Rico when I was four years old and haven’t been ever since. I remember eating limbers and roosters crowing and hot steam rising from the ground from a passing shower but nothing about

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