As the population diversifies in many North American cities due to increased immigration, ethnic retailing has become an important and increasingly visible component of the local retail economy. To date, business geographers have paid little attention to ethnic retailing. This paper attempts to redress this gap by providing a spatial analytical study of the demand for and supply of ethnic retai...

Modern biogeography now encompasses an impressive diversity of patterns and phenomena of the geography of nature, providing insights fundamental to understanding the forces influencing the spatial and temporal dynamics of biological diversity. However, rather than praise our discipline for its great breadth of visions, our purpose here is to point out our glaring oversight of a potentially tran...

Yellow Peril and other anti-East Asian themes are a recurring but rarely acknowledged feature of the oeuvre Robert A. Heinlein. Still revered by an overwhelmingly white, male ideologically libertarian readership, “Dean” American Science Fiction made extensive use threatening, hateful or contemptible images East Asians in novels that appeared from 1930s through 1960s. The contradiction between H...

Music is the product of human consciousness activities, which exists in different ethnic groups and cultural groups. The minorities our country are especially good at singing dancing, their musical experience should be more abundant. There substantial evidence that not only improves music-related abilities, but also has positive effects on a wide range cognitive activities. However, we still do...

Science studies are an increasingly prominent interdisciplinary body of work. Now a diverse literature, one of its most consistent and common themes is a reluctance to accept the standard model of scientific explanation (‘internalism’) that conceives scientific knowledge, and the disciplines with which it is associated, as the product of a rationality that is progressively realized over time. I...

Science studies are an increasingly prominent interdisciplinary body of work. Now a diverse literature, one of its most consistent and common themes is a reluctance to accept the standard model of scientific explanation (‘internalism’) that conceives scientific knowledge, and the disciplines with which it is associated, as the product of a rationality that is progressively realized over time. I...

While labour geography notes that subsidiaries of multinational companies (MNCs) exploit workers, studies in vocational education show the international perform and training. Often, latter strand literature relates to cases MNCs from countries with ‘dual’ apprenticeships combine comprehensive training (VET) schools/universities companies. This is how VET practiced Germany, Austria Switzerland. ...

This study examines the distribution patterns of rural settlements from a new perspective ethnic inter-embeddedness. The Shannon-Wiener Index (SWI) and Moran’s I methods are employed to identify spatial characteristics in typical multi-ethnic gathering area. results as follows: Firstly, different groups exhibit significant heterogeneity remarkable differences ethnicity region. Each group has it...