Sentences with phrase «about cultures other than»

It was surprised by the friendliness of these young girls and they seemed genuinely eager to learn about cultures other than their own.

In our hallways, we can hear different languages being spoken and students sit next to each other in the dining rooms, sharing and learning about cultures other than their own.

Not exact matches

It's also a great way to gain hard intel on how other cultures do business, what's different about overseas markets, and how to sell to those from a different background than your own.

«What's going on is that many CEOs, COOs, GMs, and other executives haven't figured out that sales and marketing alignment is more about culture, philosophy and business orientation than it is about marketing providing sales with leads, marketing messages and sexy product brochures and sales selling enough so everyone, especially those in marketing, gets to keep their jobs.»

All those religion books that were written thousand years ago by people who had no idea about other cultures or how could they make sense one thousand years later are no better than cartoons.

And one of the great things about living in a global village is being able to enjoy the delights cultures other than...

But in terms of priorities, focus, and direction, assumed evangelicalism begins to give gradually increasing energy to concerns other than the gospel and key evangelical distinctives, to gradually elevate secondary issues to a primary level, to be increasingly worried about how it is perceived by others and to allow itself to be increasingly influenced both in content and method by the prevailing culture of the day.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

Throughout history most of what was known about a people came from accounts of travelers or from persons who, though resident within the group, were paid to do some task other than observe its culture.

«In the world in which we now live, with fears about «The Other» - whether that be Sunni, Shia, Jew, Christian, Yazidi, Hindu or Buddhist - stoked and spread through social media, and amplified by those who would seek to suppress understanding, rather than promote it, there is an urgent need for calm reflection and a genuinely sustained, empathetic and open dialogue across boundaries of faith, ethnicity and culture.»

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

Suffice it to say that, as a culture, we're largely ignorant about sports other than the major professional team sports that are highlighted hourly on ESPN.

Learning about other cultures and people (and knowing that there's more to life than what's in your personal home's 20 mile radius) has stuck with me.

In many ways, he says, lying about infidelity is no different than lying in general; our ability to rationalize, conflicts of interest, creativity, one immoral act, being depleted, others benefiting from our dishonesty, watching others behave dishonestly and a culture that gives examples of dishonesty all increase the chances of each and every one of us being dishonest.

I've learned more about how bizarre some of the things Americans do can seem to others living in another culture than the other way around.

We heard about groups like the Western New York Book Arts Center, Young Audiences of Western New York, Theatre of Youth and many others stepping in to fill widening gaps in an educational system less concerned than ever with culture and creativity.

The reasons include human history, western culture, conflicts of interest at the government and other levels, humans who love good news about bad habits whether that news is true or not, and a failed media who cares more about sensationalism and making money than spreading the truth..

Before they get to the antibiotic resistance genes discussion, Dr. Brady shares more about this 2 - year old test and why he has found it superior to other stool testing, sharing that it's more comprehensive than what the gastroenterologist would do, plus the fact that other functional stool tests rely on culture technologies which has the limitation that you can only test bugs that you can grow.

I renjoy people and like to learn about cultures of others with a background different than mine.

«There is a hypocrisy in talking about indigenous cultures but not doing anything, as a non-native ally, to stand with them,» Woodley said in a live video posted to her Facebook page from the protest, which made its way down Main Street in Park City, Utah, in even harsher conditions than those that greeted Chelsea Handler and other Hollywood stars on Saturday.

The audience is given very little information about the pair other than that they are engaged, clearly in love and seem to be seasoned travellers who enjoy exploring other cultures and environments without touristic comforts.

But other than the mockumentary Comic Book: The Movie (2004) and, arguably, Kevin Smith's Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001), there haven't been many films that are actually about superhero movies and their place in modern culture.

Feige talks about Doctor Strange's origin story, how the movie will be different from the comics, rooting crazy concepts in real science, does Steven Strange know about The Avengers, how the film is more respectful to other cultures than the original source material may have been, how this movie was inspired by The Oath, which characters might connect with the Runaways, Mads Mikkelsen «s character Kaecilius, multiple dimensions, the trouble with writing magic action, how Mordo is different in the movie, Rachel McAdams «character Christine Palmer, is the eye of agamotto an infinity stone, the genre of the film, how this film will defy expectations, Steven Strange's role in the larger MCU, will we see cameos from the other Marvel characters, and much more.

Interestingly, even the average Christian schooler is not much less likely than other churchgoers to think that a top priority in education is teaching children about diverse races, religions, and cultures (67 percent versus 73 percent).

Outwardly, Success is similar to other «no excuses» (Moskowitz dislikes that term) charter schools: students are called «scholars» and wear uniforms; a longer school day and year allow for about one - third more instruction time than district schools provide; rooms are named after the teacher's alma mater; a culture of discipline and high expectations reigns.

Then of course there is the environment effect, which we do know about — the lack of support, a school culture which may require early career teachers to teach out of field (and we know that more early career teachers teach out of field than any other group), student behaviour, the workload, administration workload, all of those kinds of things are clearly issues.

Well - meaning friends often have misconceptions about people from cultures other than their own, whether by birthplace, heritage, sexual orientation, or socio - economic class.

For what it's worth, I just wish the media would let Hugh or Konrath or HM Ward have longer than 20 seconds (or any time at all), just to make it clear to the public that not ALL authors are united in the crazy rants about upholding culture and other nonsense.

Making Asheville your home wouldn't be a mistake because the estimated median home value in 2012 was lower than expected at about $ 194,000 and the median rent was about $ 800, making the city quite affordable compared to many other cities with far less interesting history and culture.

The culture of exploring and writing about it is not yet that wide spread other than people of original European descent.

London, England About Blog Based on knowledge gathered from over twenty years of traveling to more than 40 countries, Savored Journeys aims to help others see the world, learn new cultures, taste delicious food and explore beautiful places.

Some items are harder to discern than others, but the overall effect is of black people as satellites floating through the cosmos, transmitting information about the past, present, and future of black culture simultaneously.

In other words, any of the population densities for pre-industrial cultures known to exist in the Old World's past and present and New World's present imply minimum pre-Columbian New World populations numbering not less than about 4 million and probably numbering some multiple of 42 million square kilometers times 1 to many people per square kilometer.

Making Asheville your home wouldn't be a mistake because the estimated median home value in 2012 was lower than expected at about $ 194,000 and the median rent was about $ 800, making the city quite affordable compared to many other cities with far less interesting history and culture.

In Tufekci's view, the way that services like Twitter allow us to comment and respond and converse with others in real - time is a lot more like talking than it is publishing, and therefore it represents a move away from our Western print - based culture (Andy Carvin of NPR has talked about what he does in curating news via Twitter as «preserving oral history.»

London, England About Blog Based on knowledge gathered from over twenty years of traveling to more than 40 countries, Savored Journeys aims to help others see the world, learn new cultures, taste delicious food and explore beautiful places.

One key informant conducted a study in which he found that people from cultures other than the «traditional» Canadian culture were only about half as likely to enroll in programs, even if they were available in their own community.

There's one culture where the mourner will spend a period of weeks only at home visiting with friends and family, doing nothing other than thinking of and talking about his lost loved one.

Too often, therapists feel paralyzed by the fear that they don't know enough about other cultures to try to counsel clients different than themselves.

This is not only relevant to the resources that come from our lands and territories but also relates to our cultures and our knowledge's, with some of us perceived to be «more Aboriginal» than others based on the amount of cultural information we have about ourselves and our families.

This is what happens when the very vast majority of Realtors does not pay attention to what is going on within its sales culture, does not care about anything other than the next commission cheque, does not read REM regularly, does not concern itself with pursuing anything more than the bare minimum of ongoing education requirements, does not care enough about what the majority of the public thinks about them, does not heed the warnings of professionals within the culture, does not heed the warnings of commenters on REM about this issue (over the past five years or so) and too often crosses its fingers when conducting double - enders, hoping that neither opposing parties to the transactions find out what was or was not said or revealed that should have been said or revealed.