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Showing 1 to 20 of 626 for “"Cultural Identity"”.
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Cultural Identity
… It is my intention to portray an individual cultural sensitivity, while celebrating the qualities that unite all people. The four elements that are common in my work are scenes of livelihood, religion, entertainment, and family. Though some people may strongly identify with one particular …
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Rethinking Thai architecture and cultural identity
… it was believed that a new modern image of Thai cultural identity would help the country to be regarded as equal to Europe. At the same time, traditional Thai beliefs – especially the values of ‘pure’ Buddhism – were left behind as they were seen to be entirely different from the new western …
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Cultural identity and Galician folk music
… played and plays in the promotion of national/cultural identity in the two revivals, the first of which (Rexurdimento) arose towards the end of the nineteenth century and the second (Recuperación) in the mid nineteen-seventies. Events are described which led to the rise of the Galician …
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Cultural Identity and Attenuated Psychotic Experiences
… immigrant groups living in Westernized contexts. Cultural identity has been researched as a risk/protective factor for psychosis; however no consistent result has emerged. Cultural identity captures an individuals’ sense of belonging in a particular cultural group (s), including one’s ethnic group …
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Writing the self: feminist experiment and cultural identity
… non/narrative texts whose text-subjects mediate identity and call for increased possibilities for subject-identification in the world. The use of innovative formal strategies and experiment with narrative, combined with the content of identity critique, make these texts political projects that …
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The development of cultural identity in early childhood settings.
… is to examine the support and development of cultural identity in early childhood settings in Leicester and Leicestershire. The main players are the practitioners, the parents and the children, all of whom participated in a variety of ways. No two settings are alike; each has a philosophy, …
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Working Whiteness: Performing And Transgressing Cultural Identity Through Work
… this dissertation. I argue that whiteness is a culturally constructed identity and that work serves as a performative space for defining and transgressing whiteness. To this end, I examine work and its influence on the performance of middle class and working class whiteness, as well as how those …
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Second Generation Immigrant Adaptation: Construction of a Hybrid Cultural Identity
… perspective to examine the construction of cultural identities in second generation South Asian women. It critiques traditional strategies of immigrant incorporation, including assimilation and cultural pluralism, for their androcentric and essentialist tendencies. It was found that the …
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Examining (my)self: An autoethnographic exploration of cultural identity negotiation
… an autoethnographic exploration of my dialectic cultural identity negotiation. Utilizing autoethnographic inquiry through the use of autoethnographic episodic narratives and Martin and Nakayama’s (2004) notion of cultural dialectics, I explore the contradictions that occur between the identities …
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Migration and cultural identity: Performing the Afro-Caribbean woman's struggle
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Cultural Identity, Communication, and Cultural Reentry: Experiences of American Students
<p>In 2003 the National Education Association annual survey revealed that male teachers currently make up 35% of America's kindergarten through 12 th grade classroom teaching cadre. In grades kindergarten through sixth grade, men comprise 9% of the classroom teachers, and only 2% of classroom …
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Cultural Identity Salience, Individuation, and Life Satisfaction in Emerging Adulthood
… examined emerging adults’ (18-29 years old) cultural identity domains of race/ethnicity identity, gender identity, sexual identity, spiritual identity, and socioeconomic class identity with their features of individuation from parents and life satisfaction. Additional emphases were placed on …
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MoMA in France: The Construction of an *American Cultural Identity
… of this association for the emerging American cultural image in Europe.
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Colouring in the White Spaces: Reclaiming Cultural Identity in Whitestream Schools
… background is the norm. When we talk about multiculturalism and diversity what we are really referring to is the colour of the children, or their difference from that white norm, and how they don’t fit perfectly inside our lines. If the colour of the space doesn’t change schools are still in the …
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Mandalas and cultural identity: Increasing positive identification with Chamorro native heritage
… mandala artwork. Data findings from the Chamorro cultural questionnaires indicated specific words, namely ‘Family/Familia’, ‘Food’, and ‘Respect’ as strongly associated with Chamorro culture. Additionally, said words were used frequently by the participants within their artwork. Analysis from 24 …
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