Papers 211-220 of total 312 found.
Category: /Literature/English
…Strategy: global profit maximization Ethnocentric companies follow policies that are home country-oriented. Polycentric companies follow policies that are host country-oriented. Geocentric companies follow policies that are world-oriented. An MNC…
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Category: /History
…Native Americans, which around .2 percent of the entire population of 1, 235, 796 (based on the 2000 census). The historical oppression of Native Americans in the United States is very often told to Americans from an ethnocentric view point. It can…
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Category: /Literature/Novels
…’ll talk about the perception of ethnicity. People in this novel are very ethnocentric and Wolfe uses this fact to bring out their prejudices against people that aren’t like them. One of the main groups that gets picked on are people of Jewish decent…
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Category: /Literature/English
…agenda that historical circumstances would otherwise render extinct; ethnocentrism would seems naïve in the knowledged face of diversity; the religious dogma of the catholic church may seem superfluous in comparison to eastern spirituality; excessive wealth…
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…sometimes think that the Asian people are not warm or hospitable, while it is not necessarily the case. All this could be explained by a concept ¡°ethnocentrism¡±, which indicates that we may view the world solely from the perspective of our own culture. (Inkson…
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…" by a period of isolation and oppression of their people. Japan also had a long period of isolation. The Japanese believed in the Mandate of Heaven or that there culture was the best. Because of their ethnocentric culture, only one Japanese port, Nagasaki, was open…
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Category: /Literature/English
…to be successful in Ireland. The important business and managerial implications of socio-cultural differences must be understood. Ethnocentrism must be avoided by learning to respect differences by mastering self-awareness and cross-cultural sensitivity training…
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Category: /Literature/English
…standards. Such rankings are highly subjective and loaded with potential for ethnocentric abuse, with the highest rank always being reserved for the race of the anthropologist doing the ranking. One such man was Linnaeus, who viewed the task of classification…
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Category: /Literature/English
…and the ethnocentrism in a white woman keeps her from ever getting past the dark skin, and makes the white women feel more like the Africans were more of an animal then an actual person. The white women always feels that the slave must understand that the man may rank…
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Category: /Literature/English
…that there is support for it within their society. Their cultural lens, for example, may be highly ethnocentric; yet, no distortions are perceived in the field of vision. To understand why this is racist, consider how euphemisms and code words for ethnic persons and groups…
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