Process Of Cultural Integration Research Articles

Bridging the Divide: Navigating Cultural Integration in Cross-Border M&A

With time, the idea of cross-border mergers has become increasingly popular, and presently, Indian corporations are more likely than those in other nations to engage in cross-border mergers and acquisitions. A cross-border merger is demonstrated by TATA Steel's acquisition of the US-based business Corus. 1. Inbound Merger: An inbound merger is a cross-border merger in which the foreign firm is regarded as an Indian company's branch office and the resulting company is an Indian corporation. 2. Outbound Merger: An outbound merger is a cross-border merger in which the merged firm becomes the parent company of the foreign company. The influence of cultural disparities on international mergers and acquisitions (M&As) can be substantial. When two firms with disparate cultural backgrounds come together, they have to adjust to new business practices, communication methods, and beliefs. While there may be difficulties involved, there may also be chances for both businesses to grow from one another and enhance their processes. Thus, the goal of this research is to advance knowledge of the intricate and significant process of cultural integration in international mergers and acquisitions. The research can assist companies in achieving better results in cross-border mergers and acquisitions by identifying the critical elements that affect cultural integration success and formulating recommendations for how to enhance cultural integration effectiveness.

The role of the conflictogenity in the process of cultural integration

Integration processes, often seen as a way to cooperation and common prosperity, turn out to be complex studies that hide many subtle aspects within them that can either promote unity or lead to divisions. In this article, the authors consider the role of the conflict factor in integration processes. Conflictogenity means the tendency of certain factors to cause social conflicts and plays a significant role in determining the success or failure of integration efforts. Our article focuses on one of the important aspects of conflict, namely the process of cultural integration, which can hinder the smooth process of integration. The importance of cultural integration as the main strategy of cultural policy in Kazakhstan is emphasized in our article. This requires a scientific and methodological approach based on cultural principles. The research on cultural integration in Kazakhstan, its efforts to promote cooperation, preserve cultural heritage and support intercultural communication, should be a fundamental component of the integration process. Despite the fact that conflictogenity can cause problems, special attention is paid to strategies for their prevention and cooperation in our article. We analyze mechanisms that can overcome and prevent conflicts, ways to develop dialogue and mutual understanding. We also emphasize the importance of inclusive decision-making mechanisms and participatory measures that help defuse conflictogenity. Our considerations include the study of cultural dialogue, exchange of experiences and the protection of human rights as ways to strengthen intercultural harmony.

Local cultural distortion risk at tourist destinations: connotation deconstruction and theoretical construction

ABSTRACT The current accelerating process of cultural and tourism integration has posed severe challenges to local cultural sustainability. However, there is an obvious research gap in tourism culture from the risk perspective. This conceptual study introduced the theory of the production of space and utilized the inductive method to distinguish the connotation of related concepts. Furthermore, this paper developed a concept of local cultural distortion risk at tourist destinations (LCDRTD) and deconstructed its connotation. Moreover, a three-dimensional structure of LCDRTD was highlighted that combines the cultural ontology distortion risk, cultural representation distortion risk, and cultural constructive distortion risk. This concept is more applicable to tourism types that are closely related to local traditional history and culture, such as heritage tourism and cultural tourism, etc. This attempt expands the cultural sustainability research framework and perspective and consolidates the tourism theoretical basis.

A narration of x‐o.global: First steps towards the perversion of GPS in the tropical cartographies of Latin American migration

AbstractOver the last ten years, the democratization of smartphones has become a vital factor in closing the ties between mobile technologies and migratory flows that entail cultural integration processes. Official reports published by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) demonstrate how, for people in a context of mobility, smartphones represent not only an essential navigation tool, but also an almost sacred artifact providing emotional resilience to complete arduous journeys of forced displacement. x‐o.global recognizes and addresses this situation by proposing an alternative usage of smartphones and the Global Positioning System (GPS) through a geolocative platform that enables interactive spaces for auditory stimulation. By inserting GPS‐sensitive sound maps into sites offering humanitarian support across the Latin American migratory pathways, x‐o.global enables interactive experiences connecting virtuality with reality. As a project uprooting from the grounds of socially engaged and cross‐platform art‐making, x‐o.global's framework looks forward to instigating tropicalized processes capable of reprogramming global networks of technological control—such GPS—to overhaul the migratory crisis in The Americas.

Cultural Integration and Rural Tourism Development: A Scoping Literature Review

Rural tourism plays an increasing role in maintaining sustainable rural development. Integrating culture into rural tourism is multifaceted. Local communities have often been regarded as homogeneous, and different voices within them are selectively presented or re-interpreted by those in power. A better understanding of how and why cultures are integrated into rural tourism is urgently needed. This paper aims to investigate (1) the aims and motives of tourism managers to integrate cultural concepts into rural tourism; (2) who has participated in the cultural integration process; and (3) how cultures have been integrated into rural tourism. Based on a scoping literature review, we found that cultures could add more attractions, such as historical heritage, artwork, cultural landscape, customs, food, and language, to the natural landscape and bring more tourists to rural areas. However, integrating cultures into rural tourism is not always successful. Conflicts of interest among different stakeholders are also often found. Some of the worst cases of cultural integration have even destroyed the original natural landscape and local cultures. While cultural integration is complicated, injustice and perverse effects do not have to be a consequence of integrating cultures into rural tourism. Multi-way communication among tourism providers, managers, and consumers can mitigate disruptive outcomes and unlock positive social outcomes.

Analysis of Transcultural Communication of Eastern Brands Based on Encoding and Decoding Theory-Taking Issey Miyake for Example

With the globalization of communication nowadays, the needs of fashion brands are also increasing especially for those eastern brands, which appeared less in the global fashion stage before. This paper focuses on and explains how to conduct transcultural communication successfully for eastern brands based on the encoding and decoding theory proposed by Stuart Hall. Taking three cases of Japanese brand Issey Miyake for examples, this research analyzes how the brand encoded information in the advertisements and designs and then concludes three aspects of problems, different social contexts, orientalism stereotype and fashion system leaded by the west, to dig into the flash point of strategies of an eastern brand that is seen as successful internationally. Then universal implications matching with the problems, which are concluded in concrete cases, are provided for eastern brands to use for reference. The essay strives to explore for eastern brands in the cultural integration process of fashion industry.

Global processes and their impact on the development of the macro-regional economy

Globalization is a process of worldwide economic, political and cultural integration and unification. The authors determined that the processes of globalization are due to economic feasibility. But, at the same time, since the effects of globalization are distributed, as a rule, unevenly and cause contradictions in the financial sector, the excessive integration and interdependence of countries exacerbate the crisis in social development. It is noted that, due to the evolution of social development, all states must to participate in the processes of globalization, however, one should adhere to a policy to reduce the impact of global problems at the level of an individual country and around the world. It is possible to avoid the negative impact of global processes by systematizing them and analyzing in detail the causes of problems. A study was made of the causes of global problems and their systematization was carried out according to the main features. It is concluded that states face the difficult task of finding new forms of interaction or transforming and improving existing elements of interaction between various international institutions and finding mutually beneficial compromises.

Religious and Cultural Adaptation of Korean Immigrants in Russia in the Late 19th Century on the Example of Blagoslovennoe Village

In the second half of the 19th century Russia expanded its territory to the coast of the Sea of Japan and achieved a border with Korea. In the 1860s, a large number of Korean immigrants began to move into the Russian Empire. In 1871, Russian authorities relocated some Korean immigrants to the Amur River and established a village called “Blagoslovennoe”. The government of the Russian Empire attempted to integrate them by establishing a Korean settlement and translating liturgy into Korean. The case of Blagoslovennoe Village on the Amur River is an example of an attempt to integrate Korean immigrants into Russian society. The Russian authorities used Orthodoxy as a means of “russification” of Korean immigrants in the Far East, and the spread of Orthodoxy among the Korean immigrant community coincided with the desire of most Korean immigrants to integrate into Russian society as soon as possible. To this end, a bilingual Orthodox liturgy was made available. Based on a bilingual liturgy for Korean immigrants to the Far East in Korean and Russian used in the village of Blagoslovennoe, found in the Archives of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences, this paper examines the Orthodox element in the “Russification” of Korean immigrants to the Far East, beginning with this unexplored archive. But despite adaptation processes, Koreans retained their identity. For example, Korean immigrants retained familiar geographical names not only in their speech but also in their liturgy. The study of liturgical texts allows the researcher to understand the process of cultural integration into the new society with the preservation of cultural identity. The author expresses her deep gratitude to Dr. V.G. Sharonova, Leading Researcher of the Institute of Russian History of the RAS, for constructive criticism on the content of the article and the edit.

Analysis of social stereotypes formed among residents of the countries of the Greater Altai and Central Asia by media publications on the Turkic subjects

The objective of this study is to designate and identify real, relevant today stereotypes, formed and continuing to develop with the help of media messages, as well as, based on the results obtained, the definition and interpretation of these stereotypes, the designation of possible methods to combat their occurrence and spread. . The relevance of the work is due to the current cultural, media and geopolitical situation, the current information wars and the low level of media literacy of consumers of Russian-language content and, as a result, the easy perception of imposed stereotypes as distorted and simplified images of social groups and states. The purpose of the study is to spread the understanding of the need to develop the level of media literacy as part of the process of mutual cultural, educational and scientific integration between the inhabitants of the countries of the Greater Altai and Central Asia.Studied various, positive, negative, neutral stereotypes formed by famous people, the media, analyzed the attitude towards stereotypes in society. General tendencies are found in the processes of stereotyping in relation to social groups in Western countries, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Kazakhstan. Since the consequence of the emergence of social stereotypes is a direct impact on the image of states and social or ethnic groups, the need to study and correct the work of the media in this direction is noted. The reasons for the need to increase the level of media literacy among the population, as well as the importance of continuing to work on the development of scientific and cultural cooperation between the countries of the Greater Altai, including in the field of journalism and public relations for the most high-quality and wide coverage of their activities among the population, are indicated

Cultural traits and second-generation immigrants' value of informal care.

The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10433-022-00730-1.

Organized crime in Ukraine: factors of globalization and military aggression

Introduction. The eff ectiveness of combating the most dangerous manifestations of organized crime is complicated not only by Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine, the annexation of Crimea, the loss of control over part of the territory in eastern Ukraine, uncontrolled arms traffi cking, and so on. Such contradictions are signifi cantly hampered by the inconsistency of criminal and regulatory legislation, the obsolescence of many regulations. In addition to these national features of the development of organized crime, there are objective world realities associated with globalization, ie the process of global economic, political and cultural integration. Positive globalization processes do not off set the negative consequences of this process, as there are large-scale threats to the security of most countries, including extremism, international terrorism, transnational organized crime and more. The aim of the article. The purpose of this scientifi c article is to determine the impact of globalization and military aggression against Ukraine on the development of organized crime. Results. Organized crime in Ukraine under the infl uence of globalization processes and military aggression is transformed into transnational, extends to such areas of criminal activity as terrorism (including state), separatism, extremism (including antistate), collaborationism, etc. Conclusions. Priority measures to combat transnational organized crime include the adoption of a law that would provide a good basis for creating an eff ective system for combating organized crime in Ukraine, including ensuring the system of legislation and activities of criminal justice bodies and law enforcement agencies authorized to carry out such counteraction. Key words: organized crime, globalization, military aggression, hybrid war, counteraction, systemic, transnational character.

Pig Management Strategies in the East Liao River Basin From the Bronze Age (c. 2000–256 BC) to the Liaojin Dynasties (907–1234 AD): Stable Isotope Analysis of Animals at the Changshan Site, Jilin Province, China

Pig domestication and management strategy has been increasingly discussed in recent years, focusing on the temporal-spatial differences of pig management strategies. The East Liao River Basin with diverse ecosystems, cultural exchanges, and collisions plays an important role in the cultural development, exchange, and integration processes between Northeast China and the Central Plains. Multiple studies have revealed that various forms of subsistence economy, such as nomadism, fishing and hunting, and farming, existed in this region. However, no report or discussion has been presented concerning the status of domestic animal management strategies over a long-term in the East Liao River Basin. Carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes analysis were performed on the fauna bones at the Changshan site in Siping, Jilin, China, from the Bronze Age (c. 2000–256 BC) to the Liaojin Dynasties (907–1234 AD), to reconstruct their dietary pattern and reveal the status of domestic animal management strategies, especially the diachronic changes in pig feeding strategies. The results showed that pigs (–19.3 ± 1.6%, 5.3 ± 0.9%, n = 27), horses (–18.4 ± 1.7%, 4.8 ± 1.4%, n = 7), and sheep (–19.8 ± 1.5%, 5.7 ± 0.5%, n = 6) primarily received their subsistence through C3-based food. Nevertheless, cattle (–16.4 ± 3.5%, 6.0 ± 2.1%, n = 2) and the past human (–13.9%, 10.3%, n = 1) lived on mixed C3/C4-based food. Notably, the stable isotope data for pigs from the Bronze Age (–19.1 ± 2.0%, 5.4 ± 1.0%, n = 9) to the Liaojin Dynasties (–19.8 ± 0.6%, 5.1 ± 0.7%, n = 15) were similar, indicating that the management and/or feeding strategy of domestic pigs were relatively stable with a free range in a wild ecosystem over a long period. Related studies have shown that pigs in captivity were mainly fed by millet-based food in the West Liao River Basin and the middle reaches of the Yellow River valley, where millet agriculture were adequately developed. Abundant natural resources, including plants, wild animals, and fishes, could provide sufficient food to the past population in the East Liao River Basin. Thus, the millet-based agriculture was just an auxiliary subsistence strategy in the Changshan site, leading to a gap in the driving force for long-term intensive management of pig.

Research on the Sustainable Development of Urban Night Tourism Economy: A Case Study of Shenzhen City

As the process of cultural tourism integration gradually deepens, determining how to tap into the night tourism economy has become a new focus of the industry. Among the core cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Hong Kong, and Macau have formed a more mature model of sustainable development of night tourism economy, whereas it is not obvious in mainland cities. The current research themes in this field are more scattered and have not yet formed a study with depth and breadth. Accordingly, this study selects the modern international metropolis Shenzhen as the research object. First, based on system theory and sustainable development theory, it uses hierarchical analysis and a comprehensive evaluation model to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the sustainable development of the tourism economy in Shenzhen from 2011 to 2021. Second, through the cluster analysis of day-time and night-time tourism economic patterns in Shenzhen, it explores the sustainable development path of Shenzhen's night-time tourism economy. Research results show that each major indicator of sustainable development of the tourism economy in Shenzhen maintains stable and fast growth momentum, and the rise of the night-time tourism economy injects a new momentum for sustainable development. As an extension and supplement of the day-time tourism economic form, the night-time tourism economy includes three tourism economic forms: excursionistic, cultural immersion, and host and guest leisure. Finally, the researcher proposes corresponding sustainable development strategies for different forms of the night-time tourism economy. Empirical findings of this study have important reference value for the related research on the night tourism economy.

Problem-based service-learning project in an intercultural communication course: Collaboration with a nonprofit refugee resettlement agency

A service-learning (SL) version of the Intercultural Communication course was designed in collaboration with a nonprofit refugee resettlement agency. Through the collaborative discussions prior to the start of the semester, the instructor and community partner identified the needs and possible ideas for problem-based SL projects. In the SL course, students were asked to create and improve cultural orientation materials and to review and improve sections of the agency’s website. The students working in groups reviewed the options, took the initiative to explore specific issues, and applied their knowledge to the projects. At the end of the semester, students presented their cultural orientation materials and proposals for new content for specific sections of the agency’s website to the members of the agency and refugees. By completing this semester-long course in the SL Intercultural Communication course, students were given opportunities to review American culture in comparison to other cultures, learn about the world refugee crisis, refugee resettlement, and cultural integration processes, and apply course concepts to their SL project assignments. The benefits of problem-based SL assignments and insights from collaborating with a community partner are discussed. Courses Intercultural Communication

한국 체류 중국인의 문화콘텐츠 경험이 문화변용과 목적지 이미지에 미치는 영향

Purpose - This study aims to examine the effect of korean cultural contents experienced by Chinese residing in South Korea on their acculturation and Korea destination. Research Design, data, and methodology -The data collection procedure focused on Chinese residing in Korea with resident visa. Through the online survey, a total of 315 Chinese people were sampled. After the elimination of incomplete, unusable, extreme outlying responses, a total of 302 responses were included for data analysis. Result -To examine hypotheses, multi-regression analysis was performed. The video contents had significant influence on assimilation, segregation, and integration. The food contents significantly effect on assimilation and integration. fashion and beauty contents had significantly influence only on assimilation. Assimilation and integration had a significant influence on destination image. Conclusions -This study revealed that korean cultural contents could play a significant role in supporting acculturation of Chinese people residing in Korea. In addition, Chinese would be able to have positive destination image of Korea, if they go through cultural assimilation and integration process experiencing korean cultural contents.

Features of modern education and issues of modernization of the intellectual culture of the Central Asia youth

The article is devoted to one of the urgent issues of the modern world and global challenges of the 21st century, i.e. the acceleration of cultural and educational ties and integration processes in the age of digitalization in the Central Asia region, which has become a prominent subject of the modern world community in a short time. An urgent problem for the Republic of Kazakhstan is the modernization of education and the determination of its place both in the global and in the civilizational socio-cultural space of Eurasia.

Mising culture under the influence of globalization

Assam and the North East have been inhabited by different ethnic groups since ancient times with their own cultures. In the changing times, these different ethnic groups have influenced their own cultures through the process of cultural integration and assimilation among each other. In recent times, the lifestyle of various ethnic groups living in the entire North East including Assam has been widely affected by globalization. It is noteworthy that globalization has brought about some innovative changes in their own culture. Therefore, this discussion attempts to examine the impact of globalization on the culture of the Mising people, a major tribe in the North East. It is important to note that although culture is universal, its expression varies from place to place and the nature of world culture can be understood through local or indigenous culture. Therefore, in order to discuss the positive and negative aspects of the impact of globalization on such an indigenous culture The Misings of the North East are to be selected and discussed.

ЕКОНОМІКО-РЕЛІГІЙНІ ВІДНОСИНИ В УМОВАХ ГЛОБАЛІЗАЦІЇ

Globalization is an integral part of today, a process of global economic, political and cultural integration and unification. The process of globalization has many positive and negative consequences, given the views on globalization among scholars divided their views on the positive or negative consequences of globalization in international relations. Features of globalization and its impact on religion are described in the study. Religion has been an integral part of human development throughout history. The influence of religion on the economy and the economy on religion is investigated in the article. The peculiarities of the influence of religion and religious factor on the economy, economic development and factors of economic development of the country are analyzed in the work. Economic and religious relations in the context of globalization are described in the study. The concepts and features of globalization are described. The transformations of the world community into an open integrated system of socio-political, financial-economic, information, socio-cultural relations and interdependencies within the globalization process are studied. The role of religion and church in the development of multinational companies and subsidiaries in Asia is described. The role and place of religion and religious philosophy in the development of the economy of the Asian tiger. The influence of religion and religious philosophy on the development of Asian companies. The influence of religion on the development of the international banking system is analyzed. Features of Islamic banks and the influence of religion and religious traditions on their functioning and development. The modern development of Islamic banks and the principles of their activities in the process of globalization are described. Differences between Islamic banks and others are described. The situation of Islamic banks in the period 2007 is analyzed. The peculiarities of the existence and activity of Islamic banks have interested many of the world’s largest commercial banks, such as «Chase Manhattan», «ING». The work of Islamic banks has attracted a large number of companies, such as «General Motors», «Alcatel», and other. The influence of religion on the economy is a relevant topic of research in political science.

Chapitre 4. The recognition and value of traditional care practices in french overseas territories: a singular and contemporary example from French Polynesia.

In French Polynesia (the Pacific), the knowledge and practices of traditional therapies, inherited from cultural specificities sometimes thousands of years old, were mostly, during the process of cultural integration that took place during the colonial period, neglected, side-lined, or disqualified by the public powers concerned. A state of tension is palpable in the hospital care service, where, on a daily basis, the medical staff experience socio-cultural resistance and incomprehension for which their education and training have not prepared them. By means of a diachronic approach, the article presents both the ways and the places of the traditional medicine at the heart of the Polynesian world, which are underpinned by a system of cosmogonic and symbolic representations, while also presenting the points of tension which derive from local, social, and sanitary specificities that are currently neither recognized nor taken on board by the powers that be. In this context, the article discusses a singular experiment in medical plurality, carried out by the pulmonology service at the hospital of Papeete. This first ethnological exploration of healthcare in a multicultural overseas territory is part of a healthcare dynamic already being put into practice by a body of carers within the pulmonology service of the Centre Hospitalier en Polynésie Française (CHPF), who are looking for new ways of thinking and caring in touch with local constraint and specificities. Drawing on these various research perspectives, it is important to try and sketch out, by means of an anthropological reflection on care, some paths for understanding a divisive situation which puts in danger the very practice of care.

L’inventario della spezieria di Giovanni Zavanti al Cairo (1732)

Abstract The inventory of the apothecary Giovanni Zavanti, a Venetian pharmacist who worked in Cairo in the 1730s, was drawn up by the Egyptian city’s British Consulate in 1732. Since this institution ensured formal juridical protection to the English shopkeepers of the Levant Company, but devoted little attention to their need for health care, this historical source can be considered a rare testimony of European medical-pharmaceutical activity in the Levant. The inventory’s importance is also connected with the specific political and socio-cultural context of Egypt, the most economically important province of the Ottoman Empire. Substantial groups of English, French and Dutch merchants lived in the Muslim society of Cairo and were officially represented by their respective nations in the eighteenth century. The Venetian, also active in Cairo, could not count on the protection of their State institutions during the Turco-Venetian conflicts (1645–1718). In this complex context, Zavanti tried to take advantage of his professional activity and built up different socio-cultural relations to defend his properties and commercial interests. He was in contact with fellow countrymen, Arabic Christians of Egypt, Jews, Turkish officials and the Franciscan confraternity Custodia Terrae Santae. As second-generation immigrants from Venice, the Zavantis experienced a difficult process of cultural integration in Egypt.