Culture-related Blogs
Welcome to the Culture category. Check out the latest Blogs below.
Cross Cultural Learning Point – Nepal | "Learning Culture, Bridging the Gap"
Crossing Cultures: The New You - When you went on your Peace Corps assignment you brought with you much more than just your baggage. You brought along your culture. Remember those aspects of your new place that made you feel uncomfortable - something ordi
Personal Leadership Coaching, Career, Business and Leadership Development, Expatriate Coaching, Cross-Cultural Training
Let's Talk Languages
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” What was your expatriate experience like?
The Bedouin Heritage Project - helping the Bedu maintain their sense of identity despite changing modern realities.
IFCCD
51 Reasons To Say No To Global Governance
International
GM's Place.Comculture
culture
n 1: a particular society at a particular time and place; "early
Mayan civilization" [syn: {civilization}, {civilisation}]
2: the tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social
group
3: all the knowledge and values shared by a society [syn: {acculturation}]
4: (biology) the growing of microorganisms in a nutrient medium
(such as gelatin or agar); "the culture of cells in a
Petri dish"
5: (bacteriology) the product of cultivating micro-organisms in
a nutrient medium
6: a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or
impeccable quality; "they performed with great polish"; "I
admired the exquisite refinement of his prose"; "almost an
inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is
almost art"--Joseph Conrad [syn: {polish}, {refinement}, {cultivation},
{finish}]
7: the attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a
particular social group or organization; "the developing
drug culture"; "the reason that the agency is doomed to
inaction has something to do with the FBI culture"
8: the raising of plants or animals; "the culture of oysters"
society
SOCIETY. A society is a number of persons united together by mutual consent,
in order to deliberate, determine, and act jointly for some common purpose.
2. Societies are either incorporated and known to the law, or
unincorporated, of which the law does not generally take notice.
3. By civil society is usually understood a state, (q.v.) a nation,
(q.v.) or a body politic. (q.v.) Rutherf. Inst. c. 1 and 2.
4. In the civil law, by society is meant a partnership. Inst. 3, 26;
Dig. 17, 2 Code, 4, 37.
language
language
n 1: a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or
conventional symbols; "he taught foreign languages";
"the language introduced is standard throughout the
text"; "the speed with which a program can be executed
depends on the language in which it is written" [syn: {linguistic
communication}]
2: (language) communication by word of mouth; "his speech was
garbled"; "he uttered harsh language"; "he recorded the
spoken language of the streets" [syn: {speech}, {speech
communication}, {spoken communication}, {spoken language},
{voice communication}, {oral communication}]
3: a system of words used in a particular discipline; "legal
terminology"; "the language of sociology" [syn: {terminology},
{nomenclature}]
4: the cognitive processes involved in producing and
understanding linguistic communication; "he didn't have
the language to express his feelings" [syn: {linguistic
process}]
5: the mental faculty or power of vocal communication;
"language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals"
[syn: {speech}]
6: the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number; "his
compositions always started with the lyrics"; "he wrote
both words and music"; "the song uses colloquial language"
[syn: {lyric}, {words}]
etiquette
etiquette
n : rules governing socially acceptable behavior
business
business
n 1: a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who
constitute it; "he bought his brother's business"; "a
small mom-and-pop business"; "a racially integrated
business concern" [syn: {concern}, {business concern}, {business
organization}, {business organisation}]
2: the activity of providing goods and services involving
financial and commercial and industrial aspects;
"computers are now widely used in business" [syn: {commercial
enterprise}, {business enterprise}]
3: business concerns collectively; "Government and business
could not agree" [syn: {business sector}]
4: the volume of business activity; "business is good today";
"show me where the business was today"
5: a rightful concern or responsibility; "it's none of your
business"; "mind your own business"
6: the principal activity in your life that you do to earn
money; "he's not in my line of business" [syn: {occupation},
{job}, {line of work}, {line}]
7: an immediate objective; "gossip was the main business of the
evening"
8: incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic
effect; "his business with the cane was hilarious" [syn: {stage
business}, {byplay}]
9: customers collectively; "they have an upper class clientele"
[syn: {clientele}, {patronage}]
dining
dining
n : the act of eating dinner
negotiation
NEGOTIATION, merc. law. The act by which a bill of exchange or promissory
note is put into circulation by being passed by one of the original parties
to another person.
2. Until an accommodation bill or note has been negotiated, there is no
contract which can be enforced on the note: the contract, either express or
implied, that the party accommodated will indemnify the other, is, till
then, conditional. 2 Man. & Gr. 911.
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