scholarly journals What next for the Peaceful Power?

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 18-20
Author(s):  
Dylan Matthew Kissane
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
Common Language ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
The Past ◽  
German Army ◽  
Western Border ◽  
To Come

It would be impossible for the great powers of Europe to come together in peaceful association after centuries of conflict. The French would not trust the Germans, the Poles would never agree to a demilitarised western border and anyway, without a common language the whole experiment would be doomed to failure from the start. But half a century later the dream has become reality. It is today impossible to imagine the German army contemplating the conquest of Belgium or the French attempting to once again take the British crown. Europe has enjoyed more peace for more people for longer than at any point in the past 500 years and Fins, Maltese, Portuguese and Latvians find themselves committed to a common project of understanding and positive cross-cultural interaction.

scholarly journals The Construction of Cultural Identity on “Tamu dari Jakarta” Short Story

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Puri Bestari Mardani
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
Cross Culture ◽  
The Past ◽  
Interesting Topic ◽  
Big City ◽  
Stuart Hall ◽  
Identity Problems

Identity is liquid and changeable as time goes by. The change of identity is possible since identity can be formed both from the past and from the future. In the case of cross culture, one’s identity may have certain problems especially in determining cultural identity. Problems in cultural identity have become an interesting topic to be discussed. It was also an interesting topic for writer to color their literature work.The focus of this research is the cultural identity in “Tamu dari Jakarta” (2002) short story by Jujur Prananto. This story brings out an interesting topic about a villager named Ratna who move into a big city (Jakarta). Problem of cultural identity was clearly seen when she visited her hometown (Klaten), the villagers no longer see her as one of them instead the saw her as a visitor or according to the title of this short story, a guest from Jakarta.The form of this research is a textual analysis research using the concept of cultural identity by Stuart Hall. This research shows that the cultural identity of Ratna is constructed through positioned and positioning identity that is shown from the cross-cultural interaction between characters in this story. Furthermore, the proses of being positioned and positioning was based on the stereotype of Jakarta citizen. However this story gave a different view and new insight on the stereotype of Jakarta citizen.   Keywords: cultural identity, cross-cultural, Jakarta citizen

scholarly journals Substantiation of the Model of Empirical Research of Socio-Psychological Features of Psychological Security of the Individual in Cross-Cultural Interaction

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-84
Author(s):  
Nadezhda A. Tsvetkova ◽  
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Eugenia V. Egamberdieva ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
Intercultural Interaction ◽  
The Past ◽  
Russian Scientific ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Psychological Features

The article presents a theoretical analysis of scientific developments of the problem of psychological security of the individual, carried out by modern domestic scientists. In particular, the review of scientific articles and monographs, as well as candidate and doctoral theses defended in the XXI century in the psychological sciences is given. The article reflects the results of the analysis of the materials of international and all-Russian scientific and practical conferences over the past ten years, which discussed the problem of psychological security of the individual in various spheres of human life. The main approaches to the study of this phenomenon are highlighted and the directions of its further research are shown. Among the promising areas of research of psychological security of the individual, intercultural interaction is highlighted and the relevance of studying its socio-psychological features is justified. The model of an empirical study of the socio-psychological features of the psychological security of the individual in intercultural interaction is proposed.

scholarly journals The Awareness of Various Theoretical Dimensions of Cultural Variability in Enhancing a Language Educatorr Classroom Practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinyi Yang
Keyword(s):  
Classroom Practice ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Curriculum Instruction ◽  
To Come

With the great impact of globalization, expanding immigration and economic transactions, our world has become more diverse than it used to be. In view of that, cross-cultural interaction has become more frequent and inevitable. This can even be reflected in the teaching practice among language educators and students from different cultural backgrounds. As Gay (2000) noticed, culture is at the heart of all we do in the name of education, whether that is curriculum, instruction, administration, or performance assessmentme more frequent and inevitable. ThiHofstede (2001) that ) that art of all we do in the name of education, whether that is curriculum, instruction, administration, or performance assessmentme more frequent andvarious and dynamic cultural contexts, language educators have to come up with some feasible approaches to make their teaching practice more effective.

Sarmatian Mirrors and Han Ingots (100 BC–AD 100): How the Foreign became Local and Vice Versa

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Yao
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Local Adaptation ◽  
Black Sea ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
The Past ◽  
Foreign Objects ◽  
Hybrid Concept ◽  
Cultural Features

Concepts such as creolization and hybridity offer inclusive frameworks to study identity formation emanating from cross-cultural interaction. The borrowing of such concepts developed from recent history must contend with their relevance for the past as well as their applicability for understanding objects with mixed cultural features. This article reassesses the hybrid concept by contrasting a cognitive approach that identifies the figurative processes behind the local adaptation of foreign things. Looking at objects from Han China and the northern Black Sea, I examine how nomads and imperial agents conceptualized foreign objects through metonymic and metaphoric associations to influence understandings of self and group identity.

scholarly journals Teaching English in a Cross-cultural Context: Challenges and Directions

1970 ◽  
Vol 16 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 114-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharmin Sultana
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
International Communication ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Cultural Education ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cultural Concepts ◽  
Global Status ◽  
To Come ◽  
Globalized World

English as the foremost medium of international communication at present is called upon to mediate a whole range of cultural and cross-cultural concepts, to a greater extent than in the past. Inevitably human capital has taken a slant to fit in with the globalized world, and the notion of ‘Teaching English in a Cross-cultural Context’ is crucial. Hence, this paper focuses the possibilities and opportunities of multi-cultural education because of the global status of English. Exploring the challenges in teaching English in a cross-cultural context and the way to come out of the deficiency of the learners has been both obscure and controversial since long. What is widely accepted in this regard is English, not being the native language of the learners, triggers some problems. Therefore, the paper highlights core consideration for analyzing the challenges faced by the teachers and learners, and finally, recommends some directions to embrace the challenges. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/nelta.v16i1-2.6135 NELTA 2011; 16(1-2): 114-122

Suicidal Behavior in Black South Africans

Crisis ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lourens Schlebusch ◽  
Naseema B.M. Vawda ◽  
Brenda A. Bosch
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
South African Society ◽  
South Africans ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
Care Facilities ◽  
Black South Africans ◽  
To Come

Summary: In the past suicidal behavior among Black South Africans has been largely underresearched. Earlier studies among the other main ethnic groups in the country showed suicidal behavior in those groups to be a serious problem. This article briefly reviews some of the more recent research on suicidal behavior in Black South Africans. The results indicate an apparent increase in suicidal behavior in this group. Several explanations are offered for the change in suicidal behavior in the reported clinical populations. This includes past difficulties for all South Africans to access health care facilities in the Apartheid (legal racial separation) era, and present difficulties of post-Apartheid transformation the South African society is undergoing, as the people struggle to come to terms with the deleterious effects of the former South African racial policies, related socio-cultural, socio-economic, and other pressures.

Screen Wonders of the Past: And to Come?

1957 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 381-393
Author(s):  
Kenneth MacGowan
Keyword(s):  
The Past ◽  
To Come

Music and Memory: The Tlatelolco Refrain

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Josh Kun
Keyword(s):  
State Violence ◽  
First Century ◽  
Student Movements ◽  
Octavio Paz ◽  
Mexican History ◽  
The Past ◽  
Rock Bands ◽  
To Come ◽  
Musical Memory ◽  
A Current

Ever since the 1968 student movements and the events surrounding the Tlatelolco massacre, Mexico City rock bands have openly engaged with the intersection of music and memory. Their songs offer audiences a medium through which to come to terms with the events of the past as a means of praising a broken world, to borrow the poet Adam Zagajewski’s phrase. Contemporary songs such as Saúl Hernández’s “Fuerte” are a twenty-first-century voicing of the ceaseless revolutionary spirit that John Gibler has called “Mexico unconquered,” a current of rebellion and social hunger for justice that runs in the veins of Mexican history. They are the latest additions to what we might think about as “the Mexico unconquered songbook”: musical critiques of impunity and state violence that are rooted in the weaponry of memory, refusing to focus solely on the present and instead making connections with the political past. What Octavio Paz described as a “swash of blood” that swept across “the international subculture of the young” during the events in Tlatelolco Plaza on October 2, 1968, now becomes a refrain of musical memory and political consciousness that extends across eras and generations. That famous phrase of Paz’s is a reminder that these most recent Mexican musical interventions, these most recent formations of a Mexican subculture of the young, maintain a historically tested relationship to blood, death, loss, and violence.

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