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    delude themselves that having freedom means to disregard the human rights of other people. Everyone has the rights to express one’s idea, belief, and thoughts, but there is an invisible limit to the expressions. When the expressions hurt other people emotionally or physically, one needs to recognize that the action has to be fixed. This process usually happens as people grow up learning how to socially behave in the communities. However, the human rights of some people are still being violated in the public

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    Narrative is the root of some fields which includes education, rhetoric, literature, religion, law, history: culture (Wilson, 1989). It can be seen as a tool to create traditions and symbols as means of communication and it is a source to understand and strengthen the identity of the organisation (Kroeze and Keulen, 2013). As a conceptual theme, narrative becomes a self-conscious system and a reflexive field. In other words, the role of narrative in personal lives is to show how it can be utilized

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    Southwest’s culture cannot be copied. I would like to explain what the values-based diverse firm looks like, how Southwest is values-based diverse, and why Southwest’s culture cannot be copied. The following are the relevant facts, the analysis, and justification using supporting evidence. What the values-based firm looks like In Cascio’s book, he explains, “The values-based approach begins with a set of fundamental values that are energizing and capable of unlocking people’s human potential – values

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    Running through the fair ground, I come across the only attraction that won’t scare the living bejesus out of me, the warped mirror maze. I navigate the various distortions of myself; too tall, too thin, too fat, not me. It’s overwhelming. Where to go, who am I? This is a cruel trick, funny, but cruel. Enough time spent in the maze and I forget who I am. Maybe my head is three times wider than my torso. I can’t remember. After three hours stuck in the maze I learn that each mirror distorts the person

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    Columbus provide very good descriptions of what we have referred to elsewhere (e.g. Ward, Bochner & Furnham, 2001) as between-society culture contact. Modern day examples include employees of international organisations, guest workers, overseas students, tourists, immigrants, refugees, missionaries, and peacekeepers. During the last 40 years, the incidence of humans shifting across national boundaries has greatly increased. Reasons include the invention of the jumbo jet that made international travel

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    important part of American culture. The fourth of July would be just another day in the year if the Declaration of Independence wasn’t created, but this document was created and it has changed our view of the fourth of July for over two-hundred years. This information is a fact, another instance of actuality is that one’s culture has an immense impact on the way people view the world. Further, one’s view on the world is determined by many pieces of culture but I will mostly focus on

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    V According to Stassen, Christ and Culture is the most read and least criticized of the works of H. Richard Niebuhr. Teachers use it as a clear typology of varieties of Christian faith more than as a constructive argument for a particular approach to Christian ethics. Yoder, Yeager, and Stassen offer three critical readings of Niebuhr’s understanding of the relation of faith to social justice, and offer their own perspectives on the common topic. I. Types of Christian Ethics by H.Richard Niebuhr

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    Firstly, I believe that avoiding ethnocentrism is the basic principle when engaged in a culture diverse practice. While social worker engage in an effective practice, they also have potential to do harm(Chenoweth and Maculiffe 2015,P58). Because social work practice involves many ethical responds and a poor respond will trigger threats,risks and perils that threaten both the practice and clients. In the realm of cultural diversity oriented practice, it is quite evidential that ethnocentrism could

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    This is where a minority group adapts to a custom in attitudes of the prevailing culture and customs. The three sociological perspectives of assimilation is race relation cycle, Gordon's stages of assimilation, and human capital theory. In race relations cycle groups first come into contact with a conflict and competition between them. This process moves toward separate groups coming together and sharing that common culture socially. After a certain amount of time the differences in these groups will

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    technology their culture and heritage moves along with them. Almost each and every continent is populated with people from different nations who have diverse traditions and cultures. Thus knowledge of health traditions and culture plays a vital role in nursing. People from different cultures have a unique view on health and illness. Culture-specific care is a vital skill to the modern nurse, as the United States continues to consist of many immigrants who have become assimilated into one culture. I interviewed

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