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Backround: The development of the modern field of care requires scientifically-based knowledge and responsibility on behalf of nurses in order to be able to respond effectively to existing conditions. Health professionals have a key role in the modern social structure with the overarching goal of optimizing the health status of citizens. Therefore, in determining the shape of society certain factors should be examined. These include cultural, political, economic, environmental, behavioral and psychological. Aim: This study aimed in identifying the significant role of nurses in Cyprus concerning the care to be provided among people of various nationalities, religion groups, immigrants and minorities. Methods: This literature review study was carried during August - October 2012. Various electronc data resources were investigated without any particular selection criteria. Most important data were those obtained by the Statistical Service of the Planning Bureau of the Republic of Cyprus. Results: The study gives the importance of a cross-cultural approach while providing holistic and individualized care to patients and briefly summarizes the existing situation in Cyprus. Furthermore, it designates the importance of introducing or further expansion of nursing education accordingly to multiculturism and provision of nursing care for the benefit of the Health status of the population. Conclusions: The phenomenon of a cross-cultural approach is of great importance in the areas of nursing education, policy and research and enables nurses, among other health professionals to perform their duties in multicultural environments and meet the needs of patients from different cultures. Further studies and comprehensive research is advised to obtain valid and concrete data on the existing situation and the impact on the health services.

This book confronts the challenge of difference for rethinking everyday multiculture. It proposes both a theory and practice of a critical pedagogy of popular culture through an analysis of contemporary media and film. For students and scholars committed to a critical practice for transforming the politics of representation and otherness

THIS ARTICLE ADDRESSES THE PROBLEM OF CIVIC SOLIDARITY IN THE MULTICULTURAL STATE AND OFFERS TWO INADEQUATE MODELS OF MULTICULTURAL DEMOCRACY--PROCEDURAL LIBERALISM AND GROUPS AS POLITICAL ATOMS. IT THEN CONSIDERS COMPOSITE DEMOCRACY AND HOW CITIZENSHIP WOULD FIT IN WITH IT. IT CONCLUDES BY ARGUING THAT THE REAL THREATS TO SOCIAL STABILITY AND CIVIC SOLIDARITY COME FROM CULTURAL INSENSITIVITY, INJUSTICE, DOMINATION, AND IMPERIALISM.

This special issue is dedicated to the memory of Susan P. Douglas, whose pioneering work on multicultural dynamics in international marketing has inspired many other scholars including this issue's guest editors, to develop further research in this area

En las dos o tres últimas décadas el multiculturalismo ha puesto en marcha cambios profundos, especialmente con respecto a la organización de la sociedad y la manera como es representada la historia. La disciplina ha sido influida por el nuevo orden, tanto que merece ser llamada arqueología multicultural. El análisis de la manera como los arqueólogos se relacionan con el "público" puede servir para reflexionar sobre las limitaciones y los problemas que acosan la lógica multicultural (nuevos regímenes de alterización a través de exigencias de autenticidad y originalidad; tolerancia; distancia; corrección política). Este artículo busca esbozar las características de la arqueología en el multiculturalismo y cómo se relacionan con asuntos más amplios, como el entendimiento intercultural y la descolonización. ; In the last two or three decades multiculturalism has set in motion profound changes, especially regarding the organization of society and the way history is represented. The discipline has been so shaped by the new social order that a multicultural archaeology has emerged. The analysis of how archaeologists nowadays relate to the "public" can serve to reflect on the limitations and problems that beset the multicultural logic (new regimes of othering through demands of authenticity and originality; tolerance; distance, political correctness). This paper aims to outline what a multicultural archaeology is and how it relates to wider topics such as intercultural understanding and decolonization.

The multicultural Midlands is a unique, interdisciplinary study of the literature, music and food that shape the region's irrepressible, though often overlooked, cultural identity. It is the first of its kind to give serious critical attention to a part of the world which is frequently ignored by readers, critics and the culture industries.