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Culture, Cognition, and Emotion in China's Religious Ethnic Minorities

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This final chapter concludes the study from a macroscopic perspective and engages with Western psychology on issues of social justice. It calls attention to the current social challenges in China, including the problems of AIDS and drug addiction in the Liangshan area, the internal and external barriers to help-seeking, and the disappearance of villages in China. It offers remedies to these problems by proposing the need for a culture-sensitive HIV prevention program with an emphasis on community resilience. It calls attention to the need to locate the factors contributing to the plight of Yi migrant workers in the forces of the global economy, for instance, rapid urbanization as China races to become a superpower in the global market. It ends with the sobering idea that the global economy may be the most dangerous superstition (mi xin) in human history.

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    Retrieved from http://www.unaids.org.cn/cn/index/page.asp?id=178&class=2&

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    The idea of “targeted poverty alleviation” (jing zhun fu pin) was first proposed by President Xi Jinping during his inspection tour in Hunan Province in November 2013. It means China will continue to fight the battle against poverty, and carry out extensive poverty alleviation and development programs in contiguous poor areas.

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    Retrieved from http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/6EE3o7Ng4rMtqK83QW4ekw

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    Emphasis added, retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/mar/19/yuval-harari-sapiens-readers-questions-lucy-prebble-arianna-huffington-future-of-humanity?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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  1. School of Sociology, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, China

    Rachel Sing-Kiat Ting

  2. Rochester, New York, USA

    Louise Sundararajan

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Ting, R.SK., Sundararajan, L. (2018). Challenges and Future Directions. In: Culture, Cognition, and Emotion in China's Religious Ethnic Minorities. Palgrave Studies in Indigenous Psychology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66059-2_7

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