Multiculturalism

Polyculture Fish farming in which 2 or more compatible or symbiotic species of fish are grown together. Also known as Multiculture. 

Therefore, in this increasingly multicultural world we live in it is essential to make efforts to accomplish an effective integration of universalism (which facilitates professional communication across the continents) and local realities and needs (which evidence the patient s singularity in his or her particular context) (Mezzich etal, 2003). 

Agbayani-Siewert, P., Takeuchi D. Pangan, R. (1999). Mental illness in a multicultural context. In C. Aneshensel and J. Phelann, eds., Handbook of the Sociology of Mental Health. New York Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, pp. 19-36. 

Ziguras, S. J., Klimidis, S., Lambert, T. J. R. Jackson, A. C. (2001). Determinants of anti-psychotic medication compliance in a multicultural population. Community Ment. Health J., 37(3), 273-83. 

Ryding, Karin Christina. "The heritage of Arabic alchemy The multicultural matrix." In Perspectives arabes et medie ales sur la tradition scientifique et philosophique grecque, ed. Ahmad Hasnawi, 235-248. Leuven Peeters, 1997. 

Presently we observe the ideologisation of the discussion of practically all ecological and social problems, be it population control, migration, multicultural coexistence,... 

GEN.296. I. Prigogine, Is future given in Globalization and Multicultural Societies, M. RicciardeUi, S. Urban, and K. Nanopoulos, eds., Notre Dame University Press, 2003. 

To date, studies of the effects of busing have produced inconclusive results. Some studies report improved achievement of minority students but under certain conditions. For example, if their education began early in a desegregated school with a multicultural curriculum. However, other studies report negative effects on minority student achievement - especially when the minority students are... 

Jewish and Islamic scholars were invited to the court of Frederick II in Sicily, and the Knights of St. John opened communication with the East on the island of Rhodes. Due to this influx, Sicily, Spain, and southern France rapidly became multicultural communities. In these areas Jewish and other scholars began to translate Arabic and Greek texts into Latin, which made them available to the rest of Europe. One of the first of these texts was the Book of the Composition of Alchemy, translated into Latin by the Englishman Robert of Chester in 1144. By the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the art of gold-making was integrated into Western mystical philosophy. 

Stanton, M.D. (1978) Some outcome results and aspects of structural family therapy with drug addicts , in Smith, D., Anderson, S., Buxton M., Chung, T., Gottlieb, N., and Harvey, W. (eds) A Multicultural View of Drug Abuse The Proceedings of the National Drug Abuse Conference— 1977, Cambridge, Mass Hall/Schenkman. 

A study of the ethnicity of methamphetamine users done between 1996 and 1997 shows that they are multicultural. In Los Angles, 30% of users were white, 5% were Hispanic, and only 2% were black. However, that same survey showed that in Portland, Oregon, whites made up 94% of all methamphetamine users 54% of these were male, while 46% were female. In Los Angles, 88% of the methamphetamine users were male, with only 12% being female. 

I myself shall die in prison for publishing scientific facts. By means of an unbelievably satanic twisting of history our people will be held defenseless and subject to extortion , as the Association of German Veterans wrote in its journal Soldat im Volk no. 7/8 in 1992. In this condition of eternal abject surrender we shall be destroyed by means of a horrifying multiculturalism. This has forced me to a desperate defensive measure, which takes the form of unauthorized publication of Rudolf s Expert Report on the alleged gas chambers of Auschwitz. 

You were raised in a multicultural environment and can blend in effortlessly with almost any world culture, from South American Indians to Parisian high society. 

An alternative to assimilation is to make clear to students that they may cross the sociological border into science with their cultural identity both intact and, perhaps, valued. This is a specific goal of the work of Middlecamp and Subramaniam (1999). Within the biological sciences, including gender as a specific component of course content is a more obvious move than in chemistry (Birke 2001). There are more studies in which a connection of chemistry to sociology occurs through the lens of race and ethnicity, for example, in the Project Inclusion work of Hayes and Perez (1997) and the multicultural examples developed by Middlecamp and Fernandez (1999). 

As political scientist Professor Kniitter pointed out, the goal behind this concept is to break up the former values system and thus to create an ideological vacuum, in which Socialist, anarchist and Communist teachings of salvation will ultimately find fertile ground. This process, he states, is augmented by the parallel process of replacing the German people with a multicultural mixture, devoid of any identity but full of revolutionary potential due to the inevitable conflicts and the concomitant social and economic problems.61... 

For more interview tips, see "A Synthesis of Ethnographic Research," by M. Cenzuk, PhD, University of Southern California Center for Multilingual, Multicultural Research,www-rcf.usc.edu/ genzuk/Ethnographic Research.pdf. 

Dworkin M. (1998) Multiculturalism versus the single microbe. In Bacteria as Multicellular Organisms (eds. J. A. Shapiro and M. Dworkin). Oxford University Press, pp. 3-13. 

The multicultural character of both greater Houston and the patients at HCPC raised our interests in the possible ethnic differences in prescribing patterns of these newer drugs and in the dif-... 

Methods used to achieve conceptual and linguistic equivalence of cross-culturally adapted instruments should be stated exphcitly. Evidence should be provided that the measurement properties of the adaptation are comparable with those of the original instrument. It is obvious that this is an extremely important issue when planning crossnational QOL assessment projects. However, it is also very important within countries that are multicultural, such as the United States. Many of the English-language instruments have been developed for the dominant U.S. culture and may not be appropriate for all patients. 

Analyze Multicultural Aspects. Roy s family goes to the local Renaissance Faire every year. During the day s events, they have plenty of opportunities to learn about and to compare costumes, food, crafts, music, dances, games, and theater representing various cultures. Both the Faire s actors and its attendees show diversity Scottish bagpipers and Cockney commoners meet Spanish pirates and French royalty ... 

The use of expert systems for both on-line and off-line risk analysis and decision support becomes much more complicated in an international environment. Human input and output interpretation becomes a much more challenging exercise. The user model upon which the system depends most certainly will have to account for both linguistic and cultural factors if the system is to operate reliably and effectively. Multicultural human factors must certainly be addressed if we are to succeed in international trade and multinational enterprise. 

Guibemeau, M. and Rex, J. (1997) Introduction, in M. Guibernau and J. Rex (eds) The Ethnicity Reader Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Migration. Cambridge Polity Press. 

Antiracist politics is challenged to devise responses to the obsessive structure of racialization if it is to mount a more effective intervention in the post-civil rights era. Liberal models of multicultural unity-in-diversity and conservative prescriptions for colorblindness have proved themselves to be as damaging to movements for radical social change as they are intractable as elements of contemporary political discourse (West 1994). Critics on the Left seem unsatisfied with the bleakness of these options yet at a loss for an alternative analytic framework. This is especially true with regard to matters of interracial sexuality ... 

David Hollinger, Postethnic America Beyond Multiculturalism... 

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