Sentences with phrase «resistance against the culture»

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It is an online community of gamers that are upset that people are speaking out against the objectified way women are portrayed in gaming culture on - screen, and the community has also provided some resistance to the growing number of female gamers.

One of the predetermining factors in the witness of John Paul II against the secular materialism of the Western world was his personal experience of resistance to another kind of materialism, and to the political culture that came with it, in what was then called Eastern Europe — now a thing of the past.

If you like, you may call the actions of the Indians against white incursion the Resistance, though both sides could lay claim to that label — the soldiers resisting the presence in America of people from a different culture, the Native Americans fighting against those they consider invaders.

Some of us aren't fortunate enough to have the benefit of institutions like the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture (Baltimore, MD) or the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York, NY) in our hometowns, but many similar institutions offer a variety of school programs designed to educate young people — not only about the legacy of chattel slavery in America, but also the legacy of resistance and activism against injustice that it nurtured.

Gibson is inspired by the histories of Ghost Dance shirts, worn across Native American cultures in ceremonies of peaceful resistance against white assimilation — until Lakota Sioux wearing them were massacred at Wounded Knee.