Sentences with phrase «also cultural thing»

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In the process, it's also given a spit shine to what's always been popular about the city, such as its music, food and other cultural assets, leading to a reawakening of all things New Orleans.

He also knew that very often they were in that situation because the good things in life were taken away from them by those who are powerful in society who amassed for themselves economic, political and cultural supremacy at the expense of others.

Not only does the pluralism in question characterize past and present construals of the Christian thing and their respective social and cultural locations; it also characterizes particular theological schools, the practices that constitute them, and their respective social and cultural locations.

Also, perhaps it is a cultural thing, but she has absolutely no people skills, or expertise on how to convince rather than demean, command and demand.

It also helped to foster the culture which surrounds First Things, perhaps the most articulate organ for the expression of conservative religious voices in the current cultural climate.

As we teach the Bible I think it's important that we both understand what things meant in their original cultural context, and also understand our own culture and how we can best communicate exactly the same message in our own context.

The cultural effects are on tangible things like access to cultural products (such as food but also all kinds of entertainment), intangible things like attitudes (due to our exposure to a wider range of ideas, outlooks and experiences) and, of course, on literal cultural diversity.

Indeed, beyond their enduring cultural nuance and personal charm, these systems might also offer an unexpected look ahead — a sign of things to come as we open our streets, buildings and cities to self - driving cars and home - delivery drones.

Some of the best parts of traveling — seeing new terrain by plane, train, bus, or car; changing your diet in order to try new foods from different cultural cuisines, and living in an entirely new place (possibly unsure of where you'll find your next pit stop) are unfortunately also some of the things that can leave you with a clogged digestive system while you're away.

Then there are also the people who first point us to those things, the cultural guides we encounter along our way.

With his latest film, The Salesman, Asghar Farhadi once again, proves his mastery in presenting complexities of human relationships within the confounds of his native country Iran, but also demonstrating that even there are political and cultural differences among us, deep down, certain things in life are constant and universal.

As cultural anthropologist Mimi Ito put it, «You're seeing the shift in expertise in authority, so that kids may know a lot about certain things, but parents can also bring really important expertise to the table, and that's when you see a really productive shift in power dynamic around learning.»

For the record, I view this as more inevitable than desirable, but I also think that this will ultimately be good for artists — as long as we can get the reading / listening / watching masses to accept this cultural shift, and to voluntarily choose to pay for the things they enjoy, sometimes after they've enjoyed them.

The province also has a few unique things up its sleeve: a 600 - hectare rice terraces at General Fullon, the rafflesia (the biggest flower of its kind in the world), and cultural heritage such as the Anini - y Church, the traditional lambaklad fishing and its intricate patadyong and buri weavings.

Bali now is not only a holiday destination where you are the viewer but also a place where you can learn many things from sport to cultural performances from the expert.

DOOM is a cultural and gaming icon that everyone must play, so it's a good thing that it's also a damn good game.

Jason Schreier: Do you think that, you also have to deal with this cultural clash, I'm sure you guys experienced this: BioWare being this independent studio in Canada, does RPGs, does your own thing, [BioWare founders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk] leading the charge, and then suddenly you're part of this big corporation.

So, there is not only space as a sculptural dimension to the thing, but also the cultural utopias around the notion of space.

With much of the work in «The Order of Things» focusing on the individual and cultural identity, the exhibition also includes a large selection devoted to vernacular photography from the late - nineteenth and early twentieth century — offering a glimpse into the day - to - day life of a time that we will never know.

I'm really interested in hybridity from a cultural perspective, but I chose to focus on inter-species hybridization because I didn't want it to be merely about the fusion and mixture of culture, but also about the transparency of boundaries between things we identify as whole in and of themselves.

Young generations want to be part of this new cultural identity that represents the new China; they want to grow with it, and also hopefully make it an international thing as well.»

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I hope to God, however, what ever or who ever helps bring lighting, food, medicine, etc. to these poorer and developing country's... that somehow we also help them retain their cultural heritage, celebrate it and NOT BECOME AMERICANS in pursuit of WalMarts, Starbuck's, «favorite things» and more damn stuff.

I'll keep this short: whatever attempts and successes developed countries assist in providing to poorer countries, as far as standards of living, I hope, I hope, I hope, that with those improvements we also help these developing nations retain their cultural heritage, celebrate it and NOT AD WALMARTS, STARBUCKS, OPRAH»S FAVORITE THINGS and inevitably more and more and more damn stuff.

David Frum's rebuttal is partly true, wealth does allow for more and cleaner things, but wealth also reflects a more effective (in certain ways) culture, which could also create more and cleaner things via cultural norms.

Anyway, I'm psyched to learn that Fox sees our methods and framework as relevant to the market - related phenomena he writes on — not only because it's cool to think that cultural cognition can shed light on those things but also because I really loved his Myth of the Rational Market.

So whilst change will indeed be slower if solutions don't make things easier, better, faster and cheaper; change will be slower still if we ignore the cultural and behavioural change that is also needed at our firms.

Managing the cultural change to ensure that all parents know that there might be useful things to learn about parenting, that there are now supportive, well qualified people to teach them and interesting non-stigmatising programmes to help them learn will also take time.

But, also, being open to understand what are the difficulties or concerns so that they're, you're indicating to the family that you know they're the most important people to the child, it's a responsibility that they're entrusting their child to you for this part of the day, that they will always be the experts on their child, and that the way they do things, from their own particular family and cultural background is something that you're, that you or I are interested in and respectful about, and that all of us have a shared concern to do the best for the children that we're with, but that we might have slightly different understandings about the way that we do that.

In fact it affirms our right to be different, giving recognition and respect to our cultural values and ways of doing things, and we as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples should also be using the principles within the Declaration to guide our relationships with each other.

It's unclear whether these substantial flaws are because of personal agendas (Hagen believes her own brother was falsely accused of sex abuse), because their initial works are about a decade old now and some things have changed (Dineen also hails from Canada which may trail behind the U.S. in psycho - legal trends), because neither of them considered what policies and practices move the big MHP divorce industry bucks, or because — hailing from the MHP community themselves — they have failed to see their own shared cultural biases with a majority of that community and how they themselves have been propagandized into a particular point of view.

The effectiveness of Indigenous - designed rules and procedures is greatest when their legitimacy is derived from local cultural realities and they also support organisations to get things done and gain external confidence.