Sentences with phrase «cultural clash»

The disparity is really highlighted if there is a cultural clash between client and law firm.

Another question is whether there will be a cultural clash between a company like Avvo, which grew out of a startup mentality and its new, perhaps more traditional acquirer.

The environmental and cultural clash at the heart of the story prompted a host of environmental groups and human rights groups to seek Mr. Cameron's support for efforts to preserve the planet and its endangered cultures.

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.

Although a city holds the convenience and quickness that certain travelers might want, those that crave a cultural clash seem to be drawn to the outskirts or even the middle of nowhere.

It's about an Afrikaan man falling in love with a Zulu woman and the cultural clash that's bound to happen.

When there is a cultural clash, it makes it difficult to understand and get along with the other person.

So, if you want to avoid a cultural clash, can I suggest some other place in - between.

Graham Nicholls, the Director of Affinity, told Premier why a law was needed: «There is a clash going on, a cultural clash, a colliding of different rights and responsibilities.

The theater has received glowing reviews for its staging of such plays as Merchant on Venice, which turns Shakespeare's play about Christians and Jews into a story about Muslims and Hindus, and Golden Child, by David Hwang, about the cultural clash between Christian missionaries and the Chinese.

It was a cultural clash between an elite and much of the public, between liberal intellectuals and the Obama administration on the one hand and the mass of Tea party activists on the other.

Much of their narrative anticipates and even revels in the cultural clash «caused by» those who feel threatened.

Just like when the company was getting the original Airbnb platform off the ground, there are likely to be rough spots: a refugee that doesn't assimilate well with his or her host, a bad actor who tries to sneak into the system to get free housing, or any number of routine cultural clashes.

A handful of U.S. - China film ventures have fallen apart due to cultural clashes.

The panelists discussed expansion challenges including cultural clashes, governance changes, and poor execution in a new market.

The cultural clashes over the film opened wounds we thought....

That our political and cultural clashes have hardly changed during this time prevents the collection from feeling dated.

The cultural clashes over the film opened wounds we thought had healed, and they exposed currents of hostility toward Christianity that one would have hoped had disappeared.

Second, there is little humor related to cultural clashes that could potentially ruin the film.

McLeod, Indian Island's principal, said that although she thinks there may be some cultural clashes and bias at the area high schools, the main problem is that her school's graduates feel overwhelmed when they leave the 114 - student Indian Island School for a larger high school.

For example, reformers keep getting sucked into cultural clashes over pedagogy or philosophy even when their principles would seem to call for a more ecumenical stance.

I enjoyed the first one, but I also really dig the focus on fleshing out just one city, with its political and cultural clashes.

In her work, Malinowska fluctuates between different media — sculpture, video and performance activities — exploring her interests in anthropology, cultural clashes and music.

Her projects — often inspired by interest in cultural anthropology, cultural clashes, and music — have been exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions in the United States and Europe, at venues including the Sculpture Center, Art in General, Postmasters, and CANADA in New York; Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton in Paris; Saatchi Gallery and Nottingham Contemporary in Great Britain; Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle and Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw.

The companies suffered cultural clashes from the outset.

Not exact matches

By almost any of the conventional measures of cultural and economic influence, the clash over water security and heritage between a tiny North Dakota Native American tribe and a wealthy and well - connected Texas pipeline operator would appear hopelessly tilted one way.

Just as the clash of these geological plates causes earthquakes, so we can expect massive cultural earthquakes as the great cultures are forced into closer contact.

This book surveys the cultural and social backgrounds of Jewish and Roman societies in the First Century AD, looking for possible clues as to what led to the clash in 70 AD and the destruction of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem.

Years later, when Gov. Perry actively supported the death penalty and cuts in government programs for the poor - positions that clashed with the more progressive stances of the United Methodist Church - some fellow Methodists speculated that Paint Creek's cultural conservatism shaped the governor more than his church did.

The ideal of a cultural manager sounds sensible in the face of our present clashes of civilizations and culture wars.

In the three or four centuries before Christ there gradually developed a cultural maelstrom, and the Jews found themselves caught up in a clash of cultures, religions and imperialistic ambitions.

Most Thoughtful: Drew Hart with «' Around the Way» Ethics: Have you felt the clash of dominant cultural sensibilities?»

And given how utterly tedious, corrupt, venal, and savagely distressing most football is, to deprive the world of such rare and precious joy is an act of cultural vandalism akin to sticking the Mona Lisa in the loft because it clashes with the curtains.

First, Ezra Vogel's magisterial biography Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of Modern China, about the man who reinvented the country after the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, and then Julia Lovell's The Opium War, which charted the clash between Britain and China that first started the confrontation between west and east:

But does cultural harmony really reign, or can you expect to experience a culture clash if you decide to head East or West?

On a related note, I wonder to what extent our cultural biases and political or interpersonal clashes might arise from misperceptions orchestrated (so to speak) by differing linguistic tones.

Sometimes people of different nationalities clash in the negotiation process, and in no employment sector do we have such cultural and ethnic diversity as the sciences.

Baker's combination of acute emotional intelligence and raucous, often bawdy humor sometimes brings to mind Fatih Akin, a German filmmaker of Turkish descent who also likes to set his films (Head - On, The Edge of Heaven, Soul Kitchen) in tough urban areas where conflicting cultural value systems meet and clash.

The Revisionaries showcases how public education has become the latest battleground in a new wave of cultural, religious and ideological clashes, with local Texas education board members advancing agendas of Creationism and other religious issues in public schools.

The movie focuses on the clash between the military ethics of a British Colonel, the cultural expectations of a Japanese commander, and a plot to sabotage the structure.

This movie focuses on the clash between the military ethics of a British Colonel, the cultural expectations of a Japanese commander, and a plot to sabotage the structure.

They Will Have to Kill Us First (Unrated) Freedom of expression documentary chronicling the clash of civilizations between defiant, Malian musical artists determined to preserve their country's rich cultural heritage and Islamic jihadist invaders inclined to behead anyone who doesn't submit to their interpretation of Islam.

What do schools do when cultural expectations between students and teachers clash?

Sheinkin's quirky figures wonderfully capture the gentle humor of his characters and stories, as what seems like a recipe for a surefire culture clash ends up proving that wisdom, insight, and humor transcend cultural differences.

Culture Clash: Evolution of An Expat by Benjamin Long is a story of hope, survival, and the human capacity to go beyond the boundaries of deep ‐ rooted cultural conditioning and self ‐ imposed limitations.

«There is no (reading) culture clash — whether it is analog or digital, reading remains the most important cultural technology.»

Whilst its material constituents (mahogany and Plexiglas) point to a clash of cultural registers, a dual association is also invoked by the diamond shape and its precious namesake — the rarest of stones and symbol of African colonial exploitation.

By addressing local context the artist touches upon the themes related to the constructedness of history and cultural legacy, the persistence of ethnic and national clichés in the global world, the reflection on and re-evaluation of the past which clashes with today's realities.

The exhibition traces how iconic works from Western modern art have been interpreted or «twisted» in a different cultural context to create images and ideas clashing with orthodox interpretations of art history.

Only particular scientific findings are in dispute and subject to bias; each political or other cultural group is pro the science it likes (values alignment), but anti the science it doesn't like (value clash).