I learned from this documentary that Toronto East Downtown Residents Association (TEDRA), is basically a white and middle class organization that looks to gentrify the four corners. I feel that they are using their position of power-over (class and race) to further marginalize a community that has existed and the four corners for nearly forty years! So, what does this mean? In short, I feel that we have a part of the poor population that is being excluded from society and face the everyday challenges of systematically being blocked from rights, opportunities, housing, healthcare and social integration. Plus, this community is now having to deal with an organization (TEDRA) that perpetuates the fore mentioned transgressions.
American companies such as Apple and Wal-Mart are infamous for utilizing foreign sweatshops for manufacturing their products. Nonetheless, human resources cultural professionals and enthusiasts like Geert Hofstede have presented theories and models which summarize the differences in business culture from country to country. “According to Hofstede, cultures differ in at least five different ways that may have important implications for understanding business. The five dimensions are: individualism versus collectivism, power distance, avoidance of uncertainty, masculinity, and long term versus short term orientation.” (Ivancevich & Konopaske, 2013) Concerning power distance, the Chinese people believe that inequality is acceptable. They hold a strong
The dating of the human remains is vital in not only establishing the age of the first Australians, but gaining a sense of their culture and society. ‘The skeletons are by far the earliest evidence found anywhere in the world of human remains being interred with burial rites’ (Grose, 2003). From a cultural perspective this implies a complex society that respected its dead and had some sense of spirituality and notion of an afterlife (Grose, 2003). The evidence gained at Lake Mungo has put a time frame on the climate change that occurred around 50,000 years ago allowing the commencement of occupation. The human occupation peaked during drying of the climate over the next 10,000 years.
Xinyi Huang Writing 121 4:00 PM Essay #1 ( Fixed Version) November 19, 2013 Lost Language In “Tribal Talk” by Michelle Nijhuis and “Speaking in Tongues” by James Geary, both writers talked about how the hundreds of thousands of different tribal languages spoken in the past by millions have been cut down in half. The death of these languages brought devastating effects to the human society, because as the languages begin to disappear, the culture and traditions that was tied to the language will slowly die off also. Dying languages aren’t just a thing of the past. Hundreds of languages, and its’ culture, have been lost in the past century, and many lesser known languages are near the brink of extinction. Efforts should be made
O’Rourke explains that due to the uselessness of the Rio Grande River or lack thereof, the violence across the border in Juarez has really affected quite frankly, traumatized El Paso. When asked how El Paso is actually suffering while the obvious suffering is clearly on the Juarez side, O’Rourke responds by saying that “we are one community, so what happens to Juarez hurts El Paso….the most significant cost is in human lives. Sixteen hundred killed in Cuidad Juarez in 2008 related to this drug violence. Certainly, drug operatives are in that number but many innocent victims, including children, are in that number. It's been reported that there have been at least six kidnappings here in El Paso, Texas, people abducted and taken back over the border.” It becomes evident that there is a constant high level of anxiety and worry in the air, perhaps, even, a feeling of loss of control.
There are many arguments about Xinjiang such as who were domestic people of the territory. Although most population of the Xinjiang consist from Uighur people, China forced the Uighurs to migrate from Xinjiang, because they see Uighurs as a terrorist. During these arguments are continuing, an important discovery happened at the end of the 20th century. Uighur archeologists found Tarim Mummies in Tarim Basin which is in the south part of Xinjiang. These mummies were significant, because they were different.
Assignment 2 Environmental Sustainability Practices Introduction This report is to summarize the similarity as well as difference between the environmental sustainability practices in United States and China. Compare and Contrast Practices in China It is no secret that China faces serious environmental challenges. The combination of rapidly growing population and lack of viable communication between states and local communities have produced difficult situations. Many argue, from Malthusians terms that overpopulation is the simple answer to a host of problems. Not only that, the distribution of resources across social classes of the populations would also result in the abandonment of many rural communities and establishment of inefficient and harmful method of resource consumption.
This gradual decrease in power slowly sucked the life out of the city of Brugge until it reached a point of desperation and poorness in the 18th century (Lonely Planet). The fall of Brugge happened due to three things; the silting of the Zwin canal around 1500, the rise of Antwerp as a successful maritime trader in 1510, and the Protestant Reformation in 1580. These events forced Brugge to step into the shadows of surrounding cities and become a shell of great trading and information city it once was. Of all the causes of Brugge’s downfall, the silting of the Zwin canal was the most influential. The Zwin canal was Brugge’s lifeline, being that it was Brugge’s connection to the sea.
China also repeated many times that its constitution specifies not only citizenship rights but also the “Four cardinal principles“ in legal respect the "Four Cardinal Principles" are higher than citizenship rights, meaning there was legal base when China arrested people who wanted to overthrow these principles. Chinese people who obey these principles can enjoy all Chinese citizenship rights in principle. However, numerous human rights organizations maintain a litany of grievances against the Chinese government. Controversial human rights issues in China include policies such as capital punishment, the one-child policy, the social status of Tibetans and lack of protections regarding freedom of press and religion. One of the foremost areas of concern is a lack of legal rights, for want of an independent judiciary, rule of law, and due process.
For those who did receive an education, an ethnic conflict could force them to migrate to different regions in the world, resulting in a brain drain for the area infected with an ethnic conflict. This drastically increases the rate of poverty to the population that ethnic conflict plagues. Discrimination becomes rampant as well when ethnic conflict is involved. A certain group of people might not have the same privileges, economic opportunities, or political freedoms as another group. A person trying to apply for a job could be turned away only because of his ethnicity or religious viewpoints.