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Cultural Literacy is the ability of understanding and taking part fluently in a given culture. This is the knowledge, understanding and application of history, contributions, and perspectives of the different cultural groups when it comes to a particular project or in a comprehensive research question. It is the ability of associating an individual's knowledge, understanding and applying history, contribution, perspectives and the impacts on their own cultural groups. The groups are not limited to ethnic, religious or social groups but include groups that are associated with industry, professional and other work or even recreationally related entities.
Examples of cultures
Social cultures, which is a cultural concept, which is created by people of a social system and the way they interact with others. This is the external reference frame when it comes to the context of culture and it can be termed as group culture. It normally encompasses the languages that are used; exchanging culture through communicative vents as well as shared experinecs.it is based on ideas and identity and associated with certain group in which people socialize. Organizational cultures are the behavior of people within an organization and the meaning, which people attach to the way they behave. Culture involves the vision, systems, values, norms beliefs and habits of the organization. Aviation culture is the behaviors or norms within the aviation industry. Among the aviation cultures is the safety culture. Safety culture termed as the way safety is perceived, prioritized and valued within the organization. It...
It reflects the attitudes, perceptions, beliefs and values that employees hold when it comes to safety. Religious culture refers to the beliefs held by people in a particular religion. Ethnic cultures are the beliefs held by a particular ethnic group.
The Capstone program makes efforts of improving safety in aviation and its efficiency through a multi-year introduction using existing and emerging concepts and technologies. Its first priority is improving aviation system through introducing new communication surveillance and navigation technologies. It is also geared towards providing an improvement of aviation system capacity as well as its efficiency. For the capstone program to be developed easily cultural literacy has to be met. There has to be knowledge, understanding and application of history, contributions, and perspectives of the different cultural groups when it comes to the development of the capstone program. The Capstone project was a joint industry and the FAA research and the development effort put in place to improve aviation safety and efficiency. A rise in cases of accidents due to bad weather and terrain in the past is what led to the development of this program. There was need to improve aviation safety and efficiency due to past accidents in the aviation industry (Federal Aviation Administration, 2009).
Social norms as they impact a specific objective or outcome
Crew resource management is a flexible system method that is used for the optimization of human…
References
Helmreich, R, Merritt, A & Wilhelm, J. (2007). The Evolution of Crew Resource Management Training in Commercial Aviation. Retrieved July 22, 2014 from http://lessonslearned.faa.gov/UAL173/crmhistory.pdf
Muqbil, I. (2008). Aviation Trends And SafetyRisks Identified. Retrieved July 22, 2014 from http://www.travel-impact-newswire.com/2008/05/aviation-trends-and-safety-risks-identified/#axzz38ByEScwM
Federal Aviation Administration. (2009). Capstone Archival Material. Retrieved July 22, 2014 from http://www.faa.gov/nextgen/implementation/programs/adsb/wsa/archival/
Business Communication Across Cultures Business Communication is a necessary challenge that each person faces daily. Communication is an aspect of business that is necessary to success and achievement. Many countries in the world are industrialized to the point where their culture is in what is called the information age or the digital age. Digital technology, social media, and information technology are prominent aspects to life, communication and business. This paper will examine
Works Cited Baumgarten, Linda. (2002). What Clothes Reveal: The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America: The Colonial Williamsburg Collection. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Bilhartz, Terry D., and Elliott, Alan C. (2007). Currents in American History: A Brief History of the United States, Volume 1. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe. Crunden, Robert Morse. (1996). A Brief History of American Culture. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe. Fisher, John Hurt. (2001). "British and American, Continuity and Divergence"
(Assefa and Degefa, ND, online at (http://www.hmbasha.net/Starbucks_Ethiopia.htm) Until, very recently there were many upscale coffee drinkers that assumed that the nations that hold a geographic monopoly on the coffee market (as coffee can be grown in a very limited region) were benefiting from the overall growth of the success of coffee as a preferred drink all over the world. They were wrong, nations that sell coffee usually in its raw
Introduction The Cherokee Tribe in North Carolina is part of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, a federally-recognized independent Native American Cherokee tribe whose home base is in Cherokee, North Carolina, south of the Smoky Mountains. The Eastern Band is comprised of the descendants of the approximately 800 Cherokee who did not join the Trail of Tears—the forced migration of the Native American nations from the Southern U.S. region to the
Minority Culture in South Dakota Lifestyles, Values and the Economy of Hispanic-Americans and Indian-Americans in South Dakota The history of the minority groups in the U.S.A. dates back to historical times in the 1800 and their growth has been somehow stable in USA. It is undisputable that the treatment of the minority groups and the Native Americans and the African-Americans ran out of the borders of the tolerance and freedom. It is
The sexually explicit imagery that they witnessed on TV led young Indians to express more need in sexuality. Eventually, whole regions in India had been reported of suffering as a result of young people watching TV and becoming sexually active at a much smaller age. The Kerala province in India is only one of the several areas that have had their people falling victims to the western culture depicted on