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We develop a model in which individuals choose education to improve their earnings and regulate the cultural traits … they acquire via social transmission. When education makes individuals more receptive to mainstream culture, minority … groups underinvest in education as a form of cultural resistance. Economic and cultural incentives interact in surprising …
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beyond a certain European culture. Thus, we identify at least two cultural identity constructions on the European level: a … culture of cultures, that is a cultural area with a particular, local, regional and national strong identity, or a cultural … concept of “culture of cultures” designates both a particular and a general identity area. …
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European cultural identity reflects both the image of homogeneity and that of cultural diversity. This double … ensemble but also the local, regional, or national structures. “Identity revenge”, “the feeling of return to historic, national … and cultural identity” are terms that ask for redefining the national and European identity space that was forced to open …
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Now that we publish the 10th issue of Eurolimes, the editors of the journal intend to sum up the contribution of Eurolimes to the examination of the notion of boundary corresponding to the border-limit in correlation with the notion of border as state boundary. Our journal also aims at showing...
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The scientific debates about the European culture are either grouped around the concept of cultural homogenization, phenomenon found in a strong causal relationship with what the globalization and mondialisation really are, or designate a reality that exists beyond denial or demolition –...
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Malay identity in the construction of the recently founded knowledge city of Cyberjaya, part of the flagship Multimedia … on both patterns of ‘traditional’ Malay life as well a projected vision of a modernized Malay identity that resonates …
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interacts both with the interlocutors present, considered to share the speaker’s national and religious identity and with … politician’s identity is negotiated in discourse through the interplay of hypostases of identity and alterity. Their linguistic …
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features beyond a certain European culture. Thus, we identify at least two cultural identity constructions on the European … level: a culture of cultures, that is a cultural area with a particular, local, regional and national strong identity, or a … European cultural space in two aspects: 1. Europe with internal cultural border areas; 2. Europe as external cultural-identity …
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High school baseball is very popular in Japan. All games of the high school baseball tournaments are publicly broadcasted. This paper hypothesizes that high school baseball influences the happiness level of the Japanese. Individual level data in Japan was used to test this hypothesis. The key...
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This article aims to compare women in the MENA region with women in Europe as to how globalization affects their conservative values and attitudes, and, thereby, their labor market participation. The authors define conservative values as both religious values and socio-political attitudes...
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