Taking a unilayered view on culture can easily result in limited equations such as homogenisation does not equal homogenisation, since homogenisation evokes heterogenisation, and both processes are occurring at the same time. Yet, by using Ram’s concept (2004) of the one-way institutional homogenisation and two-way symbolic heterogenisation level enables us to differentiate where homogenisation and […]
Intangible cultural heritage is a fairly recent term introduced by UNESCO in order to distinguish with tangible cultural heritage, which had been commonly known as cultural heritage as defined in the UNESCO 1972 Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. In its definition, the 1972 Convention considers monuments, groups of buildings, […]
Language is a mirror which reflects the entire culture, and every nation has its own culture. Language learning is inseparable from the understanding of cultural background knowledge. Cultural background knowledge is very important in language teaching. Here I want to talk about the relationship between them and how to teach. I. Introduction Language is a […]
We all derive identity from the world around us. We are born as a collection of biological processes over which we have no authority or power. Our first mission in life is to build a personality which conjures up this fragmented mystification. We create images of how we want to see ourselves through inspirational messages, […]
Throughout American history, white Americans have expressed fascination with black culture. This fascination was within music, film and television. White Americans have been able to safely regard African Americans without having close contact with them. In order to maintain this distance, according to Ralph Ellison in his controversial essay “Change the Joke and Slip the […]
What Barriers Do Immigrants Face When They Come To Canada? Canada accepts immigrants from every part of the globe, with the most important flows coming from countries in South, East and Southeast Asia, also from UK and Europe and an additional of them from Africa and Middle East. New immigrants to Canada face many barriers […]
Analyse three important aspects of cross-cultural understanding which affect tourism. No one would challenge the fact that tourism has become an international phenomenon of global consequence” (Uysal, 1994, p.123). The internationalization of the tourism industry is complex and wide ranging. It is a type of cross-cultural communication and understanding. For instance, tourists who come from […]
These days, it’s not uncommon to hear the fusion of different styles of music. In fact, American music is more integrated than before and showcases different music from around the world. Melding different styles of music was popularly done as early as the twentieth century with the growth of American popular music. One style of […]
Since the last couple of decades, the subjects of Islam, the Muslim community and especially Muslim women seem to have dominated the Western media. It started with the excessive coverage of September 11, the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, the banning of the veil in Europe, to the terrorist attacks and suicide bombers in the […]
Such an extinction of minority language is not a brand new event any more. More serious problem is that a culture inevitably vanishes when a language vanishes. That is, huge experiences, history and views of the world of human being have been soaked deeply into a language since the beginning of the world. For this […]
