Essays on Ethnocentric

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The use of social categories to rationalizing or justifying the treatment of one group over another In America before the 1880, social categories were the norm. They found use in rationalizing and justifying the treatment of one group over another. An excellent example of this is evident in slavery, as well as, the slave trade that thrived during this period. Social categories were used to justify the need for Africans drawn from Africa into the new world. It is estimated that about 10 to 11 million African slaves were drawn from Africa and brought to the new world in ...

In an article titled ‘How Religion Can Lead to Violence’, Gary Gutting explains his view on the current state of terrorism in the world. Gutting (2016) elaborates that almost all the recent terror attacks all over the world have received almost the same response from Islamic leaders who have distanced the causes of terrorists from their tolerant religion. Clearly, Gutting is of the position that Islamic teachings have failed to teach Muslims tolerance as Christianity has done to its adherents. After reading the article, I was utterly disappointed in the arguments that Gutting presented in a topic defined by ...

Multicultural Project Planning - Post War Conditions In Iraq

The pre-war and post-war years in Iraq have been devastating to the residents as they were traumatized by the dictatorial rule of Saddam Hussein and the foreign military intervention that resulted in the country. Years after the war, the Iraqis were relieved of Saddam Hussein, but their living conditions continue to be harsher. This is typified with most people still lacking clean water for drinking, market places have been destroyed and looted while the transport system has been crippled with bridges and roads having been demolished. The power stations have been destroyed especially during the Gulf war as exemplified ...

Reciprocity of Marketing & Culture

INTRODUCTION The growing interdependence of global markets has made a more compelling case for culture as an increasingly significant variable in marketing efforts. For one, products and services produced at a global scale find more diverse platforms, particularly across virtual media. The pace, scale and content of products and/or services are, moreover, making an increasing case for more standardized offerings across different marketing contexts. Typically, consumer behavior metrics – including, most notably, conventional market research and more innovative approaches as data analytics platforms and applications – are adopted in order to identify consumer behaviors and needs. This approach to consumer behavior ...

Writings on Hinduism have been remarkably expanded in the past decade by anthropological research which focuses on the real nature of religious practices, including the underlying philosophy, and examines the setting or environment as well as the written literature. Edward Harper, in his article Ritual Pollution as an Integrator of Caste and Religion (1964), vividly showed that the hierarchical relationship of the concepts of 'purity' and 'pollution', which are the foundational elements of caste, is based on a paradigm of society wherein different groups are brought together by the common pursuit of religion or rituals for the gods. The ...

Human Resource Management Issues

Introduction The human resource unit is perhaps the most dynamic one compared to virtually all the others. Majorly, this arises from the fact the human resource deals with the most important part of an organization and that is the employees. Therefore, there is a need for constant evolution in this area to ensure that the organization stays at par with the changing requirements of the employee. Specifically, various issues are of utmost concern to each agency. For instance, compensation and benefits for the employees are one of the most important areas that the human capital department deserves to pay ...

Cross-Cultural Management

Cross-cultural management is the field of study that has to drown interest to researchers, and its basis is on the theories and research from disciplines like cross-cultural psychology, international business, human resource, organizational behavior and management. The goal of this field is to seek and find an understanding of how the national cultures affect management practices in the modern business world. The other goal could be to identify the similarities and differences across cultures in various management practices and organizational contexts. The primary objective of cross-cultural management is that it seeks to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of global ...

The definition of the Western Canon is always changing, according to literary critic and Yale professor Harold Bloom: but is that mutability a good thing? Bloom, a rather conservative literary critic, believes that there should be literary standards that outlive the fashionable theories of the day. In our times, these literary theories include ideas borrow from Marx, Foucault, New Historicism, and ethnocentric and gender perspectives, among other lenses through which to view the production of literature. Amidst these ever-changing standards and definitions of a “classic,” Bloom believes the study of literature and good reading habits—to read well and ...

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The lip-plate culture is practiced among the Mursi tribe of Ethiopia. The Mursi tribe lives in the lower Omo valley close to the border with Sudan. The Lip-plate culture expresses high levels of maturity among women (Mursi Online, par 2). In particular, the Lip-plate is a sign that a woman can give birth. Furthermore, the Lip-plate ensures that a woman is not mistaken as a member of another neighboring tribe. A western view would lead to an assumption that the Lip-plate is a form of body mutilation that affects women. However, the Lip-plate is a body art that is ...

United Parcel Services (UPS) was established in 1907 to provide messenger services. UPS has become the world largest package delivery company and a leading supplier of transport and logistics services to businesses with global operations (UPS, 2016). The strong values of the founder, James E. Casey of customer service, fair rates, 24-hour service, and reliability gave the start-up an edge over its competitors in messenger service (UPS, 2016). Since its inception in 1907, UPS has overcome various challenges and had to transform itself in order to survive and thrive. The advent of the telephone and the automobile reduced the ...

Modern day businesses have realized the importance of spreading their operations across the world to achieve the numerous benefits associated with international business. When compared to companies that are limited to their local boundaries, multinational companies have continued to dominate the world, especially with regards to financial performance (Baik & Park, 2015). However, international operations also have drawbacks or challenges that such corporations must encounter. According to Baik and Park (2015), some of the challenges include hiring and staffing the management team. The kind of managerial workforce that selected has an impact on not only the success of an entity ...

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Abstract Multiculturalism is a concept discussed today in the scientific circles as well as among the public. In Canada, this topic generates heated clashes between the experts and community. As the analysis shows, it is a heated dispute where people are divided into two camps, those who advocate for diversity and their opponents emphasizing the need to revive the core Canadian culture. Both sides of the conflict agree that Canada has become one of the most multicultural countries in the world due to its politics of inclusion and loyalty to all cultures. The historical facts imply that multiculturalism in ...

CROSS-CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE

Cross-Cultural Intelligence Introduction Communication is of immense importance in the organization and the day to day activities of mankind (Karnaukhova & Polyanskaya, 2015; Teng et al. 2014). It includes verbal and non-verbal communications. In the multiethnic, multiracial and multicultural world of today, interracial (cross-cultural) communication is common and paramount. However, research has shown that there are various barriers to this form of communication. Interracial communication simply implies communication between people of different cultures. Communication barriers do not only exist in the interracial context but also interpersonal communication (communication between people of the same culture) barrier also occurs. This essay takes ...