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    The western world would not be as it is today if it were not for Christianity and Ancient Rome. Many cultures take ideas from past culture and change them to fit their own. As time progressed, Roman culture and the bible became prominent in western culture and a direct influence on many social and political aspects of life. Classical Roman culture significantly influenced western culture and continues to this day with its politics and art, while the Biblical Judeo-Christian tradition influenced religion

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    Have you ever think about you as an eastern people are going to work in the western country? Do you think you will face a lot of problems not only the weather but also the culture shock? As we know that western culture and eastern culture is totally different. Not only the life style but also the working style. There are many different kinds of examples about the culture in the workplace. To know all the different culture between your own country and other country is important, so that we will not

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    Considering other cultures in the world, a huge impact of western music is seen within them. Westernization and modernization are two different words with different meanings and they have two different impacts on a society. Modernization is used to define the improvements and show a progressive transition from one stage to another. Westernization is the concept of being influenced by the customs and techniques of the western society and reflecting them in a non-western culture. This essay will discuss

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    FIRST PAPER ASSIGNMENT The complex (incompatibility) of the Anishinabe culture and Western society provided for the complete breakdown and restructuring of traditional Native American society. Time- honored culture, belief systems, and conception of self underwent severe distortion under Western Colonialism. Louise Erdrich in her novel, Tracks, draws heavily on the complex nature of the Anishinabe deity Misshepeshu and the Western spiritual construct of Jesus Christ, to create a cultural metaphor for

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    answer varies from location, religion and culture. How western cultures view the body and how the body is treated (our body and others) are different from how non western cultures view and treat bodies. We can see the differences in the western and non western bodies in such works as Anne Fadiman’s account of a Hmong child in America and in articles like Genital Surgeries: Gendering Bodies. Along with the many differences between western and non western thoughts there are also several similarities

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    developing country they are trying to imitate the western country. In the modern times, westernization has played crucial role in cultural and social influence . There are positive and negative impact because of the westernization, the positive impact is we can learn from them about the disciplines, work ethics. And the negative is because of the western culture sometimes that can make us forget about our identity and our culture, and also because of western countries do a lot of

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    witness the death of a significant role model, mature as they encounter various trials and triumph over their enemies, transforming into adults throughout the process. The Lion King’s story of Simba’s rise to succeed his father as king reflects western attitudes towards growing up and how maturing from a child into an adult is perceived: meeting the expectations of family and society, and accepting the responsibilities associated with adulthood. Unlike The Lion King where the film ends when the

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    Introduction Culture is a broad term which has been described by various philosophers since decades. It has been claimed by Raymond Williams to be “…one of the two or three most complicated words in English language” (Williams, 1976). Different definitions of the term, culture may have distinct descriptive ways and criterion to evaluate human activity. It is important to define the broad base of the sophisticated term ‘culture’, in the sense used later in the paper, to narrow down the discussion

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    Westerners express their emotions and thoughts frequently through words, which can relay the way that they think about the world. 4)Can you describe the two styles of negotiation (Erabi and Awase)? As Nisbett explained, Western Cultures practice erabi, whereas eastern cultures practice awase. Erabi focuses on arguing or defending a point and using that point to achieve the goal that you have in mind for the negotiation. People disagree about something and then spend great amounts of time and

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    Tattoos in Western Culture The art of tattooing has changed in modern times quite drastically. It is slowly becoming more acceptable to own and display tattoos on one’s body. In more conservative times, those with tattoos were looked on as social outcast, turned down for jobs and seen as strange outsiders. However, within the past half century, tattoos have steadily become more acceptable. Millions of people in America now proudly tattoo their skin, with everything from religious symbols to

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