Learning about the other culture is very important starting point. Culture is a basic definition. First of all, in the context of cultural awareness, we have to understand what culture refers to. For this purpose, let's simply define culture as all the (often unspoken) standards and (mostly...

The study of the consumption of goods has never achieved the prominence in anthropology of either production or exchange. Yet the accelerating consumption of western goods in non-western societies is one of the most obtrusive cultural and economic trends of the last three centuries. This article...