Sentences with phrase «fulfill cultural expectations»

Somewhere our conversation turned to Kara Walker's recent exhibition at Sikkema Jenkins and specifically the show's press release in which Walker lamented having to fulfill cultural expectations as a «black female artist.»

In fact, although infants can be conditioned to sleep long and hard alone, and without intervention and, hence, fulfill the cultural expectation that they should «sleep through the night» the fact remains that they were not designed to do so, and it may not be either in their best biological or psychological best interest.

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Spiritual questing is increasingly reflexive and individualistic, with cultural expectations fulfilled for all but the cynical secularists and the feisty dogmatists.