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The Impact of National Culture on the Level of Innovation

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Strychalska-Rudzewicz A.

Journal of Intercultural Management

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2016

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vol. 8

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issue 1

121-145

EN

The purpose of this paper is to ascertain whether national culture has an impact on the level of innovation. The results of the analysis of data by means of statistical tools confirm that cultural factors play a big role in creating innovations. On the basis of the research, it can be assumed that the thesis formulated by Shane (1993) assuming the correlation of low power distance and strong individualism with innovation seems to be correct if we do not refer it to the Far East Asian countries. These countries seem to be very different culturally from the rest of the analyzed cultures. Low power distance and low uncertainty avoidance countries are in most cases more innovative in European countries. Impact of individualism versus collectivism is more debatable but generally in Europe more individualistic countries achieve better innovative results.

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Media obywatelskie narzędziem przekazywania i utrwalania kultury narodowej

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Szegda J.

Biuletyn Edukacji Medialnej

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2013

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issue 2

56-72

EN

Media and journalism today undergo very deep structural and functional changes. Those changes sometimes go in the direction, that does not conduce the citizens. The effect of the transformation from the social and public mission fulfilled institution into the business institution caused the change of the policy of their acting. The media owners and the editors, to get the advertisement institutions‘ attention, have started to care more of the profits than the receivers. This resulted in a departure from the social mission of the media in favor of offering the audience an easy and enjoyable content, with the omission of the values which are crucial to the socio-cultural identity. The goal of the following paper is an attempt to answer the question if citizen media, which are nowadays beginning to compete with the mainstream media, are able to transmit and preserve the national culture and, if so, whether they do it and in what way. To verify this hypothesis, an analysis of all the articles published in 2010 on one of the oldest and currently most popular citizen journalism portals, Wiadomości24.pl, has been made. The content of all the culture-oriented materials as well as of the photographic materials have been analyzed. The conclusions from this study are as follows: 1) citizen media can provide support for religious and national media, as well as public media, in promoting the national culture, 2) the content published on the Wiadomości24.pl citizen journalism portal are varied, and the theme of the national culture plays an important part, 3) by publishing materials on national culture and socio-cultural identity, citizen media helps to preserve the values characteristic for the Polish culture, promotes attitudes that result from those values, brings to mind important events, and introduces people important to the Polish national culture.

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The Polish and Czech national culture on the borderland. Village Jaworzynka and Herczawa in the Silesian Beskidy then and now

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Wróblewski P.

Nauka

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2019

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issue 3

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The research task of the essay is to answer the question of what is the face of the nation in the ethnic enclaves situated at the peripheries of national states. The subject of the analyses is the local population of the village Jaworzynka. In 1922, the settlement Herczawa was founded as a local unit independent from Jaworzynka. Since then Herczawa began to belong to Czechoslovakia. The state-owned status of Jaworzynka, which started to be a part of the Republic of Poland, was recognized after the World War I. The author takes into account the longue durre of folk and national culture generated in the Silesian Beskidy in the second half of the 18th century. The national culture is the main term applied to the investigations of the borderland regions. According to the ethno-symbolic approaches (Anthony D. Smith) and culturalism methods in sociology (Antonina Kłoskowska), the author analyses in his research: 1) language, 2) religion, 3) folkways and mores 4) arts, 5) local knowledge and literature. These elements delineate the sphere of symbolic culture. Based on the common folk culture, two national cultures have been formed nowadays – the Polish and Czech ones. Both Polish and Czech Census Bureau data and objective elements of national culture discussed in the essay indicate the process of national revival. The local people of Jaworzynka identify themselves as Poles and the population of Herczawa define themselves as Czechs. The content and the form of the local culture are visible in Jaworzyna, but they seem to be latent or diminishing in Herczawa.

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Польско-белорусский литературный романтизм: транскультурный симбиоз или транскультурный синтез?

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Михеева И.

Prosopon. Europejskie Studia Społeczno-Humanistyczne

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2011

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issue 1(1)

135-143

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The article reveals the actual for the modern human knowledge problem of specific of national culture in a European context through a philosophical and theoretical analysis of the cultural phenomenon of symbiosis as a major mechanism of Belarusian tradition. Author proves that the history and logic of the Belarusian-Polish cultural relations can be represented as a sequence and set of several "cultural experiences". Considered specifics of the Polish-Belarusian literature Romanticism as one of the most representative manifestations of the symbiotic nature of cultural correlations of Belarus. It is concluded that "the Belarusian cultural model" as a model of synthetic boundary cultural co-existence can be regarded as one of the most productive and heuristically important ones for a globalizing world.

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Cultural traits of the future managers from generation Y – an example of young Europeans

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Bartosik-Purgat M.

Journal of Intercultural Management

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2015

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vol. 6

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issue 3

37-55

EN

On the one hand, internationalization and globalization processes influence the fact that attitudes and behaviours of representatives of different cultures become similar. On the other one, opposite processes which aim at the manifestation of cultural differences can be observed. The aim of this article is to find an answer to the question whether young people, students of higher schools of economics, future managers show similar cultural traits or whether the influence of the native environment is so strong that young Europeans manifest different values. In order to answer this question selected characteristics, which are significantly applicable at work in an enterprise have been used. The answer to the aforementioned question has been searched both in the literature on the subject as well as in empirical studies conducted in ten European countries (Belgium, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Great Britain). Their results show significant similarities of cultural traits among the young respondents coming from the surveyed countries. These characteristics are manifested in various attitudes, hypothetical behaviours and the judgment of behaviour of others.

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The Impact of the Family-owned Businesses Specificity on the Dominance of the Cultural Features in their Organizational Structures – Theoretical Approach

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Bartosik-Purgat M., Hadryś-Nowak A.

Journal of Intercultural Management

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2014

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vol. 6

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issue 4-2

49-66

EN

The purpose of this article is to show how the specifics of family businesses (the „familiness”) affects the company’s organization culture. In other words, the article aim is to identify the specific impact of family businesses on certain cultural traits identified in international studies and in the literature as „culture’s dimensions „.Literature analysis and the results of previous research on family businesses let the authors to specify a list of characteristics that „possession”, in the most comprehensive way, describes the specifics of the family business. Based on the literature review authors decided to select some dimensions - cultural traits that are particularly distinctive and noticeable in family businesses, such as: universalism/particularism and status assigned/achieved according to Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner, power distance and femininity/masculinity according to Hofstede, pro-partnership/pro-transaction according to Gesteland. Combining the specificity of family and selected cultural dimensions authors found that in family businesses predominate particularistic behavior, hierarchies, there is also a high power distance but with the advantage of setting pro-partnership and female characteristics. In family businesses, there is also a predominance of assigned status. Conducted analysis leads authors to the conclusion that family businesses, regardless of their country and its cultural differences in which they operate, have common features, which are expressed in the intensity of specific cultural characteristics. The article is a theoretical analysis and will be the basis for forward empirical research 1 m.

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Kulturowe uwarunkowania państwa dobrobytu w Szwecji – wybrane zagadnienia

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Kościewicz D.

Społeczeństwo i Ekonomia

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2014

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issue 1 (1)

70-82

EN

The article presents the main historically based cultural factors of the Swedish welfare state. The article starts with the general characteristics of the welfare state model of Sweden, then points four main cultural factors of the Swedish welfare state, their historical origins and an impact on modern society. The author points peasant traditions of Swedish society, Lutheran set of moral principles, the primary role of the local community and the pacifist attitude of Swedish society as the main cultural factors of the Swedish-type of welfare state. The article ends with a conclusion that indicated cultural factors are the fundaments of Swedish society and any change of economic system will be strongly based on national culture and historically based national values.

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Partykularne i uniwersalne w literaturach narodowych

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Masłowski M.

Postscriptum Polonistyczne

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2016

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issue 2(18)

125-134

EN

Opposition between the notion of universalism, created in the age of Enlightenment and the Romantic tradition, which dominates in Central Europe is discussed in the article. Universalism is understood as the process of emancipation of man, but at the same time, in countries ‘between Russia and Germany’ it is also understood as the rule of adherence. In the Romantic tradition there is the symbolic extrapolation of historic experiences and the use of metaphors that have ethical universalism, both of which are described by the author in this article. The understanding of culture as a spiritual sphere w hich unites the national spirit was destroyed in the 20th century due to totalitarianism, but this grotesque tragedy from our absurd history has created ‘anti-modern modernism'.

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Cultural differences in the motivation of Generation Y knowledge workers

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Kubátová J., Kukelková A.

Human Affairs

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2014

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vol. 24

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issue 4

511-523

EN

This article presents our research into cultural differences in the motivation of Generation Y knowledge workers. The goal of our research was to verify whether the motivation of young knowledge workers (members of Generation Y) could be assessed only in relation to the specifics of their generation, or whether it is necessary to take their national cultural background into account as well. The research carried out among two hundred respondents in four countries has confirmed that it is essential to take into account both generation differences and cultural differences.

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Kultury narodowe w procesie wirtualizacji

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Jaskuła S., Korporowicz L.

Politeja : Pismo Wydziału Studiów Miedzynarodowych i Politycznych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego

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2014

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issue 5(31/1)

7-29

EN

The pace of technological development and the associated development of new instruments of communication resulted in a number of consequences that are essential to the very concept of culture and its transformation. Today’s world of virtualization and mediatization of cultures cannot be perceived as inert or static, but should be seen as a process; not as a rigid quasi‑object, but as a continuous and endless stream of variable events. The processes occurring in it, or changes that vary in speed, intensity, rhythm and pace, are becoming the basis for the emergence of new forms of national culture including an unprecedented structure, roles, functions, or intensity. Starting from mobile identities, often created in isolation from one’s own self and free from the usually strict control of the ego and superego, through mobile relations (relationships), and culminating with virtual forms of existence (participation) in the modern, national cultures.

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Teaching the Nation: Literature and History in Teaching English

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Colăcel O.

Messages, Sages and Ages

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2016

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vol. 3

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issue 2

43-53

EN

Teaching English as a foreign language is rooted in the national interest of English-speaking countries that promote their own culture throughout the world. To some extent, ‘culture’ is a byword for what has come to be known as the modern nation. Mainly the UK and the US are in the spotlight of EFL teaching and learning. At the expense of other, less ‘sought-after’ varieties of English, British and American English make the case for British and American cultures. Essentially, this is all about Britishness and Americanness, as the very name of the English variety testifies to the British or the American standard. Of course, the other choice, i.e. not to make a choice, is a statement on its own. One way or another, the attempt to pick and choose shapes teaching and learning EFL. However, English is associated with teaching cultural diversity more than other prestige languages. Despite the fact that its status has everything to do with the colonial empire of Great Britain, English highlights the conflict between the use made of the mother tongue to stereotype the non-native speaker of English and current Anglo- American multiculturalism. Effectively, language-use is supposed to shed light on the self-identification patterns that run deep in the literary culture of the nation. Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) encompasses the above-mentioned and, if possible, everything else from the popular culture of the English-speaking world. It feels safe to say that the intractable issue of “language teaching as political action” (Cook, 2016: 228) has yet to be resolved in the classrooms of the Romanian public schools too.

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External Factors Infl uencing Interorganizational Collaboration: The Strategic Perspective

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Golonka M.

Management and Business Administration. Central Europe

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2013

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vol. 21

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issue 3(122)

15-29

EN

Purpose: The main purpose of this paper is to present the phenomenon of interorganizational collaboration from the strategic perspective, as a complex phenomenon, infl uenced by environmental factors, such as institutions – both formal and informal. Additional aims of the paper are: to present a model including all signifi cant elements and identifying important research gaps. Methodology: The paper presents the results of literature analyses as well as the fi ndings of the latest research studies in the fi eld of interorganizational collaboration, taking into account the environment of the organization. Conclusions: The external environment of the organization, in particular socio-cultural factors, has a significant impact on the formation, development, evolution and management of interorganizational collaboration. There are still many research gaps in this fi eld, and some of them have been presented in this paper. Research limitations: This paper is a theoretical and conceptual study. It forms an introduction to further empirical research. Originality: The paper presents the phenomenon of interorganizational collaboration in a broader context, taking into account the external environment as an element infl uencing such collaboration. Most of the works in this fi eld focus on organizations managing or coping with the environment. This paper presents a different approach. It indicates the external factors that infl uence interorganizational collaboration from a strategic perspective, and subsequently presents them in the form of a model.

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Impact of National Culture on International Human Resource Management

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Đorđević B.

Economic Themes

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2016

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vol. 54

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issue 2

281-300

EN

In today’s business conditions, the internationalisation of business becomes an almost inevitable precondition for future growth and development of organisations. However, internationalisation of business usually requires organisations to implement some changes in the way they operated in the previous period. One of the areas that require some changes is the area of human resource management, too. Factors which require modifications in this system are related primarily to the legal regulations of other countries, but also to the characteristics of their national culture. The former influence comes from the fact that national culture exerts a powerful influence on the system of values, attitudes and behaviour of people in a particular country and, among the other things, on the preferences for policies and procedures in the field of human resources management. Starting from the above, this paper analyses the impact of certain dimensions of national culture on the preferred content of human resources management in organisations in certain countries. The aim of the paper is to provide the theoretical basis for organisations that internationalised their business, or intend to do so, to create system of human resource management in the entities abroad which, at least, will represent the balance between the system that is applied at headquarter and one that is preferred in entities abroad, in order to be effective.

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Definiowanie korupcji w kontekście różnic kulturowych

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Stachowicz-Stanusch A., Sworowska A.

Organizacja i Zarządzanie : kwartalnik naukowy

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2012

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vol. nr 1

97-115

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W artykule przedstawiono problem związany z definiowaniem zjawiska korupcji w kontekście występujących różnic międzykulturowych, Zaprezentowano wiele istniejących definicji korupcji, jak również wskazano zmienne kulturowe, które w dotychczasowych badaniach powiązano z korupcją.

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In the paper there is presented a problem of defining phenomenon of corruption in a context of existing cross-cultural differences. There were also presented numerous definitions of corruption as well as there were indicated some cultural variables that were connected with corruption in previous research.

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Messianisms

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Konkol S., Romaniszyn-Ziomek L.

Świat i Słowo

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2020

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vol. 35(2)

10-12

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The article is an introduction to the 35th (2/2020) issue of the “World and Word” semi-annual. The authors focus on the theme of the issue, the various incarnations of the idea of messianism viewed both historically and manifested in contempo- rary literature and culture, and introduce the main theses of articles devoted to the topic in the issue.

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Self‑representation and identity: Hungarian drama as a representative of national culture

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Müller P. P.

Politeja : Pismo Wydziału Studiów Miedzynarodowych i Politycznych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego

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2014

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issue 2(28)

63-82

EN

There are paradoxes in the mediation of culture for foreigners. If the work to be offered remains unchanged, it might be indifferent for a foreign public. On the other hand, if the work is adapted to the receiving culture, it will necessarily go through alterations and loose elements of its original identity. The first part of the essay discusses international examples and theoretical aspects of the phenomenon, including the issues of stereotypes, canonization, prejudices etc. The second part is a case study taking into focus the example of Hungarian drama and how it has been received internationally, restricting the investigation to the English‑speaking world. The time frame of one and a half century proves that there have been different reasons why some Hungarian dramatic works had been internationally appreciated, and it is stressed that “delegating” works, views and values is not an effective way to make the world acquainted with cultural values which are important for us.

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XIX sajand – murranguaeg eesti folklooris ja alusterajaja folkloristikas

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Tedre U.

Mäetagused

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2015

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vol. 61

123-124

EN

The article discusses the 19th century as the period of great changes in Estonian folklore, which laid a foundation for folkloristics. The 19th century was characterised by the quick receding and even fading of folk culture; on the other hand, prerequisites emerged for extensive collecting of folklore and establishing foundations for national culture.

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Shakespeare on the page in Romania: before and after 1989

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Volceanov G.

Theatralia: Revue současného myšlení o divadelní kultuře (Theatralia: The revue of contemporary thought on theatre culture)

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2021

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vol. 24

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issue Special_Issue

33-46

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This article aims to identify the evolution of Shakespeare's reception in Romania – not as a powerful icon of world drama, i.e., not from the viewpoint of performance criticism, but as the subject of reference books written in Romania in the Communist and the post-Communist age, respectively. The history of Shakespeare monographs and collective volumes produced in the interval examined here has three distinct phases: (1) the first, spanning from 1945 to 1965, reveals the strong influence of Russian Bolshevik ideology; (2) in the second phase, overlapping Nicolae Ceauşescu's national-Communist dictatorship, Shakespearean criticism, paradoxically, appears to be freed from the impositions of Communist ideology; (3) the postCommunist decades witness the emergence of at least two generations of Shakespeare scholars who write mostly in English, either for a foreign readership (participating in the newly developed cultural exchanges of the 'global village') or for Romanian readers that are speakers of English – hence, a gap appears between the works of local Shakespeare scholars and the national culture.

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Rahvatantsuharrastusega seotud kultuuri- ja suurpeod valjaspool Eestit

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Arraste A., Zajedova I., Ruutel E.

Mäetagused

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2011

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vol. 49

49-64

EN

This article is primarily focused on the Estonians and how they have preserved their culture while living in both their home land and in foreign communities abroad. Estonian folklore is at the heart of Estonian culture. In the 20th century, it was used to maintain a sense of identity. One of the most powerful symbols of self-expression in Estonian history was folk songs and dance festivals. Particularly impressive, maintaining the folk tradition, are the National Song and Dance festivals, held both in Estonia and by Estonians living abroad. The early 20th century decades created the traditional culture that has been built upon over the years to result in what is today’s folk dance tradition. Even after the destruction of World War II, the people of Estonia, both geographically and living abroad remained a coherent whole, ensuring the continuity of the Estonian folk culture. Many dimensions and representations of the folk tradition are evidenced in the major festivals conducted in both Estonia and abroad.

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Procesy formowania narodów i tożsamości narodowej w Ameryce Łacińskiej

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Kaganiec-Kamieńska A.

Sprawy Narodowościowe

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2016

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issue 48

EN

Nation and national identity formation in Latin America. Selected issues The history of nation formation in Latin America cannot be easily interpreted within the frames of existing theoretical perspectives, such as modernism. The difficulty lies in the fact that the existing theories only partly apply to this region. The aim of this article is to present the processes of nation and national identity formation in Spanish America until the 1950s pointing to its main characteristics and selected factors of the most significant impact. Procesy formowania narodów i tożsamości narodowej w Ameryce ŁacińskiejHistoria powstawania narodów w Ameryce Łacińskiej nie daje się jednoznacznie zinterpretować w ramach istniejących schematów i ujęć teoretycznych (np. modernizmu). Trudność polega na tym, że znajdują one jedynie częściowe zastosowanie w odniesieniu do Ameryki Łacińskiej. Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie procesów tworzenia narodów i tożsamości narodowej w Ameryce hiszpańskiej do połowy XX w. z uwzględnieniem wybranych głównych cech tego procesu i czynników, które miały na niego wpływ.

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The Impact of National Culture on the Level of Innovation

Media obywatelskie narzędziem przekazywania i utrwalania kultury narodowej

The Polish and Czech national culture on the borderland. Village Jaworzynka and Herczawa in the Silesian Beskidy then and now

Польско-белорусский литературный романтизм: транскультурный симбиоз или транскультурный синтез?

Cultural traits of the future managers from generation Y – an example of young Europeans

The Impact of the Family-owned Businesses Specificity on the Dominance of the Cultural Features in their Organizational Structures – Theoretical Approach

Kulturowe uwarunkowania państwa dobrobytu w Szwecji – wybrane zagadnienia

Partykularne i uniwersalne w literaturach narodowych

Cultural differences in the motivation of Generation Y knowledge workers

Kultury narodowe w procesie wirtualizacji

Teaching the Nation: Literature and History in Teaching English

External Factors Infl uencing Interorganizational Collaboration: The Strategic Perspective

Impact of National Culture on International Human Resource Management

Definiowanie korupcji w kontekście różnic kulturowych

Messianisms

Self‑representation and identity: Hungarian drama as a representative of national culture

XIX sajand – murranguaeg eesti folklooris ja alusterajaja folkloristikas

Shakespeare on the page in Romania: before and after 1989

Rahvatantsuharrastusega seotud kultuuri- ja suurpeod valjaspool Eestit

Procesy formowania narodów i tożsamości narodowej w Ameryce Łacińskiej