31, 2012 Published: March 20, 2012 The Role of Family in Educating-Socializing Children: The Case of Vietnam Nguyen Thanh Binh Free University of Berlin, Germany, Institute of Sociology, Gary strasse 55, 14195 Berlin, Germany Abstract: Vietnamese families are the first, primary and deciding factor in educating-socializing each person. It is through families that people can learn the standards, values approved by the society. Families are the first human group, which people are raised,
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Preventing Migrant Death Raquel V. Lopez Eng 147 January 25, 2015 Dr. Barbara Rowland Preventing migrant death The death and suffering of migrants crossing the U.S-Mexico border are not a mistake and must no longer be ignored. As the security along the border has increased, the journey for migrants has become harder than ever, and few are prepared for the danger that awaits them. Our country’s southern border has become the most dangerous place in the world, in the harshest
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The Health of Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islanders -------- Grand Canyon University: NRS-429VN ------- Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islanders (NHPI) Population In 1997, the Office of Management and Budget revised Statistical Policy Directive No. 15, Race and Ethnic Standards for Federal Statistics and Administrative Reporting and separated the 1976 racial category of “Asian and Pacific Islander” into two groups: “Asian” and “Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanderi Native Hawaiians
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brilliant achievements, genre and classical characters of this book, especially demonstrate some difference from other books. The author of this book, Xueqing Cao, is a great writer and poet of the Chinese Qing Dynasty. He was born in an aristocratic family, so he had a happy childhood. But his father was dismissed and arrested when he was 10 years old, and all possessions were confiscated. Thus, Xueqing Cao felt deeply about inconstancy of human relationships and more clearly understood the darkness
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Gender plays a significant role in family and societal traditions. Some families place such a large importance on that role that it is impossible for a person to achieve his or her goals or live his or her life. In Like Water for Chocolate, Tita De la Garza’s principle struggle steams from the fact that she has little control over her affairs. From the day she was born, her fate was already sealed, and she would be expected to acknowledge tradition. Her life was not hers to live. Her mother Mama
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Hmong relationship seems to be improving because the doctors are finally letting the Hmong use traditional healing techniques. However, the only reason the doctors are agreeing to this is because they believe she is going to “die anyway”. In my opinion this is crude and an inhumane way of the doctors to think and then allow the family to follow the traditions. Instead of trying to explain to the family the gravity of the situation through a cultural interpreter or finding an anthropologist is explain
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Globalization essentially is the growth of an industry to a world wide scale. Globalization is seen in several varying ways. Many tend to believe that expanding the political, economic, and cultural spectrums of the world will essentially lead the masses in to an enlightened future. However, there are many counter arguments that portray globalization as a greedy power hungry mechanism used to exploit poor and undeveloped countries. The effects of globalization are both long term and lethal and should
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has affected the country in every way one can imagine. This paper will attempt to explore the major ways the policy has affected the people of China socially, and how the economy has reacted with the change. A brief history on the traditional views of Chinese families, before the policy’s implementation, is outlined ahead of the policy’s background. This is to illustrate where the people of China are coming from, socially and culturally. I hope to convey that this policy has forcefully stolen the
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truth-telling to cancer patients: Chinese and American approaches to the disclosure of ‘bad news’ Dong Xue1, Jane L Wheeler 2, Amy P Abernethy 2 Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), Department of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Peking University School of Oncology, Beijing Cancer Hospital, Beijing Institute for Cancer Research, Beijing, PR China, 2Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham
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THE NATIVE AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE Introduction: Listed below are perspectives attributable to the Indians of the Plains and the American Southwest through the 19th century. Some of these perspectives may be appropriate to other Native American tribes within North America. 1. The Pueblo culture is characterized by collectivistic, ritual emphasis under priestly direction. 2. The Plains Indians emphasize individual self-realization through aggressive fighting against outsiders and hallucinatory
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