NETFLIX: CULTURAL DIVERSITY OR CULTURAL IMPERIALISM?

Revising brain death: cultural imperialism?

Cultural Intelligence and Cultural Diversity

Today, in order to achieve an effective result in a globalized business environment, an understanding of cultural diversity is urgently needed. In this background, such a concept, cultural intelligence, is newly presented. This is an ability to socialize and work with people from different culture and background without cultural struggle. This article discusses about a concept and theory of cul...

Between Relativism and Imperialism: Navigating Moral Diversity in Cross-Cultural Bioethics.

The need for explicit theoretical reflection on cross-cultural bioethics continues to grow as the spread of communication technologies and increased human migration has made interactions between medical professionals and patients from different cultural backgrounds much more common. I claim that this need presents us with the following dilemma. On the one hand, we do not want to operate accordi...

Cultural Commodity Chains, Cultural Clusters, or Cultural Production Chains?

The paper begins with a discussion of the definition of cultural industries. The paper’s three main themes are concerned with, first: 1) a contestation of the generic application of the global commodity chain concept, 2) the need for a unique focus on cultural industries associated with the particular nature of its production process, and 3) the role of embedded judgments of quality is an integ...

“Israeli cultural imperialism is a greater threat to Palestinians than economic or military occupation

this paper examines the political-economy and cultural dynamics and discourses underlying the emergence of the Palestinian Hamas and the Algerian Islamic Salvation Front. Both movements emerged in the late 1980s as responses to continuing (neo) colonial conditions in their countries. I explore to what extent the various processes commonly referred to as “globalization,” both the world-wide econ...