Sentences with phrase «different cultural meaning»

Adoption is not usually suitable for Aboriginal children and has a different cultural meaning in Torres Strait Islander communities.

«Words in the dictionary have different cultural meaning over time.

Palermo's unique brand of Modernism is about how similar forms can have very different cultural meanings.

Not exact matches

It still means seeking out employees with different cultural and educational backgrounds, but also people who have had a variety of occupations and life experiences.

A casual Hebrew reader knows that in the beginning is actually «in beginnings» (a plural word) but then again it is usually a different cultural interpretation that screws up the meaning.

When I jumped (and I do mean jumped, a ready or not here I come, head - first dive) from the Sunday - mainstream - church - going - because - it's - what - you - do nominal / cultural Christianity that I was raised with into «serious» Christianity (to use the vernacular: born again, spirit filled, Bible believing, charismatic, etc.) and became what was at the time called a «Jesus freak» (it was 1972) I expected something from the church which was very different than what I found.

Different myths have insinuated into the very historical heritage of the respective cultures a continuing fabric of meaning which has immediate and intrinsic intelligibility within that cultural orbit.

Judaism is different from Christianity in that it's possible to be a «cultural» Jew, meaning that one identifies as Jewish due to heritage in much the same way as someone might identify as being French, Turkish, Italian, etc..

Religious conversion to Christ in this setting essentially means a change of faith which involves participation in the local worshipping congregation of Christian believers without transference of community and cultural affiliations, but with a commitment to the ethical transformation of the whole society and culture in which they participate with others of different faiths.

Vic You know in your heart you are stating this multi cultural / religious nation must be dominated by the Christian religion, but you Christians can not even get together on what you mean as a religion, so many different dogmas.

Of course, I am not a theologian or well read or educated in the Bible with all the pertinent historical, cultural, or grammatical facts required to understand and interpret the text in my intellectual grasp, so I may have misunderstood your meaning, missed a point, or maybe we're saying the same thing but each from a different perspective, like is said those who misread Paul's Roman epistle and James» epistle.

Mission for a congregation means the crossing over of the boundaries of its cultural matrix into a world where the congregation's household webs of significance no longer obtain and the household is threatened by different discourses, stories, and social forces.

«But this emergent stability also reflects an implicit social contract among the various scientists and policy specialists involved, which allows «the same» concept to accommodate tacitly different local meanings» or «The varying importance of particular dimensions of knowledge for different social groups may allow cohesion to be sustained amidst pluralism, and universality to coexist with cultural distinctiveness».

But keep in mind that a very wide age gap — 10 years or more — can mean that you and your partner have different life perspectives, goals, and even cultural references — and all of these challenges can complicate a relationship over time.

Telling a story from a different cultural perspective than we're used to seeing could easily seem like a calculated cash grab if handled poorly, but it's a testament to the quality of the storytelling that this simply feels like a great movie and not a film that's only meant for one specific culture.

When you help someone improve their CQ it means that when they interact with others from different cultures, they can manage stressful or intimidating situations through their knowledge of various different cultural norms and values.

In addition, ELLs often have to make meaning from texts that require cultural knowledge different from their own.

ELLs often have to make meaning from texts that require cultural knowledge different from their own.

Above are some examples but publishing markets around the world fluctuate frequently based on trends hitting at different times and cultural differences meaning that (for example) while Germany may not currently be buying anything other than paranormal romance, India might be desperate for historical fiction.

Your preference seems to be for no cultural context (except in those cases where you see fit), which is fine as far as it goes, but that doesn't mean someone with a different perspective is saying nothing.

Color can operate in many ways and produce meanings in different kinds of contexts: cultural, historical, social, linguistic as well as material.

In the greenhouse, Fox's participatory Seedbank project (2014) draws upon a dialectic range of sentimental and the sexual symbolic floriographic meanings from different cultural timeframes where that flowers were employed to communicate hidden or forbidden pleasures.

Though intertwined in practice, the pictorial and the presentational represent two different worldviews, one identified with art as form, as something made, or something its maker arrives at, while the other regards art primarily as a set of cultural signs, or a strategy that produces an artifact, something meant to be read.

It deals with a generation that is facing falling expectations for individual and collective well - being, while at the same time being confronted in the professional sphere with a panorama in which academic, cultural and commercial interests overlap with each other, confusing the real value of artistic practice: namely, giving shape to visions that are capable of bestowing a different meaning on their historical circumstances.

Part of the meaning of her work lay in the way she negotiated the various expectations placed on her by different parts of the cultural world.

«But this emergent stability also reflects an implicit social contract among the various scientists and policy specialists involved, which allows «the same» concept to accommodate tacitly different local meanings» or «The varying importance of particular dimensions of knowledge for different social groups may allow cohesion to be sustained amidst pluralism, and universality to coexist with cultural distinctiveness».

I mean that's the nail on the head right there is that the cultural expectations, the personal expectations depending on how you grew up and what you envisioned for yourself as a mom, what you envision for yourself as a professional, as a lawyer, those things can sometimes be at odds with each other and there is an enormous amount of guilt around those expectations and even sometimes I've heard women in my group talk about they sometimes get negative messages from their spouse directly or from other family members or other friends who are moms who maybe are on a different path this time and sometimes I call it death by a thousand paper cuts.

In short, Millennials are speaking a different cultural language, and «transportation» doesn't necessarily mean the same thing to them as it does to you.

The common themes include: a shared negative experience of colonisation and cultural disruption, including in many cases catastrophic declines in physical, spiritual and cultural health and wellness over multiple generations; the consequent desire among First Nations to regain Indigenous self - determination and self - governance in order to nurture healthy and happy future generations; the need to understand cultural differences in how the meanings of health and wellness are understood and applied at the community, family and individual levels, and to therefore identify culturally appropriate responses, including traditional modalities and safe systems of care; the significance of cultural diversity between different Indigenous groups or communities within both countries; the differing needs and circumstances for Indigenous health and wellness in urban, regional and remote settings; and the challenges of delivering health services to remote communities in often harsh environments.

The Geneva Convention defines it as acknowledging that every child has certain basic rights, including the right to life, his or her own name and identity, to be raised by his or her parents within a family or cultural grouping and have a relationship with both parents, even if that means they live in two different households.

Intercultural competence can be defined in lots of different ways, but in this series of videos it means that an individual or a school has the ability to understand, interact, and communicate effectively and sensitively with people from different cultural backgrounds.

What does early childhood activism mean or look like in different political, geographical and cultural contexts?

Caring by relatives is a common practice across cultures, but the term kinship care can have different meanings for different cultural groups.

Primary health care in this context means high quality, integrated primary health care delivered by Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations wherever possible in order to ensure these health services are physically and economically accessible to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and responsive to the different cultural needs.

Among a younger cohort, more cultural awareness and the increased availability of support, including professional intervention, may mean that the experience of sexual abuse or parental divorce might have different consequences.

Furthermore, parenting behaviors and relationship quality characteristics may have different meanings in the Latino cultural context compared with Caucasian families (Domenech Rodriguez et al., 2009).

The deepening knowledge of these cultural differences will promote greater awareness among operators, regardless of what the standard of management in families from different cultures, providing them with means of assessment and intervention for family systems, which is sensitive to the cultural background of family under consideration.

We introduce the cultural models of autonomy and relatedness as a conceptual framework to explain different belief and meaning systems shared by different cultural groups.

On the other hand, Triandis (2002) posited how cultural differences would overcome large cultural differences and also that different meaning had to be attributed to the measures of these differences.

Cultural meanings are embedded in the social, economic and political dynamics of a community... every dispute is different, and every process is a site of collaboration and negotiation.

Indigenous or aboriginal peoples are so - called because they were living on their lands before settlers came from elsewhere; they are the descendants — according to one definition — of those who inhabited a country or a geographical region at the time when people of different cultures or ethnic origins arrived, the new arrivals later becoming dominant through conquest, occupation, settlement or other means... (I) ndigenous peoples have retained social, cultural, economic and political characteristics which are clearly distinct from those of the other segments of the national populations.