Multiethnic Environment Research Articles

THE CORRELATION ANALYSIS OF INDICATORS OF SANOGENIC REFLECTION AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION OF THE PERSONALITY IN MULTIETHNIC ENVIRONMENT

The topicality of the study presented in the article is determined by the importance of studying this aspect due to the fact that representatives of different ethnic groups may experience difficulties in the adaptation process if they fail to act in a relevant way, if there is mismatch between the expected and the actual behaviour of the subjects. The aim of the article is to consider the possibility of sanogenic reflection as a condition for psychological adaptation of students in multiethnic environment of the university. The article presents a correlation analysis of indicators of psychological adaptation of students in multi-ethnic educational environment with specific features of ethnic stereotypes and discusses the possibilities of sanogenic reflection to understand their own actions based on specific ethnic stereotypes and their abilities to change their own views, attitudes and behaviors adequately to situations in the new environment. The obtained data show a correlation of indicators of volumes of protective reflection from shame, resentment, guilt with aggression against others, and the inclusion of protective reflection from feeling guilt and aggression against themselves. Scientific novelty of the study is that psychological adaptation of representatives of different ethnic groups is considered from the point of view of the affectivebehavioral approach, taking into account the fact that manifestation of protective reflection as a factor reducing the degree of adaptation is associated with manifestations of ethnic stereotypes, transformation of which is ensured by the development of sanogenic reflection. It is experimentally proved that the development of sanogenic reflection has an impact on adaptation, what allows to consider sanogenic reflection as a condition for development of a personality. The data presented in the article orient representatives of different ethnic groups to effective communication in multi-ethnic environment.

Historical Relationship between the Buddhists and the Muslims in Sri Lanka

That Sri Lanka is a pluralistic nation is an undeniable fact. It is the home of many communities which have contributed to its being for a long time. It is this variety, this unity in diversity, which gives it strength and beauty. In this multi-ethnic social environment, members of all communities live in peace and harmony with in social integration one with another. Accordingly, since settling down in the island more than1200 years ago, the Muslims established very cordial ties with the Buddhist people in Sri Lanka. The relationship between them may be cited as a unique example of ethnic harmony in multi-religious societies. Evidently, this is a longstanding relationship formed over a very long period of time and developed and preserved with trust and good understanding between these two communities. As such, it has stood the test of time and has been able to withstand the numerous attempts made by various colonial powers and chauvinistic racist elements to destroy it. Given the above background, therefore, the purpose of this paper is to identify historical relationship between the Buddhists and the Muslims in Sri Lanka in order to identify the changing nature of the relationship from the early Arab-Muslim settlements to the end of civil war in 2009. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n4s2p278

The Empirical Studying of the Ethnoidentity (On the Example of Russians and Tatars of the Republic of Tatarstan)

The relevance of the studied problem is caused by the variety of reasons. First of all, the ethnos is the most reliable group, that ensures the safety and the support in the life, secondly—the ethnic community strengthens the feeling of the intra group unity, thirdly, the ethnos provides the continuity of transfer and preservation of the values of the community; fourthly, the ethnic identity is more accurately realized if the person lives in the multiethnic environment. The purpose of the article consists in the clarification of the role of bilingualism in the formation of the ethnic identity of Russians and Tatars, since its impact on the consciousness of their ethnic identity and orientation on the national-cultural values remains debatable. The available empirical information is rather fragmentary and casual. The leading method of the research is the comparative approach to the study of the influence of the bilingualism on the formations of the ethnic identity of Russians and Tatars. The main result of the research is the evidence of such fact that the understanding of the identity is defined by the place of the residence (the city, the village), by the occupation (the intellectual, the worker), and by the social environment (the mono or bilingual environment). The materials of the article can be used in educational institutions when drawing up the curricula, taking into account the regional and Federal component of the humanitarian disciplines.

Embedding Geriatric Psychiatry Care Within a Community Social Services Provider in a Large Multi-ethnic Urban Environment: A One Year Review

Embedding Geriatric Psychiatry Care Within a Community Social Services Provider in a Large Multi-ethnic Urban Environment: A One Year Review

Training of Future Elementary School Teachers to Usage of the Communicative Strategies in Multi Ethnic Environment in Mountain Region Schools

The article characterizes the main aspects of language-related policy in Ukraine. Itexplores the leading role of elementary school teacher in the consolidation of statehood ofUkrainian language in the mountain region of Ukrainian Carpathians. It analyzes the latestresearch and publications on the problem of training of future elementary school teachers in use ofcommunication strategies in a poly-ethnic environment of school in the mountain region. Thearticle also defines the most important tendencies that influence a professional-communicativeactivity of the teacher in a mountain region. It explores the specifics of professional activity of theelementary school teacher in the mountain region schools of Ukrainian Carpathians. It alsocharacterizes the problems encountered by a teacher at his work. The article describes thepeculiarities of training of future teachers in communicative-strategic activity in the mountainschool region. It also defines the trends of professional training of students planning to work in themountain region environment, that are not outlined in the existing curricula and study programs.Finally, the article uncovers the concept of ethic-pedagogic approach to the linguistic education ofchildren in mountain region schools, as well as formulates the conclusions and defines theguidelines for further research.

English Language in the Development of a Tolerant Person of the Student in a Multi-Ethnic Educational Environment of the University (For Example, Kazan Federal University)

Integration into the world community confronts the Russian education system purpose - education of the individual, having planetary thinking, able to see themselves not only as the representative of the native culture, living in a particular country, but also a citizen of the world, perceiving himself as the carrier and its foreign-language cultures. An important component of the socio-political development of multicultural education is the desire of both Russia and other countries integrate into the global European socio-cultural and educational space, while retaining their national identity. These processes contribute to the transformation of both Europe and Russia as a multilingual space where different languages have equal rights. There is an urgent social need for the organization of purposeful work on the formation of a tolerant person of the student, the system combines knowledge of different cultures, the desire and the willingness to intercultural Polylog. This era of social order urgently requires development of the younger generation of universal values, acculturation of other nations, which increases the motivation to learn foreign languages, associated with the desire to establish and develop contacts with foreign countries. It is English as a language of international communication acts as the major means to realize this idea in a multi-ethnic educational environment of the university. The article presents the results of a study conducted at the Kazan Federal University.

INTERNATIONAL AND POLYCULTURAL DIALOG: RELEVANCE OF THE EDUCATION SYSTEM AND DIAGNOSTIC CAPABILITIES

The article is focused on the modernization of international multicultural dialogue. Many works of foreign and Armenian researchers are explored about the theme. It is presented a complex of diagnostic methods which allows to research the features of international multicultural dialogue in the monoethnic and multiethnic environment.

Making the cosmopolitan canopy in Boston's Haymarket Square

Using ethnographic data on Boston's Haymarket Square, this paper demonstrates how public space and a market opportunity can generate solidarity among people of different ethnicities in the form of a cosmopolitan canopy, and how a single ethnic tradition can nurture an open, public multi-ethnic environment. The paper illustrates how Haymarket vendors' treatment of ethnic and racial difference is actively deployed in the construction of new groups that largely transcend such distinctions. This article outlines the mechanisms by which a cosmopolitan canopy is sustained, and how it serves a constructive social function within the city.

Framing National Identity in Independence Campaigns: Secessionist Rhetoric and Ethnic Conflict

During secessionist mobilization in a multiethnic environment, the use of a discourse that excludes minorities can create internal enemies; meanwhile, co-opting minorities through inclusive framing can turn them into allies. From the standpoint of what sort of identity constitutes the basis of a nationalist movement, my fundamental argument is that the most crucial factor is whether there is a widespread perception of internal threat associated with the presence of a local minority. The chance of such perceptions of a threat emerging among the majority increases if the minority is politically linked to the center or a neighbor that is hostile to the movement. Yet, this explanatory model can show only a tendency depending on the structural setting; it cannot explain the timing and nature of identity shifts. I demonstrate that it is possible to include previously excluded minorities into the national collective through a reframing of national identity, and that the explanation of ethnic exclusion cannot be reduced to a simple ethnic security dilemma.

English

According to the 2011 census, there are over 26 nationalities and national and ethnic groups in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, which makes it a highly multi-ethnic environment. Each ethnic group nurtures a distinctive culture and tradition, which are recognized as having a highly significant potential for tourism development in Vojvodina. This paper presents the results of a survey conducted with the aim of determining the activities of tourist organizations that are focused on implementing achievements of these cultures into a tourism product. The survey included 27 tourist organizations from the territory of Vojvodina. The results indicate a high level of interest of tourist organizations in promoting national minorities living in their municipalities.

Foreign Residents in Warsaw, 1945–1956

Although it was not before 1989 that Warsaw gradually became a genuinely multiethnic environment, a group of aliens had inhabited the city in 1945–89. Somewhat paradoxically, the Polish capital city’s foreigner landscape proved to be the most variegated, diverse and vivid in the first post-war decade. The Russians, Germans, Englishmen, Frenchmen, or Italians already residing in Warsaw were joined, as part of post-war voluntary and forced (political-refugee) migration, by nationals of Spain, Greece, Korea, Persia, Yugoslavia, or even Canada. The article shows the ways along which they reached Poland and Warsaw, and the various aspects of everyday life of those aliens: work, assimilation, and political entanglements.

Employee job security affecting performance in a multi-ethnic environment

This study examined the influence of job security on the organisational performance in a multi-ethnic environment. As a result, a cross-sectional research design was conducted with questionnaire data generated from 155 employees of three different banks from both East and Peninsular Malaysia through a simple random sampling technique. The questionnaires were distributed through drop-off and pick procedure and the data was analysed using the SMARTPLS analysis technique. Overall, the result shows that the employees’ job security in a multi-ethnic environment significantly influences organisational performance. The finding has a practical implication for both employees and the organisations in the way organisations use employees job security as a way of enhancing or maintaining organisational performance. It contributes by providing a unique insight about employee’s job security in a multi-ethnic environment.

Language Policy and Language Planning in the Context Of Multi-Ethnic Russian Society

Transparency of national borders and the growth of cultural and ethnic diversification within countries make impossible the cultural homogeneity of the population. In the world “permeated” by globalization and transnational movements, in fact, there is no pure ethnic state, and in multi-ethnic environment many issues acquire new meanings. In particular, policy and planning in a multinational state are no doubt, among the priorities. Nowadays the problems regarding the role, place and status of the Russian language, other languages of the peoples of Russia as within the country and within the world community, are essential. Scientific understanding of the complex problems associated with the terms “official language”, “national language”, “ethnic language” and practical application of the results in all spheres of public life, education, business, public law seem to be extremely important in the context of the development of the Russian society. Since all aspects of social life are provided by the of communication, it is necessary to clarify the interpretation of a number of terms, connected with the term language that are used in official documents of any state, and in the daily life of citizens. The most important for us will be the key concepts of policy and planning. It is known, that the problem of selection and choice of linguistic rules that constitute the policy, depend on the interests of certain classes, ethnic groups, persecuted political and ideological goals. The main concepts discussed in the discourse of policy are: world language, title language, official language, national language, the of international communication, mother tongue, corpus planning and status planning. In the changing Russian reality these concepts can be filled with new content, respectively, the terms change their meaning.

Entrepreneurial forms and processes inside a multiethnic pre-capitalist environment: Greek and British enterprises in the Levant (1740s–1820s)

The paper investigates entrepreneurial processes related to Levantine trade between the second half of the eighteenth century and the first quarter of the nineteenth century. It examines entrepreneurial form, information management and entrepreneurial response to opportunity and change in two distinctive cases. The first case concerns the business ventures of an enterprising group of Greek merchants; the second refers to the trade activity of the members of the British Levant Company. The two cases are considered and compared in terms of business organisation, quality and value of commercial information available, and entrepreneurial reaction to opportunity and change. The study compares independent and institutional entrepreneurship and highlights some forms of evasive entrepreneurial action carried out inside the multiethnic, pre-capitalist market economy of the Ottoman Empire. It finally shows how diverse ‘opportunity development processes’ connected, overlapped and crossed, interweaving the texture of this particular entrepreneurial environment.

Impact of Job Security on the Organizational Performance in a Multiethnic Environment

Impact of Job Security on the Organizational Performance in a Multiethnic Environment

Implementation of an Effective and Secure Biometrics-Based Student Attendance System

This paper discusses the design, implementation and evaluation of a biometric system for recording students’ attendance using both fingerprint and iris readers (e-attendance system). The system allows students to record their attendance when entering a classroom. This information is then made available to the instructors through a web-based interface application. The major impact of the e-attendance system is the noticed drop in the students’ absenteeism rate. In addition, the system provides a reliable solution to prevent any student impersonation, where a student claims to be another one either to fake attendance or to take an exam for him/her. This work demonstrates the need for an attendance tracking system that is based on multiple biometrics technologies, especially in a multi-ethnic academic environment with a large student population. Finally, additional security measures, mainly Firewalls and Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS) are shown to be required to achieve the needed level of protection for an efficient and reliable implementation. This is the case since biometrics readers can be vulnerable to common attacks, mainly denial of service attacks, and can be targeted by malicious students.

O285 Risk factors for emergency caesarean section in a multiethnic environment

International Journal of Gynecology & ObstetricsVolume 107, Issue S2 p. S174-S174 Free communication (oral) presentations O285 Risk factors for emergency caesarean section in a multiethnic environment A. Fakokunde, A. FakokundeSearch for more papers by this authorA. Al-Khalid, A. Al-KhalidSearch for more papers by this authorV. Tailor, V. TailorSearch for more papers by this authorS. Okolo, S. OkoloSearch for more papers by this authorW. Yoong, W. YoongSearch for more papers by this authorA. Baba Ahmed, A. Baba AhmedSearch for more papers by this author A. Fakokunde, A. FakokundeSearch for more papers by this authorA. Al-Khalid, A. Al-KhalidSearch for more papers by this authorV. Tailor, V. TailorSearch for more papers by this authorS. Okolo, S. OkoloSearch for more papers by this authorW. Yoong, W. YoongSearch for more papers by this authorA. Baba Ahmed, A. Baba AhmedSearch for more papers by this author First published: 20 November 2009 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0020-7292(09)60657-3Citations: 1AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport 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 onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article.Citing Literature Volume107, IssueS2Abstracts of XIX FIGO World Congress of Gynecology and ObstetricsOctober 2009Pages S174-S174 RelatedInformation

The Ohrid Agreement: The Travails of Inter-ethnic Relations in Macedonia

This article provides an overview of some of the key changes brought about by the groundbreaking Framework Agreement (known as the Ohrid Agreement) in Macedonia since its signing in 2001. A power-sharing arrangement, it saved Macedonia from the brink of civil war. This article describes how the Ohrid Agreement restored peace by addressing the constitutional status of minorities, their equitable representation in the public sector and issues connected with higher education in the 2002–2006 period. It further assesses the merits of decentralization as a remedy for safeguarding a unitary state in a multi-ethnic environment. It consequently argues that the Ohrid Agreement and the ensuing reforms have been important steps in the right direction revitalizing Macedonia by empowering not only the sizeable Albanian population but other less numerous communities as well. However, daunting challenges remain ahead. The perception and language gap between the two main ethnic communities hinder efforts for a truly functioning multi-ethnic state. Moreover, the new government formed after the July 2006 general elections has stirred controversy and caused tensions affecting its Euro-Atlantic perspective. To what extent this will affect Macedonia’s multi-ethnic democracy remains to be seen.

Historical Memory and a New Democracy

This essay explores the meaning and the form of historical memory in the context of the young South African democracy. Differentiating between the concepts of constructive and responsive memory and the inclusive or exclusive character each can take, it attempts to determine what kind of historical memory is necessary to forge a common political enterprise in a multi-ethnic and multi-racial environment. In this regard it refers to some sharply divisive collective memories and suggests ways in which the naturally ethnocentric consciousness of any given cultural group might be supplemented and enriched by the emergence of a national consciousness built around the idea that people bond not despite their differences but because of them. The paper touches on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission as an example of responsive memory focusing on the meaning of truth both in the process of dealing with the past and as a means towards reconciliation in the future.

The assessment of credibility: An analysis of truth and deception in a multiethnic environment.

Abstract Credibility assessment involves the ability to distinguish a liar from a truthful person. In the traditional homogeneous societies, we can find some relatively strong consensus, as well as common learned indicators, that enable the participants in legal procedures to use more or less similar factors to assess the of the testimonies given. Now, what about our current multiethnic societies where the different actors do not always have the same ethnic background and do not necessarily share the same cultural values? Can we find a similar consensus as well as common indicators? After examining what contemporary research tells us about the concept of and its assessment, I will undertake to explain how truth and deception are distinguished in a multiethnic context, and I will look at the rates of such judgments. Are they better or worse than judgments made by people of the same ethnic background? What criteria are used? The same or different ones? In conclusion, it is suggested that familiarity with the specific aspects of different cultures can produce more adequate judgments of credibility. In most legal procedures, starting from the interrogation of suspects to the evaluation of testimonies given during the actual trial, the different actors involved, that is, the police officers, the investigators, the trial judge, and the jury, all have, at some point, to decide whether the victim, an eyewitness or the accused are indeed telling the truth. This is what is called credibility It is also a type of assessment used daily by customs officers. To perform this type of evaluation and to obtain the best possible results, the assessors use personal strategies and indicators tfiat derive from their own knowledge and from previous learning on what can be used with the best possible efficiency to distinguish a liar from a truthful and honest person. In the traditional homogeneous societies, we can find some relatively strong consensus, as well as common learned indicators, that enable the participants in legal procedures to use more or less similar factors to assess the of the testimonies given. They are not necessarily most efficient in all cases, but they are perceived to be and are readily used. Now, what about our current multiethnic societies where the different actors do not always have the same ethnic background and do not necessarily share the same cultural values? Can we find a similar consensus and common indicators? In order to answer this question, which, as we all can imagine, has serious implications for the proper functioning of the judicial system, I will first examine what contemporary research tells us about the concept of and its assessment. The Concept of Credibility By definition, deception is an act whose deliberate intention is to create in others a belief or a conception that the deceiver knows to be false or erroneous (Zuckerman, DePaulo, & Rosenthal, 1981). In this sense, the of a testimony refers to the will or the intent of the witness in relation to die formulation of a trutfiful or deceptive statement (Kohnken, 1989). This notion is to be distinguished from that of the reliability or accuracy of the testimony, which basically refers to the degree of congruence that exists between the original stimulus situation and the statement made about what actually happened (Kohnken, 1989). Reliability or can be modified or altered by unconscious and involuntary errors made by the witness, errors that derive most of the time from memory failures, from misleading postevent information or biased instructions associated with die interrogation or from suboptimal conditions of perception in the original situation (see Lloyd-Bostock 8c Clifford, 1983; Shepherd, Ellis, & Davies, 1982; Wells & Loftus, 1984). There is a debate surrounding the meaning of the notion of and it can be described in relation to two conceptual approaches or strategies (Kohnken, 1989; Undeutsch, 1989). …