Sentences with phrase «felt cultural attitudes»

When developing national and local policies that affect babies, our policy makers, like everyone else, bring with them often powerfully felt cultural attitudes and personal beliefs that can influence their decision making.

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They point to other destructive aspects of television that have been stressed by television researchers and theorists; the privatization of experience at the expense of family and social interaction and rela - tionships; (33) the promotion of fear as the appropriate attitude to life: (34) television's cultural levelling effects which blur local, regional, and national differences and impose a distorted and primarily free - enterprise, competitive and capitalistic picture of events and their significance; (35) television's suppression of social dialogue; (36) its distorted and exploitative presentation of certain social groups: (37) the increasing alienation felt by most viewers in relation to this central means of social communication; (38) and its negative effects on the development of the full range of human potential.

The director Pascali - Bonaro was trying to change the cultural attitude that made mothers who had orgasmic births feel guilty and shameful.

Children naturally regulate their emotions, and their behaviour, by expressing feelings, but our cultural attitudes towards crying, or other expressions of emotion, make it doubly hard to parent.

I feel driven to help our society shift its cultural attitude from viewing sleep as a luxury and the need for it as a sign of weakness.

Based on the setting alone, the film trips over every obvious German stereotype in the book - from the uninhibited cultural attitudes, to the kinky sexual indulgences, to the peculiar artistic tastes, smaller automobiles, penchant for beer and Euro - trashy nightclubs, etc., etc., etc.... Beyond that, the lineup of comedic gags and sequences feels like mishmash of ideas that never seem to balance out tonally with other jokes, not the entire dramatic side of the film.

For a young black female growing up in Mississippi, there were already a number of historical factors and cultural attitudes that were set up to make me feel bound, and my education — and the truth that I found within it — became one of the most liberating experiences of my life.

If consultants are aware of their own cultural views, they interact more effectively with families because they have a better understanding of their attitudes, feelings, and behavior toward the diverse families supported through an ECMHC.