Counselors continue to express concern about problems inherent in cross-cultural counseling. Three concepts--Umwelt (the physical environment), Mitwelt (the interpersonal world), and Eigenwelt (one's inner world)--offer significant philosophical assistance because humans are fundamentally more alike than they are different. (Author)

A good principle in teaching folk dance is to adhere as closely as possible to the authentic source of the dance. (JD)

A teacher gives impressions of life in China. (JD)

Recounts an experience with a ten-year-old American Indian boy and expresses hope for increased understanding of the cultural differences--and similarities--between Indian children and other children. (DD)

Allen Ivey's visit to an Inuit village in the Canadian Arctic is the basis for this assessment of the difficulties that arise when a traditional society is confronted by changes that inevitably accompany technological advancement and Western contact. Focus is on counseling and guidance techniques applied in novel settings. (Author)

This article is based on information about the status of guidance and counseling in German education acquired by the author during his summer Fulbright Fellowship to the Federal Republic of Germany. The author identifies points of comparison regarding the roles of guidance and counseling in the American and German education systems. (Author)

Under a "Youth Grant in the Hunamities" from the National Endowment for the Humanities, ten culturally different gifted high school students studied the lives of American heroes whose actions provoked controversies in the period from 1870-1950. (SBH)

Demonstrates the relationship between the metaphor and the language of the social sciences, with particular reference to anthropology. (AM)

Describes the problems involved in translating federal law in Canada from English to French, and proposes a short-term solution for faster and better translation and a future solution involving the drafting of laws simultaneously in the two languages. (AM)

Discusses the importance of the following factors in translation: (1) embedded communication events; (2) the circumstances of the production of a text; (3) the response of receptors to a text; (4) the translator's role in producing a translation; and (5) the response of receptors to a translation. (AM)

Explores some cultural implications of education and analyzes and presents positive points of an instructional technique (individualizing instruction) which may serve to counteract the problem. (Author/RK)

Demonstrates how differences in the French and British cultures have directly impacted the ways in which financial liabilities can be recognized, measured, and reported, and discusses the necessity of cross-cultural training for international businesspeople even for a field as objective and numerically oriented as accounting. (Auth/JL)

Suggests that using young adult literature from other countries or set in other countries can open the eyes of young readers to commonalities of experiences with different cultures. (RS)