Character Of Culture Research Articles

Discrepancies in Perception of Cultural Differences and Their Potential for Intercultural Conflicts in German-Dutch Interactions

ABSTRACT We investigated whether the conflict potential of cultural characteristics might be influenced by the importance that interaction partners attribute to them. We conducted a quasi-experiment in which we analysed the attitudes of 74 German and 75 Dutch people towards two cultural characteristics which both Germans and Dutch consider to be equally important and two cultural characteristics which they regard as differently important. We determined whether they were aware of this difference in equal measure. We found that intercultural conflicts are unlikely when people from both cultures estimate correctly how important persons from the neighbouring culture regard a certain cultural characteristic.

IDENTITAS KAWASAN PERKOTAAN DALAM PERSPEKTIF ATMOSFER KOTA

The urban atmosphere provides a different atmosphere and taste in different places. There are several aspects that can affect the urban atmosphere. Where in each urban area has different characteristics. The urban area of ​​Klungkung is basically strongly influenced by the strong character of the past culture. Urban atmosphere has a very important role in shaping the identity of urban areas. Cities on the island of Bali have their own uniqueness that makes the city atmosphere different. Moreover, Bali in the national and international scope already has an attraction that cannot be separated from the atmosphere of the island of Bali. The atmosphere of the city space provides a different atmosphere both in the identity and character of the urban area of ​​Klungkung, Bali. In an urban environment there is an atmosphere of space as an indicator and reference for development. identity of the urban area of ​​the city of Klungkung, Bali This research is motivated by the lack of understanding of the community, agencies and local government towards the urban atmosphere as one of the identities of urban areas. This research uses qualitative methods by applying descriptive studies, and literature studies. This study aims to determine the atmosphere of urban space in the Klungkung area and the relationship between the urban atmosphere and the identity of the urban area of ​​the city of Klungkung Bali.

Review of Dao Companion to Contemporary Confucian Philosophy

Elstein, D. (ed.) (2021) Dao Companion to Contemporary Confucian Philosophy. Cham: Springer International Publishing. The book under review is entitled Dao Companion to Contemporary Confucian Philosophy It brings together the most prominent scholars from around the world to provide a sound overview of contemporary Confucianism. Dao is one of the most influential scientific journals specializing in Chinese and comparative philosophy, and Dao Companions is the series known for providing comprehensive introductions of various aspects Chinese philosophy. The entire series opens with the phrase «While philosophy is a Western term, philosophy is not something exclusively Western». Though it is Western culture which coined the term philosophy , other cultures cannot be seen as deprived from the ability to philosophize. One of the central philosophical skills is to change the optics from one point of view to another, from one language system to another to see the blinds spots. And looking at Confucianism through the lens of Western philosophical paradigms has always been key to self-identification of contemporary Confucians. The authors of the volume do not intend to return to the original Confucianism in order to rebalance the historical asymmetry between the treatment of Chinese and Western philosophy. As editor David Elstein puts it, the prevailing use of Western philosophical vocabulary while speaking about Confucianism is not something to be corrected, but to be in accord with the latest developments in philosophical sciences. If it is primary to put Confucians to use in philosophical dialogue, the problems of text exegesis are to be put aside. The ambition to be constantly engaged in philosophical dialogue is another crucial characteristic of contemporary Confucian philosophy and culture, which draws the attention of the authors. Confucianism needs to be talked about all around the world in order to remain a «lively tradition». If being talked about requires being interpreted in Western terms, or serving as a basis of Chinese economic miracle, or working out a scientific methodology, Confucianism is ready to pay that price. Interestingly more than a half of the articles in the Dao Companion are written by non-Chinese authors, and they happen to be the biggest opponents of imposing Western meaning on Confucian texts. This means that the work done by Chinese thinkers in the XX th century did not lead to the oblivion of original Confucianism, but rather to its revival in Western philosophical community. The publication of Dao Companion to Contemporary Confucian Philosophy is sure to contribute to building amiable intercultural communication and developing scientifically correct comparative philosophy. It is also a new word in a comprehensive examination of contemporary Confucianism, which is free of all stereotypes.

Economic culture as a factor in the financial behavior of Russians: the role of archetypes and modern context

In Russia, as in many countries, the state is showing increased attention to the topic of financial literacy of the population, which is connected, on the one hand, with the expansion of the financial market inherent in the modern world economy, involving ordinary people in its orbit, and, on the other hand, with the curtail of the welfare state, and the reorientation of citizens to self-financing their needs for pensions, medical care, education, etc. In the process of such pushing up people to become investors, borrowers, participants of funded pension schemes, the specific character of the economic culture of the population is not taken into account, while many observed phenomena, such as low level of financial literacy and massive distrust of financial institutions, are due exactly to it. The article presents analysis of the cultural archetypes and patterns of behavior characteristic of the Russians that make up the economic culture; they were correlated with the models of behavior of the population of interest to the state; the impact on the existing economic culture of the current socio-economic context is considered. It is shown that the natural-climatic, geographic, geopolitical and religious factors have shaped Russians' specific attitude towards savings, their own and other people's property, planning horizons, contractual obligations, separation of common and individual responsibility, financial discipline, work ethics, state and commercial institutions, interpersonal relationships, etc., which is far from that sought by the state. Meanwhile, the problem is that it is the socio-economic policy pursued by the state, the events of the economic life of the past thirty years that act as the factors of reproduction and consolidation of the formed cultural archetypes and patterns of behavior, but not their productive transformation.

Approaching Classical Japanese Haiku Poetry through the Perspective of Ink Painting Art and Application to Teaching Foreign Literature for Literature Pedagogy Students at Dong Thap University

Exploring the culture and literature of countries around the world is increasingly important in the current trend of international exchange and integration. Therefore, foreign literature disciplines, including Japanese literature, occupies an increasingly essential position in the curriculum of Dong Thap University. However, the perception and teaching of Japanese Haiku poems have long been challenged due to language barriers as well as cultural differences. In order for enhancing the quality of teaching Haiku poetry to Literature Pedagogy majors at Dong Thap University, the article presents a new approach towards classical Haiku poetry through the perspective of ink painting art (aka painting art). With the aim of observing the beauty of Japanese literature and culture, the study analyzes the causes and some specific manifestations of the similarities between Japanese ink painting art and classical Haiku poetry in terms of artistic methods. The root cause lies in the influence of Zen, as a cultural characteristic of the Japanese spirit, and the specific manifestations include the technique of empty spaces in ink painting art, and the empty poetic strategy in classical Haiku poetry, the features of the conception scenery and the moment characteristic in both Oriental art genres.

Approaching classical Japanese Haiku poetry through the perspective of ink painting art and application to teaching foreign literature for Literature Pedagogy students at Dong Thap University

Exploring the culture and literature of countries around the world is increasingly important in the current trend of international exchange and integration. Therefore, foreign literature disciplines, including Japanese literature, occupies an increasingly essential position in the curriculum of Dong Thap University. However, the perception and teaching of Japanese Haiku poems have long been challenged due to language barriers as well as cultural differences. In order for enhancing the quality of teaching Haiku poetry to Literature Pedagogy majors at Dong Thap University, the article presents a new approach towards classical Haiku poetry through the perspective of ink painting art (aka painting art). With the aim of observing the beauty of Japanese literature and culture, the study analyzes the causes and some specific manifestations of the similarities between Japanese ink painting art and classical Haiku poetry in terms of artistic methods. The root cause lies in the influence of Zen, as a cultural characteristic of the Japanese spirit, and the specific manifestations include the technique of empty spaces in ink painting art, and the empty poetic strategy in classical Haiku poetry, the features of the conception scenery and the moment characteristic in both Oriental art genres.

Countering Islamophobia in Portugal: experience of Indonesian Muslim expatriates

The main purpose of this research is to investigate the Indonesian Muslim expatriate experiences in countering Islamophobia in Portugal. There are 488 Indonesian expatriates in Portugal, of whom 384 (78%) are Muslims, working on diplomatic missions, students, traders, professionals, laborers, and others. To analyze the data, the researcher used triangulation techniques such as interviews through guided written questions, observation, and documentation, using factor analyses covering items of Portugal government policy on religious life, characters of Portuguese culture, the characters of Indonesian Muslim socio-culture, educational background of Indonesian Muslim expatriates, and normative Islamic teaching inspiring their socioreligious views and attitude. As the main findings, the research revealed that in countering the Islamophobia experience, the Indonesian Muslim expatriates in Portugal feel joy, safety, peace, a harmonious life. Also, they feel like in their home towns; they can access public services easily and practice private, and religious activities normally, although the number of mosques in public places is very few. None of them experienced extreme hatred, prejudice, harassment, hostility, bad words, bad attitudes and treatments, discrimination, and Islamophobia from local citizens or other groups.

Image of Ukraine in the Works of Western Artists (Kyiv Murals)

The article addresses the classification of Kyiv murals of the early 21st century, made by foreign artists (USA, Canada, France, United Kingdom, Belgium, Australia, Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, South Africa, etc.). The image of Ukraine in the work of these artists, who got to know Ukraine forcedly, episodically, and inevitably scarcely, isthe image of the Other on the territory of this Other. As a result, “others” (foreign artists) overcome their own otherness and enter into cultural dialogue with other culture and the city, the notable part of which their murals become. Along with animalistic motifs (mainly ornithological), this area is dominated by the archetypal images of Ukrainian history and culture, bizarrely supplemented by their own reminiscences and additions (mural Berehynia). However, signs of simulacrum is not the case. It is rather a carnival fantasy that traces the influence of Baroque culture, which has deep roots in Ukraine. There are precedents of collaboration with Ukrainian authors (mural Vidrodzhennia (Renaissance) by Julien Malland and Oleksii Kyslov). Occasionally, foreign artists use only certain attributes of local life (embroidery pattern), directly reflect on the impressions of the present, transplanting them into the European context (mural Night Kyiv). Also from time to time they turn to real characters of national history and culture (Serhii Nigoian, Lesia Ukrainka, in the latter case Guido van Helten boldly reformed the established image iconography of the “daughter of Prometheus”, giving his heroine the features of a modern feminist), as well as sports (gymnast Hanna Rizatdinova). It was concluded that there is a long-term cultural dialogue between the West and Ukraine, with the first party presenting maximum interest and tolerance.

Municipal Culture Incentive Law: what are their inclusive and democratic effects on local cultural production?

Abstract This paper aims to analyze the inclusive and democratic effects of municipal cultural incentives law in Cataguases, Minas Gerais, fundamentally considering the promotion of citizenship and identity preservation based on cultural production. Data were collected through non-structured interviews with Cataguases cultural producers and analyzed according to a Marxist notion of discourse. Our findings revealed that approved purposes lead to a form of centralization on cultural production at the local level, characterized by the concentration of resources on established groups and the detachment from historically marginalized groups. Moreover, this scenario is aggravated when complementary cultural actions are transferred to the city’s cultural foundations, reinforcing the distinctive character of culture.

Municipal Culture Incentive Law: what are their inclusive and democratic effects on local cultural production?

Abstract This paper aims to analyze the inclusive and democratic effects of municipal cultural incentives law in Cataguases, Minas Gerais, fundamentally considering the promotion of citizenship and identity preservation based on cultural production. Data were collected through non-structured interviews with Cataguases cultural producers and analyzed according to a Marxist notion of discourse. Our findings revealed that approved purposes lead to a form of centralization on cultural production at the local level, characterized by the concentration of resources on established groups and the detachment from historically marginalized groups. Moreover, this scenario is aggravated when complementary cultural actions are transferred to the city’s cultural foundations, reinforcing the distinctive character of culture.

Desain Lanskap Jalan Gajah Mada Kota Pekalongan untuk Mendukung Program Pariwisata Batik

<p><em>Pekalongan City is known as the city of batik and batik accessed by the "Pantura" Highway. The Gajah Mada Street is the main road of Pekalongan city and has become a segment of "Pantura" Highway that important for tourism activities. Gajah Mada Street's landscape design is needed to improve the street corridor's landscape quality and attractiveness for tourism. On the other hand, Pekalongan has a vital characteristic of Batik culture. This study aims to create the landscape design of Gajah Mada Street to Support the Tourism Program of Batik, accompanied by identifying and analyzing the existing site condition of the Gajah Mada Street in Pekalongan City. The design concept applied in this research is </em><em>J</em><em>lamprang batik and parang batik, two of Pekalongan's distinctive geometric-shaped batik pattern. This study's final results are the concept plan, site plan, detailed engineering design, and perspective drawings.</em><em></em></p><p><em> </em></p>

Hate crimes and the law: Introducing caste hatred as a public order offence

The UK government has been provided with evidence that minorities who are of South Asian origin suffer discrimination based on ‘caste’ which is a particular characteristic of Indian sub-continental culture and society. It is prevalent in the Hindu diaspora in the UK and beyond. The issue that needs to be addressed is whether caste hatred can become part of any statutory definition of criminal law that will bring it on the same level as religious and racial hatred. This requires an analysis of the general category of hate crimes with a focus on the racial and religiously aggravated offences. The article examines several trends within the domestic legislative framework and case law as well as international law. It is proposed that caste should be considered as part of race for the purposes of hate crimes and that in the UK jurisdiction specifically Section 9 of the Equality Act 2010 should be amended to include caste as part of race which will then lead to caste hatred falling within the definition of a racially aggravated hate crime.

Countering spectacles of fear: Anonymous’ meme ‘war’ against ISIS

In recent years, the terrorist network Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has generated what might be referred to as a ‘spectacle of fear’ through strategic dissemination of execution videos and other graphic material. In response, social media users, activists and others circulate ‘counter-spectacles’, attempting to circumvent Islamic State of Iraq and Syria’s spectacle of fear. An important case in point is the global hacking network Anonymous declaring ‘war’ against Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, including a global call for a ‘Troll ISIS Day’. This article develops a theoretical framework for understanding the spectacle of fear generated by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and the counter-spectacle created through Anonymous’ trolling practices and explores empirically how Anonymous uses humor to combat fear through the memes produced on ‘Troll ISIS Day’. Bottom-up, cultural forms such as memes are increasingly woven into strategies for countering the fear associated with terrorism, and they represent the potential for humor to generate public engagement. However, as these memetic counter-spectacles draw on the incongruent humor characteristic of meme culture, they both contest and adopt strategies of fear, pointing to ethical challenges inherent in the counter-spectacle.

Dedicating Music, 1785–1850, by Emily H. Green

Book Review| April 01 2021 Dedicating Music, 1785–1850, by Emily H. Green Dedicating Music, 1785–1850, by Emily H. Green. Eastman Studies in Music. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2019. xii, 247 pp. Frederick Reece Frederick Reece FREDERICK REECE is Lecturer in Music History at the University of Washington. His research addresses issues of authorship and authenticity with a particular focus on the music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He is a recent recipient of the American Musicological Society’s Paul A. Pisk Prize and Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Fellowship, and is completing a book entitled Forgery in Musical Composition: Aesthetics, History, and the Classical Canon (under contract with Oxford University Press). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the American Musicological Society (2021) 74 (1): 166–170. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2021.74.1.166 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Frederick Reece; Dedicating Music, 1785–1850, by Emily H. Green. Journal of the American Musicological Society 1 April 2021; 74 (1): 166–170. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2021.74.1.166 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the American Musicological Society Search At a casual glance, the period 1785–1850 might seem a surprising venue for a book-length study of musical dedication. In bird’s-eye historical surveys, the dedication generally appears as a form of print culture characteristic of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century economies of liturgical and aristocratic patronage, not the burgeoning commodity market associated with the decades following the American and French Revolutions. As Emily H. Green suggests in her ambitious study, Dedicating Music, 1785–1850, the form’s apparent anachronism in this period may have been precisely the point. Dedication, she argues, served its latter-day practitioners as a means by which to “perpetuate the rhetoric and relationships of courtly patronage against Romanticism and capitalism” (p. 4). In the decades around 1800, the dedicatory act can thus “be broadly described as having a nostalgic flavor” (p. 33) that would not truly fall out of favor until the 1850s. So, why did the commercial print culture... You do not currently have access to this content.

Love, Mercy and Social Justice in the Context of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński’s Personalist Concept of Social Life

The article’s subject discusses love, mercy, and social justice from the perspective of Christian personalism presented by Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński. The author’s interpretation of source materials aims to present the above values as fundamental Christian virtues of a complementary nature, shaping the good of the human person’s goodness, both in the individual and social dimension. In the personalist-praxeological sense, both love, mercy, and social justice, understood as attitudes that which mean commitment and fidelity, are formed primarily in the Christian reality of everyday life, particularly with regard to one’s family and nation. The author of this article asks whether the aretology of Cardinal Wyszyński’s personalist concept of social life can be applied to the specific realities of the contemporary social life. The answer to such questions is extremely important, especially in the context of the currently proclaimed “ideological pluralism,” characteristic of present-day postmodern culture, which emphasizes the moral ambivalence of “liquid” postmodernity.

Conceptualizing Motives for Migration: a Typology of Italian Migrants in the Athens Area

Migration flows from a southern European country to another one have received scarce attention so far. This is especially true for Italians migrating to Greece or, more specifically, the Athens area. Thus, there are limited insights as to the reasons why Italians are leaving and why they have been choosing Greece as their destination. This paper looks at their motives for migrating and their destination choice in order to understand the diversity of migratory trajectories through a typology. In order to do this, we carried out in-depth interviews to Italians living, both permanently and temporarily, in the Athens area, employing snowball sampling. As a result, we have identified 5 types of Italian immigrants in Athens: Mediterranean, nomadic, work, entrepreneurial, and marriage migrants. Mediterranean migrants are driven by the typically Mediterranean character of climate, landscape, food, and culture in their deliberate choice of Athens. Nomadic migrants have casually chosen Athens to satisfy their need of continuous physical mobility and multiple moorings as a defining aspect of their identity. Work migrants are motivated by the search of a job regardless of the place and work content. Entrepreneurial migrants are motivated by a vocation for a professional career in Athens. Finally, for marriage migrants, the choice of Athens is a consequence of a couple choice and shared life projects.

Special Issue Introduction: Disabling Theological Education

Dolmage in Academic Ableism (2017) exposed the ableist and eugenic character of academic culture explaining, “The ethic of higher education still encourages students and teachers alike to accentuat...

Critical pedagogy and visual culture art education in a cosplay-based curriculum

Although cosplay may be defined simply as the act of dressing up as a popular culture character, this definition fails to convey the criticality, identity exploration, and craft involved. Critical pedagogy and visual culture art education can together form the bases of a cosplay curriculum designed to promote critical thinking about interaction with popular culture and fandom, to explore the construction of identity, and to use cosplay as a form of artistic practice.

Seeking understanding of the textbook-based character of Finnish education

ABSTRACT This article provides a critical exploration of the textbook-based character of Finnish educational culture. The opening section points to the need to recognize and better understand the role of textbooks in Finnish education. The next section outlines how and why textbooks have become a characterizing feature of Finnish educational culture before addressing different ways in which pupils and student-teachers are socialized into textbook-based practices of schooling. The later sections critically consider the importance of textbooks as part of Finnish education, as well as the implications for educational research, the ongoing development of Finnish education and in particular teacher education. This study suggests that a more clearly explicated understanding of text-based educational cultures is needed to better understand the character of Finnish education and to broaden the lens for theorisations of, as well as practices within, education.

Mandelstam’s Poetry and Artistic–Philosophical Intuitions of Russian Culture

ABSTRACT This article analyzes the artistic experience of Osip E. Mandelstam (1891–1938) in the context of the aesthetic and ideological transformations of Russian and European culture during the first half of the twentieth century and of the philosophical inquiries of that period. Overcoming the programmatic multitudes of modernist aesthetics, Mandelstam draws his own artistic ideas and images from those aesthetics while also opposing postclassical culture in the form of the artistic avant-garde. Relying on his own poetic and intellectual intuition, which he explicated and formalized theoretically in his essays and works of criticism, he asserts an authorly, reflective style of modern poetry that anticipated the post-nonclassical artistic culture characteristic of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.