Sentences with phrase «other people and cultures»

Being open to seeing new parts of the world, a country, a state, and heck, even a city, engages our interest in other people and cultures.

It is not just the language itself — it is about an openness to other people and their cultures, a willingness to engage and communicate effectively with different people from different backgrounds.

Getting to know so many other people and cultures has been a truly amazing experience but I missed home!

Human beings are innately curious about other people and cultures, whether past or present, and she uses this interest as a vehicle for teaching in anthropology.

Their questions will lead to a positive discussion about other people and cultures.

In many ways, the law of Moses gave value and dignity to women and slaves that was unprecedented among other people and cultures of that time.

The ideal future would be one in which everybody could converse in at least two languages — a mother tongue sustaining their own cultural heritage, and a lingua franca providing access to other people and cultures around the globe.

Rorty's liberal ironist sees persons and cultures as «incarnated vocabularies» and tries to resolve her doubts about her own character or her own culture by enlarging her acquaintance of other people and cultures.

The exercise is supposed to teach us tolerance and respect for the values and practices of other people and cultures, and also to see that sometimes, bad thigns must be done for the good of everybody else.

was something which was offensive to other peoples and cultures, (for example the same word is used with reference to some foods being «offensive» to other cultures, (as hagas might be to Americans), or for example the Egyptians didn't eat, with non-Egyptians, as that was «offensive», or in today's language, «bad manners».

He had to teach them that there was only one God, a spiritual being who did not resemble human beings, and this could only be done by keeping them as far apart as possible from other peoples and cultures.

Missionary work to «save the heathens» who use a different word to praise God, any word that is different than their own... even though the other peoples and cultures don't speak English and have their own words of prayer... How many churches respected other cultures and how many do now?

Consequently, other peoples and cultures are likely to come to their knowledge and understanding of Christianity outside the mediating scheme of the Western Enlightenment, though it would be rash to exclude the possibility of contact altogether.

Not exact matches

That report drew a somewhat unpleasant conclusion about aging: We gravitate toward people like us, and think more negatively about other cultures.

When you build a strong culture and vet for this in the recruiting process, that naturally happens - great people attract other great people, and collectively do great things.

However, cultures that permit judging a person by anything other than their abilities and merits can stymy growth or even bring down a company.

Instead, make it a story about the culture of innovation and the many people who have sustained it; giving others role models and the license to have something to strive for.

Bootstrappers attract other bootstrappers and that creates a culture of people who are passionate, patient, and love running businesses they are proud of.

War, globalization, and other factors continue to push persons of different races, cultures and backgrounds into closer proximity.

3) What kind of corporate culture have you fostered, and how will that culture push people one way or the other in such situations?

Bain, and doubtless other firms on the list, realize that recruiting and retaining top talent requires a vibrant, people - first company culture.

Culture, personalities and traits are all important, but if you're looking for a championship - level team, then you need to create a system that holds people accountable for their actions and for each other.

If I were a young person again, I would go to a school outside North America and learn more about other cultures.

Over time others were drawn to the area by the presence of family or friends or simply by people who shared a common language and culture.

Beyond being an incredible song, its chorus became a rallying cry of protesters in the United States — «a kind of comfort that people of color and other oppressed communities desperately need all too often: the hope — the feeling — that despite tensions in this country growing worse and worse, in the long run, we're all gon» be all right,» as Slate culture writer Aisha Harris put it.

Culture is about creating an environment where talented people who respect each other can work together to take on important challenges and make a difference.

Employees at Bain & Company, a global management consulting firm headquartered in Boston, rave about its «incredible culture» and its «incredible people [who display] a mix of intelligence but also humility that you don't find at other top consulting firms.»

«If your employees are engaged and care about the company and its culture, and feel like they know what's happening», says Fradin, «then they become an advocate for the company — recruiting other people, talking positively about it, writing a review on Glassdoor.

Treating each other well, being respectful to each other, building a culture you actually want to live in, these are all things that make people happier, and in the end, more productive.

However, this might be uncomfortable and inappropriate for people from other cultures.

But we need our Canadian leaders to recognize that this genuine interest and curiosity about the world on the other side of the Pacific needs to be encouraged and validated through more opportunities that allow us to engage with new peoples and cultures.

Culture is the embodied values, principles and practices underlying the social fabric of a business, which permeate its actions and connects the stakeholders to each other and to the company's purpose, people and processes.

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Managers and directors set the tone for the rest of the organization, and having a discussion about healthy work culture will be worthless if the person leading it works 60 - hour weeks, takes no vacations, disrespects others, and thinks the discussion does not apply to them.

The best thing about being a part of a global network of employees is gaining exposure to a wide range of diverse people from different cultures and seeing and hearing what things are like in other places.

However, it's often even more about other things: being part of a community, being surrounded by inspiring people, and to broaden your horizon with different cultures and stories.

The funny thing about people saying their faith isn't shaken is that these are the same people who will often look at other natural disasters in foreign countries and say God is punishing these people, or that something bad happened because of some aspect of the culture that God disapproves of.

People need to learn to be more tolerant of other cultures and not judge people by their own ePeople need to learn to be more tolerant of other cultures and not judge people by their own epeople by their own ethics.

the abundance of purely uneducated Muslim believers, their oppressive existence in their self created repressive regimes, lifestyles, and governments, their radical inturpitations of their fairy tale book, the fact that their culture and people have contributed less to man kind than any other culture and people of all the earth, their self ritious belief system that empowers them to commit atrocious crimes against humanity, the muslim men prance around in flip flops and linen moo moo's while they lock their woman in their household prisons to be abused slave - wife's, are entirely too ignorant to even build sewer systems and even after thousands of years that other cultures have developed running water toilets, toilet paper, and effective sewerage systems, they still whipe their pood - cracks with one hand (no paper) and eat with the other, and yiddle to the sky just before detonation of their suicide bombs that murder innocent men, woman, children, and babies.

The result is a culture that discriminates against other animals, has disregard for the environment, created hatred against people of different beliefs and cultures, and has created constant sect oral wars from the day of its emergence.

In fact, in the past 9 years there have only been 3 topics people discussed, regardless of their race, religion (even atheists), culture, gender, or primary language: they only spoke of (1) God, (2) family, and (3) relationships with other people & regrets / joy for those relationships.

«R.M. Goodswell Christians would have you believe that they were singled out by the Romans... other cultures and peoples faired poorly when encountering the empire... heh... even being roman didn't buy you a pass sometimes in ancient rome... if they felt they needed fresh bodies for the arena, you became fodder.

And if burying bin Laden at sea and in accordance with Muslim law satisfied Muslims and indeed the rest of the world that's conscientious of other people's customs or culture, than so be And if burying bin Laden at sea and in accordance with Muslim law satisfied Muslims and indeed the rest of the world that's conscientious of other people's customs or culture, than so be and in accordance with Muslim law satisfied Muslims and indeed the rest of the world that's conscientious of other people's customs or culture, than so be and indeed the rest of the world that's conscientious of other people's customs or culture, than so be it.

Fundamentalism uses the culture, rituals, sacraments, texts, language, and metaphors and allusions and symbols (verbal, visual, musical, etc.) of religion in blind adherence to a dogma as defined and interpreted by a person or group who is self - aggregating and self - justifying raw personal power for the sole purpose of controlling the lives of others.

when you live in America, knowing that the culture here is very superficial and most things are based on looks (and not just here but other countries as well) you can't be surprised that people will find a fully bearded woman strange.

Its people speak different languages and have alternative cultures, worldviews and norms to other Africans elsewhere.

Tell us again what your best guess is as to why God inspired these writings, and chose not to inspire other people in different cultures all around the world, so everyone would have the same message?

Hierarchical thinking and action, says Mary Louise Pratt, is «historically as well as morally distortive» because it divides everything into privileged and unprivileged groupings, condemning some ideas, texts, and persons to the margins of a culture while exalting others to positions of primacy.

Muslim religion survived and flourished when it was mixed with other cultures, but pure Islam turned people into «gangsters» like ISIS, Boko Haram, Al Shabaab.

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.