Hosting a J-1 Exchange Visitor The purpose of the J-1 Exchange Visitor Program is to promote international educational and cultural exchange to develop mutual understanding between the people of the U.S. and other countries. J-1 Exchange Visitor Program: Overview [1] ● J-1 Exchange Visitor Program: Introduction and Basic Concepts [2] ● Inviting a J-1 Exchange Visitor – Information for Faculty [...

Hosting a J-1 Exchange Visitor The purpose of the J-1 Exchange Visitor Program is to promote international educational and cultural exchange to develop mutual understanding between the people of the U.S. and other countries. J-1 Exchange Visitor Program: Overview [1] ● J-1 Exchange Visitor Program: Introduction and Basic Concepts [2] ● Inviting a J-1 Exchange Visitor – Information for Faculty [...

today, the tourism industry is a major source of income for many countries. but the tourism as an economic activity mentioned before, is a cultural phenomenon in nature and the main attraction of tourism development as well. given the special vulnerability and fragility of cultural heritage, tourism development, in some cases, can cause damage to indigenous cultural patterns. this is in relatio...

Human economic and technological progress has been dominated for the last 100,000 years by natural selection among variants of cultures, rather than among variants of genes. Evidence suggests that cultural evolution depends on exchange and trade to bring together ideas in much the same way that genetic evolution depends on sex to spread genetic mutations, or in the case of bacteria, on horizont...

Many abused married Korean women have a strong desire to leave their abusive husbands but remain in the abusive situations because of the strong influence of their sociocultural context. The article discusses Korean women's responses to spousal abuse in the context of patriarchal, cultural, and social exchange theory. Age, education, and income as component elements share common effects on the ...

In this paper we extend the cultural framework previously developed for the Village multi-agent simulation in Swarm to include the emergence of a hub network from two base networks. The first base network is kinship, over which generalized reciprocal exchange is defined, and the second is the economic network where agents carry out balanced reciprocal exchange. Agents, or households, are able t...

In this paper we extend the cultural framework previously developed for the Village multi-agent simulation in Swarm to include the emergence of a hub network from two base networks. The first base network is kinship, over which generalized reciprocal exchange is defined, and the second is the economic network where agents carry out balanced reciprocal exchange. Agents, or households, are able t...

negotiating is the process of communicating back and forth for the purpose of reaching a joint agreement about differing needs or ideas. for successful negotiations, both parties should come to the negotiating table with having done some serious thinking about the barriers to and complexities of cross- cultural communications. there are four phases in negotiations: relationship building, inform...

By means of a series of logical arguments this paper presents the fundamental proto-cultural properties of reciprocity as an elementary distributive mechanism. The exact meaning of "balanced exchange" is derived and contrasted with exchanges that are satisfactory, yet not balanced, or balanced but not satisfactory. The paper also presents the set of rules by which exchange and balanced exchange...