English became the key to overcome the punishment as the language gains overwhelming superiority over other languages. Some people believe that spreads of English harms the nation’s tradition and culture. However, using English as the global language is beneficial in many ways because it will increase the nation’s international competitiveness, and provide more opportunities for people.
traditional culture. Because funeral is a process that everyone would eventually go through, we can find various forms of funerals according to different cultures. There is a well-known saying that we are all equal in front of the death; but can we really argue that this is true? Nowadays, considerably a lot of people tend to think that death is unequal in that we are judged by how much we can pa
1. The peculiarities of food
Unlike western and Chinese foods, which have ambiguous distinctions between main and side dishes, rice made from rice, barley, and shellfish is used as a main dish and side dish made from vegetables, sea cucumbers, fish, and beans. As a result, there are many signs of corrosion. Due to the high production volume of grains, they were used for noodles, porridge, rice c
The Slovak Republic Key Facts
Became an independent state on 1 January 1993
after Czechoslovakia spilt into its two constituent parts.
Becomes European Union member since 2004
Currency changed in 2009 (Slovak Koruna -> Euro)
86% Slovak population.
Hungarians, 10% the largest minority
Long history of invasions
The Slovak Republic Culture
Tradition
culture is chiefly “political in emphasis”(Fiske).
Why is culture ‘a way of life’, and how is its studies ‘political’?
The modern concept of cultural studies, as defined above, was “born in a double refusal. On the one hand, it ‘refused the elitism of high culture and the great tradition’ and, on the other, ‘it was equally opposed to the reductions of Marxism understood a