Malaysian Product Design Identity: Review on the ‘Keywords’

Considering Malaysia as a multi-ethnic country, it is difficult to determine and define the cultural identity to represent Malaysia (Mun, Fern, - Chin, 2015), and use it as a characteristic in designing a product. This has been a challenging issue for most Malaysian local designers to design a Malaysia-look product based on a national identity characteristic. There is no proof that the product characteristic can be summed up or generalized based on the understanding of multi-ethnic agreement decision-making (Zainal, Othman, - Samsudin, 2015). With regards to Malaysia, the primary issue is about the national identity identification for product design. This issue then prompted to the question that would Malaysian designers be able to establish a Malaysian product with a national identity by looking at this multi-ethnic society? This research reviews the literature concerning Malaysian identity based on articles and visuals. It aims at getting the general keywords related to the components in culture and yet to be incorporated with the design characteristics at the beginning of ideation process. The basis of this study is referring to the dominant culture study by Edensor (2002), cultural identity components evaluation by Ibrahim (2015), and culture and identity ‘key issues’ by Clarke (2011). By understanding the cultural component within the society, pulling out the keywords, and validating the chosen keywords by conducting a survey, these keywords will act as the guidance in visualising a characteristic; and there will be greater chances for Malaysian designer to success in developing products with strong Malaysian identities.

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Cultivating College Students’ National Culture Identity Based on English Education

English Language Teaching ◽

10.5539/elt.v9n5p192 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 9 (5) ◽

pp. 192

Author(s):

Yang Yuan ◽

Lu Fang

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Ethnic Identity ◽

National Identity ◽

Cultural Identity ◽

Identity Construction ◽

National Culture ◽

English Education ◽

Present Situation ◽

Identity Based

<p>Our country is a multi-ethnic country with plentiful national culture achievements, and the development of the national culture shows a trend of diversity, so cultural identity construction is particularly important. Article analyzes the concept of national identity, the relation between cultural identity and ethnic identity, the present situation of national cultural identity in the English education in our country, and the English education and national culture identity education in surrounding neighbor countries, then proposes some suggestions of implementing national cultural identity education based on English Education.</p>

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South Vietnamese Identity, American Intervention, and the Newspaper Chíính Luan [Political Discussion], 1965––1969

Journal of Vietnamese Studies ◽

10.1525/vs.2006.1.1-2.169 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 1 (1-2) ◽

pp. 169-209 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Nu-Anh Tran

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

National Identity ◽

Cultural Identity ◽

Group Membership ◽

The United States ◽

Political Discussion ◽

Colonial Era ◽

Dialogical Relationship ◽

Identity Based ◽

The Republic

This paper explores representations of political and cultural identity within journalistic discourse about the American presence in the South Vietnamese newspaper Chíính Luun [Political Discussion] from 1965 to 1969. The encounter with Americans prompted Vietnamese writers to highlight the distinctive nature of their own culture, to define their national identity based on an imagined history and the image of proper Vietnamese womanhood, and to delineate normative boundaries of group membership. These constructions of identity represent certain continuities with the colonial era but were clearly modified by the dialogical relationship and unequal alliance between the United States and the Republic of Vietnam.

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Macedonia Faculties’ Students - “Chrisi Avgi” (Right Party) Followers’ Critique on the Greek Educational Policy

Studies of Changing Societies ◽

10.2478/scs-2014-0172 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 2013 (1) ◽

pp. 3-14 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Kalerante Evagelia

Keyword(s):

National Identity ◽

Cultural Identity ◽

Educational Policy ◽

Educational System ◽

Political Party ◽

Moral Values ◽

Political Issues ◽

The Past ◽

Research Findings ◽

History Books

AbstractThe present paper is involved with the Pedagogical faculties’ students’ critique on the current educational system as it has been altered after 1981. The research was carried out utilizing both quantitative and qualitative tools. Students-voters participated in the interviews whereas active voters were difficult to be located to meet the research requirements. The dynamics of the specific political party is based on a popular profile in terms of standpoints related to economic, social and political issues. The research findings depict the students’ strong wish for a change of the curricula and a turn towards History and Religion as well as an elevation of the Greek historic events, as the History books that have been written and taught at schools over the past years contributed to the downgrading of the Greek national and cultural identity. There is also a students’ strong belief that globalization and the immigrants’ presence in Greece have functioned in a negative way against the Greek ideal. Therefore, an overall change of the educational content could open the path towards the reconstruction of the moral values and the Greek national identity.

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Nation Branding:

MedienJournal ◽

10.24989/mj.v37i3.116 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 37 (3) ◽

pp. 7

Author(s):

Gisela K. Cánepa

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

National Identity ◽

Cultural Identity ◽

Social Contract ◽

The State ◽

Nation Branding ◽

Great Opportunity ◽

National Community ◽

Neoliberal Governmentality ◽

Entrepreneurial Spirit

Nation branding plays a central role within neoliberal governmentality, operating as a technology of power in the configuration of emerging cultural and political formations such as national identity, citizenship and the state. The discussion of the advertising spot Perú, Nebraska released as part of the Nation Branding campaign Marca Perú in May of 2011, constitutes a great opportunity to: (i) argue about the way in which audiovisual advertisement products, designed as performative devises, operate as technologies of power; and (ii) problematize the terms in which it founds a new social contract for the Peruvian multicultural national community. This analysis will allow me to approach neoliberalism as a cultural regime in order to discuss the ideological nature of the uncontested celebratory discourse that has emerged in Perú and which explains the economic growth of the last decades as the outcome of a national entrepreneurial spirit that would be distinctive of Peruvian cultural identity.

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Ivan Cankar’s National Narrative and Its Role in the Formation of the Slovenian Cultural Identity

Slavic World in the Third Millennium ◽

10.31168/2412-6446.2018.3-4.1.09 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 13 (3-4) ◽

pp. 108-117

Author(s):

Anna G. Bodrova

Keyword(s):

National Identity ◽

Cultural Identity ◽

Symbolic Order ◽

National Narrative ◽

Cultural Space ◽

Slavoj Zizek ◽

Slavoj Žižek ◽

The Subject

Ivan Cankar (1876–1918), who occupies an honorable place in the Slovenian cultural canon, once changed the course of development of Slovenian literature and influenced the formation of national identity. The national narrative of Cankar was based on contradictions: living far from his people, he sometimes glorified them and sometimes attacked them with heavy criticism; he correlated his homeland with his mother, the mother though being dead. Cankar’s concentration on the subject of mother and homeland is interpreted here in the framework of psychoanalysis. Following Slavoj Žižek, the author develops the idea that it was the mother who became the Symbolic Order representative or Super-Ego for the writer. The concept of “Cankar’s mother”, which became a symbol of self-sacrifice and at the same time repressiveness in the Slovenian cultural space, is considered.

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A Data-driven Decision-making Approach for Complex Product Design Based on Deep Learning

2021 IEEE 24th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD) ◽

10.1109/cscwd49262.2021.9437761 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Zou Lai ◽

Siqin Fu ◽

Hang Yu ◽

Shulin Lan ◽

Chen Yang

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Deep Learning ◽

Product Design ◽

Data Driven ◽

Data Driven Decision Making ◽

Complex Product

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What is that’s going on here? A multidimensional time concept is foundational to framing for decision making in situations of uncertainty

Cultural Studies of Science Education ◽

10.1007/s11422-021-10063-7 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Federica Raia ◽

Lezel Legados ◽

Irina Silacheva ◽

Jennifer B. Plotkin ◽

Srikanth Krishnan ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Medical Knowledge ◽

High Tech ◽

Evidence Based ◽

Dominant Culture ◽

Cultural Changes ◽

Cultural Paradigm ◽

Life Saving ◽

Cultural Dominance ◽

K 12

AbstractSTEM disciplines are the dominant culture in K-12 education. With its study of organs and diseases that afflict patients’ bodies, Western evidence-based medicine is seen and understood in the modern cultural paradigm as a science and as the practice in which a subject, the doctor, acts on an object; the patient’s body—a dominant culture in the patient’s journey. However, with the continually evolving high-technological and medical knowledge, life-saving therapeutic options are life-changing. They can range from changes in the diet, requiring structural and cultural changes in family life, to changes related to the experiences of learning to live tethered to a machine that is partly inside and partly outside one’s body or with somebody else’s heart. In this article, we show how competing needs to personalize care for the patient as a person forcefully emerge in response to evidence-based medicine’s global cultural dominance. We highlight two fundamental issues emerging in decision-making processes: (1) Framing evidence-based knowledge, uncertainties of the course of the disease and options, and (2) working with different, equally important, and often at odds conceptions of time in the care for the Other. Through the longitudinal analysis of moment-to-moment interactions in high-tech medicine encounters of a patient, his family, and the team caring for them, we show how framing and different conceptions of time emerge as issues, are profoundly interconnected, and are addressed by participants to care for a patient confronting existential decisions.

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Economic and Social Rights, Budgets and the Convention on the Rights of the Child

The International Journal of Children s Rights ◽

10.1163/15718182-02102003 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 21 (2) ◽

pp. 248-277 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Aoife Nolan

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Social Rights ◽

Child Rights ◽

Rights Of The Child ◽

Budget Analysis ◽

Key Issues ◽

Significant Obstacle ◽

The Right ◽

The Relationship

Recent years have seen an explosion in methodologies for monitoring children’s economic and social rights (ESR). Key examples include the development of indicators, benchmarks, child rights-based budget analysis and child rights impact assessments. The Committee on the Right of the Child has praised such tools in its work and has actively promoted their usage. Troublingly, however, there are serious shortcomings in the Committee’s approach to the ESR standards enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which threaten to impact upon the efficacy of such methodologies. This article argues that the Committee has failed to engage with the substantive obligations imposed by Article 4 and many of the specific ESR guaranteed in the CRC in sufficient depth. As a result, that body has not succeeded in outlining a coherent, comprehensive child rights-specific ESR framework. Using the example of child rights-based budget analysis, the author claims that this omission constitutes a significant obstacle to those seeking to evaluate the extent to which states have met their ESR-related obligations under the CRC. The article thus brings together and addresses key issues that have so far received only very limited critical academic attention, namely, children’s ESR under the CRC, the relationship between budgetary decision-making and the CRC, and child rights-based budget analysis.

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