Essays on Mingling

Challenges of Multiculturalism

In a world with a large number of issues undergoing the complicated process of resolving like racial and gender discrimination, it is of no wonder that heated debates and arguments have been happening in all corners of the society. Philosophers, sociologists and even functionalists have mustered up enough grounds to curiously question the origins and possible answers to these arguments. Moralists like the famous teacher-student duo, Socrates and Plato, have stimulated the intelligent minds of the people regarding the morals and virtues concerning the significance of the challenges that discrimination presents. Sociologists like Karl Marx and Max Weber have ...

Introduction

There can be no denial of the fact that in the age of technological boom and globalization, the domain of media and the Internet have come to majorly influence the domain of communication. Indeed, a sea of change has come about in the mode of communication as it is mostly dependent on technology in the present era of ICTs. (Rothkegel & Ruda 2012) But, apart from the predominance of technology mediated communication among people of the world and dissemination of information all over, the world of media and the Internet has come to revolutionize the domain of inter-cultural communication in ...

In Saudi Arabia women have constantly been fighting for equality long before the rumble of discontent spilt over to Tunisia and Egypt. Women in Saudi Arabia have been calling for change and have tried to placate the opposition with concession in form of allowance, new social liberties and government handouts they believe that time has come for change. all this are the baby steps to women freedom and according to Bennett (2010), there is necessity to remove any constraint that make women unequal to men when it comes to self-determination in all aspects of life. There are several reasons ...