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The purpose of the article is to reveal the peculiarities of cultural diffusion as a phenomenon of the sociocultural space based on the analysis of the cultural discourse of the first decades of the 21st century. Research methodology. An analytical method, a terminological analysis method (to clarify the concept of "cultural diffusion"), a systemic method (to consider cultural diffusion as a complex multifaceted system), a comparative analysis method (to identify differences in the mechanisms and types of cultural diffusion), and a generalisation method were applied. Scientific novelty. On the basis of the analysis of the modern cultural discourse, the peculiarities of the phenomenon of cultural diffusion in the socio-cultural space were revealed; the factors affecting cultural diffusion were considered, the process and influence of cultural diffusion were investigated; analysed four types of cultural diffusion (direct, indirect, forced and stimulus diffusion), theories and models explaining the mechanisms and results of cultural diffusion. Conclusions. Based on the analysis of the scientific works of modern foreign researchers on the theory of cultural diffusion, it was found that this phenomenon means the spread of cultural objects (ideas, styles, religions, technologies, languages, fashion) within or between cultures and gained popularity in the 20th century thanks to the theory of the famous anthropologist A. Kreber. Scientists identify three mechanisms (the theory of diffusion of innovations, hierarchical diffusion model, contagious diffusion model) through which cultural diffusion occurs and four main types (direct, indirect, forced and stimulating diffusion), which are distinguished by specific processes of spread and rooting in new environments. The study of cultural diffusion is a promising direction of cultural studies, as it contributes to the understanding and comprehension of the intricate network of influences and borrowings that form the modern socio-cultural space.

Abstract: I defend cultural relativism against the following objections: (i) The analogy between motion and morality is flawed. (ii) Cultural relativism has greater potential to be harmful to our daily lives than is cultural absolutism. (iii) We made moral progress when we
moved from slavery to equality. (iv) There are some moral principles that are accepted by all cultures around the world. (v) Moral argumentation is impossible within the framework of cultural relativism. (vi) We construct arguments for and against cultures.

Abstract: In "Cross-cultural Communication and Cultural Variation" Yina Cao discusses the concept of "cultural variation" (Cao Shunqing) as an extension of the discipline of comparative literature. She argues that the concept of cultural variation explains
many problems in the field of cross-cultural communication while it can also provide a unique research perspective for the phenomenon of cultural integration. By summarizing and sorting out the problems which need to be solved in "cultural variation" and the core cases of cultural
variation (e.g., "journey to the West"), Cao discusses the phenomenon of aphasia in the process of cultural foreignization, cultural transmission, and cultural variation and attempts to imagine a new approach in scholarship in order to explore new theoretical tools for the
future of the discipline of comparative literature with the use of Cao's variation theory.

Welcome to Audio Learning from Assemble You. In this track, we'll discuss cultural awareness, and discover how being culturally aware enables us to communicate with people more effectively, as well as to respond to and interact with the cultures of others. Learning Objectives Learn what it means to be culturally aware Learn new ways to show cultural sensitivity.

In order to explore the relationship between local autonomous cultural and creative industries and economic and cultural upgrading, this paper uses a questionnaire survey to conduct practical investigation and analysis, and discusses the relationship between the following aspects. Local self-government, The results show that local autonomous cultural creativity can promote economic growth and improve cultural level, and there is a certain correlation between economic growth and cultural upgrading, but the correlation is poor, indicating that the impact of economic growth on cultural upgrading is indirect, and cultural upgrading and economic growth are the main factors for the development of local autonomous cultural and creative industries. Local autonomy is the main influencing factor of economic growth and cultural upgrading, and it is also a combination factor for the development of cultural and creative industries. Therefore, strengthening local autonomy, promoting economic growth, and cultural upgrading can promote the development of cultural and creative industries.

In this section, we examine the difference between cultural appropriation and appreciation by sharing many examples, including hairstyles, Halloween costumes, Blackface, sports team jerseys and names, and perhaps the most controversial, trying to appear or claiming to be racialized when you're white. ; https://source.sheridancollege.ca/blurred_lines_of_racism_project/1003/thumbnail.jpg

"This book presents the Cultural Transduction framework as a conceptual tool to understand the processes that media and cultural products undergo when they cross cultural and national borders. Using a series of examples from pop culture, including films, television series, videogames, memes and other digital products, this book provides the reader with a wider understanding of the procedures, interests, roles, assumptions and challenges, which foster or hinder the travels of media and cultural products. Compiling in one single narrative a series of case studies, theoretical debates and international examples, the book looks at a number of exchanges and transformations enabled by both traditional media trade and the internet. It reflects on the increase of cultural products crossing over regional, national and international borders in the form of videogames and TV formats, through music and video distribution platforms or via digital social media networks, to highlight discussions about the characteristics of border-crossing digital production. The cultural transduction framework is developed from discussions in communication and media studies, as well as from debates in adaptation and translation studies, to map out the travels of media and cultural products from an interdisciplinary perspective. It provides a tool to analyse the markets, products, people and processes that enable or constrain the movement of products across borders, for those interested in the practical aspects that underlie the negotiation and transformation of products inserted into different cultural market settings. This volume provides a new framework for understanding the travels of cultural products, which will be of use to students and scholars in the area of media industry studies, business studies, digital media studies, international media law and economics"--

This year's issue of Cultural Intertexts brings together seventeen studies on public discourses and private histories, foregrounding their artistic and linguistic, cultural and political cores. A book review rounds up the collection. The contributors are scholars and researchers from eight countries, who have different professional backgrounds, but who share an interest in decoding the inner workings of texts and in analysing the specificities of related contexts. In the articles collected here, they interrogate the cultural politics identifiable in literature, film, television shows, written press, patristics, translations, social media, photography, music, cartoons and internet memes; read between/beyond circumstances of production and realities as constructs; dive into painful memories of the politically and/or ethnically marginalized; or approach fiction with both older and newer critical tools. The corpus under focus, as well as the topics approached, are as diverse as the authorship itself: from adaptations of Renaissance drama to Sci-Fi heterotopic worlds; from the optimistic rise of the novel in the eighteenth century to the grim dystopias of the last decades of the twentieth century or to the complicated postmodernist literary games of the twenty-first; from cultural translations of the Bible to suffering, injustice and othering; from the sound of music to the voice of the discontent crowd in protests or to sarcastic visual commentaries on political figures; from colonialist, superior gazes on the lesser Other to contemporary perspectives on bilingualism as a binding element of otherwise colliding cultures. The book review also highlights collision, juxtaposition, intertextuality in essence, matching the overall attempts of the volume to investigate clashing opposites while identifying potential common grounds.

"Culture is a priceless inheritance and source of wellbeing that is of immense value to humankind. Cultural economics sets out to examine the nature and social benefits of cultural products and phenomena as they exist in the market. This volume is the masterpiece of Li Yining, one of the best-known Chinese economists, active in devoting his attention to the role of culture in the economy since the 1950s. Considering the importance of culture in the development of socialism with Chinese characteristics, the author combines cultural history, economic history and the history of economic thought to produce unique perspectives. This book not only introduces the central concepts of cultural economics and the culture industry, but proposes several groundbreaking views that greatly influenced the culture policies of China, including cultural adjustment, cultural confidence and cultural checks and balances. Researchers and students of economics, cultural studies, and Chinese politics, as well as policy makers, will benefit from this volume."

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The swift rise of a new guard of cultural thinkers from the margins of the Arab world during the 1970s amounts to one of the most striking yet forgotten episodes in postcolonial Arab thought. Coming primarily from Morocco, these intellectuals and activists rejected a long-seated assumption prevalent among the ranks of Arab nationalists according to which one must disown their past traditions in order to become modern. The advent of cultural thinkers posed a grave challenge to this cherished evaluation, calling into question the agenda of political decolonization that Arab nationalists had propounded. How did the new intellectual guard of cultural thinkers come to assume such intellectual power? And what change did they make in the intellectual field and Arab conversation in general? Exploring these questions, this article establishes a definitive distinction between categories of postcolonial actors that were originally clumped together. It demonstrates that the voices shaping the new world of the Arab peoples are increasingly skeptical of political decolonization of the Arab nationalists and more in sync with Moroccan cultural thinkers who take pride in their cultural repertoire and traditions.

1. Introduction: Cultural Reverse and New Patterns of Intergenerational Transmission 2. Intergenerational Relations and Their Transitions: A Historical Review 3. Revolution in the Depth of Soul 4. The Break of Behavioral Modes 5. Artifact Power Not to Be Neglected. References. Index List of figures. List of tables 1. Social Transition as the Impetus to Refurbish History 2. The Peer Group as Knowledge Reservoir and Extended Memory 3. The Media: Means of Living More than Sources of Information 4. What Have Been Ushered in by Cultural Reverse? 5. Conclusion: State, Society and Intergenerational Relations References. Index