As the need for instructing a globalized workforce increases, instructional designers must embrace the constraints and the opportunities these projects provide in order to move the field of cross-cultural instructional design (ID) forward. Cross-cultural projects offer multiple avenues for growth in ID practice, overcoming cultural barriers, and a venue to apply and test contemporary models, me...

In studies of cultural differentiation, the joint mechanisms of homophily and influence have been able to explain how distinct cultural groups can form. While these mechanisms normally lead to cultural convergence, increased levels of heterogeneity can allow them to produce global diversity. However, this emergent cultural diversity has proven to be unstable in the face of “cultural drift”small...

Wasim Maziak Syria Of all its accomplishments, the West is perhaps most proud of its scientific revolution, which has been unfolding for the past halfmillennium. Only students of history remain consistently mindful of the pivotal and catalytic role that the Arab world played in the early phases of this revolution. Now, all of us should have a vested interest in advancing science and technology ...

This exploratory study employed uses and gratifications theory to understand Arab Americans’ salient motives for using the internet and whether the internet served as a functional alternative to other media to satisfy Arab Americans’ information-seeking and interpersonal needs. Spiral of silence theory also was used to investigate the relationship between Arab Americans’ perceptions of U.S. pub...

The study aims to examine the perceived level of tourism marketing mix components in Aden city, and assessment city as a tourist destination by visitors. results were have positive impact on tourists’ satisfaction with except for "promotion". Marketing significant relationship gender "partnership". Price, place, person statistical significance between different educational groups. person, progr...

Following the killing of George Floyd by police in US May 2020, a new anti-racism has erupted across world. While this is squarely focussed on dismantling anti-black racism, scholarship—especially western Europe—has for some decades now been emphasising racisms: Anti-South Asian Islamophobia and Sinophobia Britain, anti-Arab racism France anti-Turk anti-migrant racisms Germany, so on. These var...

Clinical and public health research depends on factors including national systems, socio-cultural influences, and access to organisations and individuals. As a 'new' country, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has yet to develop strong support for population research. However, there is interest in research. The challenges for quantitative and qualitative research include the varied composition and ...

Culture is thought to be the most difficult to isolate, define, and measure in the adoption and use of IT (Information Technology) (Hassan & Ditsa, 1999). Consequently, the impact of culture on the adoption and use of IT does not feature prominently in Information Systems (IS) literature. As cultural factors are important to the success of IT adoption and use, this research paper examines cultu...

Romania, a net emigration country, has witnessed significant increase in immigration over the last decade. The objective of this paper is to highlight facilitators and barriers local integration faced by recent immigrants as expressed relevant stakeholders. Their often neglected views hold particular relevance for improving well-being migrants Romania. We focus on young from Republic Moldova Ar...