Sentences with phrase «characteristic of our national culture»

What Jefferson defined, rather extravagantly, as «the absolute wall of separation between church and state» has been a creative but also dangerous characteristic of our national culture.

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I argued that this great national sport, which claims the devotion of a significant percentage of our population, mirrors in a ritual way some of the worst characteristics of our culture.

This natural national religion which is emerging out of American culture expresses the most characteristic ethical and spiritual aspects of that culture.

It's time to consider the idea that high performance will come when we value a broader set of cultural characteristics or when we're willing to adjust our school cultures and our state and national narratives.

When the culture of the East, its chief characteristic, is added to the strength of body and the strength of mind of the agricultural center, its special contribution, and these two great characteristics are constantly imbued with the spirit of independence and love of liberty which lives in the hearts of the dwellers of the mountains, their main quality added to the national character, there is every reason to believe that we shall have a people and institutions such as will be permanent; with such wealth of resources, of such high education and intelligence, and of such vitality, of such longevity, of such devotion to freedom and hostility to centralization and tyranny as shall enable this Nation of ours to stand indefinitely; and to maintain in the future years its manifest destiny of leading the peoples and nations of earth in the principles of free government, constitutional security and individual liberty.

Indigenous or aboriginal peoples are so - called because they were living on their lands before settlers came from elsewhere; they are the descendants — according to one definition — of those who inhabited a country or a geographical region at the time when people of different cultures or ethnic origins arrived, the new arrivals later becoming dominant through conquest, occupation, settlement or other means... (I) ndigenous peoples have retained social, cultural, economic and political characteristics which are clearly distinct from those of the other segments of the national populations.