Sentences with phrase «immigrant culture in»

Dozens of restaurants, video stores, shops and markets cater to mostly Thai customers, providing a glimpse into a bustling world of immigrant culture in the West Coast's largest city.

Not exact matches

The arrival of 1.7 million Asian immigrants in the past 20 years has made the styles and cultures of Asia part of the environment of our major cities.

The aim of these dialogues is to help new immigrants to Canada understand the Canadian business environment and culture, while bridging a gap in communication between new - comers and local communities.

The parish in question, located in Doha and largely attended by immigrant and guest workers from a variety of Orthodox cultures, is not really the subject of a «turf war» between Antioch and Jerusalem, though it might seem that way from the outside.

The question is whether churches abroad, such as in the United States, Western Europe, and Australasia — comprised of Orthodox immigrants and converts long established in their new homelands, miles away and cultures apart from the «mother Churches, where they originated — have reached the maturity or acquired the single - mindedness and commitment to minister to their people and manage their affairs in unity.

that minimizes the historical suffering of women and minority groups in this country, 2) an overwrought persecution complex that confuses sharing civil rights with others with being persecuted by them, and 3) a persistent fear of the perceived «other» — Muslims, LGBT people, immigrants, refugees, etc. — that results in culture wars meant to «take back» the public square.

Submitting himself almost as a pilgrim to the common experience of immigrants to Israel, he succeeded in mastering the Hebrew culture, and more gradually in cultivating a deep familiarity with Israeli academic and intellectual life.

It would be a mistake to see this as entirely inflicted on the immigrant groups by an alien American culture.17 Some form of it is what lured many to these shores in the first place.

Not in the form of some «how to» guide or some «five step» program, but, first and foremost, by way of metaphor: «If the state of contemporary Catholic literary culture can best be conveyed by the image of a crumbling, old, immigrant neighborhood, then let me suggest that it is time for Catholic writers and intellectuals to leave the homogeneous, characterless suburbs of the imagination, and move back to the big city — where we can renovate these remarkable districts which have such grace and personality, such strength and tradition.»

More broadly immigrant Protestant congregations are carriers of home - country cultures in matters of music, language, dress and food, if not in specific religious symbols.

It was easy for me, then, to become cynical about the faith that I was raised in, to punch the holes into the theology of the people I grew up with and spot the gaps in the preaching and methods, and point a finger of blame when «they» got it wrong, to separate myself from the culture and, like most kids raised by immigrant parents (because, in a way, my parents were like immigrants to this strange new land of Christianity), I took for granted my life in the new Kingdom, completely unable to imagine a life without freedom, without joy, without Jesus.

When, as in America, Europeans erased the antecedent cultures, the persistence of Christianity among the immigrants was probable.

Under siege by a hostile and intolerant host culture, the immigrants clung all the more tenaciously to one another and to the church, an institution that offered security in a strange and forbidding new world.

Contemporary evidence about the economic cultures of East Asia, of successful ethnic groups in different countries, or of the mobility of immigrants to this country all seems to point in the same direction: self - denial and discipline are virtues that are the condition sine qua non of early capitalist development.

Look at the mega-millions of Islamic immigrants living there — in countries whose cultures are blasphemous to Muslims.

«Instead of cowering in fear over the imagined threat of an Islamic immigration invasion, the church can play the critical role in loving Muslim immigrants and helping them integrate into a very strange culture,» suggested evangelical writer Alan Noble.

There's even more to The Big Sick that can't fill a paragraph, ranging from a genuine immigrant story to a unique commentary on stand - up culture in Chicago.

It is a melting pot of all nations, cultures and religions that is why everyone likes to come here... America is built by immigrants... even ur ancestors came from somewhere so don't act like ur own America... Muslim Americans have as much rights here in America anyone else.

We understood our schools to be taking children of immigrants from many cultures and preparing them for participation in American democracy.

He compares the change to his own father's boyhood culture, in tenements among recent Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe.

Japanese immigrants have found themselves in a variety of cultures and contexts, but have often maintained a loyalty to their native cuisine.

This is a panel of diverse experts discussing the role home cultures play in the way immigrant parents raise their children.

Needless to say, anti-immigration debates continue to be loud, and are largely informed by a worldview at odds with itself, in which host communities are pitted against a deluge of immigrants — a burden on the economy and a marching in of an inflexible and alien culture.

Popular African Italy Excellence Awards AIEA, which started 5 years ago with the aim of honoring Africans who have excelled in different fields in Italy, promoting Africa's image, culture and facilitating integration of immigrants in Italy, have unveiled its categories at the headquarters of Banca Popolare dell»Em ilia Romagna — the award's main sponsor.

The mayor referred to Three Kings Day as «a feast for all the senses,» and acknowledged the holiday's role in Latino culture as well as East Harlem's importance to Puerto Rican immigrants.

«We found that immigrants who identify with neither their heritage culture nor the culture they are living in feel marginalized and insignificant,» said presenter Sarah Lyons - Padilla, PhD, of Stanford University.

About Rice and Beans: Following recent discussions on food here on Anthropology in Practice, this week I'll feature a four part series that that explores the ways immigrant groups in Corona, NY are involved in creating generic versions of their cultures to support themselves.

Mothers in the program are mostly Mexican immigrants; though their culture prioritizes family support, the women often find themselves isolated from their extended family, Garcia said.

In addition to a putative immigrant advantage, proposed explanations for the Hispanic paradox generally emphasize culture and lifestyle.

Nemoto's study tests culture - specific strategies on Vietnamese and Thai immigrants, who have been largely ignored in the past.

The Vilcek Foundation's mission is to heighten public awareness of the contributions of immigrants to the sciences, arts and culture in the United States.

GmbH has been referred to as Berlin's answer to Vetements, but the label is much more rooted in the collision of immigrant culture and German severity than the irony of elevating ordinary clothes.

There are some pop culture references to the 1970s, with Heart's «Barracuda» and Led Zeppelin's «Immigrant Song» featured on the soundtrack, but there's never the sense of a movie begging for laughs by throwing in anachronisms.

But, according to a new report, an alleged Brussels terrorist was the star in a documentary about successful integration of immigrants to Western cultures and society.

As the old man Slimane (Habib Boufares), divorced and living in a dump of hotel owned by his new lover, works his way through the bureaucracy with the help of the doting daughter of his long - time girlfriend (she treats him like and adoptive grandfather), we see an entire world is seen in the background, the stories of the children and grandchildren of Arab immigrants making a life in this French port town and finding their identity in the mix of cultures.

FRESH OFF THE BOAT (single camera) PICKED UP TO SERIES STUDIO: 20th Century Fox TV TEAM: Nahnatchka Khan (w, ep), Jake Kasdan (ep), Melvin Mar (ep), Eddie Huang (p) LOGLINE: It's the»90s, and hip - hop - loving Eddie is growing up in suburban Orlando, raised by an immigrant father who is obsessed with all things American — he owns and operates an All - American Steakhouse chain — and an immigrant mother who often is bewildered by white culture.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening February 27, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Crossing Over (R for sexuality, nudity, graphic violence and pervasive profanity) «Crash» - like ensemble drama chronicles the clash of cultures in L.A. resulting from the flood of immigrants attempting to attain legal status in the U.S. Cast includes Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta, Ashley Judd and Alice Braga.

We have not yet fully accepted those with intellectual disabilities, nor have we fully accepted a young immigrant struggling to understand the English language and American culture, or a teenager who is of color and living in poverty.

Key to this model is understanding the role that public schools play, not only in educating our youth, but also in serving as the mediating institution to successfully transition immigrant families into the American way of life, into making American values, culture, norms, and language their own.

I think this commitment is represented well by HGSE faculty members, including some hired during my deanship, for example: Nancy Hill with her work on parenting and family socialization practices across ethnic, socio - economic, and neighborhood contexts; Meira Levinson with her work on civic and multicultural education; Natasha Warikoo with her work on race, immigration, inequality, and culture as they relate to education; and Hiro Yoshikawa with his work on the development of young children in immigrant families.

She is studying how the settlement of the nation's most successful immigrant groups in privileged, previously predominantly white communities shapes the nature of racial boundaries, beliefs about success and achievement, and youth cultures.

Her book, Balancing Acts: Youth Culture in the Global City (University of California Press 2010), challenges teachers, administrators, and parents to look beneath the outward manifestations of youth culture — the clothing, music, and tough talk — to better understand the internal struggle faced by many minority students and children of immigrants as they try to fit in with peers while working to lay the groundwork for successfulCulture in the Global City (University of California Press 2010), challenges teachers, administrators, and parents to look beneath the outward manifestations of youth culture — the clothing, music, and tough talk — to better understand the internal struggle faced by many minority students and children of immigrants as they try to fit in with peers while working to lay the groundwork for successfulculture — the clothing, music, and tough talk — to better understand the internal struggle faced by many minority students and children of immigrants as they try to fit in with peers while working to lay the groundwork for successful lives.

«Patriotic pluralism» is a good description of what education in Americanism became: it assimilated immigrants yet taught all Americans more than tolerance for the culture that immigrants brought, and the culture that blacks had created here in America.

Her forthcoming book, Balancing Acts: Youth Culture in the Global City (University of California Press 2010), challenges teachers, administrators, and parents to look beneath the outward manifestations of youth culture — the clothing, music, and tough talk — to better understand the internal struggle faced by many minority students and children of immigrants as they try to fit in with peers while working to lay the groundwork for successfulCulture in the Global City (University of California Press 2010), challenges teachers, administrators, and parents to look beneath the outward manifestations of youth culture — the clothing, music, and tough talk — to better understand the internal struggle faced by many minority students and children of immigrants as they try to fit in with peers while working to lay the groundwork for successfulculture — the clothing, music, and tough talk — to better understand the internal struggle faced by many minority students and children of immigrants as they try to fit in with peers while working to lay the groundwork for successful lives.

Huntington is right to argue that our legal and political system, and in large measure our culture, were defined by the original settlers from England, not by later immigrants.

On that day he also launched Define American, an organization that aims to use all forms media to change the culture of how we think of immigrants in America.

Cultural competency requires, first and foremost, that teachers see themselves as lifelong learners who will inevitably encounter new cultures in the classroom, whether immigrant, racial, technological, stylistic, and more.

Her first book, Balancing Acts: Youth Culture in the Global City, analyzes youth culture among children of immigrants attending low - performing high schools in New York City and Culture in the Global City, analyzes youth culture among children of immigrants attending low - performing high schools in New York City and culture among children of immigrants attending low - performing high schools in New York City and London.

The largest district in the state, Schaumburg CCSD 54 was undergoing a transformation, with diverse immigrant cultures bringing 89 new languages into schools and swelling the student population to 14,000 students from preK to eighth grade.

The Perception of Asian Dads and Masculinity Chicago Tribune, 6/10/16» «For Asian fathers, when their main concern was on survival, fitting into the new culture and bringing bread on the table, what America considers «male» was not their priority,» said Dr. Josephine Kim, a professor at Harvard's Graduate School of Education who specializes in child development and immigrant issues.»