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Confusing Culture, Polysemous Diversity: “Culture” and “Cultural Diversity” in and after the Convention

2015
Like all norm-setting instruments elaborated by international organizations, UNESCO’s Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (UNESCO, 2005a) is based upon concepts that are well-established keywords in the contemporary zeitgeist.
Isar, Yudhishthir Raj (R17409)   +1 more
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Cultural Diversity in Database Teaching [PDF]

open access: possible2019 29th Annual Conference of the European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering (EAEEIE), 2019
Despite a different understanding of the world, we are living in a global world in which we must cope not only with the communication in our own language and culture, but also with global communication in a common language, the so-called lingua franca. Very often this is the English language, that simplifies the communication, but does not dismiss the ...
Tatjana Welzer   +3 more
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Diversity of Cultures

2020
“Diversity of cultures” introduces the concept of culture and shows a diversity of types of cultures, going beyond traditional global, transnational, national, and ethnic understanding of cultures. The chapter presents the reasons and research findings that regional populations of societies, religious groups, and communities of people of different ...
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Celebrating cultural diversity

International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 2001
Recognition and promotion of cultural diversity is a central theme in many areas of modern life: health care, sport, politics, religion, education, industry and society at large. Cultural diversity is no more than rhetoric, however, unless people understand and appreciate diversity so that every cultural group is able to participate and develop ...
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Culture: Diverse diagnostics

Nature, 2012
The study of autism around the globe must account for a variety of behavioural norms in different societies.
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Diversity: Cultural and biological

Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 1987
Early human populations utilized a wide range of biological resources in a tremendous diversity of environments. As a result, they possessed high levels of cultural diversity dependent on and supportive of high levels of biological diversity. This pattern changed drastically with technological innovations enabling certain human groups to break down ...
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Roots of Cultural Diversity

SSRN Electronic Journal
This study reveals the pivotal impact of the prehistoric out-of-Africa migration on global variation in the degree of cultural diversity within ethnic and national populations. Drawing on novel diversity measures—encompassing folkloric and musical traditions among indigenous ethnic groups, as well as norms, values, and attitudes in modern societies—an ...
Galor, Oded   +2 more
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Democratization and Cultural Diversity

2018
Chapter 3 interrogates the argument that cultural homogeneity is a prerequisite for democratic persistence. The thesis here is that the absence of diverse interests and agreement around cultural norms produces a unified citizenry. This is supported by the view that democracy is harder to sustain in ethnically and religiously diverse societies.
Wouter Veenendaal, Jack Corbett
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Citizenship and Cultural Diversity

2017
The concept of citizenship denotes a legal status, an identity, and a range of distinctive activities and practices. These dimensions of citizenship are unified by the fact that they are all underpinned by a unifying and universalist logic. Modern societies are culturally diverse.
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Cultural diversity and cultural policy in The Netherlands

International Journal of Cultural Policy, 1998
(1998). Cultural diversity and cultural policy in The Netherlands. International Journal of Cultural Policy: Vol. 4, Cultural analysis and cultural policy, pp. 357-387.
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