Western newspapers, radio and television stations, research institutes and universities have had much more to say about Asian values lately than Asian themselves. And usually it isn't in positive context. The idea of an "Asian Values" is actually very new. National traditions have been strong an...
Asian Cultures refer to a diverse range of strong cultural traditions found in East Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. These cultures are characterized by values such as collectivism, conformity, strong emphasis on formal education, and integration of social and religious dimensions into educational...
The essay “Making Conversation” by Kwame Antony Appiah is a reflection on the term “cosmopolitanism” and the steps people in any nation have to take in order...
17Similarly, early Spanish observers of pre-contact traditions in the Americas had no trouble calling the vast collections of quipus that were the basis of Inca admi-nistration and the purely oral memories of the Andean highlands arquivios (ar-chives).18 Obviously, people often simply knew when...
of rich biodiversity and cultural diversity show "parallel extinction risk" (indeed higher extinction risk than birds and mammals) [13], in part caused by "dramatic loss of livestock breeds and agricultural varieties as well as traditions for raising them, and erosion or obliteration of regional ...