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The human factor

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The concept of the "modern self" is constantly being reinvented to effectively adapt to the changes in a person's environment. A turn-of-the-century identity crisis may occur as significant changes in personal boundaries and societal organizations take place.

Author: Anderson, Water Truett
Publisher: LENS Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication Name: Utne Reader
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 8750-0256
Year: 1998
Twenty-first century, Self, Self (Psychology)

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Shaking free of colonialism

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Most nations in Africa are facing dire socio-political and economic hardships as a result of centuries of Western colonization. This situation can only be reversed by instituting basic changes in cultural patterns.

Author: Mazrui, Ali Al'Amin
Publisher: LENS Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication Name: Utne Reader
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 8750-0256
Year: 1992
Social policy, Africa

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Keeping up with the Shidhayes

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Aurangabad, a city northeast of Bombay with a population of one million, has endured significant disruption of its traditional way of life as a cost of modernizing and globalization.

Author: Traub, James
Publisher: The New York Times Company
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 2001
India, Manners and customs, Globalization

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