This article examines how rising concern for animal welfare in Australia is manifested increased media coverage of these topics, including growing sentience, rights, and welfare. In Australia, canine existence often determined by their positioning within cultural frames. Dogs have been integral to Aboriginal social, family, environmental relationships generations; however, colonisation brought ...

This research sheds light on Western use of educational Ideological State Apparatuses (ISA) as an important weapon to eradicate Native American culture. Although there have been huge Culture and Euro-American oppression Americans, very small is known about the ideological method European oppression. The picture that appears from Louise Erdrich’s LaRose for Europeans, education a tool enlighten ...

In her article "US-American Protestant Missionaries and Translation in China 1894-1911" Mingyu Lu discusses impact of and surrounding atmosphere between Protestant missionaries and Chinese intellectuals in translating Western texts. During the national crisis in 1894-1911, Protestant missionaries and Chinese intellectuals co-translated a large number of Western texts and adjusted their translat...

The term "culture" originates from "The Book of Changes". Western culture is derived the Latin word "Culture," originally referring to practices such as farming, dwelling, and training, among others. British cultural scholar E. Tylor defined in "Primitive Culture" a complex group abilities habits acquired by any member that includes knowledge, beliefs, morals, customs. In context teaching Chine...

Adjustment to a new culture is crucial psychological and behavioural process among international students. Adaptation supports the performance and functioning of these students. Failure to adapt to the changes in the new environment would tax on the psychological wellbeing, exhaust the students and strain the academic performance. Acculturation is one the important moderating factor for adaptat...

This ethnographic study explores the implications of romance reading for young Indian women’s gender, class, and national identities in one urban setting in South India. The project demonstrates that the practice of reading Western romance fiction is deeply embedded within patriarchal discourses of feminine respectability that exert control over women’s sexuality. Young women’s fascination for ...

Cultural orientation is defined as an individual's cultural preferences when encountering imported culture while still living in the native culture. Data was analyzed from 1305 Chinese university students attending universities in Beijing, Kunming, and Wuhan. Cultural orientation was assessed with the Chinese Cultural Orientation Questionnaire, which assesses both Western and Traditional Chines...