Analyzing Ambivalence and Hybridized Individualistic Western Cultural Values in Mohsin Hamid’s Moth Smoke

The Unique Values of Chinese Traditional Cultural Time Orientation: In Comparison with Western Cultural Time Orientation

The field of nonverbal communication has been given more and more attention in the academic circle of intercultural communication. However, as far as the time issue is concerned, it requires a thorough study. Particularly, the time orientation of the Chinese traditional culture has not been fully covered. This paper makes a special effort in the exploration of the unique values underlying the t...

Analyzing Cigarette Smoke

Cultural Values and Cosmopolitanism

This article investigates whether the September 11 attack had an impact on cultural values and the level of cosmopolitanism of US university students. Extending a model proposed by Esses, Dovidio & Hodson (2002), we hypothesize a positive effect on the cultural dimensions of collectivism and hierarchy/power distance and a negative effect on cosmopolitanism. Our results – drawn from two separate...

role of cultural iran in promotion of multilaieralism in central asia and caucasus

cultural iran is a scope that is more extended than the political territories of iran as a political unit. this concept means that cultural geography(mehdi moghanlo-1383-1) of iran is greater than its political geography which, according to history, has a long history extending west-east from kandahar to the euphrates and north-south from the persian gulf to the caucasus including transoxiana a...

Regionalism and Cultural Identity in Western Amazonia

Cover Page Footnote: Acknowledgments. This paper was first written for the conference “Comparative Arawakan Histories” organized by Jonathan Hill and Fernando Santos-Granero, held at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama in July 2000. I am grateful to all of the participants in that conference for their helpful comments on and generous tolerance of this marginal Aruan case. I am...