This study examines service encounters in Saudi Arabia from a pragmatic perspective. Its aim is to investigate the possible impact of perceived cultural distance between customers and providers on choices. It specifically how construct their when talking same (versus different) cultural/ethnic background terms discourse structure; strategies request internal modifications, stylistic strategies....

BACKGROUND Norwegian government white papers have stated that the Sami population is reluctant to seek help from healthcare services and has traditions of self-help and the use of local networks. OBJECTIVE In this article we explore healthcare professionals' discursive constructions of Sami persons with dementia and their families' reluctance to seek and accept help from healthcare services. ...

Nowadays multicultural reality leads health professionals to interact in their daily work with individuals and families from diverse cultures. The interaction between a person or family and a health professional from a different culture is called "cultural encounter". These encounters involve difficulties, complications and barriers, which health professionals will have to face in order to prov...

Translation examines the shape and shaping of sexual ideas and related scientific practices and cultural representations in parts of Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and South America between the late nineteenth century and the period leading up to World War II. It brings together historians, literary and cultural critics, and translation scholars who explore how the textual and real encounters b...

Morality and cultural identity emerge during human development in complex ways. We describe the theories and findings that focus on social exclusion and inclusion, social inequalities such as resource allocation inequalities, and intercultural contexts that both bear on and contribute to morality and moral development. This research reveals that individuals view morality as pertaining to fair, ...

The conceptual understanding of museums as ‘contact zones’ has been widely appropriated in the museum literature and beyond. But the discussion lacks empirical insights into actual experiences: What does ‘contact’ mean for the person experiencing it? How is it lived, negotiated and contested? Drawing on a long-term narrative study of global visitors to the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarew...

These days, the issue of diversity is very familiar to us. This is likely due to the advent of the phenomenon of a multi-cultural society. Naturally, concern and research about urban space and diversity has risen. The strategies of the EU based on ‘intercultural strategy’ contribute to the development of cultural diversity. The representative example is ‘Intercultural City Project’. The zones f...

In this qualitative study, we explored how students understood "culture." Participants defined culture and wrote narratives regarding specific cultural encounters. The sample comprised both nursing (n=14) and non-nursing (n=8) students to allow for comparison groups. Content analysis of the narratives revealed two broad paradigms of cultural understanding: essentialist and constructivist. Essen...

To understand the traditional description of medicine as a practice of healing, it is necessary to examine its relationships with both science and ethics. The "scientific" component of medicine includes an acknowledgment of the influence of social, cultural and environmental factors on the functioning of the organism. The "ethical" component is often presented as merely supplementary but actual...

In India, the notion of encounter is multifaceted, encompassing various encounters, such as cultural, religious, and linguistic. Encounters in India have historically shaped its pluralistic identity, fostering tolerance coexistence among different communities. These encounters often been marked by mutual influences, leading to synthesis ideas, beliefs, practices. Comparatively, Bentham Kant off...