Sentences with phrase «western liberal culture»

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He seems to assume that Christian culture and politics in other parts of the world can be understood through categories derived from the past 200 years of Western liberal democracy and misses the fact that these communities have histories of their own.

And in almost exactly the same way, when the Pope condemned both materialism in thepolitical culture of the West and secularism within the Catholic Church in Western Europe and North America, he was condemned by liberals within the Church as someone who lacked the sophistication to understand the complexities of life in the West.

In brief, my response to this fundamental affirmation of liberal Protestantism would he that the idea of the ultimate value and reality of the individual is historically limited to the classical period of modern Western culture, and that it can have neither a living meaning nor a truly human form in a post-modern or post-liberal period of history.

Most immigrants from socialist countries are fare more exposed to more cultures and even ethnicities than most hardcore Western liberals (I lived on 3 continents and visited 4, you?)

Besides, women from here are rather liberal that makes them closer to the Western culture and modern life style.

This is a concept of person that contrasts starkly with the discrete, self - determining individual, an artifact of eighteenth - and nineteenth - century Western European approaches to modernization that has become closely associated with liberal democracy.Examining the meaning and value of Confucianism in the twenty - first century, the contributors — leading scholars from universities around the world — wrestle with several key questions: What are Confucian values within the context of the disparate cultures of China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam?

Warhol's Double Elvis does not portray Elvis the hip - shaking musician but rather Elvis the actor playing a role in the 1960 movie Flaming Star, a liberal - themed Western in which Presley plays Pacer Burton, a half - Kiowa youth torn between two cultures.

For some Muslims, Western secular culture and the conspicuous consumption that often goes along with it are seen as undermining their faith; others acknowledge the democratic systems of the West but struggle to balance that appreciation against a religion that they feel leaves little room for liberal values.

The social changes of the last generation fostered by globalization and the technological transformations in communication systems have significantly changed the young minds of the country and augmented the exposure to western culture, which promotes liberal attitude in gender mix and premarital relationship.