Sentences with phrase «own cultural habits»

I suspect it's because religion is cultural habit, and many people are conditioned to believe without critical thought.

Religions incorporated and codified these basic social values and skills, and quickly learned to take credit for them — as if, without the religion, we would be doomed to not have them — although we see them in every human society, including hunter - gather tribes with no sense of gods as we understand them After many centuries of religious domination, enforced through pain of death, ostracization or other social sanctions, allowing religion to take credit, as well as failing to question other religious claims — has become a cultural habit.

Let me add I have not seen your 3 posts asking me about how I feel about it before now when I copied and posted those above and If I had seen before I would have answered you with out any hesitation but did not because I moved to other blogs... And to satisfy you interest my saying I do not like it as a cultural habit but if religion failed to stop it and had to regulate it then what can I do about it... people can still lie and give you an elder age and how can you tell if 9 - 10or more at villages there are no birth certificate issued nor villagers interested to obtain it... what can you tell from their teeth like sheep??

The economy can not work without a polity of law respectful of natural rights, as well as the cultural habits or virtues necessary to support all three systems - in - one.

Yet I feel that many Christians — I include myself — have yet to find any healthy forms of resistance to this new cultural habit.

Culture I recently read Jonathan Price's «Culture by Subtraction» (February) and thoroughly enjoyed it — not least because it grants the rather respectable name of «cultural habit» to what has so far been called my countrymen's «arrogance»!

The Green and the Red highlights how stereotypes and cultural habits can influence our behaviour but how a little open mindedness — from flexitarians, vegetarians, vegans and omnivores alike — can produce positive change for people and planet.

The cultural habit of conditionality leads us to focus outwardly instead of looking first to ourselves.

This cross-sectional study was to assess the relationship between RA, breastfeeding, and also use of oral contraceptives, in a population of older women from South China, where cultural habits differ from those in the West, where most previous studies were conducted.

However, new democratic institutions and constitutions are not able to instantly change long standing cultural habits, curb economic manipulation, and soften political brinkmanship.

Cultural habits play such an important role in how people live in their houses.

«If we simply accept that chimpanzees have cultural habits that spread by means of social learning and then add this genetic picture to it, we get in fact a view closer to what we know about humans, and a broader debate that we have hardly had before,» says de Waal.

Cultural habits aren't easy to modify as they are ingrained in someone's being.

Kim says: «Some people say that dog eating is Korean culture, but you won't find many young people who feel it's a cultural habit we want to hold on to.

There are complex and deep - seated emotional and psychological reasons why a person might be cruel, as well as learned cultural habits.

Information ranges from #fakenews and propaganda about how Mexico is nothing but drug cartels and Cubans are jailed for eating meat to misinformed representations of cultural habits and customs to more subtle but insidious articles in which all the facts might be correct on the surface but, being an outsider, the writer swaps out the nuances and complexities that make up real cultures for confused generalizations and stereotypes that promote subcsoncious racism.

If you're trying to budget your business travel, one interesting statistic is shaking up a longtime cultural habit: the business lunch.

This truly revolutionary «new - generation» bed is designed around customers» cultural habits.

At the same time — their own roots can weaken and their own cultural habits diminish as they learn and adapt to other cultures.

In addition to the language, your firm needs to be able to speak to and reach this demographic with distinct cultural habits.

Not exact matches

That is, they won't reside in only one or two company functions or departments: They will be cultural attributes, habits and behaviors you can find throughout the organization.

And while this fact is indisputable, less obvious are the social and cultural forces that lead an individual to kick the habit.

* Bolstering those statistics, and providing opportunity outside of typical breakfast hours, is a cultural shift in dining habits.

National Bonds is fighting for cultural change; Mohammed Qasim Al Ali, CEO of National Bonds, explains how its unique Shari'ah - compliant fund is transforming people's habits from spending...

Prior to those two is a particular moral and cultural system, constituted by civic institutions and well - ordered personal habits.

Tinkering, Wuthnow argues, is a style or habit or strategy driven ultimately by the many economic and cultural uncertainties that characterize American society in recent decades.

First published in 1994, this updated version is a welcome guide to the ways in which the ACLU's constituting mission of protecting civil liberties has frequently degenerated into an ideological crusade against cultural institutions and habits essential to a genuinely free society.

Nevertheless, making such neighborhoods today is very hard, not only because we have largely lost the requisite cultural and social habits, but also because in most places zoning laws (which mandate segregated uses) and street design regulations (which are crafted exclusively to make streets efficient for cars rather than also safe for pedestrians) make it literally illegal to build such environments.

Can we extend compassionate forgiveness without relativizing the social morality that actually has teeth, that informs our habits and sensibilities, that structures our political - cultural world?

To a large extent the popular media are ignored in theological education because of the dominant media habits and cultural orientations of theological teachers.

At the same time, he rejects those theories, «more or less tinged with behaviouristic psychology,» which assume» that human nature has no dynamism of its own and that psychological changes are to be understood in terms of the development of new «habits» as an adaptation to new cultural patterns.»

Survival of the fittest, the law of instincts and habits, social process, dialectical materialism, cultural cycles — all work together to form a more tenacious and oppressive belief in fate than has ever before existed, a fate which leaves man no possibility of liberation but only rebellious or submissive slavery.

Even if we can separate «the ore of the ideal from the dross of habit of behavior,» the ideals can not be lived outside the cultural, religious, and social life in which they developed.

Here he presented religion as a phase of the dynamic life process in which the shared valuations of a cultural group, influenced by the whole matrix of social patterns and habits inherited in the historical situation, are carried forward and readjusted.

I wonder, though, how completely these apostates have rooted out their previous intellectual, cultural, and moral habits.

It only scratches the surface though — it takes months, even years to change these kinds of habits, but if it is a cultural change, and one that is consistently reinforced, it will eventually take hold.

Cultural preferences are also the result of learned habits.

Breastfeeding and pacifiers: for breastfeeding families, the decisions how, when or if to use a pacifier can be a bit muddled by cultural mores that are often at odds with the nursing habits of human infants and the physiology of establishing and maintaining a milk supply.

But that would require a change of cultural or political habits — a difficult change that, in Sobouti's view, has two keys:

But a relatively recent line of inquiry is beginning to show that the way scientists go about their work can also be linked to the beliefs, habits and practices of their social, cultural and political environment.

Factors such as heredity, access to exercise, parental food habits and cultural differences in portion sizes are all known to contribute to childhood obesity.

The poll found some intriguing cultural differences in the bedtime rituals and habits of the six countries.

Shirley Malcom, director of AAAS Education and Human Resources, says many of them are cultural — old habits die hard.

The impressive geographic variation in chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) behavior is thought to be cultural in that it results from the transmission of socially acquired habits.

In terms of the overall composition of the fecal microbiome, however, differences may exist both in taxon distribution and relative abundance as a result of cultural or dietary habits.

As True pointed out at the FDA committee meeting, it is very difficult to separate out the effects of menthol from other cultural and racial factors that may influence smoking habits and dependence.

The basics explained a great deal about how influential our parents personal dietary habits and cultural influence have upon our own personal Prakriti.

In the case of pulses and soybeans, there are likely additional factors, including purported physiological effects (digestibility issues), cultural factors, habits (e.g. vegetarianism / veganism), and knowledge about how to incorporate them into everyday diets.

Knowing her eating habits and the cultural food is a great way to be more intimate.

I don't think older men can change their habits and cultural expectations.