scholarly journals Cultural environment and the new face of Southern Vietnam culture

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 61-76
Author(s):  
Hieu Tung Ly
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
Southern Vietnam ◽  
Cultural Exchanges ◽  
Geographic Diversity ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Region Culture ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Dominant Influence ◽  
Vietnamese Culture

From the perspectives of cultural geography, systematic approach, and ethnolinguistics, the paper examines the impact of two factors of natural geography and cultural exchanges on the change of Vietnam traditional culture in Southern Vietnam. Natural geographic diversity, in collaboration with the dominant influence of Vietnamese culture, has developed here the tradition of plain culture parallel with sea culture. Vibrant cultural exchange has made a profound cultural transformation of all ethnic groups here, including Vietnamese culture. Therefore, in order to properly understand, correctly interpret the formation, change of ethnic cultures and region culture in Southern Vietnam,first of all we need to consider the impact of the two factors on subjects of ethnic cultures and their cultural activities here.

Cultural exchanges: contrasts and perceptions of young musicians

2003 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-82
Author(s):  
Colin Durrant
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
Emotional Life ◽  
Cultural Exchanges ◽  
Cultural Experiences ◽  
The Impact

This article focuses on young musicians' perceptions of their musical and cultural experiences while on a tour of South Africa during the summer of 2000. The young musicians were asked to keep journals throughout the tour in order to be able to recall their reactions and feelings about their various experiences. The comments, particularly the written ones from the young musicians, vividly display the impact of such experiences on their musical and emotional life. While conclusions are incomplete, some implications for the nature of cultural exchange and understanding and music education in general are put forward.

Promoting Youth Empowerment through International Cultural Exchanges

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 57-67
Author(s):  
Elianys Martinez Rodriguez ◽  
Houssnia Tiana
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
Youth Empowerment ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Exchange Program ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Cultural Exchanges ◽  
Global Understanding ◽  
Perceived Impact ◽  
Citizen Diplomacy ◽  
The Impact

The present study explores the perceptions of a group of Moroccan students about the impact that an international Youth Ambassador program (the Marrakesh-Scottsdale Cultural Exchange Program) had on empowering them, promoting global understanding, and fostering their sense of citizen diplomacy. The study uses mixed methods to explore the participants’ perceived impact of the exchange experience on three individual-level constructs: empowerment, cultural competence, and citizen diplomacy. The results, which align with the literature, show mostly positive effects on the variables examined. Limitations and implications of the study are discussed. 

BUDDHIST FACTORS IN THE CULT OF THIEN HAU IN SOUTHERN VIETNAM

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (29) ◽  
pp. 38-52
Author(s):  
Tho Ngoc Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
Normative Values ◽  
Folk Belief ◽  
Late Imperial ◽  
Ethnic Chinese ◽  
Southern Vietnam ◽  
Symbolic Meanings ◽  
The Relationship

Thien Hau (天后, Tian Hou) is a folk belief of the ethnic Chinese in Vietnam, which was propagated to Southern Vietnam by Chinese immigrants from Southeast China in the late 17th century, constantly strengthened and developed together with the process of development and integration of the ethnic Chinese  community. During the process of cultural exchange, the ethnic Chinese have found in Thien Hau symbolic meanings of ethnic culture, and also an integrated icon of connecting and reconciling cultures with local Vietnamese and Khmer communities (to compare with the Vietnamized Guan Di symbol). ThienHau was sanctioned the title Heavenly Empress by the late imperial emperors of China, thereby attaching to this symbol the Confucian normative values through which the state could manage to control and standardize the liturgical communities in the Confucian way. However, in Southern Vietnam, when the symbol of Thien Hau has early entered the process of de-Confucianization and de-centralization, it has deeply absorbed Buddhist philosophy to transform and develop among the liturgical communities. This paper applied two specific cultural theories in the study of ritual practice and cultural transformation. One was of James Watson’s (1985) standardizing the gods and rituals in late imperial Chinese culture, and the other was the concept on the relationship between in-depth faith and ritualpractice by Melissa Brown (2007). This research was conducted through the fieldwork activities (Southern Vietnam is where over 80% of Thien Hau temples are located within the whole country), comparison and analysis methodologies for the description, and interpretation of the Buddhist influence(s) in the cult of Thien Hau in Southern Vietnam, thereby understanding the principle(s) of operation and development of cultural exchange in the region

Introduction: Mobility Transformations and Cultural Exchange in Mongol Eurasia

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 257-268
Author(s):  
Michal Biran
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
Cultural Relativism ◽  
Imperial Culture ◽  
Cultural Exchanges ◽  
Mongol Empire ◽  
Global World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
High Measure

AbstractThe Mongol Empire is as an early example of the transformative role of mobility, celebrated in the contemporary social sciences. The only way in which the Mongols who by the time of Chinggis Khan numbered less than a million nomads, were able to create and rule their huge empire was by fully mobilizing the resources—both human and material—from the regions under their control. This high measure of mobility fostered robust cross-cultural exchanges in various fields, resulting in a huge expansion of knowledge and connectivity, cultural relativism, and a common imperial culture—political, material, institutional—with regional variants. These developments set the stage for major transformations in world history. The introduction presents the articles included in this special issue, which tackle various case-studies of mobility and transformation while looking at the Mongol Empire in Eurasian perspective, and highlighting the impact of the Mongols’ indigenous culture on the proto-global world of the 13th and 14th centuries.

Self-Esteem and Loneliness as Predicting Factors of Arab Children Achievement İn Kuala Lumpur

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asma'a Abdel Fattah Alhoot ◽  
Ssekamanya Sıraje Abdallah
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
Arab Children ◽  
Predicting Factors ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Arab Schools ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Impact

Taking into consideration the fact that self-esteem and loneliness have an even more important role to play in students' learning, this study seeks to examine the correlation of these two factors with children academic performance. The study involved 499 (grade 4 to grade 9) Arab children studying at Arab schools in Kuala Lumpur-Malaysia. Data were collected via two questionnaires (one for loneliness and the other for self-esteem). The correlational data analysis yielded a negative correlation between loneliness and academic achievement while there is a positive correlation between self-esteem and achievement. Results also suggested that there is no correlation between students' gender, age, and academic achievement. Furthermore, the results revealed that self-esteem is a good predictor of achievement while loneliness and gender are not good predictors. The findings of the present study are discussed in relation to the relevant literature, taking into consideration the impact of children mental health on their academic achievement. Finally, recommendations for further research are presented.

Kabuliwallah

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Avinash Paliwal
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Historical View ◽  
The People ◽  
The Impact

Modern India’s diplomatic ties with Afghanistan were officially instituted in 1950. But relations between the people of these countries are civilizational, and based on extensive cultural exchange. Starting with the impact of Rabindranath Tagore’s legendary short story, Kabuliwallah, on India’s imagination of Afghanistan and its people, this chapter offers a long historical view of India-Afghanistan relations. Its main focus, however, remains on British India’s approach towards Afghanistan and the 1947-1979 phase when India fought three wars with Pakistan and one with China. This historical overview allows for the teasing out the aforementioned drivers of India’s Afghanistan policy.

scholarly journals Measuring the contribution of specialist vocabulary knowledge to academic achievement: disentangling effects of multiple types of word knowledge

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Masrai ◽  
James Milton ◽  
Dina Abdel Salam El-Dakhs ◽  
Heba Elmenshawy
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Vocabulary Knowledge ◽  
The Other ◽  
Word Knowledge ◽  
Academic Vocabulary ◽  
Vocabulary Size ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThis study investigates the idea that knowledge of specialist subject vocabulary can make a significant and measurable impact on academic performance, separate from and additional to the impact of general and academic vocabulary knowledge. It tests the suggestion of Hyland and Tse (TESOL Quarterly, 41:235–253, 2007) that specialist vocabulary should be given more attention in teaching. Three types of vocabulary knowledge, general, academic and a specialist business vocabulary factors, are tested against GPA and a business module scores among students of business at a college in Egypt. The results show that while general vocabulary size has the greatest explanation of variance in the academic success factors, the other two factors - academic and a specialist business vocabulary - make separate and additional further contributions. The contribution to the explanation of variance made by specialist vocabulary knowledge is double that of academic vocabulary knowledge.

scholarly journals China in medieval Indian imagination: “China”-inspired images in medieval South Asia

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Jinah Kim
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Cultural Exchanges ◽  
Imperial Power ◽  
Physical Presence ◽  
Different Types ◽  
First Millennium ◽  
Chinese Buddhists ◽  
Medieval India ◽  
The Impact ◽  
India And China

Abstract Cross-cultural exchanges between India and China during the first millennium are often understood through a Buddhist lens; by investigating the impact of Indian Buddhist sources, be they literary, doctrinal, or artistic, to receiving Chinese communities. In these cultural transactions, instigated by traveling pilgrim-monks and enacted by imperial power players in China, India emerges as a remote, idealized, and perhaps “hollow” center. Imagined or real, the importance of images of India in medieval Chinese Buddhist landscape has been established beyond doubt. What seems to be missing in this unidirectional looking is the impact of these cultural communications in India. What were the Indian responses to Chinese Buddhists' demands and their physical presence? How was China imagined and translated in medieval India? This essay proposes to locate the activities of Chinese monks in India and the iconographies of China-inspired Indian Buddhist images within the larger historical context of shifting cultural and political geography of the medieval Buddhist world. By exploring different types of evidence from borderlands, vis-à-vis the monolithic concepts of China and India, the essay also complicates the China–India studies' comparative model.

scholarly journals The Impact of Brand Equity on Conversion Behavior in the Use of Personal Banking Services: Case Study of Commercial Banks in Vietnam

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
pp. 346
Author(s):  
Thi Thu Cuc Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Brand Equity ◽  
Commercial Banks ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Banking Services ◽  
Quantitative Research Methods ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Customer Services ◽  
The Impact

The brand equity of banks plays a crucial role in determining customer behavior of using their services. The study aims to examine the impact of brand equity on conversion behavior in the use of personal banking services at commercial banks in Vietnam. The paper uses quantitative research methods, through linear SEM (Structural Equation Modelling) analysis, with survey data including 554 samples of individual customers of commercial banks. The study’s findings show that the bank’s brand equity has a negative impact on the behavior of individual customers. In the relationship between these two factors, competitive advertising effectiveness and loyalty of customers act as intermediary factors. On that basis, the study makes a number of recommendations to preclude customers leaving and minimize business losses caused by the conversion of customers’ banks. The findings of this study have shown the importance and impact of brand equity on conversion behavior in the use of personal customer services. These are meaningful contributions both theoretically and practically to help banks get a deeper insight into brand equity and the need to pay attention to building and developing sustainable brand equity for the bank, as well as an important basis for further research.

Without Crossing a Border: Exploring the Impact of Shifting Study Abroad Online on Students’ Learning and Intercultural Competence Development during the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yingjie Liu ◽  
Thomas Shirley
Keyword(s):  
Study Abroad ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
Competence Development ◽  
Study Abroad Programs ◽  
Online Study ◽  
Curriculum Redesign ◽  
Online Format ◽  
The Impact

While all higher education was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, study abroad programs were uniquely challenged by the associated restrictions and limitations. This case study integrates a Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) pedagogy approach and virtual reality (VR) technologies into the curriculum redesign process to transform a business study abroad course into an online format. Using VR technology, U.S. students and their international partners in Germany, Brazil, and India created and shared cultural exchange virtual tours. The redesigned online study abroad course engaged students in active learning activities and cultivated students’ intercultural competence development.

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