Theoretical approach of the external constraints that the North Macedonia meets in its path to the EU accession from the perspective of national identity construction for recognition, as the name dispute with Greece and Bulgaria about the country’s name, language and historical-territorial claims is of great interest. Qualitative case analysis and “symbolic threat” theory from social psychology as a core analytical framework, in this study, will be systematically analyzed and explored the “symbolic threat” mechanism and identity politics in these two cases. The research results show that the national names, language and territory are not only the basic content of national identity, but also the space for contesting power and history in international politics, and have a significant impact on the process of North Macedonia's European integration. This study explores how symbolic threat affects the EU accession process in national identity conflicts and reveals the impact of national identity on international political decision-making and national destiny.

This paper explores Hong Kong identity during colonialism by applying Homi Bhabha’s postcolonial theories to Richard Mason’s novel “The World of Suzie Wong.” The main character, Suzie, is reduced to a fixed stereotype who satisfies the Occident's craving for familiar yet subservient difference by using Baha's fixity, stereotype, and mimicry as the investigative lens. Suzie becomes a metonymic fragment that represents Hong Kong identity as reducible and consumable, with the highly sexualized and infantilized caricature serving as a fetish for the Occidental ego. Then, in order to avoid losing conditional acceptance and protection, she is forced to conform to Western ideals of domesticity through imitation. However, experienced reality brings conflicts and instability that are incompatible with Orientalist ideals, therefore the fanciful Orientalist vision is short-lived. Suzie falls into splitting and ambivalence when she can't live up to the oxymoronic binaries that the Occident expects. Such structural instability attests to how the imposed identity of Hong Kong under colonial rule is neither unified nor sustainable, revealing colonial identity formation as a fragile construct that collapses under lived experience rather than an authentic or viable mode of selfhood.

This paper mainly discusses compatibilism about free will and determinism in language usage. In order to demonstrate the compatibility of free will with determinism, it first focuses on Hume's perspective and classical compatibilism, examining the distinctions and similarities between these two ideas. Second, the topic of language use is covered in greater detail. Finally, it is concluded that people's choice of language in a given setting is influenced by both free will and determinism, and compatibility in language use is demonstrated. It then connects to ethical concerns in AI's work, emphasizing that since AI lacks free will while producing work by copying writing samples, copyright belongs to humans rather than AI. AI may potentially reinforce human prejudices, such as gender stereotypes reinforced by training data. Finally, it clarifies ethical guideline when human use AI. Because Al's job is entirely determined by human order and training data, it lacks the free will to make decisions. As a result, they are neither accountable for or entitled to their copied work. Furthermore, due to social prejudice and the data it consumes, AI unintentionally reinforces stereotypes, particularly in the area of gender. To standardize AI use, we must follow moral norms: guard against bias provided by descriptions of AI, clarify the copyright problems, and improve equality cognitions.

With the revival of the global tourism boom and the rapid development of the integrated media wave, various social platforms have propelled the advocacy of visual imagery and dissemination to new hights, with “travel photography services” quietly evolving into a standard experience for contemporary young people during their journeys. These services not only satisfy young travelers’ desire to record and share travel moments but also reshape the way tourism consumption and cultural expression interact in the digital age. China’s photography service industry has gently become an efficient “assembly-line” operational model, which is exerting a subtle yet profound influence on Japan and other regions, thereby driving a global cross-cultural transformation. This paper adopts a comparative research methodology to conduct the study and draw corresponding conclusions. These findings are expected to offer profound implications and valuable insights for the subsequent development of China's photography service industry, as well as for the cross-cultural dissemination and global expansion of China's "assembly-line portrait photography" mod-el.

The apparent incongruity between a transcendent Creator and seemingly trivial divine commands presents a challenge for religion, raising the risk of either misrepresenting God’s nature or rendering the commands meaningless. This paper starts by examining how conventional frameworks, such as rationalist theism and projectionist psychology, either domesticate divine transcendence or reduce orders to human fabrication, failing to avoid these errors. Then, it argues that an apophatic linguistic analysis, grounded on contemporary theories of metaphor and semantic underdetermination, offers a reconciling model based on Thomas Aquinas's triplex via and more effectively illuminates the inherent limitations and function of religious language. This method reinterprets some commands as “floating signifiers” whose meaning is operationalized in practical contexts. Lastly, it examines the implications of this apophatic-reconciliatory framework, showing how it reframes the human struggle against finitude as the lived site of encounter with the divine, grounds obedience in Kierkegaardian “fear and trembling,” and converts the paradox of scale into a pedagogy of relational trust.

Contemporary entertainment platform is highly developed, online entertainment platforms have become an important infrastructure that influences public values, and the structure of social consciousness. With the algorithmic recommendation mechanism and data driven business logic is fully integrated into the entertainment production system, based on that, entertainment is no longer merely cultural consumption but has gradually evolved into an ideological mechanism that shapes standards of success, lifestyles, and individual identities. This article takes platforms such as IQIYI and Douyin as examples, combining platform studies, data colonialism theory and cultural ideology critique. Through text analysis and theoretical synthesis, it explores how entertainment content and algorithms jointly construct mainstream ideology and influences on users’ cognitive and emotional structures. The research finds that platforms, through predictable content structures and algorithmic incentive mechanisms, facilitate the normalization of idealized lifestyles, the normalization of idealized lifestyles, reshaping of users’ cognitive-emotional frameworks, and the formation of algorithmic subjectivity aimed at “visibility”. At the social level, platforms exacerbate cultural homogenization, promote the entertainment of public discourse and commodify “happiness” as a consumable emotion. The article ultimately points out that digital entertainment platforms have become ideological devices that implicitly discipline individuals and serve platform capital, and there is an urgent need for a more in-depth critical examination of their cultural and social impacts.

Internet memes, as a by-product phenomenon of the Internet era, can well reflect the psychology of the people and the social and cultural ecology. Numerous earlier studies have examined Internet slang from the standpoints of rhetoric, social impact, semantic formation and structure, etc. Identity tagging derived from Internet slang and its social bullying effect has been a heated phenomenon from the perspective of sociolinguistics. This paper focuses on terms formed from Internet meme words as identity labels based on the research findings mentioned above. using techniques like qualitative interview analysis and word meaning description in conjunction with ideas like metaphor, critical discourse analysis, and semantic degradation. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze the derivative path from Internet memes to identity tags and the phenomenon of social bullying, which will be useful for building recognition, distinguish groups, and gain popularity. The identity labels derived from this, while building a certain group, have also triggered some social bullying effects.

With the increasing popularity and the rise of digital technology, social media platforms have become an essential part of daily lives among young group. The impact of platforms on mental health has gradually become a focus of public concern. Existing studies have shown that there is a relationship between social media use and psychological problems such as anxiety. However, the definition of concept for evaluating is always only taking the time or the frequency of social media use as the measurement indicators. Based on this information, this essay takes youth group as the research object. It focuses on how social media platforms make young group dependent and anxious from the aspect of use motivation. It adopts qualitative research methods, collects the opinions of 10 young individuals through interview methods and analyzes the dialogues systematically. The research results show that emotion regulation, social identity, self-presentation and habitual use are the main 4 motivations for young group to use social media. By reinforcing different degrees of dependence, thus it influences the anxiety level. This essay holds the opinion that the anxiety of the youth group does not origin from the social media use itself, but from the dependent use and the jealous psychology.

The paper is a multidimensional analysis of an animated film, Ne Zha 2. In contrast to its predecessor, which focused on the heroic figure of Ne Zha, the movie takes the form of an ensemble characterization and creates the great worldview through the images of broussonetia papyrifera. It breaks the stereotypes by portraying the good and the evil and the right and the wrong. The movie combines the traditional elements of Chinese culture (ink wash painting, traditional coloration, Taoist themes and object-inspired designs) with cyberpunk visual effects and symphonic music in terms of creative expression, thereby achieving the synthesis of the Chinese and Western cultures and the introduction of the ancient aesthetics and new technologies. Although it has a low percentage of its total box office, the film earned 67.43 million dollars in foreign markets, making history in several nations, boosting the global image of Chinese animation and piercing the Western prejudices that people have towards the Chinese films. Moreover, this paper categorizes the patterns of the cultural exchange between Chinese and Western films during the last five years, discusses their variations in the visuality, symbolic images and characterization, and presents the specific optimization recommendations to the cross-cultural communication processes, which may be useful in the spread of the Chinese cinema around the world.

In recent years, the frequency and number of Chinese animated films "going global" have been increasing year by year. The Chinese traditional culture contained in each film has also sparked a wave of discussions in the international market. This article takes the huge success of Ne Zha 2 as the starting point to explore the dissemination impact of Chinese cultural elements in animated films on the international stage. The research reveals that through industrial upgrading and content innovation, Chinese animated films have promoted the further development of the industry. However, they also face challenges such as a single industrial structure and intense international competition pressure and the limitation of the subject matter and so on. This article, based on case studies and theoretical analysis, proposes suggestions to promote the high-quality development of the Chinese animated film industry, in order to enhance cultural soft power and facilitate the dissemination and enhancement of the influence of Chinese traditional culture worldwide.