Titlebook: Cultural Essentialism in Intercultural Relations; Fred Dervin,Regis Machart Book 2015 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015

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Difference Is No Excuse: Separate Struggles, Shared Concerns, and the Articulation of Collective Idetesque and oppressive imagery: scarred global geographies in constant turmoil. This poetry is overtly, openly, and unashamedly political and it painfully regurgitates against the manifold manifestations of global corporate power. The poets from three different cultures have been chosen because they

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Essentialising the Convenient Baba-Nyonyas of the Heritage City of Melaka (Malaysia)ic situation on the Melaka Straits, half-way between China and India. It has been for a long time the meeting place of a melange of populations, locals (Malays) and migrants coming from the East (Chinese), the West (Indians, Arabs), the South and South-West (different people from the present Indones

漫步

Deadpan

Afterwords a range of agendas of the people who use it either explicitly or tacitly. This premise follows from a postmodern, constructivist, non-essentialist view of culture and has become established in critical sociology and much postcolonial and critical theory. It has I think always been the case when ta

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万神殿

Hyperplasia

Afterwordt how people will behave, what values they will have, or how they are able or not able to think as a consequence of this. It means that we cannot define, predict, or suggest boundaries for behaviour by virtue of belonging to a particular culture. We cannot make essentialist statements which confine

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Introduction: Omnipresent Culture, Omnipotent Culturesselected as the 2014 word of the year. The list was compiled by analysing the lookups in the online dictionary. According to the Editor at Large for Merriam-Webster: “Culture is a word that we seem to be relying on more and more. It allows us to identify and isolate an idea, issue, or group with seriousness” (Merriam-Webster, 2014).