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Murray Bettina P. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
Urban college students (n=179) from diverse cultural backgrounds and regions received instruction in the writing of short narratives, or allegories, to express generalizations about human behavior. At the beginning of the three-month semester students were given samples of allegories concluding with a lesson and then were asked to create an…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Urban Areas, College Students, Student Diversity
Cole, Levi Edward – Online Submission, 2013
First conceptualized in the 1960s, the term culture-bound disorders refers to a classification of mental disorders or syndromes that are considered specific or closely related to cultural factors and or particular ethnocultural groups. In Japan, two culture-bound disorders, "taijin kyofusho" and "hikikomori," have seized the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Asian Culture, Mental Disorders, Cultural Influences