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Braisted, Paul J., Ed.; And Others – 1972
The results, convictions, and recommendations of a colloquium designed to study the improvement of present and future cultural relations are presented. Study groups from Japan, Africa, the Middle East, India, Southeast Asia, and the United States participated in the conference. Chapter one analyzes the context of cultural relations, the…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Cultural Exchange, Developing Nations
Peters, Richard – 1985
Background information, units of study, and bibliographies that teachers can use to introduce students in grades 5-12 to a systematic study of worldwide human populations are provided. The first section discusses world population problems. The author stresses that developed nations must be concerned with rampant human population growth in the…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Developing Nations, Economics
O'Toole, Tom – 1978
Using case studies of French-speaking West Africa and Southern Appalachia, this paper examines the role of traditional culture in developing regions by challenging current theories on that subject. The capitalistic and Marxist approaches that dominated well into the 1960s maintained that elimination of traditional social relations and values was…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Cultural Background, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences