Culture is the widening of the spirit and the mind. (1) ___ (start) Sept. 5, a multi-station exhibition featuring the cultural heritage of Europe is open to the public in Beijing. Laying out 38 cultural routes crossing the continent and beyond, it is a good display of history, economy...
12. “Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbor is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the ...
Mind, Culture, and Activity (MCA) is an international forum for the publication of peer-reviewed articles that examine the relationships between the human mind, the sociocultural environments they inhabit, and the way that mind and culture are constituted in a wide variety of human activities. We...
The way the mind works is heavily influenced by culture, according to University of Michigan psychologist Richard Nisbett, author of The Geography ofThought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently…and Why. Richard Nisbett says that two people from different cultures can look at the same ...
The meaning of CULTURE is the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group; also : the characteristic features of everyday existence (such as diversions or a way of life) shared by people in a place or time
The rise of communication technology in particular has lessened barriers to a set of ideas, beliefs, behaviors and other shared values that as a whole can distinguish one category of people from another. However, what seems to make this transformation seem inevitable is the collective human mind ...
Culture, as noted above, is due to an ability possessed by man alone. The question of whether the difference between the mind of man and that of the lower animals is one of kind or of degree has been debated for many years, and even today reputable scientists can be found on both side...
Dominance hierarchies are ubiquitous in the societies of human and non-human animals. Evidence from comparative, developmental, and cognitive psychological investigations is presented that show how social dominance hierarchies shaped the evolution of the human mind, and hence, human social institutions. It...
The Language,Culture and Mind conference series provides an international and interdisciplinary forum for communication and reflection on theoretical and empirical studies of language and communication.The keynote theme for LCM 7 will be:Signs of Life:Cultural contact-change and continuity in language,tho...
However, the American began to give more support to the former argument. This project suggested that in Korean culture, support for arguments is based on context. Ideas and conclusions are changeable and flexible, so an individual may be more willing to change his or her mind. For Americans,...