Sentences with phrase «shared cultural symbols»

Chicharrón seeks to explore the expression of latinidad, understood as a narrative imagery, elaborated from shared cultural symbols and images.

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E. D. Hirsch argues in Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Houghton Muffin, 251 pp., $ 16.95) that schools are obliged to help students accumulate shared symbols and the knowledge they represent — that is to say, to teach students cultural literacy, so that they can learn to communicate in our national coCultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Houghton Muffin, 251 pp., $ 16.95) that schools are obliged to help students accumulate shared symbols and the knowledge they represent — that is to say, to teach students cultural literacy, so that they can learn to communicate in our national cocultural literacy, so that they can learn to communicate in our national community.

That particular ethnic groups are linked in larger religious groups, Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant, and that the religious groups share certain common symbols is undoubtedly an important element in whatever cultural unity and universality exists in America.

We can not automatically expect others to «see» what we Christians have focally seen in our primary symbol, Jesus the Qirist, unless they first share with us a sufficiently common set of subsidiary cultural and linguistic ingredients.

The shared medium of carved marble makes these venerated symbols and folkloric figures appear to have a family resemblance as they meet head - on in a cultural exchange between the East and the West.

It was both a cultural symbol and a shared memory for many generations.

Seeking insight into our cultural and spiritual identity in relationship to the rapidly changing environment, Bhalla utilizes photography, sculpture, installation, and performance to examine our shared relationship with water and its inseparable capacity to be both symbol and source of renewal.

Artists like Carlos Castro Arias, William Cordova and María Elvira Escallón bring symbols from the past into the present, collapsing temporalities to signal the cultural hybridity and diversity of Latin America's people, and a modern vernacular forged by shared co-existence.

A meme has been characterized as a «categorization of a cultural trend or truth, a unit for communicating and collectively sharing cultural ideas through words, symbols and pictures.»