News tagged with nationalism
The anti-consumption movement: Researchers examine resistance to global brands
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jun 15, 2009 |
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What motivates people to rebel against global brands—or consumption in general? A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research examines the connection between nationalism and the anti-consumption movement in India.
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Ubiquitous in U.S., Google struggles for market share in China
Dec 09, 2009 |
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In China, Google means underdog. While the Mountain View company dominates the search market in the United States, it is not part of the pop lexicon on the other side of the Pacific. In its nine years in China, ...
Tiananmen security tight on crackdown anniversary
Jun 03, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Police saturated Tiananmen Square with security Thursday, the 20th anniversary of the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy activists, and an exiled protest leader was blocked from returning home to confront ...
Global markets: Chinese consumers respond to Western brands
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 20, 2009 |
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How do Chinese consumers really feel about Western brands? We often hear that magazines and billboards influence Chinese consumers to imitate Western lifestyles. Meanwhile, Chinese "patriots" are thought to reject Western ...
Rote memorization of historical facts adds to collective cluelessness
Feb 12, 2009 |
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As fans of talk-show host Jay Leno's man-on-the-street interviews know, Americans suffer from a national epidemic of historical and civic ignorance. But just because most Americans know more about "American Idol" than they ...
Land of the (early) rising sun
Aug 20, 2008 |
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They say that early to bed, early to rise, makes one healthy, wealthy and wise; but in Japan, it may also be feeding a nationalist revival not seen since World War II.
People not always needed to alleviate loneliness
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 18, 2008 |
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New research at the University of Chicago finds evidence for a clever way that people manage to alleviate the pain of loneliness: They create people in their surroundings to keep them company.
Probing Question: Does baseball still reflect America?
Apr 12, 2007 |
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Ah, the pleasures of spring. Blooming tulips and singing robins herald the rebirth of nature -- and baseball. Across the country, the season's first official pitches are thrown and the crack of ball against bat is heard. ...
Yale statistics professor identifies flaws in IOC figure skating scoring system
Feb 13, 2006 |
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John W. Emerson, assistant professor of Statistics at Yale, using information found on the web for an exercise in his classroom, examined the results of the recent European Women's Figure Skating Competition ...
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