Sentences with phrase «cultural traits of»

Geographical coincidence between serotonin transporter gene diversity and cultural traits of individualism — collectivism across countries.

In this lesson − aligned to ACTFL standards − students will apply knowledge of vocabulary related to items and places in school, demonstrate understanding of indefinite articles, and distinguish between usage of articles in Spanish and English, and examine cultural traits of México's ancient civilizations.

Either by imposition or assimilation, cultural traits are transmitted between neighbouring regions and often one replaces the original cultural traits of the other.

A few histories of local churches have examined the identifying cultural traits of their subjects, exploring the symbolic patterns that give a particular congregation its unique character, instead of the far more common topics of local church history, such as campaigns, catastrophes, and clergy.

I suppose that it does characterize one of our cultural traits of sarcasm and disrespect — even for God.

The huge economic influence of globalization and the melting or resisting of culture in localization forms the overarching cultural trait of our era.

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The GoKart 600 process reinforces fearless exploration and purposeful innovation, two of the company's key cultural traits.

The quality which makes them the scapegoats of Western history is the quality which makes them strangers in Western history — their devotion to their own cultural tradition under conditions of almost impossible hardship and the psychological traits which that devotion has established.

The idea of hygge as a trait of Scandinavian culture is developed in the course of the interpretation, and its limitations are also discussed against ethnographic evidence that comparable spatial and social dynamics unfold in other cultural contexts.

There are a number of hard - to - figure things about the Japanese, and perhaps, building on top of distinctive cultural traits regarding sex and love that go way back, the 21st century Japanese really have become erotically....

Pacioni himself tells us that throughout his book he has «tried to reconstruct the framework of Augustine's speculation in all of its most original philosophical traits, following philosophical and logical - linguistic suggestions performing a point by point analysis of the texts not only from a philological but also a historiographical, cultural and logical - formal point of view» (p. xix).

They constitute a tremendous complex of instincts and inherited traits, family and cultural background, education, and all the aspects of the individual's own past experience which remain in his memory and in his unconscious as continuing motivating forces.

These characteristics include at least the following three kinds — physical features, psychological or personality traits, and cultural patterns — and they combine to make a racial stereotype, a standardized picture of the typical member of a particular racial group.

Do the Zombies see such intertwining of love's highs and low - downs as the tragically monstrous character of humanity's sexuality — a perennial trait, albeit one only recently reactivated on a wide scale after a long and unnatural cultural hibernation — that we simply have to learn to live with?

Though possessing many common cultural traits found also in Europe and the West, the much closer similarities between the cultures of Iran or Persia and India have led scholars to distinguish an Indo - Iranian branch of the larger whole as having early separated itself from the central or original Aryan migration, perhaps moving eastward from the, as yet, not certainly located origin of the Aryan group.

While we can not strictly say that various people groups carry the traits of X, Y, & Z, it is true that different cultural norms do come with different groups of people.

In my cross cultural setting, one aspect of this is to be aware of where our church plants are taking on traits of our own home culture instead of the local culture.

In all cases of domestication, the cultivated forms tend to develop fruits larger than the wild varieties; botanists are not certain whether this trait is the result of better cultural techniques or the natural tendency for humans to pick the largest fruits, which contain next years» seed.

Which differences are important cultural traits, and which ones are just about parents who aren't aware of other options?

Chua, 52, was in town promoting her second mainstream book, «The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America,» which she co-wrote with her husband, Jed Rubenfeld.

These blogs criticize what the authors perceive to be African cultural and social traits that produce and endorse forms of begging and haggling.

Things calmed down a lot, but to this day you'll still often see comments whose nature is consequence of a somewhat ingrained cultural trait in the American psyche.

«Our research and the literature demonstrate that there is a preference for physically formidable leaders that likely reflects an evolved psychological trait, independent of any cultural conditioning,» report co-author Professor Gregg Murray said.

The list of probable cultural traits is not as long as that for chimpanzees, but orangutans» tendency to interact with their neighbors less than chimps do made the pattern of learning even clearer.

«This is in line with another important cultural trait that some collectivist societies are known to possess — namely being more reflective as compared to action - oriented, having the reflex to think hard prior to committing to a course of action,» Saad says.

Due to the cultural stereotypes that portray «brilliance» as a male trait, messages that tie success in a particular field, job opportunity, or college major to this trait undermine women's interest in it, shows a new study appearing in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

In a wider context, this type of model could be applied to other examples of cultural changes in which the more favorable traits expand and abolish the predominance of a native cultural trait.

Upending the long - held science of metabolism, the findings indicate that daily energy expenditure may be an «evolved physiological trait largely independent of cultural differences.»

The findings indicate that daily energy expenditure may be an «evolved physiological trait largely independent of cultural differences;» in other words, eating more than the number of calories most human bodies are «wired» for could mean you'll gain weight — even if you're exercising religiously

«The Preferred Traits of Mates in a Cross-National Study of Heterosexual and Homosexual Men and Women: An Examination of Biological and Cultural Influences».

However, whilst In the Mood for Love incorporates all of his usual stylistic and thematic traits, it also ascends to a new level where the cultural significance of Wong's setting is explored in greater detail.

It's a cultural bias that marginalizes a large segment of the population — one - third to one - half of Americans are introverts — and ignores the powerful traits associated with introversion, such as concentration, listening, caution, and independence.

In this lesson, students review their knowledge of the following concepts and themes: vocabulary related to school, time of day, days of the week, and months of the year; the use of indefinite and definite articles; the verbs ser and estar; and significant cultural and historical traits of México.

Talk about the accommodations that PTP teachers made in classroom - based assessments that took advantage of their knowledge of their students» cultural traits and communication styles.

Today's elementary and secondary schools are flooded with students of diverse backgrounds, cultural traits, needs, abilities and learning styles.

For example, some programs screen for traits such as grit and cultural competency as a way to get a more holistic view of a teacher candidate's abilities and potential.14

African cultures have been virtually obliterated, among slaves; whatever small cultural differences exist between Negroes and whites (after controlling for social class) are the products more of cultural «drift» as a result of segregation than of surviving African traits.

Secondary cultural pluralism in the form of age, class, religious and regional subcultures and of residual ethnic traits (such as cooking), does, of course, exist in the United States, but major cultural cleavages are absent.

Culture traits of a particular cultural community are preserved over time and get passed on to future generations.

Other research traditions emphasize instead the importance of intrinsic features of cultural traits by making specific assumptions about how variants are chosen.

Our results suggest that fashion (social influence) has been more important than function (intrinsic features of the cultural traits at stake) in determining the popularity of dog breeds.

It was under Italian rule for more than 500 years before that, and although they have inherited cultural traits and traditions from both of these great European nations, Corsicans have a fiercely independent spirit.

A large majority of Mexicans have been classified as «Mestizos», meaning in modern Mexican usage that they identify fully neither with any indigenous culture nor with a Spanish cultural heritage, but rather identify as having cultural traits incorporating elements from indigenous and Spanish traditions.

Champasak has a rich menu of activities to enjoy, all of which strongly encompass Laos» most defining cultural traits.

On top of all that, the four new factions will share the same Cultural Traits, which will in turn provide a bonus morale boost in desert battles as well as a bonus income from agriculture.

Birch's visual style, a form of conceptual Southern Vernacular painting, is a syncretic blend of representation and abstraction that utilizes African diasporic retentions — cultural traits that have persisted across history — to create a record of the past's symbolic traces on the present, in order to preserve them for the future.

Ybarra is keen on presenting the hobbies, pastimes and habits of his youth, focusing on cultural specific traits such as the homemade Latino sweets that include «paprika, Kool - aid powder and dipping candy,» or baking a cake with his grandfather (as intergenerational households are typical in Latino families), or hinting at the absence of the father figure.

But, the montage A Trait Angel, which Japanese artist Okanoue Toshiko created with fragments from American magazines such as Life and Vogue, dates to 1955, when postwar Japan remained subject to the cultural and political dominance of the United States.

With his Pakistani - British origin, Shezad Dawood is primarily preoccupied with the identity politics and expression of different cultural traits combined in his mixed heritage.

This is especially true with research about cetaceans, because the discoveries of marine mammal scientists over the last 50 years have made it clear that whales and dolphins share traits once believed to be unique to humans: self - awareness, abstract thought, the ability to solve problems by planning ahead, understanding such linguistically sophisticated concepts as syntax, and the formation of cultural communities.