"Cultural barriers" refer to the obstacles or challenges that arise when people from different cultures come together and face difficulties in understanding, communicating, or accepting one another. It can include differences in language, customs, values, beliefs, and behaviors that affect effective interaction and collaboration.
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Compare strategies for navigating the technological, legal, and
cultural barriers of conducting an effective cross-border investigation.
Remove
cultural barriers by providing culturally competent links from community to the health care system.
She is inspired by ancient customs and rituals as a significant means of understanding and addressing our contemporary condition and uses her work to activate a dialog of universal origin which
cross cultural barriers.
Apply skills to overcome
cultural barriers such as language, religion and different belief systems to improve session outcomes.
Mothers also mention concerns about remaining independent, dividing care equally with the father, and reluctance to feed in public, proving that many social and
cultural barriers still exist.
Creating more staff scientist positions will be an ongoing challenge because long - held traditions
create cultural barriers to change, and limited funding reinforces the use of more affordable postdocs.
Our online service is very easy to use and it is language —
cultural barrier free where you can choose any community any culture person if you feel good and compatible.
Stories that
cross cultural barriers can describe realities to them and bring new perspectives to their little worlds.
Several of you concluded that the best way to apply this teaching to our day and culture is to encourage women to dress modestly and avoid wearing fancy, expensive clothes that might create
cultural barriers between themselves and others in the church or community.
In my previous position I implemented the following processes to help overcome
cultural barriers in communication.»
The works aim to articulate one of global culture's most interesting concepts: the potential for local ideas and issues to be transformed into unifying principles that cut
across cultural barriers of all kinds.
Supreme Court of Canada Chief Justice McLachlin spoke a few hours ago at the Canadian Institute for Administration of Justice (CIAJ) conference in Saskatoon, with her comments focused on barriers to access to justice, especially
cultural barriers faced by Aboriginal people.
The top five reasons a Black Breastfeeding Week is needed are: 1) The high black infant mortality rate; 2) High rates of diet - related diseases; 3) Lack of diversity in lactation field; 4)
Unique cultural barriers among black women; and, 5) Desert - like conditions in our communities.
Besides establishing another layer of
cultural barriers among students, the other major detriment of grouping is the differential nature of instruction accorded to different ability groups (see Allington, 1983).
It is time to tackle these issues — and a host of
other cultural barriers to progress — head on, and I have faith in the mission of the Biden Cancer Initiative to do that.
Exporters to the U.S. might not encounter
many cultural barriers, but they will have to overcome those imposed by U.S. protectionist legislation.
The death and resurrection of Jesus has broken down
cultural barriers throughout history — no other major religion has spread as far and across as many cultures as Christianity.
Although Catholics had ranked as the nation's largest religious denomination since 1890, social, linguistic, educational, and
cultural barriers slowed their literary development.
With local leaders absorbed in their real estate problems, these foreigners alone have the time, energy and resources to probe the legal and
cultural barriers against proselytizing, evangelism and outreach.
Wood fuel is widely used, it has a long history of use, and there are
food cultural barriers, widespread poverty and daunting geographic conditions that make other forms of fuel unpopular or unavailable.
Utilizing interviews and focus groups of female firefighters and leaders in various departments, the study sought to see what unique safety behaviors women bring to the job, how such practices might contribute to a safer fire service, and
what cultural barriers exist to implementation.
But as Fenton and colleagues point out, there remain «
massive cultural barriers between the fields of science and law» that «will only be broken down by achieving a critical mass of relevant experts and stakeholders, united in their objectives.»
Economic and
cultural barriers initially kept many Americans off the Internet, but the latest UCLA Internet Report shows the situation has changed.
- Collaborative research of this nature is so much more than the results it produces, especially if we consider its potential for expanding the boundaries of knowledge and
dissolving cultural barriers.
Additional resources allowed practitioners to learn from others going through the same challenges on the course to improvement: Data Wise in Action (2007) chronicled the ups and downs of eight different schools following the Data Wise process, and Key Elements of Observing Practice (2014), a DVD and facilitator's guide, was created to overcome one of the
biggest cultural barriers to school improvement: learning to observe instruction.
There is a very
real cultural barrier — Hispanic parents may have had a different relationship with schools in their native countries, where, instead of working with schools from the beginning, they only come when theres a problem.
As we identified what we believe are the 3
main cultural barriers to eLearning, we threw those «challenges» at Michael and asked him to advise us how to deal with them in the most efficient yet a cost - effective way.
In addition to breaking records for the most albums sold, awards won, philanthropic achievements and
cultural barriers overturned, Michael Jackson has become the most depicted cultural figure in visual art by an extraordinary array of leading contemporary artists since Andy Warhol first used his image in 1982.
He says: «With my photographic work, I wanted to overcome at least a
few cultural barriers by putting my perspective on things out there for discussion.»
Featuring over 80 exceptional paintings by 37 women artists, this groundbreaking exhibition focuses on the exciting historical moment when long - standing social and
cultural barriers began to give way, revealing the breadth and strength of their artistic achievements.