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Relationship between perceptual and structural variation of human faces: cross-cultural comparison
Pavlovič, Ondřej ; Kleisner, Karel (advisor) ; Třebický, Vít (referee) ; Marcinkowska, Urszula (referee)
ONDŘEJ PAVLOVIČ RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERCEPTUAL AND STRUCTURAL VARIATION OF HUMAN FACES: CROSS- CULTURAL COMPARISON ABSTRAKT The perception of facial features is a fundamental aspect of human culture, influencing daily interactions and relationships. This thesis explores the cross-cultural dynamics of facial perception. First, the theoretical introduction establishes the centrality of facial perception across cultures. Empirical studies included in this thesis elucidate the convergence and divergence of attractiveness standards among cultures. Additionally, this thesis explores the interplay between facial shape dimorphism, color dimorphism, and typicality across a wide variety of populations. The context of Vietnamese immigrants in the Czech Republic offers a unique lens to study the impact of the sociocultural environment on facial perception and preferences. By analyzing attractiveness assessments provided by Czech Europeans, Czech Vietnamese, and Asian Vietnamese raters for Czech and Vietnamese faces, the studies included in this thesis further elucidate the convergence and divergence of attractiveness standards across these groups. The results of these studies underscore the role of facial averageness as a universally significant trait in attractiveness judgments. Studies added to the appendix explore...
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Vietnamese and their integration in the Czech Republic
HŮLKOVÁ, Veronika
This thesis deals with the integration of Vietnamese in the Czech Republic. Within the integration, two areas are examined in this thesis - linguistic and social. The aim of this thesis is to find out to what extent the Vietnamese living in the Czech Republic are integrated in selected dimensions into the majority of the society. This thesis is written as a part of the project No. 101/2022/S Selected aspects of integration of foreigners living in the Czech Republic and their relationship to social work. The duration of this project is set at 3 years. The fulfilment of the aim is achieved using a quantitative research strategy. A survey method with questionnaire technique is used. The research population consists of 98 respondents. The findings cannot be generalized to the entire population of the Vietnamese in the Czech Republic. The data are analysed using SASD software version 1.4.10 and SPSS software version 28.0. The significance level is set at = 0.05, 0.01 and 0.001. It is confirmed that respondents with a longer length of stay (11 years or more) evaluate the level of Czech language skills (reading and writing) negatively. On the contrary, respondents with a length of stay of 4-10 years rate their reading and writing skills as average. In the terms of social integration, the higher the respondents rate their social status in the Czech Republic and in their country of origin, the better is their knowledge of the Czech language. The rating of their knowledge of the Czech language increases when comparing their social status with the Czechs and other foreigners living in their vicinity. Better knowledge of the Czech language also increases in relation to recognition from the Czechs and feeling at home in the Czech Republic. Respondents with better knowledge of the Czech language feel more integrated into the Czech society. The statistically significant association is not confirmed for the other variables.
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Rescuer's communication skills with foreigner
HLÁVKOVÁ, Petra
The subject matter of this undergraduate thesis is the ability of a paramedic to communicate with a foreigner. The theoretical part describes communication itself and it´s forms. It further deals with foreigners to be found in the Czech Republic and the very end includes information about the Emergency Medical Servis and paramedics. The practical part sets two subjectives. The first one is to determine the ability of a paramedic to communicate with a foreigner. The other to detect problems that might occur within such communication. The thesis uses the method of a semi-structured interview. The interviews were led with the Medical Rescue Servis of the South Bohemian Region´s paramedics and foreigners with no knowledge of the Czech language. The results were put in 5 and 9 categories, which helped to meet the objective. The results show that the interviewed paramedics are able to communicate with the foreigners by different means, sometimes with the help of various aids, their colleagues, witnesses of family members present at the place. The research also showed that the most common problem in communication with a foreigner is the language barrier. The main benefit of the thesis the awareness of problems that a paramedic can face in communication with foreigner and possible use various aids to make such communication easier.
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Leisure activities of the Vietnamese community: Generational change of concepts and ways of spending leisure time
VRATISLAVSKÁ, Aneta
The thesis deals mainly with the study of ways of spending leisure time of Vietnamese, as well as the conditions of Vietnamese arrival in the Czech Republic, historical events associated with it, the language situation, culture and lifestyle. The main aim of the work was to compare the results of a research survey of a part of the Vietnamese community living in the city of Milevsko with theoretical knowledge. Vietnamese respondents in the adult age category and the children and youth category were subjected to the research survey. The first chapter is devoted to the history and conditions of Vietnamese arrival in the Czech Republic. The second chapter deals with the Vietnamese language and writing, the acquisition of the Czech language by the Vietnamese and the language situation of the Vietnamese community in the Czech Republic. The third chapter focuses on family, intergenerational and interpersonal relationships, education, Vietnamese cuisine, religion, Vietnamese holidays and celebrations, behaviour and character traits, and the clan community. The fourth chapter deals with the lifestyle and leisure time of Vietnamese living in our country and Vietnamese living in Vietnam. The fifth chapter is devoted to the Vietnamese community in the Czech Republic itself. The last sixth chapter contains its own research and following discussion. It was found that Vietnamese respondents living in the city of Milevsko basically do not spend their free time differently than other Czechs. Family and health play a vital role in the lives of all Vietnamese. They also attach high value to education and work, which is subsequently reflected in the way they spend their leisure time.
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Vietnam close by and far away. Children of Vietnamese descent in Czech Republic form the perspective of transnationalism.
Svobodová, Andrea ; Janská, Eva (advisor) ; Baar, Vladimír (referee) ; Šatava, Leoš (referee)
This dissertation is based on a narrative analysis of eighteen life biographies of children of Vietnamese descent in Czech Republic. It shows that these young people lives are embedded in a "transnational social space", which spans between two geographical regions of Vietnam and Czech Republic, and which leaves them exposed to a set of social expectations, cultural values and patterns of human interaction, that are shaped by more than one political, economic and social system. It also describes how these people, through multiple connected social networks and social relationships, transform cultural practices, interpretations, experiences and identities, which deconstructs the idea of integrity between place, identity and culture. Although the primary aim of the work is to analyse how children of Vietnamese operate in transnationalized social and cultural contexts, transnational practices, such as homeland visits, kinship ties and sending remittances are also being explored. In doing so the children of Vietnamese migrants are neither perceived as "existing in vacuum" nor are their identities described as "deterritorialized". The work pays also attention to the question how their lives and identities are shaped on the backdrop of discursive fields and power relationships in particular localities. Key...
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Vietnamese children at Czech schools
Sequensová, Kateřina ; Kremličková, Marta (advisor) ; Burešová, Karolína (referee)
The bachelor work is focused on the topic of Vietnam children at the Czech education system. The first part of this work tries to mention cultural-historical background of the Vietnamese coming to the Czech Republic. It is concerning on the differences of the interethnical communication too. Second part of the work deals with the most important problems associated with the education of the Vietnam pupils and students and possibilities of their solution. This part also shows positives of the school as a factor of integration.
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Vietnamese Retail as Part of the Non-metropolitan Area in Czechia
Horáček, Jiří ; Čermák, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Freidingerová, Tereza (referee)
Vietnamese food stores are located all over the Czechia and are often the only option for food purchases in non-metropolitan areas. This dissertation is focused on the study of Vietnamese retail in the context of the problems of serviceability of small towns and rural settlements in the Czechia. One of the main goals of this dissertation is to verify whether Vietnamese businesses are one of the ways to save the ever-falling rural service functions. Considering that the issue of rural service provision is an extensive topic, the work only yields partial results that will need to be verified in further studies. The introductory sections analyze the processes of Vietnamese migration into our country and subsequently characterize the development of retail. The next part focuses on the operation of Vietnamese retail where structured interviews conducted within the research serve as a main source of information. The quantitative part of the research focuses on the issue of the distribution of shops, and, in the empirical part, using questionnaire the functioning of the Zásmuky retail trade with a focus on Vietnamese food stores is assessed. The analysis shows that Vietnamese food stores are one of the solutions to maintaining business in rural communities. Due to the efficiency of their operation, which...
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Vietnamese Community in Germany 1990 - 1995
Do Thu, Trang ; Nigrin, Tomáš (advisor) ; Filipová, Lucie (referee)
The Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) in the 70`s adopted and successfully integrated the boat people, who fled from war in Vietnam. On the contrary, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) had adopted in the 80`s tens of thousands of factory workers from several socialist countries, including Vietnam. Hence this, the fall of the Berlin Wall deepened the differences in the integration of these two groups. While the former "boat people" lived a decent life, their "East German" compatriots waited years for the allocation of permits to stay and faced the attacks of right-wing extremists. However, the era after the German reunification had also brought many opportunities to start a business freely and independently, even to start a family. This thesis clearly describes the different developments within the Vietnamese community in Germany between the years of 1990-1995, which stemmed precisely from the different conditions of emigration from Vietnam. The first part focuses mainly on the characterization of the Vietnamese workers in the GDR and the boat people. This allows comparing the different integration of both groups in other chapters. In contrast, the other ones deal with the specific issues that affected the Vietnamese community in years 1990-1995. Especially, the political struggle for the status of former...
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