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• Cultural diversity — is having different cultures respect each other s differences. It could also mean the variety of human societies or cultures in a specific region, or in the world as a whole. It differs from multiculturalism in that multiculturalism is usually… …   Wikipedia

• Cultural communication — Cultural relativism is the view that cultures are merely different, not deficient, and each culture’s norms and practices should be assed only from the perspective of the culture itself, not by standards embraced by another culture. It is the… …   Wikipedia

• Cultural divide — is a term of sociology and human psychology, referring to attempts to describe the differences in reaction, response, and perception of people exposed to multi cultural situations. The phenomenon of the cultural divide emerged as mankind began to …   Wikipedia

• Cultural competence — refers to an ability to interact effectively with people of different cultures, particularly in the context of human resources, non profit organizations, and government agencies whose employees work with persons from different cultural/ethnic… …   Wikipedia

• Cultural dissonance — (education, sociology, anthropology and cultural studies) is an uncomfortable sense of discord, disharmony, confusion, or conflict experienced by people in the midst of change in their cultural environment. The changes are often unexpected,… …   Wikipedia

• CULTURAL LIFE — Introduction The movement for the return to Zion which emerged as a force at the end of the 19th century was based on a variety of motivations, including the political – the demand for an independent homeland where the Jews could forge their own… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Cultural studies theory of composition — The cultural studies theory of composition (hereafter referred to as cultural studies ) is a field of composition studies that examines both writing as an artifact of culture and the contexts of writing situations. It also examines what happens… …   Wikipedia

• Cultural Revolution, education — Schooling in China during the period 1968–76 underwent radical changes, to an extent rarely witnessed elsewhere in modern times. In the 1960s, China’s school structure had largely resembled the educational structures of other late developing… …   Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture

• cultural awareness — N UNCOUNT Someone s cultural awareness is their understanding of the differences between themselves and people from other countries or other backgrounds, especially differences in attitudes and values. ...programs to promote diversity and… …   English dictionary

• cultural diversity — The inevitable variety in customs, attitudes, practices, and behavior that exists among groups of individuals from different ethnic, racial, or national backgrounds who come into contact …   Medical dictionary

• Cross-cultural leadership — Cross cultural psychology attempts to understand how individuals of different cultures interact with each other (Abbe, Gulick, Herman, 2007). Along these lines, cross cultural leadership has developed as a way to understand leaders who work in… …   Wikipedia