Sentences with phrase «separate language and culture»

As to reasons why they want to be independent, they have a separate language and culture and a history of advocating separation.

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They are separated by culture, language (which impedes labor mobility, resulting in semipermanent labor productivity disparity between countries — think Greece and Germany),...
It seems fairly arrogant to so diverge from three centuries of native language interpretation in favor of that which was learned in a classroom separated from the real use of language and culture by millennia.
Would greater gross domestic production justify tearing apart our communities, language, and culture to the point of our having two separate, possibly hostile, Americas?
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.
But because we are separated by 2000 years, and culture, and language, we don't understand some of it.
Culture and language are important for a separate Welsh identity and for Welsh nation building.
Culture means more than just a set of learned behaviors that vary from place to place, some argued; culture means history and tradition, art, philosophy, and religion — the last barrier, together with language, that separates humans from other sCulture means more than just a set of learned behaviors that vary from place to place, some argued; culture means history and tradition, art, philosophy, and religion — the last barrier, together with language, that separates humans from other sculture means history and tradition, art, philosophy, and religion — the last barrier, together with language, that separates humans from other species.
If they have nothing to say to any of us about understanding what it means to be fully human and more fully ourselves, if they have nothing to tell us about the human experience as it has unspooled throughout human history, if they have nothing to say about the power of language to communicate across the gaps that separate us, if they have nothing to say about culture, if they have nothing to say about the rich heritage of the English language, if they have nothing to say about understanding the universal and the specific in human life, about how to grow beyond our own immediate experience — if they are, in fact, nothing more than fodder for test prep, then what the hell are we doing?
In the spotlight as guest of honor is the literary culture and language of Flanders and the Netherlands, who have created three separate VR experiences, including one allowing users to alternate between the perspectives of a father and his nine - year - old daughter who are mourning the loss of a family member.
Roundabout ° explores the possibilities of artistic exchanges between geographically separated cultures and of different traditions and languages.
Though the Canadian market has been asking Carswell for years to publish the French and English editions as two separate, less expensive publications, Carswell has refused, claiming on the one hand that a bilingual and bijuridical legal culture requires both languages in one volume (the high road) or that bilingual production is possible only with the higher price to subsidize the additional expense of producing it in two languages (the low road).
In 2002 SWALSC proposed to the traditional owners that these separate claims be amalgamated into a single native title claim, known as the Single Noongar Claim (SNC), to reflect the common culture and language family shared by all Noongars and restore the community unity that the native title process had undermined, as well as to negotiate better outcomes from the native title process with limited NTRB funding.
Post the 1788 invasion of Australia, governments» policies aimed to eradicate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their cultures, for example, by separating people from their land and by banning the use of language and other cultural practices.
This system separated many children from their families and communities and prevented them from speaking their own languages and from learning about their heritage and cultures.
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