Sentences with phrase «of minority cultures»

Underlying these five principles in relation to Indigenous heritage are the human rights of self - determination under article 1 of ICCPR and ICESCR and the protection of minority cultures under article 27 of ICESCR.

The recognition of the special value of Indigenous culture within the Australian national identity accords with human rights standards which observe the special contribution of minority cultures to the cultural identity of the state, advising that: [ICCPR] Article 27 is directed to ensuring the survival and continued development of the cultural, religious and social identity of the minorities concerned, thus enriching the fabric of society as a whole.

Underlying these five principles in relation to Indigenous heritage are the human rights of self - determination under Article 1 of ICCPR and the protection of minority cultures under Article 27 of ICCPR.

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.

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.

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.

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

This principle recognises that the distinctiveness of minority or Indigenous cultures can only be protected to the same extent as the culture of a majority population if the law is able to protect the circumstances that make the continuance and development of the minority culture viable.

Not exact matches

And in the long run, the idea that a forced separation of cultures — with strict rules about who can wear what, or eat or listen to what — would be good for minorities is one that would backfire.

But the lawsuit «utterly failed» to reform the culture inside the company, Lockette alleges, where a «campaign of harassment» against minorities persisted, Bloomberg reports.

If you downplay your minority identity, you're running the risk of joining an organization with a culture of racism, sexism, elitism, or simply one in which you can't be your authentic self.

Over the past 16 years W Capital has pioneered this approach to minority investing, building an incredible portfolio, team and culture that I'm fortunate to be part of.»

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.

As Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg and an army of like - minded souls work to change the role of women on the business side of things, others are striving to advance the role of women and minorities within the predominately male Silicon Valley engineering culture.

The lack of diversity in tech has created a culture and economy that disadvantages women and minorities in raising capital and in building ground - breaking companies with lasting impact.

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.

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.

More than once this has happened through the work of a devoted and persistent minority when the Church as a whole, enmeshed as a social institution in its surrounding culture, lagged behind.

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.

The dominance of religious television by this one minority expression of American religious culture assumes more serious implications when it is considered with the factors that have influenced it, which is the substance of our next chapter.

I also think that a majority culture can easily ignore the sentiments and circumstances of those in a minority position; whereas those in a minority position are well - versed in the dominant culture.

have you purposefully moved to a culture unlike your place of birth where your race is drastically a minority in order to care for the highly contagious sick & dying of that other race & culture?

Religion - watchers were dubious of the religiosity of the 1950s revival; religious minorities were uncertain of the accepting nature of the revival; and culture - watchers were unsure what it all meant.

Most faiths are minority faiths, held by only a small portion of the culture in which they are located, and to proclaim them is usually a case of «singing the Lord's song in a strange land» (Psalm 137), whether «the Lord» is the one described by Mark or by Marx.

It incorporates songwriting and the study of songs from minority non-Western cultures lst.ac.uk

The ironic and indirect ways of affirming and denying — God bless the Czar and keep him far, far away — modes of speaking that are so important for Jewish humanism, are found in Yiddish, a plastic language that hung like a long suspension bridge over the chasm that separated the world of an isolated, vulnerable religious minority from the dangerous Gentile - dominated majority culture.

I was happy to see fellow bloggers raise some good questions: Was this list simply a manifestation of inequities inherent to American church culture, or did it fail to reflect the very real influence women and minorities have, both online and in the everyday life of the church?

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

The leaders in American culture are not like the tiny minority of landed aristocracy who were educated as gentlemen at Oxford or Cambridge so that they might enjoy their leisure and be ornaments of erudition.

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

Leaders of Protestant denominations and congregations will be able to exercise more faithful ministry when they acknowledge the minority status of all Christians in American culture.

In relation to American religious culture, therefore, television has exercised a major status - conferral effect, not on the basis of a representativeness, nor on a calculated moral - evaluative basis, but solely on the basis of a correspondence of a minority religious ethos with television's own economic, functional, and mythical goals.

Or, instead, can we recognize that a substantial minority in our culture hold views they see as rooted in their scriptures and part of their faith, even though those views may not always be popularly accepted?

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 group called on the general assembly to confess «our continued sins of racism and failure to love brothers and sisters from minority cultures» and to recommit itself «to bear fruit in keeping with our repentance.»

And I suppose that you are using the word «comrade» as some sort of reference to Communism, which you associate with every person or idea that does not fit in with your ignorant view of the world, however during the Cold War the minority of the Middle Eastern Muslim cultures that hated the US tended to be even more hostile to the Soviets (who where officially Atheist).

No longer a persecuted minority religion dependent on the culture of an «alien» world, Christianity now itself became a wellspring of culture.

As a minority group living in a hostile culture, members of the early Christian churches were in no position to identify the bestowal of God's grace and blessing with national peace and prosperity.

We need at least a significant minority who have tried to understand the deep history of the great cultures of the world.

Social oppression and deprivation deplete the ego resources of many women and members of minority groups in our sexist and racist culture.

He does not need me to wade into a culture war or gang up on a minority or sow seeds of discord and fear.

Black leaders who stressed the importance of blacks» pride in their heritage and culture feared, plausibly, that true integration in a society in which blacks were a small minority would subordinate black distinctiveness.

Hindu nationalism, which is alive and well in India today, is concertedly engaged in the assignment of absorbing minorities into its ideology, Driven by the ideology of Hindutva — a term coined by V. D. Sarvarkar10 which has always advocated a comprehensive project involving the coming together of culture, society, and politics, it seeks to fuse all the distinct particularities and differences of religious minorities (Muslims and Christians) and ethnocultural minorities (Dalits and Adivasis) into its Brahmanic construction of an Indian nation.

This sense that «everyone is a minority» profoundly marks the culture of an ecumenical seminary.

Unlike that of the dominant group, the culture of some of the minority groups did not make decisions using Robert's Rules of Order or by politicking.

They tend to be verbally sophisticated (reflecting a highly literate, text - based culture) and they draw on Jews» experience of being outsiders, often an oppressed minority.

The resources of religion and culture can not be separated from the minorities» social, economic, and political activity of resistance - liberation.

The Armenians were the minority Christian culture in the Ottoman Empire, second - class citizens without many of the rights Muslims enjoyed.

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.

While Madison did call for a centralized, «godless» state to protect minority groups and individual rights, he did not foresee the consequences of a political culture in which there was no intermediary between the individual and the state.