Sentences with phrase «cultural prejudice against»

Coverage of the Olympic Winter Games brought Russia's anti-gay laws back into the conversation and exposed some of that country's cultural prejudice against LGBT people.

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Catholics experienced prejudice and discrimination in Protestant America and had to swim against the cultural stream.

And this seems like a silly one perhaps — women in bikinis, good gracious — but it was really a challenge about my body and how I view my body, about shame and freedom, about the goodness of our bodies before God, pushing back against my own prejudices and cultural conditionings.

They can continue, with some legitimacy to blame public prejudice and discrimination against them, but the truth is that others, with differing cultural values, including members of their own ethnic groups, have been able to succeed despite the obstacles.

It is a measure of how much cultural prejudice there still is against the vulgar upstarts of the new world and how snobbishly we revere European art that it is still widely assumed that Mondrian, Kandinsky and other early 20th century abstract artists are somehow more serious, genuine and pure than Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman.

«In the art world, there's such an incredible prejudice against sports that it's not taken seriously as a cultural form,» says Little.

As a true professional her support is not prejudiced towards or against any viewpoint, and is not limited by political, religious, cultural or any other form of bias.