Sentences with phrase «of cultural divides»

This is helped by one of Sega's finest localisations of the series thus far which helps to bridge some of the cultural divides Japan and the Western world have around these topics.

Shifting social mores, the blurring of cultural divides and aspiring ambition combine to provide a potent mix that's propelling the region ever forward at unparalleled speed.

But there is possibly no better example of the cultural divide.

There seems far too much certainty on both sides of the cultural divide — and this unfortunately limits the potential for creatively limiting greenhouse gas emissions.

Not exact matches

Ecosystem goods and services have most recently been defined as «the direct and indirect contributions of ecosystems to human well - being,» which can further be divided into one of four broad categories: regulating services (e.g. flood mitigation, water purification), provisioning services (e.g. food), habitat or supporting services (e.g. spawning grounds) and cultural services (e.g. recreational opportunities)(see here for an excellent explanation of these categories).

The teaching of the bishops of Malta sets up a cultural environment that will exacerbate both divides.

In such a society it is not possible to divide people into cultural groups each of which has a complete and distinctive way of life.

We must divide Christian principles from the cultural accretions of the ages that have become attached to them.

And some aspects of globalization, such as the explosion of communications technology, can expand and strengthen religio - cultural diversity in a world that is, at the same time, both linked and divided by a near - infinite number of electronic bands, channels, websites, and whatever comes next.

For example, referring to the «institutional field of cultural production» that «rapidly and radically transformed... the rigid dichotomy between «high» and «low» «(for academics like Professor Rainey, dichotomies are always «rigid» and high art always needs scare quotes), he tells us that «Modernism's ambiguous achievement... was to probe the interstices dividing that variegated field and to forge within it a strange and unprecedented space for cultural production, one that did indeed entail a certain retreat from the domain of public culture, but one that also continued to overlap and intersect with the public realm in a variety of contradictory ways.»

Other Republican hopefuls, Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition and such «cultural warriors» as Rush Limbaugh, former Secretary of Education William Bennett, and James Dobson, director of Focus on the Family, have claimed there is an encompassing social divide over morality and values.

Sadly, the two leaders» effort to bridge cultural divides never created the conditions to reconcile what Graham called «one of America's lethal sins,» but their shared vision was ahead of its time.

Is there really only one crucial cultural divide in contemporary culture — that between an orthodox and progressive vision of moral authority?

Countries that have been divided the way Germany and Korea have are of special interest to political analysts, since such key factors as religion, cultural history, geography, ethnicity and technological capacity are relatively constant in both regimes.

The main theme was divided into three sections for Conference discussion: Salvation and Social Justice; Salvation and Cultural Identity; and Renewal of the Churches in Relation to Salvation.

Much of the Blue State / Red State divide is over the cultural differences between an industrial and an agrarian society.

Even modest programs of redistributionism have been abandoned as intellectuals on the left have wasted their energies in promoting multiculturalist distractions, obscurantist cultural studies that have turned the academy into a narcissistic playpen, and communitarian platitudes that claim to bridge the divide between left and right.

Americans are bitterly divided on a host of political and cultural issues.

In its wake, Europe divided, roughly north and south, and the peoples of Europe were pitched into a series of murderous ideological wars in which tens of thousands died, and during which the religious, cultural, and political map of Europe was redrawn.

Of course he did: President Obama campaigned for office promising to heal our divisions and build bridges across our cultural divides.

The indication is that we are, roughly speaking, two nations, and the divide is not economic but, for lack of a better term, cultural.

Though class conflict and rural / urban divides are not one and the same (there are people of all classes in small towns and in cities), their overlap exposes profound class and cultural divisions in America.

At the very least, a renewed culture of hospitality could help debunk what seems (at least on the Internet) to be an operating assumption of Americans on both sides of our religious - cultural - political divides: the belief that our «enemies» are almost uniformly malevolent and unintelligent.

The range of concrete materials with which the conference deals is suggested by the titles of the five sections into which the delegates were divided for simultaneous sessions of intensive discussion: «The Church and the Community» (meaning by «community» what the Germans mean by Volk, society in its larger units viewed with reference to its cultural and racial coherence rather than its political organization); «Church and State»; «The Church and the Economic Order»; «Church, Community and State in Relation to Education»; «The Universal Church and the World of Nations.»

Here, too, the people are subject to European domination, and divided into many areas of varying size, with differing cultural traditions.

Some parents on both sides of the Israel - Palestine divide still hesitate to let their kids enter PPI's programs — Jews out of safety concerns and Arabs because of cultural norms for girls.

The fan base is pretty much divided in half by any conceivable issue, there are cultural tensions beneath the surface, and the Tigers have been hilariously inconsistent of late, winning 11 games or more twice in four years and going 5 - 7 twice as well.

Professor Barry Buzan at the London School of Economics, one of the most prominent members of the English School, has contended that the international society is divided into two: on the one hand there is a homogenous group of international actors that share a common historical and cultural background, and on the other a group that is linked by a contractual bond.

Instead of dividing Washington Heights in half, the proposed map makes it a «community of interest» — a self - contained area with common institutions, cultural, economic, political and social bonds.

Hoteliers and cultural agency leaders, after a year of negotiating with the tourism agency, agreed to the formula that would be used to divide the money.

Many of the battles in the 2016 race have been over cultural divides, but not necessarily those that cut neatly across demographic lines: Stavisky's side has been hammering Jung for his proposal to ban pictures of same - sex couples from textbooks and his pro-life stance on abortion.

Pétriz clarifies that there is a cultural divide between the public research agencies, universities, and the business sector and believes «we must improve the relationship between these agents of R&D» with two priority outcomes.

Earlier this summer marked the 50th anniversary of C. P. Snow's famous «Two Cultures» essay, in which he lamented the great cultural divide that separates two great areas of human intellectual activity, «science» and «the arts.»

The findings, just published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, reveal that the self - beliefs of members of Western cultural groups have much more in common with the rest of the world than was previously suggested, contradicting the generally accepted view of a «West versus the rest» divide in concepts of selfhood.

Time can mean many things, but Hillis's machine needs to track a particularly messy version: Earth - surface clock / calendar time, which is based on a byzantine agglomeration of astronomical rotations, orbits, and perturbations of hugely varying lengths, overlaid with arbitrary cultural whims about how to divide it up.

A major international research project led by a University of Sussex academic provides new evidence that the common belief in a cultural divide between the West and the rest of the world is little more than a myth.

But Kahan believes that the curious from both sides of the political and cultural divide should make good ambassadors to the more doctrinaire members of their own groups.

We examined different types of relationships and agreement structures, how the agreements originate and what's necessary to sustain them, and how partners are addressing legal and cultural challenges that can divide them.

Historically and across cultural divides, there are many examples of ethical non-monogamy.

This cultural celebration makes astoundingly easy to draw a sharp contrast between the «haves» and the «have nots» of romantic relationships, but do we really have to be so divided?

Though interracial relationships are very common today, there is still a cultural divide in the United States and it can be difficult for a person of one race to view a certain issue in exactly the same way as a person from another race.

Owners Rodney and Jitka Rogers (themselves a product of an American - Czech match) understand how to bring couples together across oceans and cultural divides.

With the aid of online dating platforms such as interracialmatch.com people of different cultural backgrounds, color, religion, race and ethnicity have an opportunity to bridge the continental divide and be with those their inner heart's truly desire.

He, like those on his side of the political, financial and cultural divide, has chosen to play down his own origins as he moves in a world where wealth is an entitlement rewarded with TV notoriety — «I have opinions, and because I have money, people listen.»

Sundance Review: «Lilting» Delicately Explores Grief and Cultural Divides With the Help of Ben Whishaw and Cheng Pei - Pei

Its twelve articles are divided among three sections, each dealing with distinct (but overlapping) areas of concern within the field of memory studies, namely: 1) Virtual and Prosthetic Memory; 2) Traumatic and Allegorical Memory; and 3) Historical and Cultural Memory.

The path of the dollar bill, and point of view in each episode, paints a picture of a modern American town with deep class and cultural divides that spill out into the open as the town's secrets get revealed.

But ending centuries of colonial rule in a country divided by deep religious and cultural differences proves no easy undertaking, setting off a seismic struggle that threatens to tear India apart.

Her new film is as much about second chances, migrant working conditions and the cultural divide between Anglos and Latinos as it is about the loneliness of the long - distance runner.

by Walter Chaw Spend much time mining the cultural divorce in these delightfully divided United States and you'll discover that the stereotypes governing our perceptions of either side (bellicose vs. pussified) tend to be by and large accurate.