Sentences with phrase «many immigrant cultures»

That makes sense to entrepreneurs like Sankhla, who say they see their fate tied with the larger American Dream narrative of the U.S. and its immigrant culture.

Are you talking about the clashes between immigrant cultures (like the 5 Point gang wars) or the revivalist activities of the «second awakening?»

These churches strive to maintain the values of the immigrant culture, deriving their function and identity from the ethnic groups which make them up.

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.

Over the last few centuries, many immigrant cultures have contributed elements of their own cuisines to Peruvian cooking: Spanish, African, Indian, Italian, Chinese and Japanese influences have greatly enriched the culinary landscape.

These are deep - rooted and historic social issues immanent within trajectories of class and immigrant cultures that society must seek to address.

«This was going back to my roots a little bit, celebrating immigrant culture,» designer Ashish Gupta said backstage.

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.

What's more, it exists at the nexus of Canada's queer and Punjabi - immigrant cultures, bringing with it not only a whole host of quirks, but the requisite nuances therein.

The one intriguing element of the film is the mixture of Chinese, Native American, and European immigrant culture.

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.

Canada brings to the world stage a strong commitment to its bilingual tradition and embraces the diverse immigrant cultures that contribute to its society.

The saga Villasenor began in Rain of Gold (1991) continues here, celebrating family, love, and immigrant culture.

If you have in interest in changing taste trends, subtle ways in which immigrant cultures contributed to American society, or the resurrection of a once - booming industry as a niche service, this article is definitely worth a read.

And, like Rosie the Riveter, they are changing perceptions about the power of women in immigrant cultures to affect change.

Adolescent females between tradition and modernity: Gender role socialization in South Asian immigrant culture.

In a 2011 plan called «Welcome Dayton — Immigrant - Friendly City,» the city outlined initiatives to nurture immigrant culture and businesses, including:

Teams of both YPNs and «Old PNs» (as they're affectionately known in Miami) came together with the University of Miami's School of Architecture to revive a vacant lot in West Coconut Grove with a new weekly marketplace and a vibrant landmark mural celebrating the area's Bahamian immigrant culture.

It may have something to do with the higher home prices, younger average age, or perhaps the family - reliant nature of some immigrant culture, 21 % of urban homebuyers say they plan to seek financial help from family for their down payment.

Not exact matches

Many immigrant women come from cultures where they are raised to take on a secondary or caregiver role.

When moving to a foreign country, willingness to master new skills and a different culture comes with the territory for immigrants.

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.

On an anecdotal level, a disproportionate number of the people on our BNN TV show The Disruptors are immigrants or second - generation immigrants who exemplify a culture of entrepreneurship and are hungry to get ahead.

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.

The difference, he said, between these and Muslim immigrants — specifically those subject to the proposed refugee ban — is that the Muslim immigrants don't want to assimilate into American culture, they just want to live here.

As Emma Lazarus so eloquently reminds us, a large part of what defines us as «a people, a culture» is the ability to mourn the losses and cherish the gains as a nation of immigrants.

This country was made from immigrants that both assimilated and contributed to our American culture.

He receives support from the immigrant community he had sought to avoid when he embarked for London, wishing to conquer the heights of British culture.

If one needs an image or metaphor to describe our current Catholic literary culture, I would say that it resembles the present state of the old immigrant urban neighborhoods our grandparents inhabited.

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.

I have to tell you, I am staunchly conservative, as I'm sure you can attest, and I am against the unending flood of illegal and undocuumented immigration into the U.S.. But, like the statement says, what we need is a logical, enforceable, orderly process by which we, as Americans, can express the opportunities to come enrich our culture to future immigrants that so many of our ancestors enjoyed, which coincides with the Church's admonition to help the needy.

This is the kind of material life our culture trains us to long for, whether we are the immigrant hoping for a better life or the uber - wealthy person trying to «make do» with a 20,000 - square - foot house.

You seriously expect people to believe that immigrants leave their culture and religion behind when they migrate here?

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.

Yes, but the immigrants assimilated into the larger American society by adopting our founding principles - life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness - not by insisting society adapt to the cultures they came from.

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.

They were typical second - generation immigrants, freely mixing the heritage of their parents with the culture of their birth.

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.

She is not Black American - although slaves were brought over to the leeward islands during the trans - Atlantic Slave Trade - Her parents are Haitian Immigrants - She was brought up to admire Whites and their culture - She does not see herself as a American Black Woman - She claims that she is beyond that... Her husband is White and all of her friends are White - Please look up her bio - Google it!

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.