Cross-cultural Societies Research Articles

Development of mathematical competence as a key competence in English language teaching

The relevance of the study is conditioned to the need to explore new effective methods of implementing competence-oriented education while teaching English and forming key competences as a basis for learners’ comprehensive development and successful integration into a fast-moving cross-cultural society. The purpose of the study was to substantiate the category “mathematical competence in English language teaching learning” and analyse the survey of English language teachers to determine its understanding among teachers of secondary educational institutions. General scientific and empirical methods, deduction, comprehensive analysis, and comparison facilitated achieving the set goals. Hence, this paper presents the research on implementing the competence-oriented strategy stated by the Law of Ukraine on Education in general and the features of developing mathematical competence in English language teaching/learning as a key one. The modern view on understanding the concept in scientific discourse was analysed, including considering mathematical competence as a subject-specific, key, and super-competence. Assuming that communication is one of the methods and ways of teaching the English language, the authors’ vision of its definition regarding its development in the language learning was suggested. In addition, the survey of English language teachers was conducted and analysed and contradictions and problems in its comprehension and implementation among teachers were revealed: understanding the need to develop mathematical competence as a key one in teaching English; and the lack of methods and didactic materials for practical use at the English language lessons at secondary educational institutions. Furthermore, outlined prospects for future research in developing methods and efficient didactic materials for developing the mentioned competence and conducting an experiment to prove their effectiveness. These didactic materials also should comprise the psychological, linguistic, and lingua-didactic aspects, previously substantiated by the author of this paper, for developing mathematical competence as a key one in the process of teaching the English language

Medical students’ attitude towards cultural diversity: a cross-sectional study at a health sciences university in eastern Nepal

ObjectivesTo assess the attitude of medical students towards cultural diversity aiming to elucidate our current status in understanding cultural awareness and sensitivity.Design, setting and participantsA web-based cross-sectional study was carried...

Representation as Collective Memory Carnivalesque and Orality in Eldorado West One by Sam Selvon

In Sam Selvon’s seven one-act radio-drama Eldorado West One, written for BBC radio in 1969, a universe of colours, contrasts, accents, nostalgia, and struggle that peculiarise the lifeexperience of the Caribbean community in Londonis atstake. The main characters ofthe play are the same as in the well-known novel The Lonely Londoners(1956), re-represented in a theatrical context, constructed on the orality and urban communication, reinvented through the immediate representation of radioactors and the expression of the Trinidadian Creole Language. The surrounding reality described by Selvon's conscious disillusionment is interwoven with the historical events that have marked British society, such as the massive migration fromthe Caribbean territories to London, like the Windrush generation in the 50s, that, in the last decades, have shaped the United Kingdom intoa cross-cultural society. This essay is an attempt to show, from a linguistic reflection to ethnographic data about Trinidadian Carnival, how we incur in these elements through the play indicated above;through the connection in Selvon’s narrative between the Caribbean heritage, in particular the manifestation of the subculture related to the Trinidadian Carnival, theCreole andCalypso music;and the syncretism created by the tradition and the contact with the Western culture, in the era of European decolonisation during the 20thcentury.

Theoretical Model of Adaptation of Japanese Religious Organizations to Cross-cultural Society

Theoretical Model of Adaptation of Japanese Religious Organizations to Cross-cultural Society

‘Voicing Protest’: Performing Cross-Cultural Revolt in Gambino's ‘This is America’ and Falz's ‘This is Nigeria’

The paper addresses the dialectics of protest and revolt in Childish Gambino’s musical video ‘This is America’ and its adapted version in Falz’s musical video ‘This is Nigeria’ within the context of Musical Discourse Analysis. In Gambino’s ‘This is America’, the African-American youths become the centre of attention, while America is depicted as a country of racial inequality. Correspondingly, a revolt thematic is further pursued in Falz’s ‘This is Nigeria’ to reflect a devaluation of youths’ lives, and highlight other local conflicts that impinge on Nigeria’s continuity as a sovereign nation. Surprisingly, among the emerging hip hop voices in America, Donald Mckinley Glover Jr., otherwise known as Childish Gambino, most clearly heralds revolt against a longstanding racism that all too often result in the lives of African-American youths been desperately wasted through the high rate of mass shootings. Although relatively new on the list of Nigerian hip hop, Folarin Falana, whose stage name is Falz, has made a controversial but compelling reinterpretation of Nigerian social crises in ‘This is Nigeria’. His innovative adaptation of Gambino’s ‘This is America’ forcefully brings a formal order out of chaos. Apparently, the visual parallelism in their musical videos engages appropriately with metatheatre to clearly challenge conventional assumptions of youths’ lives in America and Nigeria. Suffice it to state that by embracing the path of resistance, both Gambino and Falz have proven that their individual frustrations are the frustrations of youths in their cross-cultural societies. Chaos, marginality and resentment epitomised in the two musical videos undergird the focus of this paper to explore the signification of American and Nigerian youths’ cross-cultural pursuit of protest, conflict and revolt through meta-theater in ‘This is America’ and ‘This is Nigeria’.

Transcultural Society in A Post-Colonial World

“Transcultural” is a term that refers to the life style of the people from different culture or national communities. It indicates movement across time, space and other cultural boundaries. Transcultural society is a group of people, living as a community, where different culture, religion and language work together with much understanding. It is a society which extends through all human cultures. It is an ideal of freedom embracing all the peoples of the world. Transculture is different from multiculture, Inter-culture and cross culture. Multicultural society is relating to different culture in which people live along side one another, but each cultural group does not interfere in another culture and it has no unnecessary interaction and engagement with each other. While interculture is the exchange of culture. Intercultural society has deep understanding and respect for all culture, where no one is left unchanged because every one learns from one another and grows together. One more type of society comes under post-colonial world and that is cross cultural society. It deals with the comparison of different cultures. In cross-cultural communication, differences are understood and acknowledged and can bring about individual change, but not collective transformations. In cross-cultural society, one culture is often considered ‘the norm’ and all other cultures are compared or contrasted to the dominant culture.

Does migrant background predict to what extent colorectal cancer patients want to be informed about their life expectancy? \u2013 a cross-sectional analysis

BackgroundAlthough migrant health is a topic of interest across Europe and although health care services in Germany consider migrant health issues, people with a migrant background often experience difficulties regarding health care provision. The prevalence of various cancers among migrants is lower relative to non-migrants although this equalizes with increasing duration of residence. There are documented differences in health behavior and disease-coping strategies between migrants and non-migrants, but data are scarce on this subject. This analysis investigates the extent of information migrant and non-migrant colorectal cancer (CRC) patients in Germany want about their life expectancy and the level of trust they have in their treating physician.MethodData from 522 CRC patients were collected through a self-reported questionnaire. Migrant background was determined by the patients’ and/or their parents’ birthplace. Bivariate analyses were applied to determine the differences between migrants and non-migrants. A multivariate analysis was used to measure the effect of migration background, demographics, and cancer stage and treatment on the preferred extent of information about life expectancy and trust in their treating physician.ResultsThere were no significant differences regarding demographics or cancer stage and treatment between migrant and non-migrant CRC patients. Having a migrant background had no influence on the level of trust in the treating physician, but migrants preferred to be less informed about their life expectancy than non-migrants (21.4% vs. 13.4%, p = 0.04). The multivariate analysis showed that men (aOR = 2.102, CI: 1.123–3.932) and patients with a non-migrant background (aOR = 5.03, CI: 1.02–24.73) preferred receiving information about the approximate value of their life expectancy, rather than receiving no information.ConclusionThe study found more similarities than discrepancies between migrant and non-migrant CRC patients regarding demographic factors and stage of disease and treatment, which may be a consequence of an increasingly homogeneous cross-cultural society. However, cultural differences between the minority and host population remain and should always be taken into account in daily clinical practice and in the communication skills training of health care professionals. The study also indicates that recording migration background into health registers would facilitate migrant-sensitive research.

Oriental Pearls: Adaptation of Ghazals in Modern American Poetry

Ghazal poetry is a poetic genre which expresses the pains of loss and separation as well as the beauty of the beloved. The form is ancient, originating in Arabic, Hindu and Persian poetry. Ghazal poetry has been introduced into modern American poetry since the midst of the twentieth century after translating some Ghazal poems by the Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib. This paper examines the American adaptations of Ghazal poetry by outstanding modern American poets since the second part of the twentieth century. It argues that “transcultural Orientalism”, which is the product of integration between orientals and occidentals in cross-cultural societies, is a key factor that illustrates the reason behind the American adaptation of Ghazal poetry. Adaptation of Ghazal poetry, by modern American poets intensifies an attempt to dominate the “other” through revisiting the literary trends of its exotic culture. These poets also attempted to create a cultural dialogue through imposing a cross-cultural poetic genre. They introduced Ghazal poetry in a new context which suits more the contemporary issues. However, many American Ghazal poets fell in the trap of infidelity since they viewed it through an outsider’s eyes, ignoring its artistic value and its intellectual substance.

The Application to Evaluate Worship Location Based on Geospatial Analysis: Case of Indonesia

The application of geospatial analysis is a need to respond to the increasing number of social conflicts caused by the existence of public places of worships (PPW) in Indonesia. This conflict eventually becomes endemic among Indonesian cross-cultural society. Even though the government has produced a regulation-like policy namely SKB 2006 to manage the establishment of PPW, its contribution to avoiding or reducing the conflicts is in question. Researchers notice that the policy is misused in some incidents to even trigger the conflict. It is due to the presence of people participation defined in SKB 2006 particularly to determine the legalization of PPW. Currently there is no exact foundation used by the government to precisely measure the status of PPW, hence the decision to permit or reject any proposal to establish PPW is determined by the acceptance of surrounding society which in many occasions becomes the cause of the conflict. Therefore the government needs to regain control over the existence of PPW since these types of buildings are public facilities used by people in cross-cultural society. The research is to provide accurate information regarding the existence of PPW and the impact of their presence using geospatial analysis. The objective is to analyze the interaction between PPW and its surrounding objects. The analysis is based on PPW coverage, overlapping and blank spot area. A case study has been conducted to analyze the existence of PPW at Cemorokandang village, a part of Malang city in the province of East Java. The application highlights the issue of overwhelming PPW in the location of analysis.

The Status of the German Minority Within the Multi-Ethnic Educational System of the Banat Region – a Historical Overview Focusing on the Multicultural Character of the Region

Abstract It is widely known nowadays that pure monolingual cultures are exceptions rather than common occurrence and that Europe's largest cities constitute the cradles of multi-ethnic and cross-cultural societies. This study would like to draw the attention to the today's Romanian region of Banat, which housed over the last 200-300 years a multicultural avant-garde society, within which the Romanian, German, Hungarian, Serbian, Bulgarian or Jewish inhabitants successfully intermingled, granting the multilingual community an emancipated transcultural character, also reflected on the local educational system. The historical approach on this matter reveals a functional multicultural educational system that survived due to the open-minded and forthcoming attitude of the Banat population over two or three centuries, in spite of the numerous unfavourable governmental policies, and could serve as a basis of comparison to further studies on multi- or intercultural language teaching.

Disadvantage, Ethnic Niching or Pursuit of a Vision?

As immigrant groups grow older, host societies are faced with new challenges of integration. In a labor market that is structured by ethnicity and gender, the demand for culturally competent care provides immigrant women with the opportunity to become entrepreneurs within the care sector. This article analyzes 20 in-depth interviews with immigrant women from 13 countries who are entrepreneurs in home-help services for elderly people. The article analyzes the complex motives behind the women’s entrepreneurship. Ethnic entrepreneurship has mainly been approached as a way for immigrants to survive in the labor market—the disadvantage theory—or as a means to create job opportunities for co-ethnics within ethnic economies. Opposed to this, three main motives appear in the analysis: first, the processes of ethnic and gender sorting in the care sector; second, ethnic strategies in the labor market; and third, the wish to gain independence and improve the quality of care. Only in a few cases is ethnic entrepreneurship practiced within ethnic economies; instead, it is mainly found within cross-cultural economies, consisting of employees and customers of mixed origin who are embedded in a majority society. The women construct their ethnic identities to compete in the segmented Swedish labor market by creating ethnic identities of care that are adjusted to meet the needs of their customers in a cross-cultural society.

Anyan's Story: A New Guinea Woman in Two Worlds.

Anyan was born in the mid-1920s into the pre-metal culture of the Tairora of what is now called Papua New Guinea. Her early life was rooted in the traditions of her remote village, where worked the land and took part in the rituals connected with raising food, but lived at the time of first contact between her people and those from outside and saw the traditional ways begin to change. At her marriage moved to the government station at Kainantu, where was exposed to more Western influences, even as tried to hold on to her past and her ties to her village. Before died in the mid-1970s, this woman of indomitable spirit rode in an airplane and voted in a Western-style election. When Virginia Watson began her anthropological fieldwork in the eastern highlands of New Guinea in 1954, needed an interpreter for the unwritten language of the Tairora. Fortune sent her Anyan. In their work together as Watson researched the role of Tairora women, Anyan gradually painted a picture of her society using events from her own life. Over many years of collaboration and deepening friendship a remarkable life history was told, one that bridged the periods before and after contact with Western culture. When Watson suggested the book to Anyan, she was elated. She was anxious that everyone know about Tairora. Her pride in her upbringing, in her culture, in her beautiful corner of the world, was apparent. Individuals experience the shock of cultural transplantation in many ways. As Watson writes, of those forced to make the move from one culture to another were consumed by it, and some were consigned to straddling the dark void that the cultural disparities created. Others, like Anyan, were able to maintain equilibrium in both cultures. Anyan's Story will be of interest to anthropologists and other social scientists. It is a valuable study of gender roles, women's experience in cross-cultural societies, and culture shock.

The Elusive Semiperiphery: A Critical Examination of the Concept Semiperiphery

The paper examines the concept of semiperiphery and its dynamic role in the world-system. Its usefulness becomes more evident, especially when it is used as a heuristic device to analyse both the general and specific characteristics of dynamic, intermediate states between core and periphery. The study discusses the active role of the semiphery in the context of data from cross-cultural societies.

Using a Group Process in the Teaching of Cultural Awareness for Students in a Multicultural Society

Penny Anagnostou and David Cox (1988) have pointed out that there is little written in Australia about the education of social workers for working in a multicultural society. This article describes the group process used in the Social Work department at Monash University to teach firstly, cultural awareness, and secondly, a generalised framework for practice in a cross-cultural society. There is a brief discussion on the need for such a course, both from the viewpoint of practitioners and as a consequence of an ethnically diverse student population in the Monash course. The method of teaching was initially in small groups run during lunchtime. The course was so popular that in 1990 the sessions were moved into the fieldwork curriculum and became available to all students. The groups discussed the impact of their own culture on themselves as social workers and the implications of their own experiences in developing a framework for cross-cultural social work in a multicultural society.

New Officers Elected for Cross‐Cultural Society

Anthropology NewsVolume 23, Issue 6 p. 4-4 Free Access New Officers Elected for Cross-Cultural Society First published: September 1982 https://doi.org/10.1111/an.1982.23.6.4.4AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume23, Issue6September 1982Pages 4-4 RelatedInformation