Provides a brief historical report on pedagogical efforts to improve the integration of migrants and their families into German society. Examines the way in which the migrants' social situation has been dealt with in textbooks, particularly in books on politics, history, geography, and occupational education. (PA)

The struggle of Aborigines in Australia in the 1870s highlights the importance of literacy in cross-cultural relations and argues that literacy enables individuals and groups to retain greater control of their lives and respond more effectively when that control is threatened. (Author/SK)

Excerpts from a recent interview with Netherlands author Annie M. G. Schmidt describe her background and her career as a writer of poems and stories for young children. The interviewer notes that few of Schmidt's works have been translated into English and that their lack of exchange is a persistent difficulty in the field of children's…

Argues that the intercultural communication field evolved from research performed at the United States Department of State's Foreign Service Institute between 1946 and 1956. Notes that the work of the Institute's linguists and anthropologists triggered research on nonverbal communication in social interaction. Argues that an understanding of…

Interactions among Shawnees, Quakers, and Indian agent William Wells illustrate the frustrations of tribes that sought acculturation in the early nineteenth century. Although William Kirk and other Quaker missionaries established good relations with Shawnees eager to learn White agricultural practices, their successes were undone by bureaucratic…

Recounts the history of interest in developing Esperanto as a lingua franca for international law and diplomacy, beginning with Zamenhof's development of Esperanto and proceeding through the development of a lexicon for the language and through its application to legal issues. Prospects for the future of Esperanto are discussed. (DJD)

Explores how influential works of one culture are adapted to the needs, circumstances and thought patterns of another. Analyzes as a case study Yan Fu's "Heavenly Evolution," a rhetorical translation of Thomas Huxley's "Evolution and Ethics," whose publication resulted in a rapid spread of a version of Darwinism in Confucian…

Proposes a schemata model for how intercultural communicators structure meaning concerning another culture. Applies the model to a historical case study--the first official trade encounter between members of a trade mission from Great Britain and Emperor Qian Long's court in China. Proposes seven hypotheses for future research. (SR)

The entire history of the human race has been marked by transfers of cultural advances from one civilization to another. Suggests that those using cultural diversity to promote ethnic enclaves may be cutting off those ethnic groups from the knowledge, skills, and resources that Western civilization has gleaned from other world civilizations. (CJS)

Suggests that "contact" between mainstream American culture and northern Plains Indian cultures is a communication process with historical and ongoing parameters. Presents examples of adaptations to new situations and new neighbors in the creation stories and contemporary songs of the Hidatsa, Mandan, and Arikara peoples. Contains 17…

An American Indian professor discusses his concerns, contradictions inherent in his insider/outsider position, and the nature of cross-cultural discourse related to his family's participation at a university showing of an ethnographic documentary about the last Bole Maru leader ("Dreamer") of the Kashaya Pomo (a deceased family member).…

Anwar el-Sadat's speaking style became a key factor in his ability to maintain a balance between the goals essential to Egypt's future and the position taken by Israelis in the settlement of the Mideast conflict. Three speeches (two addressing the Egyptian National Assembly, one the Israeli Knesset) were examined to explore the rhetorical choices…

After the Second World War, the field of cultural anthropology underwent an explosive development. Sociologists, psychologists, educators, and economists all added to the increasing interest in a discipline which began by assuming that culture is the foundation of social structures and that every institution manifests itself as a system of…

Describes relations between the early colonists in Virginia and the Powhatan Indians. Argues that, in any exploration of intercultural relationships, one must recognize the impact and importance of native initiative. Suggests that the ethnohistorical perspective requires sensitivity to the cultural integrity of natives' decisions and the effects…

From 1892 to 1938, the Office of Indian Affairs sent white "field matrons" to teach domestic skills and Victorian virtues to reservation women. However, field matron reports indicate that some developed close relationships with Indian women and families, appreciation for tribal culture, and an activist definition of their duties. (SV)