SA 356W Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ethnography, Thick Description
24 Mar 2016
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Transnational activities are social activities that keep people"s everyday lives simultaneously in two or more nations. In the past, people wrote a letter that took 10 days or more to reach different countries. Nowadays, technological advancements and global economic competition compress the time-space concepts in people"s minds as if there were no national boundaries. This is because the internet speeds up communication between those residing in different nations, or provides hourly updated political news and information (kelly, 2003). Examples of students living in canada as transnational activities. In her flight back to canada, she was not sad, but rather looking forward to return to her small apartment, where she viewed herself as an independent woman. Her positive experience during her holiday in india provided her with a positive psyche of departure (i. e. , attitude towards the new start), to enter the host country again. Bengali music in her apartment after starting school in canada, since she had not spoken.
