Princess power: Deconstructing the influence of popular culture on local traditions in a novel by Muhammad Nasir, Rahayu Puji Haryanti, Desri Maria Sumbayak

“…Sasson’s narrative highlights how global influences, particularly Western culture, shape perceptions and interactions, enriching yet complicating societal norms. …”
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Publishing Trends of Informal Lithuanian Youth Publications –Fanzines – at the End of the 20th Century and the Beginning of the 21st Century by Aušra Kairaitytė-Užupė

“…Paper fanzines started to be created at the end of the 20th century and became popular in the 1990s, spreading Western culture ideas and changing the political, and socio-cultural environment in Lithuania along with technological copying and reproduction possibilities. …”
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The Contemporary Critical Reception of Walter Pater: Retrospective and Proleptical Views by Geoffrey Sadock

“…By showing the shift from hostile modernism to a more open and inclusive conception of his literary persona, I explain why Pater is no longer dismissed as precieux and inconsequential by the guardians of High Culture (such as Eliot) but is recognized as an original who synthesized personal preoccupations and aesthetic/critical response to various art forms, nature, and persons. Since Western culture no longer upholds the restrictions under which Pater labored to define his Weltanschauung, his genius in the use of suggestion—association, transparency, diaphaneity, masochistic delay—has become more recognizable. …”
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ON THE THIN PRACTICAL RATIONALITY AND ITS THICKENINGS by Zenonas Norkus

“…The concept of relative pratical rationality is thick enough to assimilate one of the most powerful intuitions concerning rationality, characteristic for the modern Western culture and proclaimed as early as in 1486 by Pico della Mirandola in his famous "Oratio de hominis dignitate". …”
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Displacing the Christian Theodicy of Hell: Yi Kwangsu’s Search for the Willful Individual in Colonial Modernity by Jun-Hyeok Kwak, Mengxiao Huang

“…But the co-existence of the omnipotent God and unrepentant sinners is not always questioned in the religiosity of hell in non-Western cultures. The Christian imaginary of hell in non-Western cultures often demarcates the question of God’s sovereignty from the sufferings of sinners in the problem of hell. …”
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Immigration modulates audiovisual emotional processing in adults: is this really an influence of the host culture? by Anna K. Nakamura, Anna K. Nakamura, Hisako W. Yamamoto, Hisako W. Yamamoto, Sachiko Takagi, Tetsuya Matsuda, Hiroyuki Okada, Chiaki Ishiguro, Chiaki Ishiguro, Akihiro Tanaka

“…IntroductionIndividuals from Western cultures rely on facial expressions during the audiovisual emotional processing of faces and voices. …”
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Eurocentrism, Afrocentrism, Postcolonialism and Hybridity in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun and August Wilson’s Radio Golf by Olfa Gandouz

“…In A Raisin in the Sun, Beneatha views Western cultures as superior and she ultimately opts for Afrocentrism. …”
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The Caste Connection. On the Sacred Foundations of Social Hierarchy by Jakob De Roover, Sarah Claerhout

“…Basic theological ideas about the connection between false religion and social practice were transformed into topoi of social theorizing, which constituted the caste system as an experiential entity and conceptual unit in the Western cultural experience of India. …”
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Samogitia and Lithuania in 13-18th Centuries: the Splendour and the Poverty of Regional (Provincial) Self-Goveming by Eugenijus Saviščevas

“…In the course of this period, Samogitia experienced different patterns of relationship towards Lithuania: hostile western cultural pressure in the Middle Ages; legitimate agreement on the part of Samogitians with the Lithuanian monarchy which provided for the autonomy of Samogitia in 15-16 c.; the merge of Samogitian nobles with the nobility of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at the end of the 16 c. to 18 c. …”
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Good to love or good to eat? Ethical and ideological implications of hunting, killing and the consumption of anthropomorphic animals in popular picturebooks by Kelly Hübben

“…From an early age, children are taught that animals come in different categories, some of which are good to love, and should be treated with due respect (pets) and others that are good to eat, and, at least in Western cultures, less deserving of our compassion. Focusing on a selection of Little Golden Books, American merchandise books aimed at young readers, I investigate how children learn to distinguish between these two classes of animals. …”
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Faith’s Frontiers: An Exploration of Religious Syncretism and Cultural Adaptation in the “Guanyin/Madonna and Child” Painting by Zetong Liu, Hui Zeng, Junming Chen

“…This academic study explores the religious syncretism within this artwork, set against the backdrop of Sino-Western cultural dynamics. By integrating socio-religious analysis with iconographic methods, this research highlighted the interplay between the two religious traditions and the broader trends of cultural adaptation and religious amalgamation. …”
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De l’« efficacité » symbolique des interdits à leur fonctionnalité écologique by Hélène Artaud

“…During the last few decades, environmental emergencies as well as mixed results of existing conservation systems, urges researchers and managers of protected areas to look up other forms of resource management models in non-Western cultures. Some cultural features, until recently devoid of rationality (considered “pre-logical” or “illogical”), are suddenly invested with a new intelligibility. …”
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INTERTEXTUALITY IN THE NOVELS OF ORHAN PAMUK by Tuan Anh Pham

“…Research results show that his novels address many issues in the social life of Turkey, a country with extremely important geopolitics, acting as a bridge for Eastern and Western cultural interference and dialogue. Recreating a chaotic hyperreality, Pamuk reveals his sense of humanity in modern life. …”
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Language and the African Philosophical Traditions by Kọ́lá Abímbọ́lá

“…Numerous scholars have explored this very question from Africana perspectives: Kwasi Wiredu (1996) explored the philosophical issue of whether there are culturally defined values and concepts; Hallen and Sodipo (1986) examined the question of whether there are unique African indigenous systems of knowledge; Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1994) evaluated the role of colonialism in the language of African literature; Oyerò nkẹ ́ ́ Oyěwumi (1997) argued that “gender” is a Western cultural invention that is foreign to Yorùbá systems of sociation; and Helen Veran (2001) argued that even though science, mathematics, and logic are not culturally relative, “certainty” is nonetheless derived from cultural practices and associations. …”
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Ontological and intercultural anthropology of health among the shuar peoples of Zamora-Chinchipe by Christian Tym

“…The debates on the representation of difference that followed the ontological turn point toward the importance of intracultural diversity; therefore, it is crucial to develop nuanced representations of Indigenous and Western cultures, considering different characteristics that distinguish the communities and individuals of each group. …”
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The Potential of Silence in Education: Methodological and Didactic Prerequisites by A. D. Korol

“…The paper presents a comparative analysis of the didactics of Eastern and Western cultures core parameters as creativity, dialogism, interactivity. …”
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Contextualising the Regeneration of Africa’s Indigenous Governance and Management Systems and Practices by BC, Basheka

“…Centuries-old indigenous African knowledge regarding the management of societal affairs has been overshadowed by colonialism, neocolonialism, global capitalism and the promotion of Western organisational management/leadership practices. Furthermore, Western cultures showed intellectual arrogance by painting anything African in a negative light. …”
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Analysis of Factors Influencing Public Acceptance of Air Taxis in South Korea by Ansun Park, Seungmin Lee

“…Third, it uniquely considers the Korean perspective, unlike most existing studies that focus on Western cultural contexts. To identify the consumers’ perceptions, we conducted interviews with experts and surveyed a sample of 1,000 members of the general public in Korea. …”
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Towards intercultural communication effectiveness (congruence) in Sino-African interactions by Fungai Chigwendere, Lynette Louw

“…A higher culture distance is reported when African and Chinese cultures are compared to Western cultures. Patterns of similarity and difference in African and Chinese communication culture are also presented. …”
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Social Media: The New Frontier for Human Resource Management in Asia by Ismi Rajiani, Deasy Arisanty, I Gede Riana

“…However, Asian societies have adopted social media for HRM at a lesser rate than Western cultures, which are more egalitarian and open, leading to greater comfort with using social media for professional interactions, even with superiors. …”
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