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    The Cultural Revolution was the greatest educational incident chronicled in the last hundred years and it took place from 1966 to 1976. Mao Zedong was the leader of the Cultural Revolution and he wanted to bring about the Cultural Revolution by setting goals to form a more affective bureaucracy. The Cultural Revolution was a time when Red Guards fought against a democratic society and the guards attacked an aspect called the "4 olds." The "4 olds" were old ideas, old culture,

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    Topic: Cultural Relativism In Business Submitted to: Mr. Mehmood Ul Hassan Khalil Submitted by: Waqas Shehzad Class: BBA 5D Cultural Relativism: Cultural relativism is the view that all beliefs are equally valid and that truth itself is relative, depending on the situation, environment, and individual. Those who hold to cultural relativism hold that all religious, ethical, aesthetic, and political beliefs are completely relative to the individual within a cultural identity. Cultural relativism

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    The Journal, “Cultural Relativist and Feminist Critiques of International Human Rights – Friends or Foes?, by Oonagh Reitman seeks to address about the similarities between two critiques of international human rights that come from both cultural relativist and feminist. The critique comes from the claim that human rights are universal and both cultural relativist and feminist disagree about the universalism in human rights. The author argue that whether feminist and cultural relativist is friends

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    Everything that points to cultural studies or criticism portrays it as a complex theory which derives its strength from an uncanny sense of incertitude, as it covers a wide expanse of the areas of literary criticism. To begin with, a basic understanding is quite appropriate. It is this kind of complexity in question that caused Angela McRobbie to talk of the “messiness of cultural studies” (722). By this is meant, most probably, that its roots are too deeply convoluted and intertwined in a single

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    impacted society. Both the social and applied aspects of cultural anthropology seek to discover humanity’s cultural origins and progression, in addition to resolving global issues. Looking at how sex and gender influences culture, how art provides insight into cultures beliefs, and how global problems can be improved or possibly resolved with the applied science of anthropology can perhaps sustain humanity’s future and acceptance of cultural differences. A social aspect of anthropology is the observation

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    Cultural Competency Essay

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    Cultural competency In healthcare industry cultural competence is an important component and it is not an isolated aspect of medical care as it improves patients’ clinical outcomes. Cultural competence is express as a dynamic, complex and it involves skill that healthcare providers need to develop in order to respond to their individual diverse cultural patients’ (Brenda, 2016). Cultural competency is defined as creating consciousness of an individual’s life; feeling and thoughts without allowing

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    when the idea of cultural relativism comes up. The idea concerns a person’s beliefs and activities. It's based on a person’s culture. A cultural practice could be out of hand and at other times it's not. I believe that there are limitations to a person’s cultural practices. I limit myself to the point at which people do things that have not been proven to work. Nevertheless, I am okay with a practice that does not physically harm anyone. First of all, I tolerate any cultural practices that does

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    Cultural globalization supposes, not only empiric human contacts among civilizations (transporter revolution), but also intellectual instruments of understanding among contact groups in a more or less brutal manner. Let us call humanist sciences those intellectual instruments, having a wide enough meaning: history, philology, linguistics, archeology, sociology, philosophy. Trying to create a global culture, an important role is played by foreign languages. English is undoubtedly placed in the

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    Mao Cultural Revolution

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    A. Plan of Investigation In 1966, Mao mobilized the Chinese youth to initiate the “Cultural Revolution”, a violent process eliminating old Chinese culture, customs, thoughts and habits, purging “counter-revolutionary” party members, and heightening Mao’s personality cult. I will summarize evidence collected from textbooks, official documents, biographies and eyewitness reports about the events between 1959 and 1966. I will describe the failure of the Great Leap Forward, Mao’s resignation as

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    Cultural Synthesis Essay

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    Cultural relativism says that good or bad are relative to culture and that the perspective of social acceptance is the perfect standard of morality. No culture or society is better to any different culture while comparing structures of morality. All cultural judgments are fairly reasonable and that certainty alone is relative, subject to the socializing environment. For this reason, the particular actions that are disapproved of are unacceptable. A cultural relativist claims that morals are closely

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