Compare and contrast political culture in America and in Japan.
What will be an ideal response?
?Americans emphasize individualism; competition; and equality in political, economic, and social relations. Americans are more concerned with rules and with treating each other fairly (but impersonally) with regard to rights.?Japanese attach greater value to maintaining relations with colleagues, having decisions made by groups, preserving social harmony, and displaying respect for hierarchy. Japanese stress the importance of being sensitive to personal needs of others, avoiding conflict, and reaching decisions via discussion as opposed to merely applying the rules.
You might also like to view...
In comparison to older states, the new states have ________
A. greater capacity to tax and extract revenue from their citizens B. greater difficulty in providing adequate government services to their citizens C. greater ability to effectively police their own borders D. greater power to monopolize the means of violence within their territory E. greater efficacy in running their states as full-fledged democracies
Which of the following dimensions of the State Fragility Index assesses the danger of external armed conflict based on the intensity of international warfare in a state's recent past?
A. Security Legitimacy Score B. Security Effectiveness Score C. Political Effectiveness Score D. Political Legitimacy Score E. Social Legitimacy Score
Which of the houses in Congress resulted in the appeasement of the large states?
a. Supreme Court c. Senate b. House of Representatives d. Blair House
The mandate that research on human subjects must obtain approval by an institutional review and obtain informed consent from subjects is the ____________
A) Family Educational Rights to Privacy Act B) National Research Act C) Institutional Guide to DHEW [Department of Health, Education, and Welfare] Policy on Protection of Human Subjects D) U.S. Surgeon General Statement for Public Health Service Research