Communication Between Cultures

structured fashion; instead,Analectswas compiled over a fifty-year period that pro- duced twenty books. Today, this collection c ...

Te(Power) Teliterally means“power by which people are ruled.”For Confucius, it was power that was properly employed for the bett ...

and frequently use the word “no.” Confucian philosophy, on the other hand, encourages indirect communication. For example, “In C ...

formal practices ranging from funerals to the building of small family shrines to honor the dead. All of these activities were i ...

study of concrete communities of faith, try to understand their patterns of life, the character of their communities, and the co ...

you learned growing up in the United States is found in variations in all cultures. Although the words are different, the wisdom ...

While all religions have some unique features, they share many similarities. These include, among other things, speculation abo ...

CHAPTER 5 Cultural History: Precursor to the Present and Future A people without the knowledge of past history, origin, and cult ...

United States came from Europe, and theybrought with them historically influ- enced traditions and worldviews. Huber points out ...

Israel offers another example of history being used to construct a national identity and sense of unity. When the nation was est ...

of these and many other similar historical accounts demonstrates the significance of the individualin U.S. culture. In addition ...

arrivals with Germans, Irish, and other ethnicities that were fleeing the repressive governance of monarchs, religious authoriti ...

The value and importance of individu- ality in the United States has been height- ened through folklore and the popular media. F ...

worth pointing out that gratuitous violence is a constant theme in U.S. entertain- ment media, such as movies, television shows, ...

ideological divide behind these differences is primarily between secular and religious beliefs, and those on either side of the ...

Daniels summarizes the differences between U.S. and Russian formative historical perspectives: It is of greatest importance for ...

subjected to the heavy-handed rule of an authoritarian, centralized government headed by an autocratic, often despotic“tsar.”^33 ...

Russian values—(1) patriotism, (2) that the state should play a role in world affairs, and (3)“state-centeredness.”The latter re ...

Chinese History Over the past three decades China has achieved extraordinary economic growth and experienced considerable social ...

of Chinese society extend back to 7000 BCE.^49 The documented historical record began with the Shang Dynasty (1766?–1122? BCE) a ...