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Scholars and the Hong Kong government are concerned about the social, economic, and cultural integration of new mainland Chinese immigrants (NMCIs) into local society. Research on NMCIs' integration difficulties in Hong Kong has largely focused on one-way permit-holder migrants from China — who are less skilled and face discrimination and problems with integration based on differences in human capital — while overlooking other NMCI groups, such as mainland skilled professionals (MSPs) who may have different social integration experiences and receive different treatment from locals. Drawing on interviews with 48 MSPs and local Hong Kongers, this article investigates three questions: (1) What do interactions between MSPs and locals look like in the workplace and other social settings? (2) Are specific stereotypes of the other group changed or reproduced through boundary-making/unmaking processes, and if so, how? (3) What kind of integration are MSPs pursuing, do they face barriers to their integration? If so, how do they react to the barriers? The findings contribute to international migration literature by highlighting that, with the decreasing need for migrants to integrate into the host society, the high socio-economic status of skilled migrants does not weaken their boundaries with locals but instead reinforces them. Socio-economic status, along with language, political/ethnic identity, and cultural differences, thus divides highly skilled migrants from mainland Chinese workers and local Hong Kongers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the rapid development of music digitization and online streaming services, automatic analysis and classification of music content has become an urgent need. This research focuses on music sentiment analysis, which is the identification and classification of emotions expressed by music through algorithms. The study defines and classifies possible emotions in music. Then, advanced artificial intelligence techniques, including traditional machine learning and deep learning methods, were employed to perform sentiment analysis on music fragments. In the process of creating and validating the model, the combination of convolutional neural network and long term memory network shows excellent performance in various performance indicators. However, for some complex or culturally ambiguous music fragments, the model may also suffer from misclassification problems. This provides the direction for further optimization of future research aimed at achieving more accurate music emotion analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Schooling for Northern Ireland children has over decades been in denominationally separate schools, until an integrated system was instigated by concerned parents in the late 1970s amidst growing political violence. By educating together Catholic and Protestant pupils and those of other religions or none, the hope was to contribute to peace in a conflict-prone society. The first integrated schools were planned and government funded. Then, in the early 1990s, some segregated schools sought to transform to integrated status through a detailed, formal process. In individual, face-to-face interviews, 11- and 16-year old pupils (n = 20), representing both school sectors and both the main cultural backgrounds, described their experiences of learning side by side for the first time with peers of a different tradition. Both younger and older pupils could discern the differences between their previous (segregated) and current (integrated) settings, saw the benefits of accepting and acceptance, and perceived sameness as well as difference. They could appreciate the global perspective, understood the purpose of outward, visible changes such as emblems and school displays, and welcomed curriculum change, particularly in Physical Education. Pupils understood the value of having difficult conversations without acrimony at the same time as learning about and respecting others' viewpoints. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Online Behavioral Advertising (OBA), a recently emerging format of internet advertising, targets users based on their past online behaviors. This study examines the impact of OBA on consumer attitudes and impulse buying behavior, while exploring the moderating influence of privacy concerns, a crucial factor given that OBA relies on personal data collection. To test our conceptual model, we conducted surveys in Korea and France, to further analyze the potential cultural distinctions. Our findings, derived from a series of linear regression models, reveal that OBA significantly affects consumers' impulse buying, with this effect mediated by consumers' attitudes toward OBA. Moreover, consumers' privacy concerns weaken the positive effect of OBA on attitudes. Notably, we observe significant cultural differences, with these effects primarily manifesting in the Korean sample. Our study provides valuable insights for creating effective online advertising strategies that contribute to consumers' purchase funnel, ultimately leading to purchases, while addressing privacy concerns and cultural variations.

What drives consumers to adopt mobile technologies has been a significant research topic in hospitality and tourism literature. The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) has been widely adopted to examine this topic. Meta-analytic structural equation modeling (MASEM) was conducted to assess the efficacy of the TAM in estimating consumers' intention to adopt these technologies in hospitality and tourism contexts. The moderating effects of cultural differences (Eastern vs. Western) and research contexts (hospitality vs. tourism) were also examined. Based on 33 individual samples (N = 13,635), the results indicated that: "perceived usefulness" (PU) has the strongest impact, "perceived ease of use" (PEOU) has stronger effects on PU and attitude in the context of Eastern culture compared to Western culture, and the relationship between "attitude" and "intention" was stronger in the context of hospitality than in the context of tourism. Implications for hospitality and tourism researchers and practitioners are discussed based on these findings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to explore the privacy paradox and cultural difference associated with integrating soft biometric information through 3D body scanning technologies into personalized shopping services. By incorporating the theory of Concerns for Information Privacy and the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology into the Privacy Calculus Theory, the purpose of this study is to understand fashion consumers' privacy paradox and investigate cultural differences (U.S. vs. China). A partial least squares structural equation modeling and multigroup analysis was conducted from two data sets collected online (N U.S.= 525, N China = 484). Results show that consumer concerns toward data management (i.e., collection, error, secondary use) and service excellence expectations (i.e., perceived expectance, facilitation condition, hedonic motivation) explain the privacy calculus (i.e., risk and benefit) in consumer decisions. The results indicate that error management is critical to understanding Chinese consumers' privacy calculus, while secondary use is important for U.S. consumers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this research is to explore the impact of service quality, customer trust, and cultural disparities on customer satisfaction within the banking sector. Additionally, the study examined the mediating effect of customer satisfaction and the moderating effect of financial technology. Data for this investigation were gathered from customers utilizing services offered by public banks in Pakistan and China. The analysis was conducted using the Smart-PLS software, with 281 samples from Pakistan and 312 samples from China being included in the study. Results show that service quality, customer trust, and cultural differences positively affect customer satisfaction in the context of Pakistan and China. Results also reveal that service quality and customer trust have a positive effect on customer retention behavior in China, but customer trust has an insignificant impact on customer retention behavior in Pakistan. Analysis specifies that customer satisfaction positively mediated the relationship between service quality, customer trust, cultural differences, and customer retention behavior in Pakistan and China. More importantly, financial technology moderated the relationship between customer satisfaction and customer retention behavior, but it was insignificant in the context of China and Pakistan. The study seeks to provide significant insights for strategic decision-making and improve customer relationship management techniques in the dynamic field of financial services by including mediating and moderating elements.

What has happened to the ambitions of feminist diplomacy expressed a decade ago? Although feminist foreign policy is on the rise in the United States, and, globally, has scored important victories within multilateral institutions such as the United Nations, feminists seem to have scaled back earlier ambitions to save women everywhere from patriarchy. In the words of Barbie, they have retreated to their 'own pink world.' We argue that the seeds of current challenges go back more than a decade to feminist diplomacy's own knowledge practices. The tactics that feminist diplomats at that time deployed to manage the feminist postmodern predicament – what we term the culture bog – can on one level be understood within the repertoire of technical moves that define diplomatic practice. Yet, in a deeper way, these tactics violated the ethos and commitments of both feminism and diplomacy. We diagnose in this work a failure to embrace the challenges and contradictions of bridging worlds of incompatible realities that gave both fields their vitality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to analyze the reliability and validity of the Child Sexual Abuse Myth Scale (CSAMS) in Turkish society. This methodological and cross-sectional study was conducted with 334 individuals between the ages 19 to 65. Data were collected through the Personal Information Form and the Child Sexual Abuse Myth Scale. Content Validity Ratio values of the scale items in the study ranged between 0.500 and 1.00, and the Content Validity Index was found to be 0.68. Exploratory Factor Analysis was appropriate based on Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Measure of Sampling Adequacy (KMO = 0.809) and Barlett's Test of Sphericity (X2 = 1269, p < 0.001). Factor Analysis resulted in 4 sub-scales (Accusation, Causality, Normalization, and Sexist Approach). Item factor loads of the scale were found to range between 0.501 and 0.839, and the total explained variance was 59.4 %. Pearson correlation coefficients of all the items ranged between 0.32 and 0.60, and Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 0.81. Accusation, Normalization, and Sexist Approach sub-scale scores were found to increase with age. Sub-scale scores were found to demonstrate significant differences by gender, marital status, education level, working or not, income level, family type, number of siblings, and number of children (p < 0.05). The findings of this study show that the CSAMS is valid and reliable for Turkish culture in its 14-item and 4 sub-scale form. • Child sexual abuse myths are facts that will help you understand the reality of child sexual abuse. • In Turkey, there is need for a measurement tool whose reliability and validity have been established in different cultures. • Child Sexual Abuse Myth Scale is a valid and reliable scale in Turkish society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What has happened to the ambitions of feminist diplomacy expressed a decade ago? Although feminist foreign policy is on the rise in the United States, and, globally, has scored important victories within multilateral institutions such as the United Nations, feminists seem to have scaled back earlier ambitions to save women everywhere from patriarchy. In the words of Barbie, they have retreated to their 'own pink world.' We argue that the seeds of current challenges go back more than a decade to feminist diplomacy's own knowledge practices. The tactics that feminist diplomats at that time deployed to manage the feminist postmodern predicament – what we term the culture bog – can on one level be understood within the repertoire of technical moves that define diplomatic practice. Yet, in a deeper way, these tactics violated the ethos and commitments of both feminism and diplomacy. We diagnose in this work a failure to embrace the challenges and contradictions of bridging worlds of incompatible realities that gave both fields their vitality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While there is a large body of studies on reading motivation conducted in Western countries, little research compared college students' reading motivation between Western and Eastern Asian countries. It is unclear whether previous findings can be expanded from Western contexts to Eastern Asian contexts. This quantitative study explored the country and gender differences in reading motivation among 228 American (114 males and 114 females) and 228 Chinese (114 males and 114 females) college students. Our results showed that Chinese college students showed higher scores in two dimensions of reading motivation (reading as part of self and reading for recognition) than American students. We also found that there were similar scores in two other dimensions (reading efficacy and reading to do well in other realms), suggesting cross-cultural differences and similarities in reading motivation. Additionally, we found that male students exhibited higher scores than female students for reading efficacy while other dimensions remained invariant. This pioneer study highlights the important effects of country and gender on reading motivation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study uses meta-analytic structural equation modeling to investigate the applicability of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) in predicting tourists' adoption of extended reality technologies. It further examines whether the type of extended reality [Virtual Reality vs. Augmented Reality] and cultural differences (Eastern vs. Western) moderate the relationships amongst the TAM constructs. Using 32 individual samples (N = 10,630), the study revealed the differences in the effect sizes and variabilities of the links among the constructs given the type of extended reality and cultural differences. The implications of the findings are provided for tourism researchers and managers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the current Romanian educational system, teaching English includes the cultural perspective, which involves developing cultural communication skills and functional autonomy of students. Based on these assumptions, my article investigates the concept of intercultural competence in teaching English in order to better understand what strategies and techniques can facilitate understanding and integration of cultural concepts in real life communication contexts. Consequently, I shall demonstrate that teaching English involves not only morpho-syntactic or lexical structures: my premise is that besides enriching communication skills, the cultural competence facilitates understanding and respect for different cultures, it promotes objectivity and cultural insight, leading to effective identification of cultural differences and similarities in order to be further exploited and valued by students in real life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study investigates how cultural differences, gender role priming, partner's sexual preferences, and women's experienced sexual pleasure influence women's likelihood of consenting to their least favorite sexual practices, including oral sex, anal sex, and having sex when not in the mood. We compared predictors of sexual consent of cisgender heterosexual Chinese and American women as well as how traditional versus egalitarian gender role priming influenced sexual consent. 412 participants completed an online survey. The results revealed that women were more likely to consent to than enjoy the sexual practices examined. Women's experienced sexual pleasure and their partner's sexual preferences were positively correlated with women's sexual consent. More specifically, women's sexual consent was more influenced by partner's sexual preferences, and less influenced by experienced sexual pleasure when exposed to traditional marriage priming compared to egalitarian marriage priming. And Chinese women's sexual consent was more influenced by partner's sexual preferences and less influenced by experienced sexual pleasure compared to American women. Traditional gender role priming made women more likely to have sex when not in the mood compared to egalitarian gender role priming, and made Chinese women more likely and American women less likely to consent to anal sex, respectively, compared to egalitarian gender role priming. Overall, cultural and situational differences in gender role expectations significantly influenced the determinants of women's consent to their least favorite sexual practices, despite cross-cultural consistencies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper reports on results of a survey on inclusive education developed for a university. The University Inclusive Education Survey was designed to examine academics’ views on inclusion of a diverse range of students including sexuality and gender, disability, cultural and ethnic diversity and Indigenous Australians. Inclusiveness has focused on access for students with disabilities and has broadened to access for all with little research on how this is being achieved. The survey contained five scales – comfort, confidence, importance of including a range of specific diversities, intention to implement strategies and overall inclusiveness. The results indicate connections between self-efficacy and importance of diversity with a weaker connection to implementation strategies. Those who completed the survey indicated very strong interest and efforts in inclusive teaching. A majority outlined inclusive practices in qualitative responses though there was evidence of uncertainty about implementing inclusive practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this study is to defamiliarize Gayatri Spivak's pessimistic approach regarding the condition of the subaltern as a female subject. Spivak's subaltern, misrepresented by the male-dominated West and the male-dominated East and therefore not belonging to any particular social group, has no history and cannot speak for herself. The position of the subaltern woman is examined based on Buchi Emecheta's Kehinde (1994), which deals with the circular migration of the eponymous character - Kehinde - from Nigeria to England, back to Nigeria and then back to England. The novel explores the binary between the self and the other of the subaltern woman in relation to the native and host cultures. To this end, the study uses several postcolonial concepts by Homi K. Bhabha, discussed at length in his book The Location of Culture (1994), such as mimicry, liminality, appropriation, and ambivalence, which, in its turn, conceptualises the position of the Nigerian subaltern woman in relation to cultural difference. The study foregrounds the validity of the popular woman theory known as African feminism, which specifically addresses the situation of African women. This approach also makes it possible to redefine the traditional concept of femininity in Nigerian culture. The study shows how cultural difference affects the growing consciousness of the subaltern woman, which ultimately helps her to become an independent person. The study concludes that, unlike Spivak's subaltern, the Nigerian subaltern creates her own space from which she can speak for herself in the male-dominated society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research explored tourists' perceptions of the relationships among smart tourism technologies (STTs), cocreation experience, and overall destination image and further examined the interaction between cultural differences and the duration of information search on STTs. A self-administered questionnaire was developed and distributed to target samples of international tourists who visited Hong Kong. A total of 1,469 respondents participated in the study. Results showed that the STTs of smart sightseeing, smart traffic, and smart e-commerce positively enhanced tourists' cocreation experience and consequently improved their overall destination image. The interaction of cultural differences (i.e., Asian tourists had more positive perceptions than Western tourists) and duration of information search (i.e., 2???4 hr of information search) was significant in the e-tour map and mobile payment attributes. Promoting a destination as a friendly STT destination via smart sightseeing, smart traffic, and smart e-commerce can establish a memorable experience during on-site traveling and, consequently, enhance the overall destination image. Cultural differences between Asian and Western tourists and the duration of information search distinguish the experience with STTs. These factors must be considered when initiating destination marketing plans. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The causal relationship between emotional outbursts and emotion dysregulation is proposed to be heterogeneous, but cultural influences have not been considered despite established cultural differences in emotional processes (e.g., increased motivation to suppress emotions in interdependent cultures). Responses to the Brazilian Portuguese version of the Emotional Outburst Questionnaire were collected from 327 caregivers of young people (6–25 years) with autism spectrum disorder, Down's syndrome, or intellectual disability. Responses were compared to a previous sample of 268 responses from the English version of the questionnaire. The latent factor structure of the contextual items was measurement invariant across both versions. The Brazilian responses were classified into three distinct clusters (Sensory Sensitivity; Perceived Safety; Perceived Unsafety) which considerably overlapped with the English clusters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drawing from in-depth interviews with Chinese migrant women who married European men in Switzerland, this article analyses cultural differences between Chinese migrant women and their western husbands in four aspects: language, lifestyle, family unity mentality and political vision. The cultural differences have reinforced an unequal power relationship between Western husbands and their Chinese wives. In the context of the dominant culture, which is shared by the local society and their European husbands, Chinese wives have been characterised as the 'other'. However, by using strategies such as mobilising their original cultural values and doing ethnicity, they succeed in dealing with cultural differences and negotiating the power relations vis-à-vis their husbands. By employing a gender intersectional perspective, this article maintains that culture or ethnicity participates in the production of a hierarchy between spouses within intermarriage and asserts that doing culture and ethnicity can also be presented as technologies of power that promote foreign wives' gender position. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Founded in 2018 by Hong Kong heiress Queenie Rosita Law of the Law family apparel brand Bossini fame, Q Art Group is a private art initiative between Hungary and China that, in the words of its Hungarian artistic director, promotes Central and Eastern European art 'within the dynamics of the Belt and Road Initiative' (BRI). Hungary was the first European country to sign onto BRI cooperation, and it leads the 14 + 1 initiative promoting investment between China and Central and Eastern Europe. The country's national-conservative Prime Minister Viktor Orbán uses Hungary's position as a BRI gateway to bolster an 'illiberal' agenda within the European Union. Meanwhile, Hong Kong's Q Art Group – comprising the Budapest private museum, Q Contemporary, the Hong Kong gallery Double Q and Q Studio, an art studio that works with luxury properties – is rebranding both Central and Eastern Europe and China in a mix of cultural diplomacy and art market strategy between Hong Kong and Budapest. The article considers the co-constituting images of the Greater China and Central and Eastern Europe that Q Art Group presents in Hungary and Hong Kong by positioning itself as a discourse maker in Central and Eastern European art. What is the 'post-communist landscape' – as Q Art Group calls Central and Eastern Europe – mobilized in this endeavour and how does it serve China's cultural diplomacy and nation-branding? Mapping the social, economic, juridical and political conditions that Q Art Group negotiates, this article asserts there is no 'good' way of curating art for cultural diplomacy, but that the exchange of what is called 'culture' and 'identity' under cultural diplomacy is but an operation of mutual branding among privileged forms of state capital that use art to circulate the violent philosophical logic behind cultural difference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study explores the path of new knowledge creation in international joint ventures (IJVs) by investigating the mediating role of formal and informal communication. The organizational learning platform, encompassing commitment, cultural difference, and cultural alignment, is analyzed as a key determinant of effective communication between IJV partners, ultimately leading to new knowledge creation. Based on survey data collected from 136 Korean parent firms of IJVs, we find that organizational learning platforms significantly influence formal and informal communication between IJV partners. Specifically, commitment to partners and cultural difference primarily promote formal communication, while cultural alignment positively affects both formal and informal communication. Moreover, our results highlight that formal communication has a stronger impact on IJV knowledge creation compared to informal communication. These findings hold valuable implications for managers of IJVs and parent firms, shedding light on the factors that contribute to new knowledge creation in IJVs. The study emphasizes the importance of nurturing an effective organizational learning platform and leveraging formal and informal communication strategies to facilitate knowledge creation in IJVs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Employees' cultural values and characteristics have a significant impact on work values and outcomes. Due to the strong economic ties between China and Ghana, several Chinese companies establish their branches in Ghana and employ Ghanaians to work with them. However, the role of cultural values in Chinese-Ghanaian work relationships have not been investigated. Through a qualitative lens, we investigated the cultural influence on the working relationship between Ghanaians and Chinese at a Chinese company in Ghana. The study was conducted at Asogli Thermal Plant using a case study. This is one of the biggest Chinese companies in Ghana and has a large proportion of both Chinese and Ghanaian workers. A total of 18 participants were interviewed, and data were analysed thematically. We found that Ghanaians and Chinese staff at the Thermal Plant are sometimes unable to have a collective discourse on their needs due to language barriers. Also, cultural interpretation of politeness denied them many avenues to form a strong workers’ cooperation to seek their mutual needs. These differences affect their collaboration and bonding as co-workers. To foster collaborations and good cooperation between Chinese and Ghanaian co-workers, management of such companies are advised to implement an intentional mechanism that reduces the impact of cultural differences on work relations. Such organisations need to train all staff intermittently on diversity, inclusion, and cultural values of Ghana and China in order to help staff cultivate versatility, awareness, and acceptance of alternative values.

Social identity theory posits that individuals perceive the in-group as a homogenous entity comprised of depersonalized individuals, and this theory has provided a foundation to understand intergroup processes for many years. Cross-cultural research has suggested social identity theory may not apply to East Asians, who conceptualize their in-groups differently than those in from Western cultures. Specifically, Yuki and colleagues contend that East Asians perceive in-groups as networks wherein each individual is connected through personal ties, rather than homogenous entity comprised of depersonalized individuals. Furthermore, prior research has shown that East Asians are more likely to trust out-group members with potential personal connections, similarly to how they trust actual in-group members. This reflects their group boundary perception based on personal linkages rather than categorical membership. Conversely, individuals from Western cultures tend to trust in-group members more than out-group members, regardless of potential personal connections. Our preregistered study (N = 332 Japanese and 345 American university students) aimed to conceptually replicate key findings that support Yuki's account and expand upon the theory in the context of intergroup cooperation. Overall, we failed to find evidence for the network-based and category-based cooperation and trust among Japanese and Americans, respectively. Consequently, our results highlight the need for further experimental investigation and validation of Yuki and colleagues' theoretical framework.

The asymmetric matching pennies contradiction posits that contrary to the prediction of mixed-strategy Nash equilibrium, experimental subjects' choices are, in practice, based heavily on the magnitudes of their own payoffs. Own-payoff effects are robustly confirmed in the literature. Closely following the experimental setups in the literature which support the contradiction, we conduct a series of asymmetric matching pennies games in China, hypothesizing play which is closer to equilibrium frequencies than previously found. Contrary to previous experiments which were conducted in the United States, we find that there are essentially no own-payoff effects among Row players who face large payoff asymmetry. In a Quantal Response Equilibrium framework allowing for altruism or spite, the behavior of our subjects corresponded to a positive spite parameter, whereas the results of previous studies corresponded to altruism. Our results may be consistent with recent psychology literature that finds people from collectivist cultures are substantially more adept at taking the perspective of others compared with people from individualist cultures, a feature of the reasoning needed to obtain mixed-strategy equilibrium. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study aims to develop the Chinese Invalidating Family Scale (CIFS) and examine its psychometric properties. The CIFS comprises two parts that measure the degree (Part 1) and types (Part 2) of family invalidation. Study 1 explored the structure and reliability of the CIFS using data from Sample 1 (N = 1323; Mage = 26.3) and Sample 2 (N = 152; Mage = 25.1). Part 1 of the CIFS is separated into father (20 items) and mother (27 items) subscales. Exploratory factor analysis identified four factors for the father subscale and five factors for the mother subscale. The shared factors are neglect, denial, emotional dysregulation, and overemphasis on achievements, while psychological control is the unique dimension for Mother subscale. Part 2 includes five items assessing the types of family environment. Results indicated acceptable to good reliability of the CIFS, with Cronbach's α higher than 0.60, split‐half reliability higher than 0.70, ICCs higher than 0.70, and high criterion‐related validity. Study 2 examined the structure and the validity of Part 1 with Sample 3 (N = 2282; Mage = 19.90) through confirmatory factor analysis. Part 1 showed good construct validity (RMSEAs = 0.05, GFI, NFI, CFI, and AGFI >0.90) and acceptable convergent validity (AVE >0.36, CR >0.76). Overall, the CIFS is a promisingly stable and valid tool to evaluate the invalidating family environment in Chinese culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Online public responses during crises provide a window into how people emotionally react to them. Capitalizing on the international nature of the COVID‐19 pandemic, we performed cross‐cultural examination of group and individual differences in public emotional responses. We collected 1,106,395 Weibo posts in Wuhan from July 2019 to June 2020 and 6,564,014 tweets in London from October 2019 to July 2020, and found that the public mood in both cities followed a similar pattern during the onset of the COVID‐19 pandemic: a stage of plunging mood followed by a period of recovery. We further examined the relationship between individuals' personality and mood changes. Our results showed that in Wuhan, emotionally stable people experienced more dramatic mood changes, while in London, people high in agreeableness and conscientiousness were more negatively affected during the lockdown period. Based on our findings, we suggest effective crisis management strategies for both policymakers and individuals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Adam Smith had a longstanding interest in colonialism and more generally relations between Europe and the rest of the world. It was through engagement with these issues that he worked through some of the central elements of his thought. This paper examines both Smith's contexts and our own and argues that Smith's work provides an important resource for reflecting today on relations with distant and diverse others today. It identifies three aspects of Smith's thought that are particularly relevant: the political and economic costs of colonial ventures to the colonisers themselves, the question of whether and how imperialism had encouraged 'progress', and the question of how social and cultural differences should be understood and judged. The paper teases out Smith's sometimes uncertain arguments in these areas and suggests that they can contribute to our own reflections on the troubled practices of liberal imperialism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This is a translation of an excerpt from Zafer Şenocak's Das Fremde, das in jedem wohnt: Wie Unterschiede unsere Gesellschaft zusammenhalten.

This piece serves as an introduction to a TRANSIT 13.1 subsection--a collection of poetry that investigates forms of archives and archival knowledge. In addition to introducing the subsection's contributions, it also details projects and collaborations carried out inter- and intradepartmentally at University of California, Berkeley.