Cultural Harmony Research Articles

Biculturalism and segregated schooling in Hong Kong

ABSTRACTThe literature on acculturation illustrates that a bulk of non-dominant ethnocultural minorities consider themselves bicultural, involving both dominant and ethnic cultures. Yet, little is known about how bicultural individuals perceive and construct dual cultures, and how their two cultural identities are played out in daily interactions. While these issues are under-researched, they are vital to policy and practice initiation towards ethnocultural minorities’ integration and upward mobility as well as for the receiving society’s social cohesion and economic competitiveness. To this end, this study used the concept of bicultural identity integration and tapped into the processes of biculturalism among 16 secondary school students coming from South and Southeast-Asian groups in Hong Kong. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to unearth the internal construct of bicultural identity and the trajectories of adapting to dual cultural influences across space. The participants’ accounts displayed a high level of cultural harmony yet low blendedness in choosing to separate affiliations into cultural domains. This internal complexity reflects the contradictory juxtaposing of ‘cultural diversity’ in the host society and its segregated schooling for minority student population.

Sustainable adaptation for resolving climate displacement issues of south eastern islands in Bangladesh

PurposeClimate change is affecting people displacement in Bangladesh by both sudden environmental events and gradual environmental change. This paper aims to assess the sustainable adaptation measures for resolving the displacement problem induced by climate change considering the socioeconomic differences between the past and the present location of living places for island dwellers of the south-eastern coast of Bangladesh.Design/methodology/approachBoth qualitative and quantitative approaches were adopted for conducting the study. The main tool of the household survey was a questionnaire survey. In addition to the estimate of displacement, the authors have used hazard impact analysis, weightage analysis and sustainable adaptation analysis with various ranking. Meaningful data were analyzed through SPSS software and presented through statistical techniques.FindingsClimate change-induced different natural disasters, such as cyclone, tidal surge, tidal flood and coastal erosion, were frequent in the study areas and responsible for mass displacement. After displacement, people lost not only their identity but also social and cultural harmony and faced different economic and environmental crises. However, nearly 20 types of adaptation options were identified for protection from the displacement of coastal people.Practical implicationsThe study prescribed 11 specific criteria and 4 principles of sustainable adaptation options for resolving the climate displacement problem. Moreover, seven adaptation practices showed high sustainability, ten showed medium sustainability and five showed low sustainability in terms of effectiveness, efficiency and implementation ability.Originality/valueThe study would help to establish sustainable adaptation measures through the combination of environment, economic and social harmony with regard to the Sustainable Development Goals.

A Cultural Harmony between Islam and Local Tradition of Caram Seguguk in Rengas Payaraman, Ogan Ilir, South Sumatra

The study attempts to look Islam as a religion which teaches various aspects of normative and humanism has undergone a process of acceptance and rejection in the society. Meanwhile, tradition as an identity of a particular community also has undergone an eclectic process in acquiring adaptation with the Islamic teachings. It proves that Islam is not merely understood as a doctrine but also as a result of the interaction of cultural values, norms, and morals representing in the forms of religious practices which tolerates the local values. The meeting between Islamic value and local tradition value are maintained. Then, they form Islamic narrated activities as a form of internalization of the teachings and community behaviors. Caram Seguguk tradition in South Sumatera is one of the results of the harmonization between Islam and local traditions in daily activities.

Sense of Harmony in Chinese Traditional Culture

Sense of Harmony in Chinese Traditional Culture

Forgiveness in Javanese collective culture: The relationship between rumination, harmonious value, decisional forgiveness and emotional forgiveness

Forgiveness in Javanese collective culture is examined by considering harmonious value (HV) a subjective value on maintaining social harmony and rumination. In Study 1, we conducted an exploratory sequential mixed-method study to develop a scale measuring HV. In-depth interviews with eight Javanese adolescents revealed three major domains of HV (Study 1a). In a second quantitative study (Study 1b), we developed items and assessed 347 Javanese adolescents in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Principal component analysis and confirmatory factor analysis supported three factors: cooperation during conflict, forbearing and resolving conflict. After confirming that the translated scales had acceptable reliability, we conducted Study 2 with 424 Javanese adolescents from both urban and village settings. Using hierarchical multiple regression, we found that HV accounted for a variance in decisional forgiveness above and beyond rumination. In addition, decisional forgiveness also accounted for variance in emotional forgiveness above and beyond rumination. In fact, HV accounted for variance in emotional forgiveness above and beyond both rumination and decisional forgiveness together. This revealed the importance of valuing social harmony in this collectivistic culture. Moreover, decisional forgiveness was also important in predicting the Javanese collectivists’ emotional forgiveness.

A Blessing in the Midst of the Earth

A Blessing in the Midst of the Earth

Differentiation of self as a predictor of Asian‐American immigrants’ perceptions of cultural harmony

The purpose of the study was to examine whether Bowen's () construct, differentiation of self, would predict cultural harmony (Benet‐Martínez and Haritatos, ) among Asian‐American immigrants. The study was a correlational design, with a sample of 154 adults who identified as first‐generation Asian Americans and had lived in the US for at least five years. Results of regression analyses showed that greater overall differentiation of self, measured by the Differentiation of Self Inventory‐Revised (DSI‐R; Skowron and Schmitt, ), had a positive significant association with participants’ perceptions of cultural harmony. That is, highly differentiated individuals perceived their host and ethnic cultural orientations as compatible rather than in constant conflict. Furthermore, analyses of the subscales of the DSI‐R showed there were differences across the four underlying dimensions of differentiation of self in terms of associations with cultural harmony. Implications for theory, clinical practice, and future research are included.Practitioner points A lack of self‐differentiation may be indicative of struggles to achieve identity integration among first‐generation Asian Americans Exploring the pattern of emotional cutoff, fusion with others, emotional reactivity and ability to take an I‐position potentially decreases conflict between cultural orientations The use of family diagram may help increase one's ability to balance two cultural orientations

A Study of the Education to the Undergraduates and How to Take the Socialist Value Central System

This paper starts with the theory of the ideal belief among the undergraduates. This paper analyzes the realistic situation and the necessity to educate the moral idea and socialist belief. This paper dissects the inner connection between the central value and the education of the ideal belief in a deep way and it has explored the new ways to strengthen the ideal belief education to the students in the universities. The students in the universities are the hope and the future for our nation, and they will be the constructers and the successors of the socialist enterprise in China. Whether or not the undergraduates have the positive and healthy ideal belief can reflect the outcome of the political education in a direct way. And it also reflects the outcome of the socialist harmonious culture construction. At the present time, the main stream of the students’ thoughts are positive, and healthy and progressive, but with the factors of the social environment, the education in the universities and the students themselves, part of the students presence some phenomenon such as lost in the belief, desalt of the political opinion and so on. It is inconsistent with the harmonious society such as pay attention to their own dream and idea but ignore the common idea, pay attention to their own value but ignore the social value, and even value their own benefit but desalt the community’s benefits, or they only concern the moral construction but lack of the sense of loyalty.

A Survey About Cultural Relation Joints between Iran and Austria to Design House of Culture

Austria's in terms of cultural, geographical and historical position has plenty of monuments which have been left of the past and are reminder of the country's history. On the one hand, raising awareness of social, cultural, artistic, learning skills, and the introduction of cultural experiences between Iran and Austria, and on the other hand checking the status of weather and climate in different regions, for the development and regional planning, is necessary, and the result is an approach to design a house of culture in harmony with the climate. In this paper, we first review and discuss about common cultural relations between Iran and Austria to construct Iran Culture House in Austria. In this paper, analytical method - is descriptive. Data collection method is as follows. Library resources and the Internet, surveying books and articles, analysis and case studies, observation and discussion with experts.

The Missing Link: Harmony and Extended Identity for Development

As economists tend to undervalue the role of social and cultural harmony in development process, other social scientists often tend to create mystical view of social, cultural and traditional supremacy over life of the individual. This is why, a hypothesis which can explain an evolutionary genesis of culture and tradition is developed in this paper, by starting from biological evolution as foundation for social evolution. Upon the biological foundation, by using the concept of extended identity, this paper will build bridge between biology and social sciences including economics, sociology and anthropology. Ones biology is put in to the picture, the real contribution of harmony for development will be built on solid foundation to explain the real socio-cultural and socio-economic world we live in.

Effectuation and Causation as the Mediators of the Relationship between Cultural Value Orientations and New Venture Performance

The article presents a theoretical and empirical assessment of the decision-making logic role (effectuation and causation) in the relationship between national culture and new venture performance. The current study makes a theoretical contribution to the venture cognitive logic research stream, considering the characteristics of national culture as antecedents of entrepreneurial reasoning, and performance of new ventures as consequences of two decision-making logic application. The empirical test of the theoretical model was conducted on the basis of 3360 new ventures from 23 countries. The data was obtained from the Global University Entrepreneurial Spirit Students’ Survey (GUESSS) project 2013/2014. National culture characteristics were measured through the Schwartz model of cultural values. The findings showed that decisionmaking logics, effectuation and causation are positively related to new venture performance. Moreover, it was found that effectuation mediates the link between the values of national culture (embeddedness, egalitarianism and harmony) and new venture performance. While causation acts as a mediator in the relationship between autonomy, hierarchy and mastery values and performance of new ventures.

文化记忆视野下济南城市文化发展策略研究

城市文化记忆是一个城市发展的足印。它是城市建设中的基础，也是城市发展中一笔宝贵的财富。但是在现代化的世界中，各地建设日趋同质，城市改造在调整城市的整体风貌，加速城市现代化的步伐，促使城市文化统一协调的同时，也使城市失去了各自特殊的记忆，穿上了共同的外衣。历史文化名城济南所特有的历史文化记忆和城市文化品格在城市建设下日渐消退，给我们以深刻的启迪。如何在城市现代化进程中保持历史文化记忆且在当下语境中建构城市文化记忆的现代价值，是一个实践上亟待解决的现实难题。 Urban cultural memory is the footprint of a city development. It is the foundation of urban con-struction, and is also a valuable treasure in the development of urban culture. But in a moderniz-ing world, the construction has been increasingly homogeneous, urban transformation in adjust-ing its overall style, accelerating the pace of urban modernization, promoting urban cultural harmony and unity, at the same time, also making the city lose their special memories, putting on a common coat. The historical and cultural memory and the cultural character of the city Jinan have gradually receded in the city construction, giving us profound enlightenment. There is a practical problem how to maintain the historical and cultural memory in the process of urban modernization and to construct the modern value of urban cultural memory in the present context to be solved.

Metamorphosis. Jolles and Huizinga and Comparative Literature

This essay gives an outline of a shared “intellectual constitution”, the spiritual bioi parallelloi that united two Dutch scholars, Andre Jolles and Johan Huizinga, in their endeavour of cultural analysis and cultural criticism. First, it presents the background of their effort, the world of learning they shared with philologists such as Ernst Robert Curtius, Leo Spitzer and Erich Auerbach. It explains, in particular, the idea of cultural harmony and of methodological notions like that of the possibility to extrapolate from small facts to large issues, and of cultural criticism as a counteroffensive against the loss of harmony. Next, the essay focuses on the common creativity of Jolles and Huizinga and their views on metamorphosis as the inner mechanism of cultural change. For both of them, the notion of form was a trait d’union between mutable life and immutable human nature. Forms, that existed in a limited number, in typological series of social identities or cultural genres, were their main tool in cultural analysis and criticism.

Leadership of Bodoland Movement From Colonial To Present

Before and after India Independence, the people of Bodo in North-East face a serious problem and started a social movement on the question of socio-economic, political, and cultural harmony. Various ethnic communities residing in this region growing fragmentation, divergence, division and discard as a result disquietude and emerge conflict, violence in different parts of North-East India. Main aims and objectives of Bodoland Movement was to create an Autonomous Self Governing body known as BTC, to provide constitutional protection under sixth schedule to the autonomous body, to fulfill economic, educational, social, political and linguistic aspirations, preservation of socio-cultural, land-rights and ethnic identity of the Bodos and infrastructure development in BTC area. Under the leadership of Upendra Nath Brahma (father of Bodoland Movement) ABSU launched a social a social movement. National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) and Bodo Liberation Tigers (BLT) occurred for creation of sovereign separate state. This paper analysis to make a comprehensive study on the various aspect of the Bodoland Movement launched by All Bodo Student Union (ABSU) for establishment of separate State in the North bank of the Brahmaputra River. This paper based on the theoretical aspect of the Bodoland Movement.

Is harmony still in the local socialist officials’ hearts

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess if the core value of Chinese traditional culture (harmony) still remains in managers’ hearts, and what factors influence this core value’s persistence. This was done by assessing the harmonious competencies of China’s county and department-level officials based on the competing values framework. Design/methodology/approach A survey of 1,000 county and department-level officials was taken at random based on the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security’s public sector employee listings. An empirical assessment was made and a hierarchical linear regression approach was used. Findings Though Chinese traditional culture has been blended with communist ideology and Western practices in government administration, the core value of Chinese bureaucracy still remains that which is carried in officials’ minds. In general, public officials possess a satisfactory level of harmonious competency. The regression results showed that some factors influence harmonious competency significantly, which disproves the view that harmonious competency might be merely engendered in officials by being born and growing up in Chinese traditional culture. Originality/value Given the assumption that a Chinese-born citizen could inherit the core value of its traditional culture is commonplace, the paper reveals that because the current Chinese culture is a mix of socialist thinking, traditional culture and Western practices, it cannot be assumed any more that the core value of Chinese culture is inherited automatically. On the contrary, it could be promoted by changing or cultivating certain factors in workplaces.

Stirring the Melting Pot

Stirring the Melting Pot

Performance of Microfinance Institution in Harmony Cultural Perspective in Bali

This study aims to model the performance of Village Credit Institutions (LPD), which is one of the microfinance institutions in Bali, through cultural harmony. This culture aims to achieve happiness by maintaining a harmonious relationship with God, company with employees, and the company with the villagers. 120 managers of LPD is chosen as informant. Qualitative data are collected through in-depth interviews to managers and analyzed by the ethnomethodology method. The results show that the measurement of performance through CAMEL must be added the company's ability to support religious activities and culture that flourished in every village. Cultural harmony is applied in Bali and can be developed in other areas in accordance with the existing culture. Results of the study have implications for the performance of taking the measurements should pay attention to local culture and a new thing in microfinance institutions.

『사의(士儀)』를 통해 본 혼례문화 연구

The purpose of this study is to seek ways to utilize the wedding culture described in 『Saui』, written by Heo Jeon (1797-1886), a Silhak and Yehak scholar in late Joseon, as cultural content applicable for the present era. Relevant literature and data, including 『Saui』 itself, were reviewed to analyze wedding culture for this study. The main results of this study are as follows: First, based on 『Saui』, there is a strong belief that a proper ritual becomes a foundation of social discipline and custom in the sociocultural background of wedding culture. The wedding is considered a crucial component of a marriage, which is the basis of the family, society, and country. Second, both the intrinsic/mental aspect (that emphasizes the true meaning and value of the wedding) and extrinsic/material aspect (that stresses the ritual procedures of the wedding) coexist in harmony in wedding culture. Third, this study proposes diverse ways to utilize wedding culture as cultural content as follows: (1) deriving the content of wedding value education for prospective couples; (2) developing tourism products related to wedding culture as historical and cultural resources; (3) creating storytelling of wedding culture in movies or dramas; and (4) planning Myohyeon tea ceremonies for the performances or exhibitions of tea culture festivals in Gyeongnam.

Multicultura Perpectives in Indonesian Social Studies Education Curriculum

Multicultural education can be defined as educational policies and practies that recognize, accept and affirm human differences and similarities related to gender, race, handicap and class. Multicultural perspectives in Indonesian social studies may be become a powerful element in the school curriculum to help create cultural harmony in Indonesian multicultural society. There are attitudes and strategies that teachers may display or use to promote multicultural perspectives in Indonesian social studies curricula, i.e. the integrity of all cultures, the selection of cultural heroes, and the inclusion of children's cultural values

“The Chinese Dream” Through the Mirror of Modern Social Research

The 18th Congress of the National Communist Party of China announced a new ideological slogan of the “great dream of China” that includes achievement of moderate prosperity for all Chinese citizens, rejuvenation of the nation and transformation of the country into the most powerful state of the world. The party rhetoric still relies on socialism and Karl Marx. The present article is a review of the modern Russian, Western and Chinese research devoted to the “Chinese Dream”. “The Chinese Dream” ideologeme is associated with another important ideologeme, “harmonious culture”. Modern Chinese researchers understand “harmonious culture” as a triunity of socialistic and Marxist values, traditional national Chinese culture (Taoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism), and modern global cultural practices and technologies. “Harmonious culture” is a brand new ideologeme the Chinese government wishes to operate in order to change the social consciousness of the Chinese middle class, distracting it from the problems of the rising social contradictions. The government draws academicians, thinkers, and politicians to the development of a new ideological language of “harmonious culture” believing that ordinary people cannot act as cultural policy subjects. The socialistic Chinese society is being transformed into a society oriented at the values uniting global cosmopolite capitalism and traditional national Chinese values. According to modern Chinese government, Chinese “harmonious” culture is intended to spread all around the world by both “soft” and “solid” means.