Service to multicultural users

Service-Oriented Collective Intelligence for Multicultural Society

1. Introduction Increased globalization among all countries has brought about the coexistence of multiple cultures. Although promoting English as a common language has its own advantage, taking the effort in learning other languages significantly helps in understanding different cultures. Unfortunately, hundreds of languages are spoken all around the world. It is simply too daunting to tackle t...

Multi - cultural Switzerland – multicultural public service media ?

In this article a special attention is paid to the to the role of public service broadcaster in cultural diversity societies. The main aims of the author was answering the following questions: how cultural pluralism is implemented by the public service broadcaster in Switzerland? How the Swiss PSB implements the principle of cultural pluralism, particularly in the context of the access of natio...

A Single Façade? SHIL – Consistent Service for Multicultural Audience

The Internet had grown to be a global and multilingual phenomenon [1]. A growing number of companies and organizations are offering their services to a global, multicultural audience. However, translating the service to different language is not enough to make the service usable by users of diverse cultures. A very large number of nation states and constituent audiences are multilingual [1]. Us...

Multicultural personality and posttraumatic stress in U.S. service members.

OBJECTIVE Modern military missions place numerous demands on service members, including tactical, personal, and cultural challenges. The purpose of this study was to explore how domains of multicultural personality (cultural empathy, open-mindedness, social initiative, emotional stability, and flexibility) and combat exposure relate to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in service members. ...

Approaches to Multicultural Curriculum Reform