A faux pas (French for false step) is a violation of accepted, although unwritten, social rules. Faux pas vary widely from culture to culture and what is considered good manners in one culture can be considered a faux pas in another. For example, in English-speaking Western countries it is usually considered a nice gesture to bring a bottle of wine when going to someone's house for dinner. In France, however, this is considered insulting as it suggests the hosts are unable to provide their own good wine. However, bringing flowers to the hostess is rarely a faux pas, although one sometimes needs to be careful what kind of flowers to bring.
list of faux pas
African regions: A left-handed handshake. Offering and accepting things with the left hand.
Arab countries; Indian Subcontinent; Middle East; East Africa: South-East Asia: Displaying the soles of the feet or touching somebody with shoes. A left-handed handshake or passing food at the table with the left hand.
Brazil: Giving an inverted American OK sign (referring to the anus).
Canada; Scandinavia; Central and Eastern Europe; Japan; Hawaii: While, in the United States and Western Europe, it is considered acceptable to enter someone's household and leave your shoes on your feet, this behaviour is not acceptable in Canada, nor in Scandinavia, Central and Eastern Europe, East Asia, and most households in Hawaii.
China: Giving someone a timepiece as a gift. The phrase "giving a timepiece" is a homonym for burying the dead.
Central and Eastern Europe: Shaking hands while wearing gloves (this does not apply to women).
France : Using the pronoun "tu" (you-singular), instead of "vous" (formal you) when talking to an elder or a stranger. Asking for cheese after taking dessert. Asking an individual their job or name directly. Offering someone a gift of chrysanthemums on an occasion other than a funeral (as chrysanthemums are generally associated with death in France).
Russia: Using the pronoun "Ti" (Ты - you), instead of "Vi" (Вы) (formal you) when talking to an elder or a stranger.
Germany: Using the pronoun "Du" (you), instead of "Sie" (formal you) when talking to an elder or a stranger.
Greece: Showing the number five by displaying a hand with fingers spread and palm facing the recipient of the gesture is offensive. The same gesture with the palm facing the gesturer is not.
Netherlands: Using the pronoun "Jij" (you), instead of "U" (formal you) when talking to an elder or a stranger.
India; Pakistan; Bangladesh;Burma: Eating or shaking hands with the left hand, not greeting family elders at a gathering, addressing elders without salutations.
Japan: When greeting or thanking another person, not bowing lower than the other person when the other person is older or has a higher social status.
Middle East: Addressing an elder or person higher in social status with his/her bare name. Words like uncle/aunt, (elder) brother/sister or formally Mr./Mrs. are expected to be used.
Pakistan: Using the pronoun "TUM" or "TOO" (you), instead of "AAP" (formal you) when talking to an elder or a stranger. Walking with shoes on the carpet inside a house. Calling an "elder" or a "stranger member of opposite sex" with just his name.
Romania; Russia; Slovakia; Czech Republic; Croatia; Hungary; Serbia; Poland; Bulgaria; Ukraine; Estonia; Lithuania; Latvia: Giving somebody an even number of flowers. This should only be done in funerals.
South America, Spain, and other Spanish speaking countries: Neglecting to greet someone at a social / family gathering. Any kind of large gathering of friends or family should be started by greeting every person present (oldest first if possible), and making sure to say goodbye upon leaving. This rule is more relaxed in a group of young people. Using the pronoun "tú" (you), instead of "Usted" (formal you) when talking to an elder or a stranger.
Thailand: Stepping over or standing on bills or coins—they all have the face of the King, who is highly revered. Also, touching a Thai person on their head, as the head is considered a sacred part of the body. Food must be kept above the ground level.
United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa: The "V sign", made by holding the middle and index fingers up so as to form a V-shape (such as when indicating "two" of something), is considered an offensive gesture when made with the back of the hand pointed towards the listener, particularly when done so with an upward thrust. It is seen as having similar meaning to "the finger". With the hand held the other way, so the palm points towards the listener, the otherwise identical gesture is perfectly acceptable.
Wales: In the Welsh language, using the pronoun "ti" (you), instead of "chi" (formal you) when talking to an elder or a stranger.
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
how do you think
One must be careful not to confuse empathy with either sympathy, emotional contagion or telepathy. Sympathy is the feeling of compassion for another, the wish to see them better off or happier, often described as "feeling sorry" for someone. Emotional contagion is when a person (especially an infant or a member of a mob) imitatively 'catches' the emotions that others are showing without necessarily recognising this is happening. Telepathy is a controversial paranormal phenomenon, whereby emotions or other mental states can be read directly, without needing to infer, or perceive expressive clues about the other person.
Sympathy is, "I'm sorry for your sadness, I wish to help."
Emotional Contagion is, "I feel sad."
Empathy is, "I feel your sadness."
Apathy is, " I don't care how you feel. "
Telepathy is, "I read your sadness without you expressing it to me in any normal way."
Sympathy is, "I'm sorry for your sadness, I wish to help."
Emotional Contagion is, "I feel sad."
Empathy is, "I feel your sadness."
Apathy is, " I don't care how you feel. "
Telepathy is, "I read your sadness without you expressing it to me in any normal way."
Drive theory
Drive Theory was first suggested by Robert Zajonc in 1965 as an explanation of the audience effect. The audience effect notes that in some cases the presence of a passive audience will facilitate the better performance of a task; while in other cases the presence of an audience will inhibit the performance of a task.
Drive Theory states that due to the unpredictable nature of people, a person performing a task rarely knows for certain what others are going to do in response. Therefore, there is a clear advantage to the species for an individual's presence to cause us to be in a state of alert arousal. Increased arousal (stress) can therefore be seen as an instinctive reaction to social presence.
This arousal creates a "drive" that causes us to enact the behaviours that form our dominant response for that particular situation. Our dominate response is the most likely response given our skills at use.
If the dominant response is "correct" (that is to say, if the task we are to perform is subjectively perceived as being easy), then the social pressure produces an improved performance. However, if the dominant response is "incorrect" (the task is difficult), then social presence produces an impaired performance
Drive Theory states that due to the unpredictable nature of people, a person performing a task rarely knows for certain what others are going to do in response. Therefore, there is a clear advantage to the species for an individual's presence to cause us to be in a state of alert arousal. Increased arousal (stress) can therefore be seen as an instinctive reaction to social presence.
This arousal creates a "drive" that causes us to enact the behaviours that form our dominant response for that particular situation. Our dominate response is the most likely response given our skills at use.
If the dominant response is "correct" (that is to say, if the task we are to perform is subjectively perceived as being easy), then the social pressure produces an improved performance. However, if the dominant response is "incorrect" (the task is difficult), then social presence produces an impaired performance
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Capitalism good or bad for india
In the late 19th century, the control and direction of large areas of industry came into the hands of financiers. This period has been defined as "finance capitalism," characterized by the subordination of processes of production to the accumulation of money profits in a financial system Major characteristics of capitalism in this period included the establishment of large industrial cartels or monopolies; the ownership and management of industry by financiers divorced from the production process; and the development of a complex system of banking, an equity market, and corporate holdings of capital through stock ownership Increasingly, large industries and land became the subject of profit and loss by financial speculators.
Late 19th and early 20th century capitalism has also been described as an era of "monopoly capitalism," marked by movement from laissez-faire ideology and government policies to the concentration of capital into large monopolistic or oligopolistic holdings by banks and financiers, and characterized by the growth of large corporations and a division of labor separating shareholders, owners, and managers.[24] Although the concept of monopoly capitalism originated among Marxists theorists[25], non-Marxist economic historians have also commented on the rise of monopolies and trusts in the period. Murray Rothbard, asserting that the large cartels of the late 19th century could not arise on the free market, argued that the "state monopoly capitalism" of the period was the result of interventionist policies adopted by governments, such as tariffs, quotas, licenses, and partnership between state and big business. By the last quarter of the 19th century, the emergence of large industrial trusts had provoked legislation in the U.S. to reduce the monopolistic tendencies of the period. Gradually, the U.S. federal government played a larger and larger role in passing antitrust laws and regulation of industrial standards for key industries of special public concern. However, some economic historians believe these new laws were in fact designed to aid large corporations at the expense of smaller competitors.[27] By the end of the 19th century, economic depressions and boom and bust business cycles had become a recurring problem. In particular, the Long Depression of the 1870s and 1880s and the Great Depression of the 1930s affected almost the entire capitalist world, and generated discussion about capitalism’s long-term survival prospects. During the 1930s, Marxist commentators often posited the possibility of capitalism's decline or demise, often in alleged contrast to the ability of the Soviet Union to avoid suffering the effects of the global depression.
Now india is in transitory phase and all the glliters of new found status of software hub but growth is very uneven just go 20Km from any matro and see the real picture of india.
how we can say we are growing when we can not provide basic amenities to 70% of the population and is it not a irony indeed that white goods where big corporate houses are making money is geting cheaper and cheaper but pulses and eating items are souring up..why..
production of agricultural good are geting down and software market is going high...
can any one tell me is there any software program available to make our farmers rich.
if we do not learn from history then we wil face a economic depression again.
Late 19th and early 20th century capitalism has also been described as an era of "monopoly capitalism," marked by movement from laissez-faire ideology and government policies to the concentration of capital into large monopolistic or oligopolistic holdings by banks and financiers, and characterized by the growth of large corporations and a division of labor separating shareholders, owners, and managers.[24] Although the concept of monopoly capitalism originated among Marxists theorists[25], non-Marxist economic historians have also commented on the rise of monopolies and trusts in the period. Murray Rothbard, asserting that the large cartels of the late 19th century could not arise on the free market, argued that the "state monopoly capitalism" of the period was the result of interventionist policies adopted by governments, such as tariffs, quotas, licenses, and partnership between state and big business. By the last quarter of the 19th century, the emergence of large industrial trusts had provoked legislation in the U.S. to reduce the monopolistic tendencies of the period. Gradually, the U.S. federal government played a larger and larger role in passing antitrust laws and regulation of industrial standards for key industries of special public concern. However, some economic historians believe these new laws were in fact designed to aid large corporations at the expense of smaller competitors.[27] By the end of the 19th century, economic depressions and boom and bust business cycles had become a recurring problem. In particular, the Long Depression of the 1870s and 1880s and the Great Depression of the 1930s affected almost the entire capitalist world, and generated discussion about capitalism’s long-term survival prospects. During the 1930s, Marxist commentators often posited the possibility of capitalism's decline or demise, often in alleged contrast to the ability of the Soviet Union to avoid suffering the effects of the global depression.
Now india is in transitory phase and all the glliters of new found status of software hub but growth is very uneven just go 20Km from any matro and see the real picture of india.
how we can say we are growing when we can not provide basic amenities to 70% of the population and is it not a irony indeed that white goods where big corporate houses are making money is geting cheaper and cheaper but pulses and eating items are souring up..why..
production of agricultural good are geting down and software market is going high...
can any one tell me is there any software program available to make our farmers rich.
if we do not learn from history then we wil face a economic depression again.
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