Sentences with phrase «about culture clash»

Yet Greenway avoids easy conclusions about culture clash, instead making a nuanced case for how unexpected combinations of people and customs can coexist.

Not exact matches

Many employees had reservations about the deal, anticipating a major culture clash between the other company's top - down approach and Medtronic's empowered middle tier of engineers and marketers.

The bottom line is that Apple's ambitions in the content industries seem to be hampered in part by a lack of a consistent vision about what the company wants to do and why, combined with a culture clash between existing movie studios and TV networks about who is the most important player in the relationship, and who gets to control the terms.

Are you talking about the clashes between immigrant cultures (like the 5 Point gang wars) or the revivalist activities of the «second awakening?»

In about 2000/2001 I was in Austin to dialogue about emerging ministry, and facilitate a «culture clash» simulation game based on values and beliefs of people from the kinds of «postmodern cultures» that I'd been interacting with since the early 1990s.

This is what the current «culture clash» in America is all about.

He went on to add: «The new «let it all hang out» culture is clashing with the «beat about the bush» culture.

Responsible research guidelines for the global scientist by Elisabeth Pain, 18 February 2016 A new book offers scientists guidance about international collaborations, where different research cultures, societal attitudes, and ethical regulations may clash.

Russian women, like so many others are not so enthralled by their own culture that you need to worry about the monumental culture clash you see in the distance.

You know: Enlightened humans have culture clashes with alien humanoids amid much yammering about prime directives and warp drives.

The Big Sick plays less like a great movie than a platform for its appealing tone, but it's so well acted and dense with insights into the culture clash at its center that nothing about the central dynamic is strained.

Writer / director David Caesar ladles on the local flavour with a hugely enjoyable film about changing times, clashing cultures and the pleasures of a well - made pizza.

«Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence» is about a clash between two cultures (British and Japanese) and two styles of military service (patriotic and pragmatic).

If you watch only one trauma - centric sitcom about a deadpan stand - up coping with culture clashes and the impermanence of life this year, make it this one.

The Big Sick: A culture - clash comedy about a Pakistani - born Muslim stand - up comic and an American grad student, and the mayhem that ensues when she becomes seriously ill and both sets of parents frantically intervene.

It's a story about how cultures may initially clash, but a bit of insight, open - mindedness and just the right amount of spice — embodied in the Indian family's son — can bring them together.

It's a story that really just happens to take place in Texas (although filmed in Utah) and not about life and clash of cultures in Texas.

Dean Caudwell sees Marcus not fitting in and dealing with a culture clash of sorts and goes about trying to correct that, though they immediately bang heads due to differing viewpoints on just about everything.

This is one of many conversations done by people who mutually natively speak a non-English language to each other in English throughout the movie, and also one of the many reasons that this culture - clash comedy forgets its own fish - out - of - water roots by Americanizing just about every aspect of their environs.

There's no point into going into much detail about the plot as it gives new meaning to the word «perfunctory» (not to mention the one big «twist» should be plainly obvious)-- all one needs to know is the new locale is Paris, thus opening a new can of culture clash comedy.

It has meaningful observations about love, family, and the never - ending clash of cultures.

But once brought to life, audiences responded to 2012's «The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,» which boasted an impressive cast of veteran actors, including Oscar winners Maggie Smith and Judi Dench, as well as Bill Nighy and Tom Wilkinson at the top of their game, Dev Patel («Slumdog Millionaire») as Sonny, the young owner of the hotel, affectionate direction by John Madden («Shakespeare in Love») and a script about lost love, dying love and clashing cultures by Ol Parker.

The Confusion of Languages is about collision — across boundaries and between cultures for sure, but it also showcases the clashes that can develop between people bound together by marriage, vocation or circumstance... It is a sharp and brilliant meditation on the steep costs of coloring outside the lines, especially in an environment where conforming to the norm demands the difficult task of walking between two very straight and narrow perimeters.

But instead, it's about a bitter clash of cultures, a fleeting taste of glory, and how I was humbled by a thirteen - year - old.»

Set in Liberia and the United States from 1975 through 1991, The Darling is a political - historical thriller — reminiscent of Greene and Conrad — that explodes the genre, raising serious philosophical questions about terrorism, political violence, and the clash of races and cultures.

A political - historical thriller set in Liberia and the USA between 1975 to 1991 that raises serious philosophical questions about terrorism, political violence, and the clash of races and cultures.

Derrick will be at ebookcraft and Tech Forum this March to talk about adopting CMSes for ebook development, and to continue the discussion on the books - meet - tech culture clash.

When I read about the sale a decade ago, I immediately had a sinking feeling that a clash of corporate cultures and the lack of Nintendo's guiding hand would leave Microsoft holding the bag, as it were.

Despite the clash of cultures that continues to unfold in cities around the Golden Gate, there are many reasons to be optimistic about art's victorious spirit there.

The main characteristic of her work is that her subject matter includes her personal feelings about an unrooted childhood when she had to leave The Soviet Union and move to America, the clashing cultures and nature's magnificence.

And the clash of cultures is about to change the way we think about chemicals in our lives.

In practice, international child custody cases often yield complex and messy conflicts between the laws and courts of different countries, demonstrating serious clashes of societal views about culture, religion, gender roles, parental rights, and children's rights, as well as of the role of the legal system in intervening in disputes about children.

Culture clash may also come about as a result of non-Aboriginal people not understanding the cultural norms in an Aboriginal community...

«In this talk, Andreas Antonopoulos speaks about the ongoing clash between hardware and software development (instead of «East vs. West») within the emerging culture of trustware.»