Does local context (e.g., city of residence) matter for self and well-being? We theorized that it does because local contexts diverge in prevalent historically-derived ideas, norms, and products. Through historical analysis, studies of norms (tightness-looseness; Study 1) and cultural products (content analyses of newspaper headlines, venture capital firm websites, hospital websites; Studies 2-...

This article explores the power of culture as an effort to promote a harmonious, tolerant and peaceful life between Muslims Catholics. Likang telu is cultural concept people West Flores which basis for Catholics live in harmony, tolerance peace. study was conducted Manggarai, Flores, East Nusa Tenggara Province. The work aims explore four elements including, 1) differences Muslim-Catholic relat...

A’ view of nature within the framework of garden and in relation with human needs and drives that satisfy theneed to be rooted has caused the representation of nature in garden to be regarded as cultural heritage. Garden and garden designing are suitable cases for us to study cultural characteristics and traits. Thus, human beings have searched their eternal interest in an ideal and unattainabl...

Borrowed words are the products of language development and cultural contact. This paper probes into the brief study of borrowed words in both English and Chinese vocabulary. At the very beginning it generally introduces issues being covered, and the following two parts center on the study of borrowed words on the basis of dictionary research. Later, this paper figures out the significance of b...

With the emergence of the global marketplace, cross-cultural differences are becoming increasingly recognized as a key factor in the successful adoption of new products (Lee & Harada, 2000). It is thus not surprising that designers have begun to consider the role of culture in design and to develop methods and processes for taking cultural aspects into account when designing new products. Cultu...

People are born into an existing culture and shaped by it, whether they realize it or not. The fact that people socializing in the same cultural environment have similar values, norms behavior patterns results from this feature of culture. While there quite distinguishable differences between cultures different societies world, when comes to violence against women, distinctiveness disappears sh...