The A.M.I.G.O. project: A multicultural intergroup opportunity

This paper describes an empirical investigation of changes incurred as a result of participation in a semester-long intercultural experience. “The A.M.I.G.O. Project” is conducted in small group communication classes and requires students to meet and interact weekly with foreigners living in their community. The project is designed to allow college students to obtain some of the benefits of a foreign experience without going abroad. The program is also intended to provide a meaningful and worthwhile experience to individuals temporarily living in the U.S. A single-factor repeated measures analysis of variance was used to examine differences between participants and non-participants at the beginning and end of the semester. Five dependent variables-acceptance of differences, openness to new ideas, importance of foreign exchange, responsibility toward foreigners living in the community, and attitudes toward peace-were evaluated. The results of the questionnaire strongly indicate a significant change in the attitudes of the participants. Overall, students became more accepting of diversity and differences, felt greater responsibility to and increased importance of foreign visitors to the United States, and developed a sense of importance and desire for travel abroad. Furthermore, the members of the English as a Second Language class [the Amigos] demonstrated significantly greater improvement on their English proficiency exams than non-participants. Implications of the results and a discussion of the limitations of the study conclude with suggestions for future research.     

秦汉时期的汉匈文化交流与融合

匈奴是我国古代北方最早称雄于其势力达到鼎盛并控制了长城以北的广大地区。提起秦汉时期的汉匈关系,人们首先想到的就是战争。尽管当时汉匈之间曾长期处于战争状态,但这并未妨碍两地间的文化交流。一方面,战争固然是大规模的社会暴力行[(\316\252\243\254)87(\276\337\323\320\274\253\264\363\265\304\306\306\273\265\301\246\272\315\\270\272\303\346\327\367\323\303\243\254)][(\271\305\310\313\313\371\316\275)282.6(\241\260\325\275\325\371\326\256\272\363\261\330\323\320\320\327\304\352\\241\261)304.4(\265\304\313\265)…     

从义门文化的视角透视陈独秀的性格

陈独秀的性格是极为复杂的,复杂性格的背后有着更为复杂的原因."独秀性格"形成的时代与社会原因,前贤已有充分论述,本文不再多费笔墨,仅在其地域文化尤其是宗族文化这些他人不大注目处多说两句.     

天下第一墓志铭

公元2002年初，位于吉安城西15公里处的江西省首批历史文化名村——吉州区兴桥镇钓源村，出土了一方充满神秘色彩的墓志铭，这是迄今为止我国所发现的古代型制最大的墓志铭，阴阳双面镌刻，面积近2平方米，重逾300公斤。     

先秦时期的洗浴文化

洗浴是人们生活的重要组成部分，历来被视为“洁身净体”的重要生活方式，它不仅为人们所必需，而且还体现出特定的文化内涵，呈现为特定的洗浴文化。这种洗浴文化源远流长，在中国的历史上，先秦时期的洗浴文化即具有自身独特的特征。     

The Local: A History of the English Pub. By Paul Jennings.

ABSTRACT

The period between 1950 and 1975 marked a dramatic shift in food retailing in Britain with the introduction of self-service stores and supermarkets. It also witnessed a significant rise in shoplifting, which many contemporary observers blamed on the introduction of self-service retailing. Using material from the retail trade press, newspaper reports, contemporary academic and marketing studies, and the publications of consumer associations, this article reflects on the fractured nature of the public discourse surrounding shoplifting in the early post-war period and looks at the factors that made self-service food retailing such a potentially problematic innovation. We argue that an ambivalence arose because shoplifting was regarded as a ‘housewives' crime’, and because of some of the specific characteristics of the self-service innovation. The introduction of self-service retailing not only fundamentally altered the relationship between consumers and retailers, and between consumers and goods, but had the effect of throwing into question existing definitions and perceptions of consumer crime. This article will show that there was considerable public debate and disagreement over who was to blame for the sudden surge in the crime, over what could be done to prevent it, and over how to treat those accused and convicted of shoplifting. Some of the ambiguities in public responses to shoplifting evident in our period were witnessed in the earlier experiences of the nineteenth-century department store. Then, as in the 1950s, public debate on the causes of shoplifting occurred within the context of broader critiques of consumerism.