Global Issues: Education in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Spain and the United States

1994 ◽  
Vol 83 (8) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Adoración Albaladejo Sánchez ◽  
María A. Herrera-Menchén ◽  
Paul Witkowsky ◽  
Adoracion Albaladejo Sanchez ◽  
Maria A. Herrera-Menchen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Global Issues

How Contemporary Publics Understand and Experience Happiness: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

2010 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
DOH CHULL SHIN
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
The West ◽  
China And India ◽  
Cross Cultural Differences ◽  
The People ◽  
Culturally Different

AbstractHow do contemporary publics understand happiness? What makes them experience it? Do conceptions and sources of their happiness vary across culturally different societies? This paper addresses these questions, utilizing the 2008 round of the AsiaBarometer surveys conducted in six countries scattered over four different continents. Analyses of these surveys, conducted in Japan, China, and India from the East; and the United States, Russia, and Australia from the West, reveal a number of interesting cross-cultural differences and similarities in the way the people of the East and West understand and experience happiness. Specifically, the former are much less multidimensional than the latter in their conceptions of happiness. Yet, they are alike in that their sense of relative achievement or deprivation is the most pervasive and powerful influence on happiness.

Tobacco Use by Samples of American and Turkish Students: A Cross-Cultural Study

1989 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 241-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad R. Torabi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
College Students ◽  
Tobacco Use ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public University ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Chewing Tobacco ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Factors Associated

Tobacco use is a world-wide problem with a significant impact on the health and well-being of many people. To design an effective smoking education program, it is important to understand smoking patterns and factors associated with this additive habit from a cross-cultural perspective. The purpose of this study was to investigate some of the patterns of and certain factors associated with smoking and chewing tobacco behavior among the students of the United States and Turkey. A questionnaire, designed, reviewed, and revised by experts, was administered to a representative sample of 450 college students in a major public university in the United States. It was then translated and reviewed by bilingual authorities. The investigator administered the questionnaire to a sample of 450 representative college students in a counterpart public university in Turkey. The results indicate that a significant number of college students in both countries use tobacco. The patterns of smoking and various factors associated with tobacco use, however, are different in the two cultures. It was concluded that international health education programs which are sensitive to cultural differences are the key to ultimately eliminating this major health crisis.

scholarly journals Self-Interest Bias in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Cultural Comparison between the United States and China

2021 ◽  
pp. 002202212110257
Author(s):  
Mengchen Dong ◽  
Giuliana Spadaro ◽  
Shuai Yuan ◽  
Yue Song ◽  
Zi Ye ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Norm Violations ◽  
Cross Cultural Comparison ◽  
Self Construal ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Social Gathering ◽  
The Individual

In the global crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries attempt to enforce new social norms to prevent the further spread of the coronavirus. A key to the success of these measures is the individual adherence to norms that are collectively beneficial to contain the spread of the pandemic. However, individuals’ self-interest bias (i.e., the prevalent tendency to license own but not others’ self-serving acts or norm violations) can pose a challenge to the success of such measures. The current research examines COVID-19-related self-interest bias from a cross-cultural perspective. Two studies ( N = 1,558) sampled from the United States and China consistently revealed that participants from the United States evaluated their own self-serving acts (exploiting test kits in Study 1; social gathering and sneezing without covering the mouth in public in Study 2) as more acceptable than identical deeds of others, while such self-interest bias did not emerge among Chinese participants. Cultural underpinnings of independent versus interdependent self-construal may influence the extent to which individuals apply self-interest bias to justifications of their own self-serving behaviors during the pandemic.

scholarly journals Students (ages 6, 10, and 15 years) in six countries knowledge of animals

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Patrick ◽  
Jenny Byrne ◽  
Sue Dale Tunnicliffe ◽  
Tuula Asunta ◽  
Graça S. Carvalho ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Biological Knowledge ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Free List ◽  
Educational Implications ◽  
Sociocultural Interactions

This article considers the knowledge students (ages 6, 10, and 15 years) have of animals from a cross-cultural perspective. Students from six countries (Brazil, England, Finland, Iceland, Portugal, and the United States of America) were asked to free-list as many animals as possible and state where they had seen or learned about the animals. The results were analyzed and they indicate that 1) Students are aware of animals. 2) Students are more aware of mammals as examples of animals. 3) There is a globally shared folk biological knowledge of animals. 4) Students learn about animals during sociocultural interactions. The educational implications are discussed.

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