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    Culture, in general, marks an individual’s interests whether it be their religious practice, their habitual meals, or their ancient legends that they speak about to future generations. Any culture must have a birth place, most of them spawning in local communities, or erupting from a specific group of individuals. The more indigenous music and stories and that brood from these smaller communities is considered folk culture. Though, most of the legends, jokes, and myths told from these specific families

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    has become one entity. Consequently, different cultures have been integrated to what we today known as popular culture. The Internet has converted everything instantly viral like movies, series, book sagas, comics, anime and video games. There is no place on social media where you cannot feel identified with someone with an affinity of your resemblance. Today, being a geek is not an oddity, to the contrary, being a geek has become part of pop culture up to the point where it has turned into a part

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    History of communication and culture The systematic study of communication is very old, and it started as the study of the most basic form of human communication: oral communication. Right from the beginning, the art of communication and persuasion was vital to those in power. During Antiquity, therefore, rhetoric – the study and art of eloquence – furnished in the Greek and Roman empires, in centers of learning such as Athens, Rome, Constantinople and Alexandria. In the European university system

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    My culture is a very unique and old style culture that has lasted for almost three thousand years. It is the Assyrian culture in which it has stayed to the old ways till this day. What we do is very different from normal families like for instance. When we get married the mates for the man go to the fiance´s home and take all her pictures and things indicating that the man has her now. Another cultural practice we do is usually when the man comes to age that he goes to the army with no exception

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    human existence, culture and spirituality are two separate subjects yet they overlap. Culture belongs to the human sphere while spirituality has its place in the divine. Culture has either good or bad features; and can only be measured by a standard objective. Spirituality has to do with a person’s position before God. The aim of this essay is to discuss the relationship a Christian is to have with his culture and the standard to judge culture. Definition of culture The word culture is used to describe

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    Cultures have been copying each other since the first groups of people roamed the earth. When people see something they like, many will copy the idea to make their own lives more enjoyable or more efficient. This allows unique characteristics of every civilization around the world to become unified. Authors such as Andrew Marantz, Steve Olson, Leslie Savan, Manuel Munoz, Steve Olson, Kwame Anthony Appiah, and Malcolm Gladwell, all believe that the world can become a more unified place. They believe

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    the differences and conflicts between cultures Culture is a specific set of attitudes and perception that direct the way a community lives. There are very many cultural groups and orientations in the world today. These groups are based on specific homogenous attitudes or values shared by a community. From the definition, the factors may emanate from religion, ethnicity, education, gender or sexual orientation. For example, as a function of religion, culture has the potential to cause huge divides

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    Hypertension is a disease that affects many people of different cultures. However, there are cultures that have higher risks than others, such as Filipinos. The purpose of this paper is to briefly describe the Filipino culture and their correlation with hypertension. It will discuss in further details the need to integrate a plan for improvement as well as nursing interventions. Along with interventions, this paper will include how the interventions will be evaluated and a way to implement a

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    things in life that are important the first thing is your culture and the second thing is your values because your culture is how you behave and the norms you follow and your values is what you consider important. This paper is going to analyze two cultures and a value represented in the book Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. The two cultures are Australia and Iran. And value is the veil. In the book, Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, the culture of Australia represented freedom. The reason why it represented

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    practiced their own traditional cultures. Through the history and following globalisation, traditional cultures have gradually disappeared. For example, in Japan, there are Ainu people had established their own culture, but they were assimilated to Japanese culture because of the annexation to Japan in the mid-1800s. Therefore, until recently, they have used the Japanese language and been educated and lived as Japanese. However, there are many traditional cultures which have still practiced over

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