This paper presents an Intercultural Adaptation Model (IAM) which focuses specifically on illustrating the process of communicative adjustment during initial cross-cultural interactions. More specifically, this project is concerned with demonstrating how persons may or may not achieve understanding during initial intercultural encounters. Additionally, the IAM illustrates how individuals' previ...

In the “disenchanted” modern world, belief in the existence of spirits came to be seen as a nonrational and nonempirical product of culture. Psychological and anthropological theorizing explained naïve, nonmodern spirit encounter experiences as culturally loaded imaginative events. Among modern populations such experiences were assumed to be pathological and relatively rare. The resulting stigm...

There has not been enough study of the processes by which site staff help participating community members and potential participants to understand complicated concepts for HIV vaccine trials. This article describes strategies reported in six focus group discussions with Community Advisory Board members, educators, and consent counselors at an active HIV vaccine trial site in South Africa. Thema...

With the increasing diversity in the American population, it is imperative that nurse practitioners learn to manage patients with varying healthcare beliefs and needs. In order to develop culturally competent nurse practitioners, a number of methods have been developed. Many of the current methods focus on improving the awareness and knowledge of nurse practitioners regarding diverse population...

Today, intercultural first acquaintance meetings are becoming more and more frequent. The aim of this study is to describe, analyze and compare Swedish, Chinese and Swedish-Chinese first acquaintance interactions. Our focus lies on a classification of the topics in monoand intercultural first-time encounters. The analysis is based on 12 arranged face-to-face first acquaintance interactions betw...

We give a genus 3 Heegaard diagram H of the real projective space P3, which has no waves and pairs of complementary handles. So Negami’s result that every genus 2 Heegaard diagram of P3 is reducible cannot be extended to Heegaard diagrams of P3 with genus 3.

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Abstract This article presents how emotions contribute to the construction of self-images by shaping perceptions particular problems that arise during cultural encounters, as described in Turkish instruction textbooks Germany. I argue serve key information and emotion entrepreneurs, generating emotional resources shape understandings while constructing self-image(s) transgenerational transcultu...