Word: adaptions
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...former member of the Ethiopian parliament who arrived in the United States in 1976, and his daughter, author Rebecca Haile. Dr. Haile asserted that a close-knit Ethiopian immigrant community is essential to preserving his country’s traditions, but his daughter felt that traditionalist attitudes must adapt to globalization. She highlighted the broad spectrum of unconventional Ethiopian American identities that have flourished as immigrants encounter new cultures and take advantage of recent communications technology.This tension between preserving traditional Ethiopian culture and adapting to the demands of globalization was thoroughly discussed in the various panels and lectures...
...thermo-stabilized sweet-and-sour pork. So it’s not just Americanized; it’s Indianified, Koreanized, Mexicanized. Chinese food is really more of a philosophy of cooking than it is a set of fixed recipes. The food is good enough that it can adapt to the palate of the local clientele. THC: What are the major differences between authentic Chinese food and most American Chinese food?JL: One difference is that Americans don’t like to be reminded that their food ever walked, swam, flew, or crawled. Anything that’s very animalistic...
Whatever his critics may say, Brown does have a vision. He sees the earth at a tipping point, full of fresh opportunities to eradicate poverty and promote social justice, yet fraught with looming dangers as its peoples struggle to adapt to globalization, technological advances and climate change. But there are those who think that Brown, buffeted by dissent and blindsided by serial mishaps, could soon be forced into singing his own sad song of departure. And the medicine he's proposing for the international community - a reinvigorated multilateralism, in which nations work together through institutions like the United Nations, NATO...
...comics enjoyed a bright but fragile reemergence in the 1980s, gaining a foothold in Phnom Penh's markets before the onslaught of television, movies and video that coincided with Cambodia's ensuing recovery and development. Other Asian countries had comic-book cultures resilient enough to adapt to the explosion of electronic media; unable to do the same, Cambodia's artists produced work that lay unpublished in boxes and drawers...
...field of news has always changed as technology evolves, and this may merely be the startling but inevitable signs of an industry in transition. Of course, traditional media must struggle to adapt in face of new competition from other sources. Indeed, reporting in radio has survived; the painful period of transition simply made the size of journalistic radio proportional to the percentage of people who utilized the medium after the advent of television...