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well as in Asia, tastes and dining etiquette are changing. “There is more understanding of different cuisines and cultures”, says Alan Yau, the innovative and successful founder of the Wagamama chain of Asian noodle restaurants in The UK. “But people still don’t understand etiquette very well. For example, in one of my Thai restaurants, Western dinners insist on using chopsticks. They don’t want to eat the Thai way, just with fork and spoon”, says Yau, “so we give them chopsticks. Then Thai people say we are not a real Thai restaurant because we provide chopsticks.” Hugues Jaquier, general manager of London’s exclusive Hotel Sofitel St James and Brasserie Roux, believes people are only beginning to understand other cultures. He is shocked when customers put ketchup on a traditional French dish, or when US guests insist on drinking coffee with their meals. The Japanese are leading other Asian cultures in adapting their own traditions. “When Noboyuki Matsuhisa launched the Nobu restaurants in the USA, he quickly learned what Americans like” says Laura Holland, translator of the successful Nobu cookbook. For example, at the beginning Nobu disliked seeing diners pour lots of sauce on their rice and sushi, but then he accepted and he even developed a special mix for customers to pour. “On the other hand, in Japan, the more sophisticated, restaurant-going crowd are very open to different styles and trends,” says Holland. The ‘Japanisation’ of Western food and…

be divided in smaller ones. Multi (prefix=diferent/several), cultur (language, customs, tradictions, food, music, races, ethnicities…), al (suffix used to form adjectives) and ism (suffix used to form nouns). Multiculturalism is the doctrine that several different cultures can exist peacefully and equitably in a single country. Some examples of the most multicultural countries in the world are Australia, USA, Canada, UK, France. Multiculturalism involves coexistence, pluralism,…

beliefs and rituals and practice. It isn’t a separate part of our lives, is a way of understanding and living with our beliefs, a relationship with nature and the universe. Religion is the search of those who suffer and dream to raise the soul, setting the sacred world that finds and fulfills the human essence. Religions are established and persist through the division of the universe split between the sacred and the “wicked”. They are not properties of things, they are established…

communication, pidgin and patois. A language has three functions: express creativity, characterize cultural identity and serve as a medium of communication. It’s necessary to reinforce that “different languages have different functions and domains – interpersonal, societal, aesthetic and political”. Linguistic heterogeneity can be considered a problem from the social point of view, because minor languages and dialects cannot be respected as they deserve to be, and the people who…

encourage walking and to pass the time, did trills and sang, accompanying the sound of hanging on the necks of their camels seals. Another rhythm called "Khafif" was used in wedding parties and major celebrations that served to dance and to mark the step to the sound of Daf (tambourine) and Mizmar (reed flute). Only at the end of the ninth century that musicians, writers and philosophers began to speculate about the origin and nature of his music. Descendant of Enoch - for lack of…

37 Part 3 ‐ Developing interpersonal skills 62 Part 4 ‐ European Values 70 Part 5 ‐ The political dimension of citizenship 90 2 INTRODUCTION Citizenship in an intercultural Europe Modern Europe – especially that part which constitutes the European Union – is often spoken of as becoming…

territory.[11] South Africa is multi-ethnic and has diverse cultures and languages. Eleven official languages are recognised in the constitution.[10] Two of these languages are of European origin: South African English and Afrikaans, a language which originated mainly from Dutch that is spoken by the majority of white and Coloured South Africans. Though English is commonly used in public and commercial life, it is only the fifth most-spoken home language.[10] All ethnic and language…

Joelma Uckerman Mr. Perry Daughtry Traditions of Brenau 7 October 2011 The book “The Help,” by Kathryn Stockett is about the relationship between white and black people during the 1960’s in Jackson, Mississippi. The plot of this work mainly focuses on the lives of the black maids and the white families for whom they worked. The audience is more sympathetic to Mrs. Hilly Holbrook, the antagonist, in Tate Taylor’s cinematographic version she does not act obviously cruel. In…

Joelma Uckerman Mr. Perry Daughtry Traditions of Brenau 7 October 2011 The book “The Help,” by Kathryn Stockett is about the relationship between white and black people during the 1960’s in Jackson, Mississippi. The plot of this work mainly focuses on the lives of the black maids and the white families for whom they worked. The audience is more sympathetic to Mrs. Hilly Holbrook, the antagonist, in Tate Taylor’s cinematographic version she does not act obviously cruel. In…

have access to it. But, does anyone know what it future reserves? In that future, probably the internet will be in three dimensions. And maybe schools and teachers will become a past thing, with no more pencil and no more books, with the use of virtual classrooms. But will this be a good thing? Maybe e-learning will be substantially cheaper than conventional schooling and it will give to students the freedom to study wherever they choose. But there’s other side: with this, people will…