It assisted to the culture creating a more intense culture. Feng shui was also brought creating a peaceful lifestyle to be balanced in life. Daoism was a part of this also. Though it seems that there is a lot of changes in the society of China, there are a few that remained the same in the culture and their political ways. The dynasties continued
I agree with Michael Wood’s concept of Chinese culture as discussed in his video programme. The agreement are as followed. Michael Wood pointed out that the Chinese emphasis on the harmonious nature. The Chinese deeply believed peace and balance. I suppose they blend this idea into daily practice.
Because this philosophy was connected with divinity from nature, China managed to maintain stable control politically. However in Rome, their idea or living and viewing society varied slightly. Civilians in Rome believed in having a patron-client relationship. A patron-client relationship was a relationship that established a bond between families and individuals. This bond lead to Roman citizens to be much more supportive of people, and created an organized society.
Culture is shared norms and values and ways of interacting that bind together members of society or some other collection of people together. Across cultures, the classification systems differ, e.g. in west, it is abnormal to hear voices but in some religions hearing voices can be desirable. A lot of diagnosing is to do with social norms, however these can easily change over time or space. The DSM and similar books are often made in western society so they can’t be used correctly in eastern societies making them culturally biased.
The comparison and contrast between the culture in Canada and China Nowadays, both eastern culture and western culture respect human rights, freedom and focus on the education quality. However, there does still exist differences between eastern culture and western culture in the areas of social relations, religions, belief, and dietary habit. From those things, we can know what is the difference between those two territory cultures. The significant cultural differences between people in Canada and China are the changed attitudes to deal with things and have different theories to communication with people. These differences are primarily related to history and different philosophies.
The Impact of Zheng He’s Voyages Envoy of Culture Zheng He helped spread the advanced Chinese culture and civilization to the outside world. At the time various countries and regions in Southeast Asia, South Asia and Africa lagged behind China in many aspects. China’s advanced knowledge and skills in navigation, oceangoing ship building, agriculture, manufacturing, construction, leech craft and meteorology, as well as its Confucius ideology were shared with other nations. When Zheng He traveled across the oceans he helped people in other lands improve their lives through religion, road building and well digging, and brought about great cultural impact to areas all along the Southeast Asian coast and the east coast of Africa. At the time, the trend was to learn all Chinese things.
Also human beings should be full of respect and care. Care to be given to the young and the elderly also reverence for everything valuable that has been brought from earlier generations. A perfect society for Confucius was a society where everyone was cared for and felt protected; no one should ever feel abandoned. Everyone should at all time live up to their social role and social status as signified by the Five Great Relationships, father- son, elderly brother – younger brother, husband – wife, elder – younger, ruler – subject, age determines position. Good manners are essential, the Confucian is to be respectful in vocabulary, tone, volume of voice, action, manner of dress and even posture.
Examples of these changes appear in practice/abolition of slavery, voting rights for women, cannibal practices by tribes in the other side of the world and many others. Each human being is different, and the combination of its uniqueness combined with the costumes or practices from his culture/environment will make those differences wider when comparing to other individual with a different life approach and culture. 3. What is the distinction between individual relativism and cultural relativism? Individual relativism is how a person behaves within the society, are his/her actions guided for “good” or “bad” cause; while cultural relativism relates more as how a group of individuals behave, what costumes share, and how do they react to the changes of living in the same environment (society).
They can value and celebrate differences in others rather than maintain an ethnocentric stance and can demonstrate comfort with differences between themselves and others. They have an awareness of personal and professional limitations that may warrant the referral of a client to another victim service provider or agency that can best meet the clients' needs. Self-awareness also helps in understanding the process of cultural identity formation and helps guard against stereotyping. As one develops the diversity within one’s own group, one can be more open to the diversity within other groups. Cultural competence also requires victim service providers to appreciate how workers need to move from cultural awareness to cultural sensitivity before achieving cultural competence, and to evaluate growth and development throughout these different levels of cultural competence in practice.
Last, but not least, main competitors such as Chivas have already established a strong presence in the Chinese market and have much larger advertisement spending compared to Johnnie Walker. In response to the challenge, Johnnie Walker has adapted its “keep walking” campaign to the Chinese context by introducing the “keep walking in pact towards success” campaign that is more relevant. The campaign was launched using a traditional marketing such as TV ads and coupled with newer media channel such as interactive websites that is connected to the TV ads. The resulting campaign has been successful which helped Johnnie Walker increase brand awareness as well as sales in the China market. This paper will analyze the communication and media strategy and the integration aspect of the advertisement campaign in China.