In her paper, "Taiwan, China, and Yang Mu's Alternative to National Narratives," Lisa L.M. Wong examines the ways Yang Mu's poetry acts as an echo and a dissent to the mainstream national narratives in Taiwan between the late 1970s and early 1980s. During this decade, identity discourse has developed from othering Westernism to preserve Chinese cultural-national integrity to espousing a native ...

ABSTRACT Despite making great strides over the past 50 years, cultural resources data management and synthesis continues to be elusive nonstandardized, with each state agency developing disparate systems that do not easily mesh. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has embarked on a national initiative by creating National Cultural Resources Data Standard (NCRDS) works address many long-standing...

Empirical studies on the impact of national culture on Information Technology (IT) product adoption are rare. In this paper, it is postulated that national culture plays a significant role in IT adoption. Empirical evidence is provided based on IT product adoption data for thirty nations over a period of ten years. A 7-IT set (Computers, PC, Telephone, cell phone, Fax, the Internet, Pagers) is ...

Komodo National Park is a medium in maintaining national identity to support the implementation of defense and maintain security. one five parks that were first designated Indonesia with main icon being endemic animal, Komodo. Then, Government runs this park management model using participatory approach tourism development accompanied by provision training develop human resources, capital assis...

Much of the research in cross-cultural psychology is done using countries (national cultures) as main units of comparison, disregarding other important characteristics of the participants such as their ethnicity, language, religious or territorial affiliation. Thus, despite the fact that there exist clearly distinguishable sub-cultures within many countries or national cultures, they are often ...

Modernization theorists from Karl Marx to Daniel Bell have argued that economic development brings pervasive cultural changes. But others, from Max Weber to Samuel Huntington, have claimed that cultural values are an enduring and autonomous influence on society. We test the thesis that economic development is linked with systematic changes in basic values. Using data from the three waves of the...

PURPOSE Cultural sensitivity may be especially important in the care of children, and national pediatric associations have issued policy statements promoting cultural competence in medical education. The authors conducted a national survey to investigate the current state of cultural competence teaching and learning within U.S. pediatric clerkships. METHOD The authors surveyed 125 U.S. pediat...