Culture

Cricket Australia (CA) has appointed Simon Longstaff as its inaugural ethics commissioner, four years after he led a scathing review of the board's culture ...

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Before I begin, let's set one thing straight: I don't condone acts of hate, unless justified such as egging an ex's vehicle. Kindness above all in other ...

Cancel culture is for the hive-minded and trendy. It’s not for the faint of heart, but it sure is for the petty. What’s weird about cancel culture is that it really only works one way. For example, the cancel culture that stemmed off of Me Too was an exceptional use of taking back power. Sometimes the reasons are justified and other times it is highly questionable. Your pretentiousness is vile and it fuels cancel culture.

You may disagree with the US author's bracing journalism, but her right to spark disquiet goes to the heart of the freedom of expression issue.

While I reserve the right, as Shriver does, not to use the term cis to describe myself, I disagree with her when it comes to immigration, Brexit and (to a degree) the bulldozing of statues. Merely to ask questions – in some circles, about some subjects – is now thought to be a grievous, violent thing, a situation even the It feels ever more vital to me – a matter of simple good health – that people try sometimes to read writers with whom they disagree (though I don’t always disagree with her); to do so is akin to filling the lungs with oxygen. As you may recall, not only did [someone walk out](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/10/as-lionel-shriver-made-light-of-identity-i-had-no-choice-but-to-walk-out-on-her); afterwards, the festival, which had signed off on the subject of Shriver’s address long before she arrived in Australia, panicked and, with utmost cowardice, [organised a “right of reply” event](https://bwf.org.au/news/articles/the-right-of-reply). Offer her a glass of fizzing, liberal-left Kool-Aid and her response will be to run, at speed, to the nearest tap in search of a generous gallon of cold water. OK, so she does call herself Shriver in the introduction to her latest book (“Shriver supported Brexit,” she writes, at the beginning of a sizeable list of the crimes she has committed in the eyes of the progressive and the pious).

Amazon fired former warehouse worker and now Amazon Labor Union president Christian Smalls for organizing a protest about workplace safety during the height of ...

In addition, supporters of free expression should seek more measures like a recently enacted Connecticut [bill](https://www.cga.ct.gov/asp/cgabillstatus/cgabillstatus.asp?selBillType=Bill&bill_num=SB00163&which_year=2022) that bans employers from forcing workers to attend work meetings sharing the employer’s views on political or religious matters. But for those expressing deep concern about silencing of people’s voices, for those who genuinely hold a core belief in free expression, Labor Day should be their holiday, too. It reflects a desire to have better conditions, but also to have a voice and input and agency on the job. People concerned about free expression could show their true commitment by joining the fight for workers’ rights. And of course, to many intellectuals, sophomores in seminars are more commonly imagined conveyers of challenging ideas than workers in warehouses. [organizing unions](https://www.epi.org/publication/unlawful-employer-opposition-to-union-election-campaigns/), and for [complaining about dangerous working conditions](https://www.nelp.org/publication/power-and-voice-at-work-new-yorkers-view-employer-retaliation-as-a-barrier-to-addressing-workplace-problems-and-express-desire-for-union-representation/) or sexual harassment, or discrimination, or being underpaid. But many who claim to care deeply about freedom of expression have said virtually nothing about the most prevalent form of cancellation in our society: the routine silencing of workers who seek to form a union or enforce their workplace rights. [locked out workers for complaining about their wages](https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2013/ag-schneiderman-secures-agreement-requiring-reinstatement-dominos-workers). Workers who report violations or file lawsuits are also engaging in expressive activity: My employer isn’t all-powerful or above the law, and I deserve better than this. But why is it not expression when workers seek to form a union? Amazon fired former warehouse worker and now Amazon Labor Union president Christian Smalls for organizing a protest about workplace safety during the height of New York’s first COVID-19 wave. They’re also expressions of solidarity and statements about justice and the value of human lives.

Assessing the physicians' and nurses' perceptions of Patient safety culture in 5 public general hospitals in Hanoi, Vietnam. Read more.

[https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php](https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php) and incorporate the [Creative Commons Attribution - Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License](//creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/). [15](#cit0015) The difference in scores between physicians and nurses could be related to their working position, as physicians are expected to have a higher level of independence in their job compared to nurses. The next positive dimension was “feedback and communication about error” for physicians (82.8%) and “supervisor/manager expectations” (85.45) for nurses. There were significantly higher means of nurses’ perception of PSC than physicians’ for “supervisor/manager expectations”; “staffing”, “management support for patient safety”, “teamwork across units”, and “handoffs and transitions” (p<0.05). The study used the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPSC) to assess the perception of PSC. [Table 3](#t0003)). Descriptive statistics were calculated for the prevalence of demographic characteristics, work-related information of the participants, and the mean (±SD) and the percentage of positive responses for each dimension of the HSOPSC instrument. [6](#cit0006), [22](#cit0022) [9](#cit0009), [10](#cit0010) The HSOPSC has been translated, validated [11](#cit0011) and used to assess PSC in several hospitals in Vietnam. [8](#cit0008), [9](#cit0009) The HSOPSC measures 12 dimensions at different levels, namely, work area or unit (7 dimensions), hospital (3 dimensions), and outcomes (2 dimensions). About two-thirds of physicians and nurses reported no event in the past 12 months (62.8 and 71.7%, respectively). Conclusion: The mean scores for “supervisor/manager expectations”; “staffing”, “management support for patient safety”, “teamwork across units”, “handoffs and transitions” among nurses were significantly higher than that among physicians (p< 0.05).

From music to film, technology to food, the world has fallen in love with everything South Korean. Tim Adams visits Seoul in search of the origins of hallyu ...

There has in this time also been a threefold increase in the number of articles.” In her 13 years in that department, she has seen the Korean wave move from a ripple to a deluge. She said: “It’s fantastic that we can now share a lot more elements of Korea with the world.” There was a confidence that nothing needed to be modified to find those viewers, even in the west. She puts her own health, mental and physical, down to her adherence to the subtle checks and balances of Korean cuisine. With a mixture of authoritarian repression and collective will, the “hermit kingdom” had by the late 1990s turned that around to look like a tech and manufacturing success story. [major exhibition](https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/hallyu-the-korean-wave) at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London at the end of this month called Hallyu! “In the north, dramas and films are all about making sacrifices for the leader,” the defector The Korean model, by contrast, was “culture first, economics second”: export the idea of “Korean cool” and watch Samsung and LG, Hyundai and Kia reap the benefits. He returned to Seoul “with the dream of globalising Korean music”. “There is only one reason for that flag: because they feel, perhaps for the first time, that Korea is cool.” The building is home to a company called SM Entertainment, which has strong claims to have invented one of the most potent cultural movements of the 21st century, the phenomenon of Korean pop music – It is designed as an inside-out place, with every room a stage set for press conferences, fan chats and livestreams; one floor is an “artist’s house”, a place where “idols” can chill or do some cooking (while their fans watch and scream outside); another is a “song camp” where songwriters from across the world are flown in on rotation to create a global sound.

This month, we got Saints, we got baseball, and we got Civilized. What about you?

Since it’s a podcast, the gimmick here is that the entity has control of Arthur’s eyes, meaning that the entity has to describe what he sees for Arthur and the audience. A lot of it was [A More Civilized Age](https://amorecivilizedage.net/), a rewatch podcast for the 2008 Star Wars: The Clone Wars series. [stop listening to “Renaissance”](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/beyonce-renaissance-album_n_6307af6fe4b035629c027a4b) before doing it again, August was a podcast heavy month for me. “It’s not wrong to call Inu-Oh an anachronistic, a-historical musical, but that downplays the sheer artistry of the animation, the ambition of the themes, and the expansiveness of the inspiration. The pitch is private investigator Arthur Lester finds himself attached to some...thing that speaks in his head, constantly berating him and getting him to do its bidding. [Xenoblade Chronicles 3](https://gizmodo.com/xenoblade-chronicles-3-characters-monolith-soft-1849410640), I decided to replay some of the Saints Row games ahead of the then-incoming reboot. From Noh theater to Iggy Pop, Inu-Oh takes creativity from whatever font suits the story, and is better for the unique blend of storytelling and storytellers.” But I also dipped back into [Agents of Mayhem](https://kotaku.com/agents-of-mayhem-which-is-good-btw-plays-way-better-o-1846252157), the other Saints Row reboot from back in 2017. I think it would’ve been in Marvel’s best interest to release the first two episodes together, since the second gives a better idea of what this show actually is, but I like it. It’s just very charming in an old school, sincere sort of way, the sports scenes are all great, and the cast is fun from top to bottom. For those split on the departure to realistic crime after Saints 2, the reboot feels like a perfect bridge between that and Volition’s much odder sequels. Self Made doesn’t light the world on fire or go for broke with its wackiness like Saints Row 3 did, but it manages to carve an identity all its own by the end.

FirstEnergy Stadium played host to the third annual Berks Latin Fest on Saturday afternoon. The event aims to highlight the various Hispanic cultures present in ...

“We can be together and do a good job together.” “I’m not Hispanic, but I grew up in Reading and all of my neighbors, all of my friends were Hispanic,” he said. “We want people to experience what it is like to be Hispanic — the music, the food, the dancing.”

Here we look at the importance of cultural intelligence and why it is one of the key skills required for the future of work. We also look at ways to improve ...

[Future Skills: The 20 Skills and Competencies Everyone Needs to Succeed in a Digital World](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Future-Skills-Competencies-Succeed-Digital/dp/1119870402/ref=sr_1_1?crid=GM37JNBGY0A4&keywords=future+skills+bernard+marr&qid=1660925978&sprefix=future+skills+%2Caps%2C55&sr=8-1), Written for anyone who wants to surf the wave of digital transformation – rather than be drowned by it – the book explores why these vital future skills matter, and how to develop them. If you travel to a new country, for example, get out there and wander through the food markets, ride public transport and generally soak up the culture (it’s more effective than purely reading about it). I like to read news stories and watch news broadcasts from countries like India and China because it helps me understand how other cultures view the world. Think also about the biases that may exist in your organization. Underneath our cultural beliefs, religious beliefs, political beliefs, or whatever, people largely want similar things – to live a decent life, do a good job, be happy, have a family (in all the forms that may take), have a safe roof over our head, achieve some level of financial security, cultivate friendships and relationships, and so on. I’m not advocating downplaying the many ways in which people differ – recognizing our differences is important – but we should also recognize that our own culture and experiences aren’t necessarily “better” than others. But what exactly is cultural intelligence, why does it matter for workplace success, and how can you become more culturally intelligent? This ability to work successfully with people who have different backgrounds and life experiences is crucial. For this reason, cultural intelligence is often referred to as “cultural quotient” or CQ, reflecting its importance alongside EQ and IQ. Think about the sorts of biases that may narrow your vision. It makes sense, then, that cultural intelligence is fast becoming a highly desirable attribute in the workplace. I work with brands from all around the world, and I've noticed that organizations are – thankfully, finally – becoming much more diverse.

Michelle Goldberg argues in the New York Times that the internet has caused cultural stagnation. She's misdiagnosing the problem.

What is this op-ed, after all, but a clear example of “low and tedious” level of the cultural conversation that it decries? [Artnet News](https://www.facebook.com/artnet)on Facebook: [Want to stay ahead of the art world? something I was very proud of—very proud of—something that put in time for, spoke to the guys, dug deep. I know these pressures do penetrate to even so exalted a place as the Paper of Record. [HipHopDX](https://hiphopdx.com/) explained the realities of his field. The idea that in the internet age you “don’t need to make your way into any social world” to gain access to culture is not true. Clearly, however, the internet is not innocent—though “the internet” is not, in fact, something you can speak about as one thing. “And here’s the thing,” she added, “I’m exhausted. Well, “serious” culture is generally difficult; it requires a level of focus and investment to reap its rewards. [debating](https://www.npr.org/2011/03/16/134592242/in-praise-of-cultural-omnivores) whether [or not](https://www.theguardian.com/culture-professionals-network/2014/oct/31/-sp-technology-cultural-taste-youtube-vloggers-vice) the internet has been [making taste shallower](https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/articles/the-internets-influence-on-the-production-and-consumption-of-culture-creative-destruction-and-new-opportunities/) for a long time. “Marx posits cultural evolution as a sort of perpetual motion machine driven by people’s desire to ascend the social hierarchy,” Goldberg writes. Besides, in the age of the internet, taste tells you less about a person.