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Reports indicate that the rates of marriage within the American community have fallen by over 50% since the year 1950 due to the economic hardships the country has been experiencing.... Name Institution Date Culture and Marriage This paper explores how the Asian and American cultures, races and traditions affect their marriages, divorce and birth rates, their bringing up of children and the relationships existing within their families.... The paper will in turn determine how the cultures being practiced in the two cultures affect their lifestyles and living conditions....
5 Pages
(1250 words)
Research Paper
Student's Full Name: Professor's Name: chinese Popular Culture (Journalism, Mass Media and Communications) 31 March 2013 (estimated word count = 1,815) Introduction Popular culture, or pop culture for short, is roughly defined as the sum total of all social practices, behaviors, attitudes, preferences and trends observable among the common people.... The chinese have a distinct pop culture characterized by the mix of ideas, social practices, lifestyle trends, and other mass-appeal attractions....
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Term Paper
A somewhat liberal Indian Catholic church may allow dating within the community to bring together the potential marriage partners.... In this paper American perception on arranged marriages and dating in some of the immigrant communities is presented.... In arranged marriages parents agree before children do.... A woman has to make more sacrifices in arranged marriages.... Similarly indian culture permits boy and girl to meet before marriage though in presence of family....
11 Pages
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Essay
within the Asian continent lies a wide variety of distinct cultural… The characteristic amalgamation of cultural potpourri is a feature special to the overall Asian people and community.... It is a conglomeration of various customs, traditions, behaviour and practices.... This paper will briefly address the aspect of cultural distinctiveness in the Asian continent in terms of its socio-cultural point of The discussion will be based on the analysis of a number of films being produced in the region....
7 Pages
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Essay
This paper “Marriage Traditions-Indian, chinese cultures” basically undertakes an analytical discussion of marriage traditions in Chinese and Indian cultures, from the perspective of cultural relativism in anthropology and their own sets of unique practices as well as values.... It is not absolutist in that it does not try to judge the ethics and morals of the marriage traditions of the two cultures, but views them from the standards and principles within the cultures that gave rise to and which continue to promote the marriage traditions (Fluehr-Lobban, 1995; Geertz, 1984; Donnelly, 1984; Hodes, 1985; Polisi, 2003; Moschetti, 2005)....
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Essay
Gender relations establishes the roles of the different sexes within the populations of these two countries and more particularly how women were treated and viewed in the different cultures (Wang and Theodore, 7).... The ancient chinese never considered it serious to educate the females, and this had made their illiteracy levels very high.... These marriages in the ancient times were arranged and were not in any manner dependent on the couple's decisions....
6 Pages
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Essay
Singaporean marriage practice is a visible example of the amalgamation of different cultures.... But the caste system deeply influences the marriage practices within Hindu culture, and the chinese culture deeply influences the marriage practices within Singaporean culture.... For instance, people related to Malaysian, chinese, and Indian culture reside in Malaysia and most of them possess Singaporean citizenship.... From a different angle of view, chinese culture deeply influences the Singaporean society and cultural characteristics....
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Literature review
This coursework "arranged marriages: Can Be the Reason for an Unhappy Marriage or Even a Divorce" discusses arranged marriages that have been realized to bar the marrying persons to explore their options.... arranged marriages were very common in the past some families have moved on from it and some still follow the traditions and beliefs.... Families that bring together marital partners who might, otherwise not have met and wed them independent of the couple's choice are simply arranged marriages....
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Coursework