Cultural insensitivity means not being respectful or understanding of other people's cultures and customs. It is when someone says or does things that might offend or show a lack of appreciation for different ways of life.
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I intervene in an appropriate manner when I observe any staff, consultant or parent engaging in behaviors that
show cultural insensitivity, bias or prejudice.
By not pursuing that historical theme to the field setting of missions, Newbigin unwittingly plays into the hands of his critics who see in missions proof of
Western cultural insensitivity.
Except to say that whoever thought it was appropriate to have these beloved characters shooting at each other and talking about killing each other (on top of Mater's
disastrous cultural insensitivity) should never work on a children's animated film again.
It's an effervescent little artifact housing a psychotic, bestial gendarme named Capt. Chantel DuBois (voiced maniacally by Frances McDormand), who, in a moment of
extreme cultural insensitivity, rouses her comatose henchmen with a rendition of Edith Piaf's «Non, He Ne Regrette Rien,» right there in an Italian ICU.
Cultural insensitivity aside, «The Forest» looks like your typical supernatural horror film circa 2005, when retooling Asian genre movies for American audiences was all the rave.
It also works up the audacity to toss in a painfully outdated sequence through London's Chinatown that falls somewhere between
tasteless cultural insensitivity and blatant racism.
She addressed the controversy around Logan Paul, whose videos have run the gamut from disparaging mental health issues to displaying
gross cultural insensitivity.
I know the difficulty and
cultural insensitivity people of color can sometimes encounter, when navigating health systems and would like to offer an alternative.»
I support all staff and consultants to intervene in an appropriate manner when they observe any staff, consultant or parent engaging in behaviors that
show cultural insensitivity, bias or prejudice.
Operated by churches in the last half of the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries, these schools have been the target of many allegations
of cultural insensitivity and child and sexual abuse.
Despite a commitment from the Joliet Park District to expand a recreational center on the city «s east side, members of the area «s Hispanic community are complaining that the plans indicate
a cultural insensitivity.
Unfortunately, while this choice to set his futuristic fantasy in some kind of pop - culture distillation of Japan enables Anderson to weave elaborately ornate animated tapestries, pepper his screenplay with poignant haikus, and send composer Alexandre Desplat into a fever of taiko rhythms, it also finds him indulging ideas and images that are provoking cries of
cultural insensitivity.
Despite the movie's
cultural insensitivity, however, The Outsider is too dumb to be glaringly offensive.
Perhaps most important, global education's believers exercise a strong degree of influence among textbook publishers, whose teams of multicultural advisors examine curricular materials for hints of bias or
cultural insensitivity.
If you doubt that Kandel identified the key issue, you can make a simple test: When you hear an objection against a definite content curriculum, say that of
cultural insensitivity, or a vast vague need for more global literacy, ask yourself whether any definite proposals for the content of a curriculum follow.
Examples of bias include poorly printed test forms, noise distractions, vague directions, and
cultural insensitivity.
School improvement begins with self - examination and honest dialogue about socialization, discrimination, bias, and
cultural insensitivity.
Is the world - famous street artist guilty of
cultural insensitivity?
When Toronto tried to ban shark fin soup, many in the Chinese community accused City Council of
cultural insensitivity.