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  • My Interest In Languages And Communication
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    A defining moment in my life occurred about two years ago. I left my high school in Hong Kong and came to the United States to finish my secondary education as an international student in New York. I left my parents, my home, my friends, and my language in order to experience a foreign culture and broaden the scope of my education and view of life. Whenever I try to think or write about my life my autobiography I always settle upon the importance of this move, this shift from Eastern to Western ...
  • Koresh And His Followers
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    The standoff between the combined forces of the FBI and ATF and David Koresh-Branch Davidians was viewed as the worse governmental operation in history. There were several reasons why Waco turned out the way it did. Koresh and 76 of his followers, including more than 20 children, died in flames because there were breakdowns in communication between FBI and the Branch Davidians as the event unfolds. First, there was a lack of competency in communication during the negotiation period between the F...
  • Important Relationship Between Language And Culture
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    Whether realized or not, it is obvious that wherever the concept of language occurs, the concept of culture occurs. That is mainly because language is deeply embedded in culture. Although some people think that this statement is wrong due to the fact that a language is the key to the cultural heritage of another people or that knowledge of another language enables people to increase their personal culture through contact with great minds and works of literature, the culture of a society includes...
  • Communication And Culture
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    Outline I. It is important to reflect ones own national and cultural identity to understand what is different among people of different nations. History teaches us that culture always changes because of internal or external influences, even our own cultures and values change over time. Our world today is a world in which people from different nations and cultures are getting closer and closer because of economical and political reasons. Because cultures are becoming closer, communication is the ...
  • El Nahra's Cultural Ethos Of Family
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    Analysis of - Guests of the Sheik Elizabeth Fernea entered El Nahra, Iraq as an innocent bystander. However, through her stay in the small Muslim village, she gained cultural insight to be passed on about not only El Nahra, but all foreign culture. As Fernea entered the village, she was viewed with a critical eye, 'It seemed to me that many times the women were talking about me, and not in a particularly friendly manner'; (70). The women of El Nahra could not understand why she was not with her ...
  • Most Important In The Maasai Culture
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    The Maasai Cultural Breakdown Paper " Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people" Proverbs 14: 34. This is a quote from a web site (web), that defines parallels to the culture of the Maasai. The Maasai Culture is from Southern Kenya. The culture is very family based, with many families being quite large. The Maasai own a total land area of 160,000 kilometers ( web ). Some of the physical characteristics include, but are not limited to, tall height, long pierced earlobes, ...
  • French And American Culture
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    Culture can be defined as, "learned behaviors that are communicated from one generation to another to promote individual and social structure" (Communication; Making Connections, 44). In other words, information and behavior that is appropriate to where we live, where we have come from, and the traditions of those places are handed down along generations to insure that they continue. These behaviors help us identify who we are and who our ancestors were. American culture is an eclectic combinati...
  • Male Culture And Female Culture
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    Did you know, "men and women talk differently because they are raised in something like two different cultures: a male culture from which young men learn to speak like men and a female culture in which young women learn to speak like women?" (Cooper and MacDonald 9). Well, not actually from two separate cultures, but the idea of men and women being opposites as pointed out in the opening. Deborah Tannen has made her theory that a male culture and female culture each exist, very popular with the ...
  • Welcome Ceremony
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    The Welcome Ceremony is performed when visitors entering a village where they are expected usually find the ali'i and faipule waiting for them either outside or within a house. If the occasion is a very formal one, the whole village may have assembled in its various groups, mata i, Pastors of different denominations, Women's Committee in distinctive uniforms, schools and young men and women. In this case, a arch of welcome will probably also have been constructed. The meeting house (fale fono) a...
  • Introduction Of The Phonetic Alphabet
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    With communication continuing to change forms every day, we have seen many different theories and explanations to try and explain communication. Communication is an interaction between two objects in any way, as long as there is a connection between the two objects. With the ever changing theories of communication, Marshall McLuhan's theory of the medium is the message and his Playboy interview create a very interesting question. Why does Marshall McLuhan see the development of communication as ...
  • Communications Skills
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    Over the years I have been very involved in my community and school. Being a part of something helps to define who you are as a person and the principles and values you hold as important. A personal experience that helps to show my talents and skills can be illustrated by my trip to Italy last April with the MHS Language Department. Over the past ten years, I have had the opportunity to travel extensively around the United States and Canada with my family so traveling abroad to Italy seemed like...
  • Sources Of Mass Media And Mass Communications
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    Communication is defined as creating symbol systems that can be used to exchange and express information and meanings. The different ways that individuals, groups and societies use these expressions to make sense of daily life is know as their culture. Culture itself can be divided into two classifications. Culture spelled with a capital C is usually associated with art such as classical music, opera, ballet and art museums. These examples can also be called "high culture". Culture with a lowerc...
  • Property Ownership In A Marriage
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    Throughout history, there have been many different aspects that have been looked at in all culture ways. Many researcher's have studied the history and the lifestyle of the different societies and particular cultural norms. This information is gathered from media, weather be it through internet, newspaper, television or simply history books as educational informers. Although these are the most common bases for societal general knowledge, in the inner truth occurs within the inner realms of parti...
  • Social And Political Change In Modern China
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    ... red was looking at America wondering what it would do next. As communication helped the word spread about this "land of opportunity" more and more people wanted to immigrate, or at least come to America to see what all the talk was about. Many Chinese and Japanese came to the United States and saw it first hand from the 1860's on (Iriye, 39). For the Chinese the personal meeting did not make as grand of an impression as it did for the Japanese. For example, the Japanese were almost desperate...
  • Man's Intuitive Morality
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    A man dies. His community's culture deems that he be buried in holy ground lest the community suffer some catastrophe. He, having always been at odds with his community on this point, has left a provision in his will that he be cremated and his ashes scattered into the ocean. The body waits in the hospital while the community debates the issue. What is to be done? The elders have asked for a moral opinion. What is one to say? If the belief that the man must be buried is one deeply ingrained in t...
  • Cultural Communication For Centuries Armenians
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    Cultural Diversity in the Armenian Community Abstract The cultural context for the Armenian person is the result of upholding and defending a way of life and values that have been maintained for centuries, for perhaps two thousand years. For that reason, although Armenians living in the United States today come from a variety of countries of origin, and may to some extent speak different dialects or even different languages, yet they have many cultural similarities due to centuries of commonalit...
  • Co Cultural Communication Challenges Respecting Diversity
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    Co-Cultural Communication Challenges Respecting diversity is a sign of equality. But, to respect diversity, one must understand the terminology behind it. The typical stereotype of diversity is not just being different, but actually encompasses educational background, life differences, and cultures. In reality, diversity is simply a point or respect in which things differ. Instead, minority deals with ethnic, racial, religious, or other groups having a distinctive presence within a society. By c...
  • Indefinite Perspectives In An Interpretive Community Hirsch
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    When a young man wearing a University of Washington T-shirt and shorts comes up alongside of you and runs past you very quickly on campus, you will most likely automatically assume that he is exercising. To you as an observer and a member of the campus community, it is obvious as to what he is doing, even though there could be many possible reasons for his running across campus. Whatever the events that take place in our lives may be, we can almost always make meanings out of them through some i...
  • Cultural Silence Cultural Communication Patterns
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    Introduction: This paper analyzes the nature of silence, the possible meaning of it, and the reasons for the different understanding of it in intercultural communication. At the end of the paper, some suggestions are given for successful understanding of it. It is the author's intention that this knowledge can facilitate effective intercultural communication. Silence, as one of the means of non-verbal communication, is also called "quiet time? In almost any language, we can find evidences to sho...
  • Cultural Fear Within The Black Community
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    Cultural Fear The 1992 L.A. riots that devastated not only parts of the city, but many Americans who thought racial tensions had declined, were a manifestation of cultural fear. Cultural fear is inherent in every culture, and can be defined as a fear which that culture holds towards another. In the case of the riots, it was a black fear that a white dominated judicial system had again discriminated against them, and this fear led to the general uprising in protest. While this protest manifested ...

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