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Hi All,
Talking about culture and technology, I would like to say that due to the various technical advancements that has taken place over the last few years, it has made the world a smaller place. Bringing people together in one place and bridging the gap of cultural diversity. The article of Saukkonen. P & Pyykkonen. M, 2008, talks about the ethics and cultural diversity specifically in the European countries, and how still there aren’t many laws and policies in place to look after the immigrants settled in Europe. Cultural diversity has its positive side and as well as its negative version as well. Cultural differences may result in cultural dissonance, and for those who are affected due to such cultural differences would have very little or no margin of improvement. As stated by Allan (2002), cultural dissonance might take place due to the variances in numerous aspects of values and kind of discomposure resulting from cultural interactions and communications.
Allan, M. (2002). ‘Cultural borderlands: a case study of cultural dissonance in an international school’. Journal of Research in International Education, 1(1), pp. 63–90.
Saukkonen. P & Pyykkönen. M, (2008) Cultural policy and cultural diversity in Finland, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 14:1, 49-63, DOI: 10.1080/10286630701856518
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Cultural differences
by Nattavan Ngamchuen – Sunday, 8 March 2020, 10:04 PM
Hi all,
Hi Nattavan,
Interesting post and an interesting question raised, my personal opinion on this is that GUANXI is referred to as a culture of Chinese people when it comes to doing business. Considering Guanxi as bribery, would be a bit too harsh in my opinion. Even though if I am wrong, I believe Guanxi is considered as a decent and legal version of bribery.
Reference:
Ahmad. S, 2004, “Behind the mask: a survey of business in China,” The Economist, pp. 3–19.
Border controls
by Hengwen Ni – Sunday, 23 February 2020, 9:09 PM
Hi Hengwen,
An interesting post about the immigration and human history, its no hidden secret that why people or families immigrate from one country to another country. Obviously for better living standards, a place where they can raise their family. Talking about Australian immigration policies, do its policies comply with human rights? As stated by McLeod, Hammond and Kurtzke, 2011, various asylum seeking policies of Australia have been backfiring, mainly because of the events taken place in the recent past, that does include the breaching laws set by international bodies.
McLeod, J.G., Hammond, S.R. and Kurtzke, J.F., 2011. Migration and multiple sclerosis in immigrants to Australia from United Kingdom and Ireland: a reassessment. I. Risk of MS by age at immigration. Journal of neurology, 258(6), pp.1140-1149.
Cyber bullying
by Bader Abdulaziz Z Almutairi – Friday, 20 March 2020, 3:55 AM
Over the years cyber bullying has become a common phenomenon, specially in this digital age. It can take place through any device and platforms, and technology has played a major role to make it possible. As stated by Zhang et al. 2016, the continuous use of technology, specially by youngsters, it simply proliferates the chances of cyberbullying. I 100% agree, that there should be much stronger laws and rules to deal with cyber bullying.
Zhang, S., Yu, L., Wakefield, R.L. and Leidner, D.E., 2016. Friend or foe: cyberbullying in social network sites. ACM SIGMIS Database: the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems, 47(1), pp.51-71. Retrieved from: https://www.scribd.com/document/360928786/Research-gap-cyber-bullying-pdf
How Muslims are portrayed in the media
by Gamze Korkmaz – Thursday, 5 March 2020, 11:15 PM
Unfortunately that’s the bitter reality, it’s the media that plays its major role in portraying certain cultures and people as they would like, instead how they should be portrayed. Any educated person, would agree to the fact that terrorist knows no culture or borders, they can be from any religion. It is the responsibility of media, to play its role as an ethical guardian.
Elizabeth. A, 2019, ‘Muslims in the Media: Are we bridging or Building Divides’, Viewed on 23rd March 2020 < https://faithbeliefforum.org/muslims-in-the-media-are-we-bridging-or-building-divides/>
Sex Education
by Christina Rose Fiorillo – Thursday, 20 February 2020, 2:12 PM
Hi Christina,
Coming from a Muslim background, in our society there are specific norms and prebuild perceptions when one talks about SEX. However, we all know what sex education is and how important it is in today’s world. After reading your post, as you have mentioned that in a catholic school, sex education was not discussed. Now this is in a western society, countries in middle east, still take this as an offence, where students should be made well aware about sex education. The topic is more than the instruction to children and adolescents on biology and anatomy of reproduction and biological sex, so I personally don’t see any thing wrong with that.
Mattson. G, Breuner. C, 2016, Sexuality Education for Children and Adolescents’, Official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
diversity teaches
by Mohanad Gazaa N Alotaibi – Saturday, 21 March 2020, 10:55 PM
Yes diversity is all about accepting other people values, norms and beliefs and at the same time respect their beliefs. However, not every one has the same mindset neither they have common interest when it comes to dealing with people from different cultures. As stated by Knippenberg, D & Schippers, M 2006, diversity is considered as a competitive edge for many companies, since its advantages are long term and positively affects the culture of the organization
Knippenberg, D & Schippers, M 2006, ‘Work Group Diversity’, in , Annual Review of Psychology, vol. 58.
Fragility of gender identity
by Ibrahim Abdulhadi H Aljohani – Wednesday, 18 March 2020, 10:43 PM
Good point raised here, gender equality is something that should be talked about more openly and everyone should accept other people beliefs and values. Though in saying that, there are certain stereotypes that are associated with gender in the manner that roles of care and pink collar roles are more associated with women instead of men. These are certain stereotypes that should not exist in any society.
Adapa, S., Rindfleish, J., & Sheridan, A. (2016). ‘Doing gender’in a regional context: Explaining women’s absence from senior roles in regional accounting firms in Australia. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 35, 100-110.
Re: gender inequality
by Mia Louise Mossman – Monday, 9 March 2020, 3:16 PM
Hi Mia, unfortunately that’s a bitter reality that pretty much every women on earth has to go through. Female gender come across inequality from time to time, it may be in the form of work, could be at school or as you have highlighted can take place in sports arena. Though many policies have been made to address this issue globally, however very little has been done to implement on such policies.
Kumra, S., Manfredi, S. & Vickers, L. (2012). Managing Equality and Diversity: Theory and Practice. New York: OUP Oxford.
Impacts of the White Nation
by Arslan Ali – Thursday, 27 February 2020, 6:08 PM
On the issue that you have highlighted, I must say that it’s the media that plays a major role on what information needs to be portrayed and how it needs to be portrayed. We all have this perception that black is a sense of danger, no one was born with such perception. It’s the media that has played its role in developing an image of a particular race in such a way. Though racism do exist, but it not only exist on streets, or at work place but it all starts from us on an individual level, its us who have to make a difference by taking the first step towards addressing this issue.
