Sentences with phrase «different cultural practices»

Challenges to parenting after migration as a result of parental work pressure, lack of time together, acculturation gap, different cultural practices, language barriers, and bicultural conflicts

Merali (2002) discusses how the medical and social work professions are becoming increasingly aware of how different cultural practices affect our previous misconceptions of what defines acceptable parenting practices.

Although I loved the country it was not an easy country to travel in as a newbie traveller and I was frequently overwhelmed by the sighs, sounds and different cultural practices.

I was an anthropology major, so I find different cultural practices fascinating even when I also find them disturbing, all the more when it is my culture that is being discussed.

«Our purpose is not to denigrate any religion or faith, which would be repugnant to our educational purposes,» the Harvard student group had said in a statement, «but instead to learn and experience the history of different cultural practices.»

«The endeavor «to learn and experience the history of different cultural practices» might in another year lead to historical re-enactments of anti-Semitic or racist ceremonies familiar from Western history or parodies that trivialize Native American heritage or other revivals of cultural and religious insult.»

Not exact matches

I am now convinced that most of American Christianity is a cultural practice, routed mostly in traditional affiliation than a true conversion, a weekly religious exercise, no different than what the Imam demands of the followers of the Muslin faith.

The cultural context inevitably generates different practices.

Although Christianity was born in a different cultural ethos where a holistic view of reality was in vogue, the Indian Church's theology and practice have been, with some notable exceptions, heavily influenced by western missionaries.

Foie - gras production is no different — practices relating in particular to religious rites, cultural traditions and regional heritage are protected.

Both skilled and lay (e.g., peer) support have been shown to reduce the risk of suboptimal breastfeeding practices [8, 9] with face - to - face support being the most effective for EBF [8], but effective approaches and strategies to support in different geographic, cultural, and income contexts are still being studied.

Recognize the effect of cultural diversity on breastfeeding attitudes and practices and encourage variations, if appropriate, that effectively promote and support breastfeeding in different cultures.

«I'm not surprised the results have been mixed, because the previous studies have involved different societies, cultural practices and so on.»

After practicing research in Egypt and the United States, I can say that different countries manage collaboration differently due to many factors, including cultural variations and differences in working environment.

«The most distinct of the many cultural innovations in the HP culture were the invention of the bow and arrow, different methods of heating raw materials (stone) before knapping to produce arrow heads, engraving ostrich eggshells with elaborate patterns, intensive use of hearths and relatively intense hunting and gathering practices,» says Professor Christopher Henshilwood, one of the team members from Wits and Bergen Universities.

She is exploring the impact of diverse socio - cultural hunting practices as well as the response of hunting pressure to the spatial and temporal distribution of different harvested goods.

It is also an opportunity to share Yoga's rich lineage of philosophy, science, spirit and practice which, though timeless in its presentation, often needs some interpretation for the Western student of a different era and cultural understanding.

New partners may readily accept the challenge of engaging in the practices of different cultural groups.

The different cultural values and practices, the beliefs and several other fun things make up for pressure if any.

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It has been claimed that FGM has its origins in a number of different religious, cultural and social perspectives that have been endorsed, maintained and practiced by families and societies for non-medical reasons through the years.

-- ignoring cultural differences is not a solution; — imposing an ethno - cultural belonging on someone is unacceptable; — different ethno - cultural belongings do not necessarily imply visible differences; — common ethno - cultural belongings do not necessarily imply homogeneity; — not all cultural practices are acceptable in a human rights framework.

Yet it is not easy to figure out what institutions and practices will translate into a different cultural milieu or how to do it.

For example, through subtle acts of exclusion, as bystanders who ignore racist incidents, or through social practices and structures that discriminate and disadvantage different ethnic and cultural groups.

They evoke a time when all of our ancestors were more alike than different in their cultural practices.

Through an investigation of both informal and institutionally organized interactions, this study analyzes how participation in indigenous, national, and international literacy practices indexes different senses of cultural citizenship (Rosaldo 1997), which, in turn, inform Cham minority children's complex sense of belonging within, and their meaningful intergenerational engagement with, the language and culture of their parents amid Vietnam's post-socialist transformation.

It is interesting that this parent revolution is portrayed in this book as happening in New York City, a «multilingual apple» where Americans have always had different linguistic and cultural practices (García & Fishman, 2001).

These categories of leadership practices closely reflect a transformational approach to leadership which Bass (1997) claims has proven to be useful in many different cultural and organizational contexts.

Mary E. Dilworth will lead a discussion that probes beneath the surface to recognize and explain how the current generation of teachers and those of color, in particular, have a distinctly different mindset than their baby boomer and generation X predecessors; what habits of mind and experiences contribute to their understanding of quality teaching and student learning; what constitutes good and useful preparation and practice; and what processes and policies accommodate cultural responsiveness and allow for all students to meet their full potential.

Gary Simmons» installation inaugurated Culture Lab 2016, a two - day series of discussions, dinners, and public projects centering around different approach to walls — architectural or ideological boundaries which both define cultural practice and limit understandings of art, architecture, and other cultural undertakings.

While the exhibition's heart looks at the work of Chicanx artists in Los Angeles, it reveals extensive new research into the collaborative networks that connected these artists to one another and to artists from many different communities, cultural backgrounds, sexual orientations, and international urban centers, thus deepening and expanding narratives about the development of the Chicano Art Movement, performance art, and queer aesthetics and practices.

The artists included in the show represent different eras and cultural voices, from Native American artists, like the late Fritz Scholder, to contemporary performance artist Raul Baltazar (MFA Public Practice» 13).

«These themes draw together the artworks across national and geographic boundaries, making the case for parallel practices by artists often working in very different cultural conditions.»

Throughout the history of mankind, the use of colors was associated with different social, cultural and religious practices.

Although the same social, cultural and political context characterized the social and cultural dynamics in the US and the UK, the emergence of the Pop Art in these two countries was marked with different artistic groups and practices.

The three practices in the exhibition, two artistic and one curatorial, represent three modes of creative production as well as different generational ideas on working in the cultural sphere.

The aim is to offer fresh perspectives on Tibetan Buddhist images that have rarely been understood outside of their cultural and devotional contexts, and to forge new connections between different spheres of artistic practice, both traditional and modern.

Amended and rearranged after its first installment, the show will explore the impact that Mexico had on Artaud's work, as well as the influences that his creative practice has had on different generations of artists, filmmakers and other cultural practitioners.

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.

These environments serve as spaces for individuals of different social, economic, and cultural backgrounds to exchange ideas and experiences, spurring the development of new artistic disciplines and approaches.In today's New York City, artists working in this social practice find themselves increasingly challenged in their search for logistical and financial backing.

Both artists share same cultural background, and furthermore, the same concerns regarding identity and historical memory, but they employ two different starting points in their practice.

There are fears that globalization is making different cultural identities homogeneous, yet it often enables a cosmopolitanism that enables different local practices to coexist although some differences...

Frances Drayson's practice is concerned with identifying and fabricating relationships between different forms of industry; in particular, the alignment between cultural production and mass - manufacture.

Thus, «New voices: a dslcollection story,» reveals the practice and works of China's youngest generation of artists, who have distinctly different points of cultural and historical reference in comparison to their predecessors.

With an expanded view of Latin America that includes Latina and Chicana artists working in the U.S., Radical Women will explore how the different social, cultural, and political contexts in which these artists worked informed their practices.

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.

This first - hand immersion in different cultural contexts became the basis for a dynamic artistic practice that examines the repercussions of Western hegemony for non-Western cultures and the continued give - and - take between both sides of the colonial divide.

What about different ways of creativity, artistic practices, or cultural forms that nurture our ways of working?

Her personal and nomadic experiences, between countries with different cultural backgrounds, have undoubtedly played a crucial role in the formation of Jacir's artistic practice.

Despite the cultural and geographic discrepancies, this selection will exhibit common threads and shared politics in feminist art practices across Western Europe, as well as exploring the different usages of the photographic medium.