Sentences with phrase «much cultural prejudice»

It is a measure of how much cultural prejudice there still is against the vulgar upstarts of the new world and how snobbishly we revere European art that it is still widely assumed that Mondrian, Kandinsky and other early 20th century abstract artists are somehow more serious, genuine and pure than Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman.

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For black men, though, the challenges of the corporate life are daunting at least in part because they are sometimes hard to pin down — influenced as much by age - old prejudice as by cultural preconceptions, the subtleties of psychology, and the weight of human history (more on that soon).

Showing perhaps too much confidence in nonviolence, education, legislation and litigation as the only appropriate means to eliminate cultural prejudice, the editors never wavered in their support for civil rights in general.

A satire of network television's pitfalls and prejudices, a peek into the way blacks have been represented historically in the media, and the ways in which they have sought to redress the cultural balance (there's a neat look at an extremist hip - hop collective)- it's certainly the nucleus for a meaty and much needed discourse.

This is a sexy show, to be sure, but it's also primal and feral (the humans as much as the vamps) and mix of prejudice and predators and cultural color gives it plenty to chew on.

After independence, the Indian government left much of the educational bureaucracy in place, including, some critics say, the cultural prejudices that went with it.