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| PM flays Maoists for 'cultural monarchy' - Himalayan Times Posted: 28 Aug 2010 04:48 AM PDT
Added At: 2010-08-28 1:06 PM Last Updated At: 2010-08-28 4:38 PM
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal THT Online KATHMANDU: Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal on Saturday accused the UCPN-Maoist of hypocrisy and said the former rebels are behind the attempts to revive monarchy. After inspecting the construction site of Madan Ashrit Pravidik Sikshalaya in Gothatar on the outskirts of Kathmandu this morning, he charged that the Maoists are working out to revive the monarchy in the name of cultural king. He was addressing the local UML cadres. He said that the Maoist leadership should clarify their role in the recent activities of the former royalties in connection with the attempts to establish 'religious' and 'cultural' monarchy. He said that the Maoists have been cashing in on their fighters and ripping benefit from their name. The Maoists cannot be trusted upon till they give up the tendency towards military power and rebellious mindset, he said. Commenting on the present political crisis that has intensified in the wake of standoff in the prime ministerial election, he said that the sixth round of runoff on September 5 too will be futile. Nepal, who was leading the UML-led coalition government resigned from the country's executive head's post on June 30 and is currently bearing the care taker role, said both the candidates vying for the premiership—Maoist chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Nepali Congress vice president Ram Chandra Paudel—should bow out to end the crisis. The building of the technical school that is affiliated with the CTEVT is established to in memorial of the then CPN-ML general secretary Madan Bhandari and senior leader Jeevaraj Ashrit, who were killed in a road accident in 1993. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Is Decline in Cultural Diversity Still Taking Place? - Associated Content Posted: 07 Sep 2010 08:22 PM PDT In the paper titled "Catastrophic evolution, culture, and diversity management policy", Prof. Moghaddam (2006) argues that because of globalization, culture clashes have become more common and the result has been a Mahoney and Galis (2006) define "sudden contact" as a cognitive phenomenon where a person encounters new ideas. And culture is described as a constantly changing and evolving entity. Individuals tend to create their I - positions (sense of self) by forming relations to certain ideas in the culture (Josephs, Valsiner, & Surgan, 1999). And these I - positions are always dualistic so that there is a sense of what is "me" and what is "not - me". The sense of "me" tends to be strongly defined while "not - me" tends to be vague and arbitrary. Cultural ascriptions like religion and language exist to serve various functions and when instances of sudden contact do take place, certain cultural attributes may cease to exist but new ones will always take their place (Bourdieu, 1990). It is not necessarily the case that sudden contact is leading to decline in cultural diversity but simply that various cultural attributes are going through a transformation of their form. It is true that cultural ascriptions like language have gone down in number over the last few decades. But does this really signify decrease in cultural diversity? Languages such as English have become more commonly spoken all over the world but the phonetics of English can still differ from region to region depending upon the needs of local communities that use it. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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