Ethnic Elements Research Articles

The Research of Animation Art Drawing Design Paradigm from the Perspective of Aesthetics and Structural Thinking

Animation scene design is an important part of a successful animated cartoon, which plays an important role in setting the atmosphere and art style. We will decorate the scene design of painting techniques used in opera animation, is the traditional ethnic elements into an art form with modern aesthetic needs, in the opera animation scene design in multi angle use of painting language training, aims to expand the creator more space. On the one hand, on the one hand, on the other hand, it should be drawn by means of painting. From the birth of the animated film, art style and the film has a close relationship between the blood, the art style is the mother of the animated film, the different forms of art for the development of animation film provides the creation of nutrients. In addition to its story, image and music and many other factors, the scene design and art style settings are two important aspects.

Revitalizing the ‘civic’ and ‘ethnic’ distinction. Perceptions of nationhood across two dimensions, 44 countries and two decades

AbstractThis article describes how contemporary publics think about the nation along Kohn's classic distinction between ‘civic’ and ‘ethnic’ nationalism. The article makes three contributes to the existing literature. Firstly, it introduces a new statistical tool, multi‐classification analysis, to establish and analyse the two‐dimensional structure found in this and previous studies. Secondly, it derives at an alternative interpretation, with a first dimension distinguishing the level of mobilization of nationalist attitudes and a second dimension distinguishing the relative emphasis given to civic and ethnic elements. Thirdly, it demonstrates how this set‐up can be used to describe differences within countries, across countries and across time using all three rounds of International Social Survey Programme data on national identity. The descriptions demonstrate a move towards mobilized ethnic nationalism in Eastern Europe, while a stable non‐mobilized civic nationalism prevails in many West European countries, despite the rise of new right‐wing parties.

Conversions to Islam and Identity Reconfigurations among Poles in Great Britain

In recent decades, a significant number of Polish citizens have not only left the country but also moved away from the religious traditions in which they were brought up. The article sheds light on the phenomenon of religious conversions and identity reconfigurations within the Polish community in Great Britain. It delves into the intricate processes of religious self-transformations and their impact on other forms of identity among Poles who have embraced Islam in the context of migration. It also assesses the processes of converts’ distancing themselves from the elements of ethnicity and religion in which they were born and adopting new ones amid an atmosphere of increased anti-Muslim sentiments and stigmatisation. The paper draws from fieldwork data carried out amongst Polish Muslim converts living in different British cities between 2014 and 2016. It analyses their relations with the Polish community in the United Kingdom, the British Muslim population, as well as their larger sending and receiving societies. It argues that the processes of religious conversion and migration are frequently interrelated, as a significant proportion of the over 2,000 Polish Muslims in Britain embraced Islam either after their arrival in the country or elsewhere before coming to the UK. The paper also shows how the change of religious identity leads to the adoption of new traditions and habits and to a process of at least partial distancing from non-Muslim relatives and elements of non-Muslim Polish culture. The converts thus engage in construction of hybrid identities, linking elements of Polishness with super-diverse British Muslimness.

The Application of Female Pattern Aesthetic and Design: A Case of Nvshu Pattern

With the progress of globalization and the cultural fusion between different areas and nationalities, diversification is typical of global culture and aesthetic appreciation. Regional, ethnic and highly distinctive garments have drawn unprecedented attention and are being used as a fashion for textile clothing design. Nvshu is the only surviving female writing system in the world. Its design originated from weaving patterns, with unique regional characteristics. This article aims to the application of Nvshu pattern, as an ethnic element, to the design of modern women’s dress which highlights the uniqueness of these garments, and also will serve as new reference to the introduction of cultural products to the design of textile clothing.

The Ethnic Elements of Greek Music

Though ethnic language pervades Greek musical culture, little has been made of this information. This paper is an attempt to understand to what extent and why music was influenced by issues of ethnicity in ancient Greece. Analysis of musical historiography, musicians' poetry, and epigraphy suggests that Greek music was considered to be a heterogeneous agglomeration of different local traditions, and that these differences were expressed by ethnic language. Ethnic identity was critical to Greek concepts of music because local communities used and promoted their own musical cultures for interaction with other intra-Hellenic and foreign communities.

Tobacco and the Malays: ethnicity, health and the political economy of tobacco in Malaysia

ABSTRACTObjectives: To identify the historical nexus between Malaysia’s largest and politically dominant ethnic group and the political economy of tobacco, and to consider the implications of this connection for tobacco control.Design: Primary and secondary documentary sources in both English and Malay were analysed to illuminate key events and decisions, and the discourse of industry and government. Sources included: speeches by Malaysian political and industry actors; tobacco industry reports, press releases and websites; government documents; World Health Organization (WHO) tobacco control literature; and press reports.Results: Malays have the highest smoking prevalence among Malaysia’s major ethnic groups. The tobacco industry has consistently been promoted as furthering Malay economic development. Malays play the major role in growing and curing. Government-owned Malay development trusts have been prominent investors in tobacco corporations, which have cultivated linkages with the Malay elite. The religious element of Malay ethnicity has also been significant. All Malays are Muslim, and the National Fatwa Council has declared smoking to be haram (forbidden); however, the Government has declined to implement this ruling.Conclusion: Exaggerated claims for the socio-economic benefits of tobacco production, government investment and close links between tobacco corporations and sections of the Malay elite have created a conflict of interest in public policy, limited the focus on tobacco as a health policy issue among Malays and retarded tobacco control policy. More recently, ratification of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, regional free trade policies reducing the numbers of growers, concerns about smoking from an Islamic viewpoint, and anxieties about the effects of smoking upon youth have increasingly challenged the dominant discourse that tobacco furthers Malay interests. Nevertheless, the industry remains a formidable political and economic presence in Malaysia that is likely to continue to proclaim that its activities coincide with Malay socio-economic interests.

(Mis)interpreting urban youth language: white kids sounding black?

ABSTRACTThe language of young people is often viewed very negatively by some sections of the mainstream media and by some social commentators in the UK. While this is nothing new – older generations routinely despair of how the youth of today are ruining the language – what is different now is the added element of ethnicity, whereby young people of various ethnicities are perceived as using some kind of ‘ghetto grammar’ or ‘Jafaican’ which carry often explicit connotations of ‘sounding black’. This paper challenges the mainstream view by firstly introducing the linguistic take on this emerging Multicultural Urban British English, and then exploring the views of young people themselves on how they use language by taking qualitative data from a linguistic ethnography project involving 14–16-year-olds in a non-mainstream urban educational setting. The young people provide insights into their language that are in complete opposition to the views so often expressed in the media, and which instead suggest that linguistic features that were previously strongly associated with specific ethnicities are being used in new and innovative ways. Refreshingly, it would appear that for many young people ethnicity is simply not a consideration, at least in relation to language.

Del americanismo al nacionalismo: el discurso bélico chileno durante la Guerra del Pacífico (1879-1884)

War is an occasion conducive to the formation and propagation of discursive constructs that generate social unity and identity. This article highlights Chilean war discourse during the nineteenth century, which legitimized the War of the Pacific. The aim is to underscore the principal features of war discourse within the prevailing discursive context. The hypothesis is that there is a nationalist discourse that emphasizes cultural and ethnic elements which justified armed conflict. The source material studied here is essentially comprised of national newspaper and tabloid articles. The conclusion is that nationalist political language during that time was basically constituted inarticulately as a result of the presence of a rather diverse and decentralized public sphere.

Ethnocentric Tendencies in the Romanian Translations of Macbeth

Abstract Starting from Venuti’s binary classification of translations into ethnocentric and foreignizing this paper focuses on the factors that trigger ethnocentric attitudes in the translation of the play Macbeth in Romanian. Counterbalancing the extremely neologist tendencies at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, exemplified in Ștefan Băjescu’s translation, most of the 20th century translators prove an inclination towards the use of local, ethnic elements, that should revive the national culture and language, the integrity of which was threatened by foreign elements. Ion Vinea’s translation, that was the canonical Romanian version for more than half a century, is analysed in the paper as the representative of the ethnocentric camp. Apart from the spontaneous reactions that are generally ruled by the laws of language change, other factors that lead to the fostering of ethnocentric views are the communist regime’s constrictive ideology and, at the micro level, the translator’s own linguistic and cultural perception.

The Identity of Guanyin: Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender

Guanyin worship in Thailand among the Thai-Chinese is important in that it connects them to Buddhist identity, Thai-Chinese identity and gender identity. This paper will examine the multiple meanings and functions of Guanyin worship. It will show how Guanyin is considered as a Bodhisattva in Chinese Mahayana Buddhism, but crosses the boundaries between Mahayana Buddhism and Theravada Buddhism in Thailand. Guanyin is accepted by both Thai-Chinese and Thais as a figure of Buddhism, and is considered to strengthen their Buddhist identity. Guanyin belief also is an important element of Thai-Chinese ethnicity. Guanyin’s female gender feature combines love, compassion, kindness, perfection, tolerance, devotion, and her power provides an a focus of worship for her female followers, many of whom are successful businesswomen. These reasons explain why Guanyin is popular in Thailand, and growing in popularity because of the challenges of ethnic and gender identity and the pressures of contemporary urban life.

Reflections of an Atheist Jew

I was not born nor raised an atheist Jew. My identity was formed by various factors among them family background; geographical migration; British education; secular Zionism; anthropological study and research. These factors were the precipitates of two earlier modern revolutions that transformed the modern world and that affected both Jews and non-Jews, namely the French Revolution which was political, and the Industrial Revolution which was economic. For Jews the French Revolution split the hitherto fused elements of religion and ethnicity into their component parts whilst the Industrial Revolution gave rise to urbanisation and increasing individualism. Jews were faced with a choice of various identities; various permutations were adopted, some apparently paradoxical such as Jewish atheist. In this article I examine the interaction of these factors and document how a single case study, my own, exemplifies but one response to the question of modern Jewish identity. Other Jews have chosen different options. For example, my research in post-communist Hungary has shown that former communist Jews have embraced a number of options. Some founded a Reform Synagogues; others became Hasidim; yet others assumed modern Orthodoxy; a few became Zionists; most, however embraced secular Jewish culture.

Summary of three-dimensional animation creation based on ethnic culture element

three-dimensional animation is a product combined by technology and art. It is an artistic ex-pression form combining painting, film & television, digital technology, music, and literature. As an audio and visual art, three-dimensional animation has its own unique culture-loading function, technical aesthetic charac-teristics, and requirements for national art expression. This paper aims to find the method to combine digital technology and national art in combination of three-dimensional animation short film creation, and hopes to clear the road for the cultivation of domestic three-dimensional animation quality project.

AVAR KHANATE IN THE HISTORY OF DAGHESTAN: HISTORICAL FLASHBACK

In the article the author research the forming of Avar Khanate as one of the largest state space in the Caucasus. We consider the origin of the process of formation and development of the Avar medieval state of Sarir in the mountainous Dagestan. To the VI century there is beginning the formation of political union, where was an organization of power in the form of domination of one person with the despotic nature of power, which in the X century gets its final form. Sarir territory covered a large area highland, foothill and planar portion of Dagestan, which combines a number of states, kingdoms and tribes standing at different stages of social development. The military servile nobility is noticeable Turkic ethnic element. This was not unique to Sarir, it was characteristic of other feudal domain of Dagestan. The article shows also how the state Sarir in the XII century broke up into small areas. On the territory of Khunzakh district was formed Avar Nutsal Space that existed from the XII to XIX centuries. On the territory of Avaristan since ancient times formed state formation first known as Sarir, Avar Khanate, Avar Nutsal Space, Avar District.

‘Playing’ at the ethnic boundary: strategic boundary making/unmaking among ethnic Chinese groups in Australia

ABSTRACTThe sociological literature has constructed a systematic typology of ‘modes’ and ‘means’ of strategic ethnic boundary making/unmaking. Through exploring different strategies, scholars illustrate the processes and contexts of boundary expansion or contraction. Other scholars also distinguish ethnic elements and ‘moral' values attached to certain ethnicities but not to others. This paper acknowledges dynamic boundary making/unmaking and moral aspects of ethnicity, while exploring the different degrees to which national and pan-national identity nest within each other among ethnic Chinese groups, as well as how ethnic boundary becomes a field where people ‘play' in their everyday interactions. Based on participant observations and in-depth interviews from two pan-Chinese worksites in Australia, the paper argues that different interpretations of ethnic identity as well as how different identities (national and pan-national) are nested give people room to ‘play' at the ethnic boundary and result in different outcomes. This paper also shows that people can cross the ethnic boundary (between Taiwanese/Hong Kongese and PRC-Chinese) without expanding/contracting the existing categories or ‘repositioning/transvaluing' their ethnic statuses.

KAZAKİSTAN'IN COĞRAFİ VE KÜLTÜREL POTANSİYELİ

Kazakhstan is a country that has many different ethnic elements. The main ones are the Koreans, Azerbaijanis, Chechens, Ahiska Turks, Greeks, Bashkirs, Chuvash, Kazakhs, Turkmen, Balkars, Karakalpaks and Altaylılar. Within these communities, all but the Russians, Belarussians, Ukrainians, Germans and Koreans are Turkish communities. Apart from these, there are a few non-Turkish ethnic elements. Most of the Turkish communities are Muslim, while other ethnic elements are generally Christian or Eastern religions.

Chinese Americans and Cityhood Movement in Hacienda Heights in 2003

Cityhood incorporation is a common local issue in the American local history regarding different political, social, and economic factors. However, the creation of municipality becomes more controversial agenda in certain local regions when suburban ethnic communities are rapidly created by post-1965 immigration. It is reflected by the cityhood movement in Hacienda Heights in 2003, when Chinese/Taiwanese immigrants added ethnic elements in these public and civic activities. This study provides further observation and investigation to the impact that Chinese capitalize on their ethnic and non-ethnic social networks to increase their power in the community-based civic matters, while showing various dimensions on the responses from local multiethnic communities.

Sensing nostalgia through traditional food: an insight from Croatia

Purpose– Due to the growing trend of consuming healthy food, which reproduces the ideal of the food the authors tried in their childhood, an increasing number of researchers have brought together the values of tradition, nostalgia and food. The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between food and nostalgia in order to find out in which way they affect each other.Design/methodology/approach– In order to explore the perspectives of traditional food in re-collecting and re-experiencing positive past experiences, both qualitative and quantitative techniques were used in two stages. First, focus group interviews were conducted with ten restaurant chefs in three different regions of Croatia. Then, a survey was carried out with 362 Croatian consumers.Findings– Focus group results show that although traditional food creates new opportunities for differentiation, finding the right ingredients and time for cooking traditional food is still a problem. There is a low interest in traditional food in restaurants, as domestic patrons mostly worry about the high prices, while foreign ones do not know anything about such foods due to the inadequate promotion of Croatian gastronomic offer. Survey results indicate that consumers are familiar with traditional Croatian food, eat it regularly at home and consider it as food with high-quality aspects that reminds them of their childhood and positive past experiences.Practical implications– The results presented in this paper give some directions for subjects involved in the manufacturing industry, tourism, the restaurant industry, etc. to devise ways of reminding their customers of childhood memories, family ties, etc.Originality/value– A relatively small number of food-centred studies are directly concerned with nostalgia. Many more studies investigate food in social changes, related to ethnic elements, etc. Considering an extensive literature review, and the analysis of data in the qualitative and quantitative study, this paper addresses two multidimensional and complex concepts which are powerful predictors of customer satisfaction.

The impact of information on political culture of ethnos

The article considers the factors, levels and specific features of the information component of ethnic mentality and conflict. On the basis of the concept of "glocal culture" there is defined the role and importance of socially significant information as immanent element of ethnicity, as well as basis for the formation of ethnic identity. There is analyzed the relationship of information and the phenomenon of the modern nation renaissance. Trends of "glocal" culture in its linguistic components are considered.

Cultivating Healthy Discipleship Settings in Multi-Ethnic Churches

Effective multiethnic church formation involves assessing discipleship aims and structures with sensitivity and consideration to the various ethnic elements within each congregation. This fosters ethnic accommodation rather than cultural assimilation. In order to assist these dynamics, multiethnic church education requires cultivating participatory community that includes each ethnic voice represented in the church, egalitarian relationships rather than hierarchical ones, affirmation of ethnic cultures, and perspective taking to each of them. When nurtured this produces fluid ethnic identities that cultivate richer and transcultural biblical perspectives. This article explores these discipleship components towards the purpose of nurturing healthier multiethnic churches.

Aung San Suu Kyi, Buddhism & The Crisis in Myanmar (Burma)

The relationship of the current military regime in Myanmar to Aung San Suu Kyi and her father are necessary for full understanding of the political situation and future changes that might take place. The events of the pre-World War II period clarify current alignments of political and economic power as do the religious and ethnic elements.