Word: culturese
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Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Avi Matalon, who teaches Foreign Cultures 90 “Tel Aviv: Urban Culture in Another Zion,” says he tries to help seniors by exempting them from attending section.
But disorientation is the point. From the collapse of the Han Dynasty at the beginning of the 3rd century A.D. until the Tang emperors solidified control in 589, China was both politically and culturally a very messy place. Confederations of mounted nomads from the steppes were ransacking China's northern...
Kaabour manages to capture the most subtly nuanced elements of what ethnicity and nationality mean to individuals, rather than making sweeping cultural generalizations. The filming of quotidian events of the lives of his subjects represents the natural integration of Arabic and Western cultures; most notable is the Islamic basketball league...
“After all, it is by their arts that cultures are principally remembered,” she added.
Yet taken as a whole, Japan Inc. remains one of the most insular corporate cultures on earth. Over the past 15 years, plenty of Western management practices, investors and executives have been tried, with mixed results. For every Ghosn, who is now a national hero for saving Nissan, there is...