Sentences with phrase «minority cultures»

How can the rights of persons and the integrity of minority cultures and groups be maintained?

Education systems must take care to protect and respect minority cultures and their associated languages, which contain vital information about the functioning of ecosystems.

Now, I seek to influence international education as a means to preserve minority cultures.

Some of us «constructive postmodernists» at the Center for Process Studies thought we observed an emerging interest among some leaders in ethnic minority cultures in finding ways to live together for the benefit of all.

Many described a common experience in the corps: In addition to the challenges of being a first - year teacher and the rewards of giving back, they felt the burden of serving as interpreters of minority cultures for their white, often affluent peers.

For people from minority cultures in the Western World...

Yet persistent and credible reporting on human rights violations continue, particularly in the areas of repression of political dissent, harassment of lawyers and human rights advocates, and suppression of religion and ethnic minority cultures.

Such marriages are found in all segments of our society but may be more common among minority cultures where men are almost as dehumanized by the white male dominant culture as are women.

The assimilative force of the dominant culture is so great that few minority cultures are in position to learn from it without being absorbed by it.

The cementing of non-racist narratives in the majority culture offers a clear indicator of what is expected of minority cultures when they operate in the mainstream.

In a 1997 paper published in Review of Education Research, she observed that ideology preserves «existing social structures and power relations» and that SBR was based on uncritical ideology that venerated the dominant culture and subjugated minority cultures.

Responsible for assisting teachers with problems with language differences and identifies resources to deal with language minority cultures

[ICCPR] article 27 [protecting minority culture] relates to rights whose protection imposes specific obligations on States parties.

With equal doses of research, humor, and irony, Fusco tackles complex subjects including race, ethnicity, identity, xenophobia, violence, and objectification of minority cultures in her video works.

It is vital that the majority culture listen to our brothers and sisters in Christ who are in the minority culture — particularly in times of conflict and disagreement.

But the primary force of American policies was to weaken the minority cultures for the sake of greater homogeneity.

Some men in minority cultures are finding, as they move into the middle - class world through job or profession, that friendship between women and men is possible and that a companionship marriage can be more satisfying than the one they have grown up with and married into.

So for fear of losing control and being tainted by the culture of the immigrant, Anglo - Europeans set up systems of segregation and oppression to protect their own cultural heritage, resulting in the oppression of both immigrants and minority cultures.

I think the idea that minority cultures are causing more harm than good is at the core of the white nationalist movement, and it's somewhat different than the issue of equal rights, as well as the root cause of the violence.

The four Hoosick Falls attendees recently discussed the challenges of being a part of a minority culture in the United States.

It's a companion piece of sorts to the also - white - guy - directed Hustle & Flow, a means through which the majority culture tries to reconfigure the minority culture into comfortable terms (minstrel / criminal) that are so entrenched they've been assimilated by the offended.

I recommend this book to any artist or art historian, but especially to those who love figure painting, modern application of classical technique and work relating to minority culture.

Children from minority cultures may be subjected to stereotyping and discrimination on the basis of their ethnicity, religion, gender, appearance, social class or sexuality.

Understanding diversity, being from a minority culture or part of more than one culture can be complicated at times.