Sentences with phrase «cultural aversion»

«There is significant cultural aversion to debt, so 25 percent of Latinos have no credit score.

Despite a cultural aversion to moving from traditional sites, these changes may ultimately force relocation.

Dana Gunders of the NRDC believes there is a cultural aversion to eating leftovers; it's likely a remnant of the psychological shift that occurred in the 1960s with the advent of refrigeration.

In terms of US politics, Clinton is recorded as telling Blair that his party had electoral difficulties in the run - up to the 2000 presidential election because «the cultural aversion of white, married, Protestants to voting Democratic is a real problem».

This cultural aversion appears in its most potent form in the fear of intermarriage.

Cultural aversion to those of other races, whether in the form of depreciating their ability or in more offensive matters of name calling and the attaching of uncomplimentary labels, eventuates from the common tendency to commit the fallacy of hasty generalization.

«Progress in understanding fire on Earth has been hampered by cultural aversions to accepting fire as a fundamental global feature and disciplinary parochialism,» they write in calling for a more sophisticated understanding, both technologically and psychologically, of fire's role in climate change.»

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Meanwhile, Canada's low ranking in the OECD's business enterprise expenditure on research and development rankings is often blamed on the national tendency to «sit on dead money» because of «cultural risk aversion» or «insufficient outward - looking attitudes.»

Usually it's not an aversion to science that motivates people to tout unscientific ideas, but some underlying cultural, social or personal issue, says Rosenau, of the National Center for Science Education.

Cost Perceptions and College - Going for Low - Income Students highlights how inaccurate information, cultural predispositions, and loan aversion contribute to the enrollment behavior of low - income students and, ultimately, dictates the likelihood of their degree attainment.

It is against this backdrop of repeated historical trauma that his aversion to rational thinking and fixed positions — whether national, political, social, or cultural — and his ongoing shape - shifting are best understood.