scholarly journals The interval between humans: A probe into the possibilities of being

2021 ◽  
pp. 1354067X2110173
Author(s):  
Ricardo Santos Alexandre
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
Japanese Culture ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Moral Understanding ◽  
Dialogical Approach ◽  
Fusion Of Horizons ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
The Way

By taking as background a few examples from Japanese culture and society, as well as an ethnographic insight, this article reconsiders the way anthropology usually deals with and talks about issues regarding cultural differences in human relations. These issues, which start from the fact that different cultures articulate human relations in different ways, have as one of their main theoretical outcomes the analysis around the categories of “self” or “person.” However, within this move lies something akin to a “gestalt misconception” that reduces a shared moral understanding (human relations) to an analysis of conceptual categories and their cognitive, psychological, subjective (or other) processes. Alternatively, the article proposes a more dialogical approach informed by Gadamer’s idea of “dialog” and “fusion of horizons,” where one aims to learn from other cultures and not about them. As a result, some reflections of a philosophical, moral, and practical character are presented, leaving theoretical formulations about the “Japanese self” out of the equation. This article’s general purpose is not an exploration of “Japaneseness,” but rather a probe into the possibilities of Being.

scholarly journals Cross Cultural Differences in Cognition: A Study on How Culture Affects the Way We Think

SIASAT ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 9-15
Author(s):  
Sharon Campbell- Phillips ◽  
Deb Proshad Halder ◽  
Serlange Campbell ◽  
Daneil Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Developmental Trajectories ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Tertiary Level ◽  
Mental Process ◽  
Double Dissociation ◽  
Cross Cultural Differences ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
The Way

Communication is the exchanging of information through speaking, writing and signals. It plays an important to our development; it is the dissemination of ideas, and information to persons. Cognition is our mental process in which we acquire knowledge and understanding, and this is done through our thoughts, our experiences, and our senses. Cultural differences involve what people’ believe how they behave, the language they speak, and their practices based on their ethnicity. Cross-cultural differences in cognition can be very effective to certain operations conducted by persons; however, it can also limit us based on our perspective.  To gather information and to understand how culture affects cognition and the way we think, questionnaires, surveys and experiments were used. Questionnaires were administered to tertiary level students, surveys were administered to teachers and experiments were conducted among students from various culture and background. The experiments were centered on visualization, focus and critical thinking. The purpose of this study is to investigate if cultural differences affect the way we think, and this double-dissociation is discussed in terms of implications for different developmental trajectories, with different developmental sub-tasks in the different cultures.

scholarly journals Cross Cultural Differences in Cognition: A Study on How Culture Affects the Way We Think

SIASAT ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 9-15
Author(s):  
Sharon Campbell- Phillips ◽  
Deb Proshad Halder ◽  
Serlange Campbell ◽  
Daneil Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Developmental Trajectories ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Tertiary Level ◽  
Mental Process ◽  
Double Dissociation ◽  
Cross Cultural Differences ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
The Way

Communication is the exchanging of information through speaking, writing and signals. It plays an important to our development; it is the dissemination of ideas, and information to persons. Cognition is our mental process in which we acquire knowledge and understanding, and this is done through our thoughts, our experiences, and our senses. Cultural differences involve what people’ believe how they behave, the language they speak, and their practices based on their ethnicity. Cross-cultural differences in cognition can be very effective to certain operations conducted by persons; however, it can also limit us based on our perspective.  To gather information and to understand how culture affects cognition and the way we think, questionnaires, surveys and experiments were used. Questionnaires were administered to tertiary level students, surveys were administered to teachers and experiments were conducted among students from various culture and background. The experiments were centered on visualization, focus and critical thinking. The purpose of this study is to investigate if cultural differences affect the way we think, and this double-dissociation is discussed in terms of implications for different developmental trajectories, with different developmental sub-tasks in the different cultures.

Watching Birds and People

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 160-176
Author(s):  
Mikael Rothstein
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Personal Knowledge ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Good Working ◽  
Anthropological Field Work ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
The Way

This article explores ornithology as a hidden resource in anthropological field work. Relating experiences among the Penan forest nomads of Sarawak, Borneo, the author describes how his personal knowledge of bird life paved the way for good working relations, and even friendship, with the Penan. Representing two very different cultures simple communication between the scholar on duty and the Penan community was difficult indeed, but the birds provided a common ground that enabled the two parties to exchange experiences, knowledge and skills. In certain ways the author's fieldwork-based project relates to the Penan’s religious interpretation of birds, but the article is primarily concerned with the fact that a mutual understanding was created from this common ground, and that our thoughts on fieldwork preparations may be taken further by such experiences.

scholarly journals Cultural differences in speed adaptation in human-robot interaction tasks

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 256-266
Author(s):  
Fabio Vannucci ◽  
Alessandra Sciutti ◽  
Hagen Lehman ◽  
Giulio Sandini ◽  
Yukie Nagai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Human Movement ◽  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Motor Resonance ◽  
Robot Interaction ◽  
General Acceptance ◽  
Implicit Information ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Source Of Information

AbstractIn social interactions, human movement is a rich source of information for all those who take part in the collaboration. In fact, a variety of intuitive messages are communicated through motion and continuously inform the partners about the future unfolding of the actions. A similar exchange of implicit information could support movement coordination in the context of Human-Robot Interaction. In this work, we investigate how implicit signaling in an interaction with a humanoid robot can lead to emergent coordination in the form of automatic speed adaptation. In particular, we assess whether different cultures – specifically Japanese and Italian – have a different impact on motor resonance and synchronization in HRI. Japanese people show a higher general acceptance toward robots when compared with Western cultures. Since acceptance, or better affiliation, is tightly connected to imitation and mimicry, we hypothesize a higher degree of speed imitation for Japanese participants when compared to Italians. In the experimental studies undertaken both in Japan and Italy, we observe that cultural differences do not impact on the natural predisposition of subjects to adapt to the robot.

Cultural differences in gift recipients’ attitude and behavior toward disliked gifts

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Theeranuch Pusaksrikit ◽  
Sydney Chinchanachokchai
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Relationship Closeness ◽  
Marketing Segmentation ◽  
Self Construal ◽  
The Usa ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of cultural differences and the types of relationship closeness involved in recipients’ emotional and behavioral reactions after receiving disliked gifts. Design/methodology/approach Collecting data from Thailand and the USA, two experiments were conducted in a 2 (self-construal: independent/interdependent) × 2 (relationship closeness: close/distant) between-subjects design. Study 1 explores the recipients’ feelings and reactions upon receipt of a disliked gift. Study 2 explores the disposition process for a disliked gift. Findings The results show that a recipient’s emotions, reaction and disposition process can be affected by cultural differences and relationship closeness: specifically that close and distant relationships moderate the relationship between self-construal and gift-receiving attitudes and behaviors. Research limitations/implications Future research can investigate representative groups from other countries to broaden the generalizability of the findings. Practical implications This understanding can guide gift-givers when selecting gifts for close or distant recipients across cultures. Additionally, it can help retailers develop and introduce new marketing strategies by applying self-construal as a marketing segmentation tool for gift purchase and disposition. Originality/value This research is among the first studies to offer insights into how individuals in different cultures manage disliked gifts they receive from people in either close or distant relationships.

scholarly journals Students' Responses to the Use of Drama Technique in Learning Literature

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 181
Author(s):  
Utut Kurniati
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Learning Objective ◽  
Teaching Literature ◽  
High Motivation ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Way

This research aimed to investigate the students' motivation in learning Literature using drama technique, to show what kinds of difficulties faced by the students and to show the way how they overcome the problems. The subjects of the research were all the fifth semester students in the academic years of 2014/2015 of UNSWAGATI. There were 12 classes. Each consisted of 25 students. The researcher took K and L class as the sample of her study by using lottre. It means there were 50 students as the sample.Revering to the research questions ad the findings, the researcher found that students had high motivation in learning, facing some difficulties in the learning process like limited vocabulary, cultural gap, the length of the story and feeling shy to act. Concerning the problems, the students had done may solutions. They enriched their action by using gesture, asking their friends, opening notes, reading the script and watching the original videos.There are some suggestions to enhance and find the best way in teaching literature. Practically, in order to gain the learning objective more optimal, lecturer are expected to be more creative in finding drama and enrich the class by teaching them cultural differences. For further researcher, drama is also possible to develope other language skills other than speaking.

scholarly journals Information Ethics in a Different Voice, Or: Back to the Drawing Board of Intercultural Information Ethics.

2010 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 6-11
Author(s):  
Karsten Weber
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Comparative Studies ◽  
Information Ethics ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
Drawing Board ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Intercultural Information Ethics

Within the information ethics community one can observe a mainstream discussion including some fundamental presuppositions which appear to be something like dogmas. The most important of these dogmas seems to be that we must create a new kind of intercultural information ethics. It is often argued that (comparative) studies have shown that different cultures, according to culturally determined norms and values, react in different ways to the impacts of ICT; it is stressed that an intercultural information ethics must take these cultural particularities into account. But in the paper at hand it shall be argued that taking cultural differences into consideration does not create a necessity to invent a new intercultural information ethics. On the contrary it shall be claimed that we already know several intercultural ethics which only have to be applied to ICT and its impact to societies.

scholarly journals CULTURES AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION IN STANDARD SITUATIONS: DIFFERENCES IN COMMUNICATIVE BEHAVIOUR

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. S. Samokhina
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Cultural Intelligence ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
Communicative Behavior ◽  
Communicative Intention ◽  
Communicative Strategies ◽  
Different Cultures

Successful interaction across cultures requires cultural awareness and cultural intelligence which help the participants of communication select effective verbal and nonverbal means to realize their communicative intention. The paper addresses communicative strategies of representatives of different cultures in similar communicative situations. The author shows conclusively that though the Americans and the British share the same language their communicative behavior differs in typical situations of business interaction, which makes them use different verbal and nonverbal means to achieve their communicative goals. Due to the cultural differences, Russian speaking students need to be taught these differences to achieve cultural intelligence.

scholarly journals PEMBINGKAIAN BUDAYA JAWA DAN BELANDA DI DALAM NOVEL BUMI MANUSIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Denasya Nasution ◽  
Said Fadhlain ◽  
Reni Juliani
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Framing Analysis ◽  
Library Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Different Cultures

The novel Bumi Manusia is a controversial novel that contains Indigenous life in the Dutch colonial period. Pram depicts the cultural differences between Indigenous and Dutch with a very contrast in all aspects in more detail and depth. The purpose of this research is to expose the cultural differences which are framed in the novel Bumi Manusia. This research is also intended to expose the differences between Javanese and Dutch cultures which not only distinguish culture based on appearance and language. This research is a qualitative descriptive study with secondary data which are obtained from the library research, in the form of literature which are related to this research. The results of this study are: 1) Culture can affect one's personality and mindset. 2) The author describes broader cultural differences and is able to criticize the social gap or strata which are formed from the different cultures at the same time. Keywords :Framing Analysis, Media Studies, Bumi Manusia

scholarly journals The Role of Culture, Values and Trauma in Shaping Abnormal Bodily Experience in Migrants

2020 ◽  
pp. 37-44
Author(s):  
Massimiliano Aragona
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
Bodily Experiences ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Somatization Disorders ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe way somatization is expressed—including the actual somatoform symptoms experienced—varies in different persons and in different cultures. Traumatic experiences are intertwined with cultural and social values in shaping the resulting psychopathological phenomena, including bodily experiences. Four ideal-typical cases are presented to show the different levels involved. The effects of trauma, culture and values may be pathofacilitating (creating a social context which is necessary for the experience to take place), pathogenetic (taking a causal role in the onset of the psychopathological reaction), pathoplastic (shaping the form such a psychopathological reaction takes) or pathointerpretive (different interpretation of the same symptoms depending on the patient’s beliefs). While the roles of trauma and culture were already well recognized in previous accounts, this chapter adds an exploration of the importance of values, including cultural values, in the aetiology, presentation and management of somatization disorders. As a consequence, the therapeutic approach has to be adjusted depending on the way these factors intervene in the patient’s construction of mental distress.

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