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  2. Global cultural flows - Wikipedia

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    Global cultural flow involves the flow of people, artifacts, and ideas across national boundaries as result of globalization. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] : 296 Global cultural flows can be observed in five interdependent ' Landscapes ', or dimensions, that distinguish the fundamental disjunctures between economy, culture, and politics in the global cultural ...

  3. Customization (anthropology) - Wikipedia

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    cultural borrowing; partial borrowing; pilot borrowing; customization; conceptual borrowing; However, within the review, customization is found to be most effective. Lewis argues that customization allows each country to take their own needs into account while allowing for cultural flows. This is important because cultural flows are often ...

  4. Ottoman public debt - Wikipedia

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    The Ottoman public debt was a term which dated back to 24 August 1855, [1] [2] [3] [4] when the Ottoman Empire first entered into loan contracts with its European ...

  5. Standard Cross-Cultural Sample - Wikipedia

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    Cross-cultural research entails a particular statistical problem, known as Phylogenetic autocorrelation: tests of functional relationships (for example, a test of the hypothesis that societies with pronounced male dominance are more warlike) can be confounded because the samples of cultures are not independent.

  6. Hui (informal loan club) - Wikipedia

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    Unlike similar schemes in other cultures, where all the savings and borrowing among the group members are interest-free [6] and the order of the withdraw are determined by the group leader, Hui adopts a market-driven interest rate approach: In any given month, all members currently interested in taking the money pot have to submit an interest ...

  7. Chinese influence on Korean culture - Wikipedia

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    Chinese influence on Korean culture can be traced back as early as the Goguryeo period; these influences can be demonstrated in the Goguryeo tomb mural paintings. [1]: 14 Throughout its history, Korea has been greatly influenced by Chinese culture, borrowing the written language, arts, religions, philosophy and models of government administration from China, and, in the process, transforming ...

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    Enjoy a classic game of Hearts and watch out for the Queen of Spades!

  9. Cultural retention - Wikipedia

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    Cultural retention is the act of retaining the culture of a specific ethnic group of people, especially when there is reason to believe that the culture, through inaction, may be lost. Many African-American, European and Asian organizations have cultural retention programs in place.