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    There has been extensive research done on the differences between cultures and how they react to conformity. It can be seen that overall there are major differences between Eastern and WEIRD (western, educated, industrial, rich, and democratic) cultures in the values associated with conformity. These values associated with conformity are not isolated in different age groups within a culture. The three papers being discussed in this paper, Kim & Markus (1999), Clegg et al. (2017), and Zhang and

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    explorers returning from Polynesia. Tattooing practices vary around the world, specifically in their meaning and significance cross-culturally. For instance, tattooing practices and significance in Western cultures vary significantly than in non-Western cultures. Specifically, in traditional cultures, tattooing often marks a crucial period or a rite of passage in an individual’s life, such as the transition from childhood into adulthood. In Polynesian societies, specifically amongst the Maori people

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    term Spaghetti Western became popular in the mid 60’s in which A Fistful of Dollars was released as the first film of a trilogy, but this was not Sergio Leone’s first western movie. Leone’s films were not of a typical American western that had been released in previous years, but instead a reaction or his own take of the Western frontier and through many aspects of his films we can see influences from Italian cinematic styles and approaches. This was an interesting time for the western film industry

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    for a society to overcome; however, another culture exists, namely that of the North American indigenous peoples, who have developed and experienced, through a history of living at peace with the land, what is known as traditional knowledge. This unique relationship to the land encompasses a truth that colonial and subsequent Western rule both overlooked and stigmatized in the face of economic and social “progress”. While Western North American culture is beginning to acknowledge and explore the

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    improved economic integration, has led to increased cultural diversity of organisations’ fundamental values and also among individual employees of an organization. Globalization can be defined as a process by which national and regional economies, cultures and societies become integrated through a world network of trade, communications, transportation and immigration (Beck, 2000). For organisations to succeed in the increasingly competitive global stage there must be diversity leadership; a change

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    Western Culture Has Brought More Negative Impacts On The Malaysian Youth. Western culture is a body of knowledge derived from reason that began in Ancient Greece. There and in the Roman civilization it developed until the start of the Middle Ages when it largely vanished from Europe. During the Middle Ages, Western culture resided, instead, in the Arab / Persian world to a modest degree. Today, Western culture has at least some presence in nearly all nations of the world. It does not currently exist

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    Eastern culture and Chinese culture are unique in many ways. Many ideas and customs in the eastern world account for it’s unique qualities. One country in the east that is an exceptional representation of eastern culture is China. China’s geography, prehistory, role of women, philosophies, and culture, are factors that separate China from the rest of the world and shape China into the unique country it is today. Many components account for the uniqueness of eastern culture. Eastern people are

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    to maintain a safe and protected place for its people. Western Australia police is one of the eight authorities in Australia and is primary responsible for handling the world’s biggest single jurisdiction wrapping an area of 2.5 million square kilometres with two regions, fourteen boroughs and one hundred fifty eight police posts. (WA POLICE 2014) However, in a report last 2010 by Trever Paddenbburg of the Sunday Times, one out of ten western Australian officers stated that corruption, improper and

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    are unequipped to fight back. Although as a culture diversity and freedom are celebrated and a staple of what makes America ‘the greatest country in the world,’ our society is, and always has been, in a constant battle of inequality and injustice. With uncertainty and the struggles of everyday life, American search for coping mechanisms. The introduction of eastern religion served exactly that purpose and lead to the boom of the western therapeutic culture starting in the 1950s with the emergence of

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    There are countless symptoms of depression, especially since everyone reacts to the disorder differently. Men and women tend to react to depression differently, too, as do people of the Western cultures from people of Eastern cultures (D, National Alliance on Mental Illness, 2015). Some of the most common physical symptoms include changes in sleep, appetite, movement, and physical comfort. Many people with depression have trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, or sleeping as long as they did before

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