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This article examines the effect of culture on entrepreneurial cognition in Native Americans. Traditional concepts of culture as linear, pervasive, and exclusive in a society are modified to reflect recent research in social cognition that indicates culture is much more fragmented and complex than previously believed. This new view of culture acquisition explains how people who embrace two cultures (bicultural) decide to respond to environmental cues concerning new venture creation.
... a latent variable manifested in specific symbols, rituals, and myths (Hofstede, 1980). This traditi...The students were of Chinese origin but had lived extensively in the United Sta...
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Learning Mandarin Chinese is no day at the beach, which is probably where you'd otherwise find the three dozen students from around Connecticut who were busy Friday immersing themselves in the language during the first week of a federally funded program at Choate Rosemary Hall. Actually, the tough part of the language, confides Cheshire resident Alex Jaffe, who will be a freshman at Choate in the fall, is writing the intricate symbols that make up the Chinese alphabet.
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KUQA, China - Donkeys pulled melon-laden carts through the streets and women sold bowls of yogurt Monday in the market of this mostly Muslim city in a remote corner of China, the day after militant bombings left a dozen people dead. But underneath the apparent return to normal life hides a seething anger among the region's ethnic Uighurs toward Chinese immigrants, whom many here see as symbols of the government's oppression, residents and experts say.
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..., being represented through identical symbols. However, Cantonese and Mandarin differ as spoken ...
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What does a Christmas tree have to do with Jesus Christ? This is a question many of us may ask as we see Christmas trees everywhere - - in stores, health clubs, churches, and even in Chinese restaurants! Surprisingly, the Christmas tree, along with several other seemingly secular symbols of Christmas, has Christian meaning according to different legends.
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Starbucks has closed a coffeehouse in China's former imperial palace, the company said Saturday, ending a presence that sparked protests by Chinese critics who said it damaged a key historical site. The controversy over Starbucks at Beijing's 587-year-old Forbidden City has highlighted Chinese sensitivity about cultural symbols and unease over an influx of foreign pop culture.
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... some constructs of "Japaneseness," "Chineseness," and so forth, which just extrapolate historical ... but more on the central control of symbols and publicly expressed meanings, in particular, in...
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LOMA LINDA - A Japanese woman sings in the choir, an Indian teen portrays the angel Gabriel and a Korean boy acts as one of the wise men. Asian symbols are etched throughout the building, but the Loma Linda Chinese Seventh-day Adventist Church accepts all who come to worship with a common belief, "To make man whole.'
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Just before three girls danced barefoot onto the stage wearing conical Asian hats made of straw, the announcer introduced them. The Lotus Troupe are the founding pioneer students here at the CAFAM Chinese School," she said. "They have been with the school since they were just 18 months old," in 1996.
... with Rei Li, 18, as Li painted Chinese symbols with black ink on red paper. "This means 'protecto...
