Sentences with phrase «western cultures have»

Studies conducted in the Western cultures have indicated that development of romantic relationship among youth is a multi-factorial developmental phenomenon that is influenced by factors such as age, gender, attachment styles, changes within the relationship, and on the social and cultural contexts in which they occur (Collins, Welsh, & Furman, 2009; Furman & Collins, 2008).

Research also reveals that Chinese and Western cultures have different attribution patterns and loci of control (Hau & Salili, 1991; Salili & Hau, 1994; Walberg, 1992).

Eastern and Western cultures have a lot of similarities but also quite a few differences.

For quite a while now, Western cultures have emphasized a Cartesian dualism between mind or self and social persona.

For hundreds of years, Western culture has been at war with noise.

For some time, Western culture has been in a fever of free love, contraception, and the pill.

Major philosophical, theological, and psychological sources of western culture have portrayed human beings as perverse and self - centered creatures.

In fact, Western culture had that idea, too, many hundreds of years ago, but we've forgotten it completely, so it may need to be restated to explain headcoverings as modest.

Western culture has been deeply affected by the 19th - century Romantic belief that we are born naturally good and are ruined by society - inflicted moralizing.

Western culture has so thoroughly domesticated Christ that it takes some imagination to see the cosmic Christ of Colossians.

But because beauty is regarded in Western liturgy as an accident, a luxury, a decoration, it should not be surprising that Western culture has made beauty accidental also.

In Western culture it has usually been the case that even those who defined God in terms of the greatest power thought of this power as being consonant with or identical to the greatest good.

For better or for worse, Western culture has played a part in making me who I am.

We unintentionally start with the assumption that our Western culture has it all figured out instead of listening to people who might have a different perspective.

Our Western culture has moved so rapidly in the past half century, our ways of thinking have been so affected by the scientific, technological, and secular advances, that our situation seems divorced almost completely from society as presupposed in biblical and traditional theological thinking.

And Western culture has been so influenced by the biblical tradition that «humanitarianism» in any form may owe a greater debt to Christianity than it recognizes.

Wisely, western culture has adopted the physical aspects that have proved so beneficial to Hindus.

Western culture has two main death customs: burial and cremation.

Western culture has been plunged into seemingly endless debates about what is art, or what is philosophy, or what is theology, and over and over again those who stirred such debates arrived at the answer that there are no answers.

Look at how many things OUR western culture has killed.

I have tried thus far to demonstrate that the secular part of Western culture has itself raised the community question with unprecedented urgency and that the religious are best situated to address the question with authority based upon both tradition and experience.

At least the hardcore atheists understood that if we are truly sincere in our atheism, the whole web of meanings and values that have clustered around the idea of God in Western culture has to go down the drain along with its organizing center.

The usage reflects the degree, commonly slighted by secularists, to which Western culture has been shaped by biblical religion.

According to the coalition's statement, their manifesto comes as «Western culture has become increasingly post-Christian... it has embarked upon a massive revision of what it means to be a human being».

Unfortunately most pizzas that kids are exposed to at parties or any standard gathering in western culture has possibly come out of a cardboard box housed in the frozen food section of the supermarket.

It's only been since about the 1970s that Western culture has constructed the ideal that a happy couple sleep in the same bed.

But the re-emergence of breast - feeding in western culture has reversed the logic of this trend.

Western culture has worked to help heal the emotional wounds of Native Americans, though there is still so much work to do.

Values of Western culture have, throughout history, been derived from political thought, widespread employment of rational argument favouring freethought, assimilation of human rights, the need for equality, and democracy.

Japanese diets have featured seaweed as a prominent ingredient for centuries, whereas western culture has only recently begun to popularize the sea vegetable.

Imagine if it didn't, the epidemic of «protein deficiency» «calcium deficiency» and «zinc deficiency» in Japanese culture, Native American culture and certain parts of western culture would be significant.

For millennia, the shamans of the Andes have understood what Western culture has ignored: True healing is the awakening to a vision of our healed nature and the experience of infinity.

However the increase in exposure to media and influence of western culture has changed the thinking of Chinese women.

While our Western culture has established the notion of the «ideal» woman as looking like a Barbie doll, most women don't look that way.

Throughout history, Western culture has had a love - hate relationship with cats, especially black cats.

Critics» Choice Christian Viveros - Faune Western culture has been, from Greek statuary to Justin Bieber's Grammy, nothing if not perpetually youth - obsessed.

In his masterful travelling exhibition, «One True Thing: Meditations on Black Aesthetics» Kerry James Marshall has elucidated what Western culture has efficiently negated or appropriated: an African American sensibility capable of addressing universal themes.

Traditionally Western culture has taken a more chaste approach to the depiction of erotic engagement.

It also shows him as a deeply read student of history who tended to believe Western culture hadn't yet emerged from the Middle Ages and that, more than people cared to acknowledge, violence, oppression and ignorance continued to be societal defaults.

Western culture has been criticized for our emphasis on sexuality.

For example, HREOC's consultations with women in the Northern Territory highlighted the ways in which contact with western culture had distorted traditional principles, such as the experience of double patriarchy by young women being asked to submit to more restrictive forms of «traditional marriage» than is recognised by elders in the community.

Not exact matches

However, in today's Western culture, the word has been appropriated to take on a slightly different meaning.

Western Australian community groups have the chance to share in $ 100,000 in grants for innovative projects which promote reconciliation and respect for indigenous heritage and culture.

We would be disappointed if we could not win the hearts and minds of the American people... Casual apparel is largely a Western / American invention, so we want to add to that legacy as a company born from Japanese culture and craftsmanship.

Second Cup has found being Canadian gives it some cachet, however: it can satisfy the allure of western culture, without the negative political associations that go hand in hand with being a U.S. multinational.

International philanthropy and the western world's desire to eradicate poverty and disease can't ever truly rid themselves of their imperialist roots; as many critics have pointed out, the white savior industrial complex has never been more pervasive in global culture.

The country has overtaken India as the call - center capital of the world because of its highly educated workforce that can speak fluent English, and their strong grasp of Western culture.

But he would not agree that Western democracies like America are inevitably headed towards the culture of death.

In my 40 years in lay ministries, all the disgrace brought to Christianity by pastors in my area [and probably in western culture] have done by male pastors.

The question is whether churches abroad, such as in the United States, Western Europe, and Australasia — comprised of Orthodox immigrants and converts long established in their new homelands, miles away and cultures apart from the «mother Churches, where they originated — have reached the maturity or acquired the single - mindedness and commitment to minister to their people and manage their affairs in unity.