Sentences with phrase «of cultural minorities»

We also examined the effect of study design characteristics such as sample characteristics (i.e., sample size, age of parents, percentage of cultural minorities), design of the study (randomized controlled trial versus quasi-experimental), and outcome characteristics (follow - up duration, type of outcome measure).

There has been significant resistance from Indigenous groups to their rights being equated with the rights of cultural minorities within a particular State.

It relates variously to the rights to self - determination, non-discrimination and equality before the law, as well as to the right of cultural minorities to enjoy and practice their culture.

Not exact matches

Big losers will include our cultural institutions, including the CBC and the Canada Council who will likely face further devastating cuts, as well as human rights, international development and arts organizations who were funded historically by the Canadian government (some of whom had already lost funding under the minority Conservative government).

Almost 15 per cent of them represent a «cultural market» - which we define as new Canadians and visible minorities.

They are almost twice as likely as the next closest segment (61 % to 34 %) to say that Canada should be focused on encouraging cultural diversity instead of integrating minority groups into mainstream Canadian society.

In China, we have seen how rigid compliance with regime orthodoxy has led to political and policy disasters, whether during the Cultural Revolution and Tiananmen, or on contemporary issues of environment, national minorities, and corruption, many of which still can not be discussed openly.

The dispensationalism to which the two of them subscribed had long served to reinforce a strong sense of cultural marginalization, viewing the truly faithful as a cognitive minority existing on the margins of the dominant culture, waiting for the Lord to «rapture» them out of the increasing cultural mess before things got drastically worse.

BioEdge has the latest report: «There is a small minority of activists who say that there is a cultural identity in being born deaf and that we should....

As white racism has created a state of hostility between the dominant Caucasian population and the color minorities, so English monolingualism and Anglo - Saxon cultural chauvinism threaten to impair relations further between the growing Hispanic minority and the Anglo majority.

Representing almost one - quarter of the American population, Catholics also constitute the largest cultural minority in the nation.

Azariah who later became Bishop of Dornakal argued that the church in accepting the position of a communal political minority with special protection would become a static community and it would negate its self - understanding as standing for mission and service to the whole national community, that in any case the Indian church is not a single social or cultural community since it consists of people of diverse background, each of whom would have its own political struggle to wage in cooperation with the people of similar background in other religions; and therefore theologically and politically Christians should ask only for religious freedom for its mission and service to all people, not as a minority right, but as a human right (ref.

We will have to consider both the idea and the reality of cultural pluralism to see whether it has any substance or is merely a screen for the dominance of the Anglo - Saxon minority.

But replacing our cultural heritage may only cause irritation, especially if you do this not only in museums visited by a minority of people, but affecting everybody.

When another saintly Benedict did finally emerge, this time upon the Chair of Peter, his cultural analysis echoed that of MacIntyre: «I would say that normally it is the creative minorities that determine the future, and in this sense the Catholic Church must understand itself as a creative minority,» suggested Pope Benedict XVI during an in - flight papal press conference in 2009.

Churches in the third world have found themselves in the religious and cultural minority among a wide variety of cultures and religions.

Important issues are indeed at stake, including the right of Christians and adherents of other religions to uphold their vision of sexual integrity and marriage even if they are in the cultural minority.

Simultaneously the white, Anglo - Saxon, Protestants among these «mainline» groups were suffering cultural and economic eclipse on other fronts as «minority» Protestants, Roman Catholics, Jews, and persons of no religious affiliation improved their relative positions in the society.

On the other hand, conscious of their minority status in an overwhelmingly Protestant nation, Catholics naturally feared the restrictions which the hostile minority could impose on them if they translated cultural leverage into political power.

Religious and ethno - cultural minorities in India are under a variety of threats in contemporary India.

In this sense, worship keeps alive the religious and cultural expressions that reflect the distinctiveness of minorities in India.

Minorities safeguard their particularities in the religio - cultural realm, which is under threat through the homogenizing tendency of Hindutva.

But theology also involves reflection on the productive task of mission activity that locates and circulates religio - cultural resources of such minorities for developing more pluralistic frames of collective living in the nation - state.

On the other hand, liturgy points to the inward moment of theology: it reflects from its position in the midst of the confidence with which minority communities enact their religio - cultural pluralities and perform their distinctive particularities before God and community.

So also — although it may be hard to remember the pre-Lewinsky era — Bill Clinton positioned himself as a cultural moderate (abortion would be «safe, legal, and rare») and was elected twice with a minority of the popular vote.

There is still a strong tendency to give priority to individual rights, and states tend to be inclined towards the recognition of the collective rights of minorities and usually favour assimilation over cultural autonomy.

For example, «cultural minorities seek more than the right of their individual members to equality and participation within the larger society.

Today no society can be wholesome without allowing the self - determination of racial, ethnic and religio - cultural minorities.

Exclusion of young fathers in some ethnic minority families may be reinforced by cultural practices when female family members play a particularly substantial role in providing support to the mother during pregnancy and birth (Pollock et al, 2005)

By 1990, the cultural diversity began to change slightly as shown by census reports of 94.8 % Caucasian residents and 5.2 % minority residents, with the largest minority group being Asian (3.7 %).

In global terms, breastfeeding is normal, whereas because only 8 % of the world's babies are born in countries where bottle - feeding is the cultural norm [10] some might describe bottle - feeding as a «traditional harmful practice of the minority,» as set out in the Innocenti Declaration [11].

• Assumptions about different cultural groups and how they impact breastfeeding support • Shoshone and Arapaho tribal breastfeeding traditions shared through oral folklore • Barriers to decreasing health disparities in infant mortality for African Americans • Effects of inflammation and trauma on health disparities that result in higher rates of infant mortality among minority populations • Barriers to breastfeeding experienced by Black mothers and how lactation consultants can support them more effectively • Social support and breastfeeding self - efficacy among Black mothers • Decreasing pregnancy, birth, and lactation health disparities in the urban core • Positive changes in breastfeeding rates within the African American community • Grassroots breastfeeding organizations serving African American mothers

Prior to this discovery, in most western industrialized countries SIDS rates ranged between approximately 1.5 to 4 infants per 1000 live births (compared to industrialized counties in Asia, such as Japan, which has the lowest SIDS rates in the world,.05 infants per 1000 live births21) with enormous increases amongst minorities, especially impoverished indigenous peoples such as the Maori of New Zealand, the Cree of Northern Canada, and the Aborigines of Australia.19, 22,23 Native peoples in the United States demonstrated similar exponentially increased SIDS (or SUDI rates, see below), as much as two to seven the times the rates found amongst white Americans.13, 19 Despite significant declines among almost all cultural and / or ethnic groups, SIDS rates still remain the leading cause of death for infants between one month and one year of life in the United States and elsewhere.13

During the many sit - ins, cultural events and discussions at the Park, people of very different backgrounds, who would otherwise not come into contact — Turkish secularists and nationalists, Kurdish activists, members of the creative professions and white collar workers, Socialists, religious and ethnic minorities, Islamists as well as LGBT and gender campaigners — found a way to manage coexistence and respect for pluralism.

Delinking politics and identity is not only relevant for rethinking a new progressive discourse on Europe, but also in the debate on the integration of cultural and religious minorities.

The authors start from recent developments in citizenship theory — an area in which Kymlicka's ideas on the rights of minority cultural groups have had a major influence.

Multiculturalists are concerned about the domination of cultural or religious minorities by their majoritarian counterparts.

McGuinness» resignation letter spoke of his «deep personal frustration» with the DUP's foot - dragging around cultural and equality issues and «shameful disrespect» towards nationalists and minorities.

Establish a minority support group or other cultural outlets, since some minority graduate students drop out of graduate school because of dissatisfaction with the social life rather than the intellectual environment.

No more: Bounceur, a 30 - year - old mathematician from Algeria who is also a member of Algeria's Berber cultural minority, renounced such trivial pursuits when he came to France as a master's graduate in operations research — a discipline that blends mathematics and statistics with computer science to pursue optimal solutions to complex problems — seeking better opportunities.

For minorities, generally, it is even tougher, as cultural differences and the dearth of role models present obstacles that non-minority scientists don't face.

«Minority teachers may be perceived more favorably by minority students because they can serve as role models and are particularly sensitive to the cultural needs of their students,» said study author Hua - Yu Sebastian Cherng, assistant professor of international education at NYU SteMinority teachers may be perceived more favorably by minority students because they can serve as role models and are particularly sensitive to the cultural needs of their students,» said study author Hua - Yu Sebastian Cherng, assistant professor of international education at NYU Steminority students because they can serve as role models and are particularly sensitive to the cultural needs of their students,» said study author Hua - Yu Sebastian Cherng, assistant professor of international education at NYU Steinhardt.

Some of these differences may relate to cultural preference for certain beans among minority populations, who tend to have lower average income levels than Caucasians.

Cultural appropriation is defined as «the use by cultural outsiders of a minority, oppressed culture's symbols or other cultural elementsCultural appropriation is defined as «the use by cultural outsiders of a minority, oppressed culture's symbols or other cultural elementscultural outsiders of a minority, oppressed culture's symbols or other cultural elementscultural elements».

As Kimmel, celebrating the success of Black Panther as both a cultural and commercial enterprise, noted on the Oscars stage, «I remember a time when the major studios didn't believe a woman or a minority could open a superhero movie.

But it's even more complicated than that, owing to Glatzer and Westmoreland's homosexuality and the specific insight that an unpopular, oft - misrepresented minority engaged in the creation of a non-traditional family unit might bring to a story of another unpopular, oft - misrepresented minority (Mexican working class) looking to create a haven of kinship in a sea of cultural turmoil.

Assimilationism refers to desire to have minorities give up their cultural / identity characteristics in order to adopt the cultural / identity characteristics of majority.

We do, however, see for each additional field trip an increase in the desire among minority students to attend cultural events of 7 percent of a standard deviation.

China has some strong programs when it comes to using the native languages of minority groups for school instruction, according to a report published in 2005 and released online in July by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO.

Using WAC records, we again only find a significant benefit for minority students, an increase in cultural participation of 8 percent of a standard deviation.