Sentences with phrase «customs of a particular culture»

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Because all human laws, customs, and opinions change from time to time and vary from place to place, we tend to think of right and wrong as relative to the particular culture in which we live.

The gospel always comes wrapped in a particular language, particular customs and traditions and ways of doing things, particular unwritten rules about politics and religion and the family — in other words, in a particular culture.

«The changes in the diagrams reflect the culture and custom of that particular age and time,» Lee said.

Justice Wilcox found that in 1829 the claim area was occupied and used by «Aboriginal people who spoke dialects of a common language and who acknowledged and observed a common body of laws and customs».47 He accepted that what united and distinguished them from neighbouring groups was a «commonality of belief, language, custom and material culture».48 Though sub-groups or families exercised particular rights and responsibilities for particular areas to which they «belonged», those rights and responsibilities arose from a wider normative system that operated within the broader Noongar society.49 The rights of the sub-group were burdened by the entitlement of others to access land for various purposes.50