Tag: rigid cultures
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Cultural Scapegoating
Scapegoating is a behavioural phenomenon of people finding, consciously or subconsciously, an external guilty party for a number of things, ranging from weather phenomena to their own anger and anxiety to there and then problems in their environment (abusive behaviour, social inequality or perceptions of inequality – such as claimed or actual persecution -, a…
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Culture Shock
Today, our topic is culture shock. Recently, I have been thinking about culture shock a lot. I’ve seen a lot of world thus far in my life, have lived in several countries and have had a chance to observe some pretty unique behaviours. And yet, I’ve never really suffered from the infamous culture shock. Instead,…
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Cross-culture in likes – taboos and variety in day-to-day behaviours
As with everything (and I really can’t stress that enough), what we like influences our behaviour and vice versa. For instance – a rigid personal environment and adherence to the resultant behaviour will make it difficult or even impossible to like things that pertain to different, whatever that different entails… it could be another culture,…
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Fashion
Fashion is a part of our lives, whatever we say or think about it. It is a mode of our expression, it is a way of creating different facets of our persona and personality – the intimate lover, the calm business person, the fun outgoing friend, the caring parent, the cozy loving pet parent… It…