Sentences with phrase «think traditional cultures»

Before running water was available, do you really think traditional cultures drank that much water per person per day?

I do nt think traditional cultures ate like these people do in their journals It looks frankly like the food records of sumo wrestlers bulking up at training camp

Not exact matches

Our Western culture has moved so rapidly in the past half century, our ways of thinking have been so affected by the scientific, technological, and secular advances, that our situation seems divorced almost completely from society as presupposed in biblical and traditional theological thinking.

Leaders in «development» in the early decades after World War II often noted the importance of rationalizing the thinking or culture of traditional peoples.

«In traditional thought and literature, there has been virtually no interest in foreign countries, societies, cultures or religions... India has not reached out for the west; it has not actively prepared the encounter and «dialogue» with Christian - European, or any other foreign countries» (Halbfass, 1988: 195).2 This self - contented and self - contained trend however underwent change in the early nineteenth century Three factors contributed to the new posture of «modern» Hinduism.

A new report by the Electoral Reform Society argues that the future for parties can be secured by reaching out beyond traditional memberships, thinking differently about how they relate to other parties and shifting the culture of politics.

«Most Chinese scholars think it is important for timekeeping to have a connection to astronomical time because of traditional Chinese culture,» says Chunhao Han of the Beijing Global Information Center of Application and Exploration, who adds, however, that China has yet to decide how it will vote in January.

Wilson thinks art — especially the collective making of it that is common in traditional cultures — gives a selective advantage because it helps to organize cooperative behavior.

Once I asked my husband what he thought his traditional Native American name might be if he had been born into that culture, and he replied, «Lone Eagle.»

hum... i think i will trust all the traditional cultures over this vegan insanity who never considere the different envioremments people have around the world.

As much time is spent on their story arc as any other, which does occasionally blur the thematic resonance of the story to be more about the new culture of India vs. the traditional class and matchmaking structure, but one can also read into this the angle that India, like the building and its residents, is an old country that must also find new life through new ideas, not getting stuck in old ways of thinking at the cost of growth.

It is the most viable solution to promote a sustainable society by activating Social Common Capital in the culture based on holistic traditional thoughts and traditional community lifestyle, and weaves them again repairing once broken bonds as a direct result of living within an ongoing industrialization and materialism based society.

Education systems should incorporate multiple ways of learning, combining formal and non-formal, traditional and modern, local and outside languages, local and external teachers; high priority needs to be given to vocational learning, through community - based institutions; content should be focused on enhancing links with nature, culture, and society, encouraging community and collective thinking and working, respecting diversity, and other principles and values described in this section.

To achieve this outcome, districts will need to invest in their teaching staff, support purposeful inquiry to create cultures of growth, and think creatively about traditional barriers such as schedule and fixed marking periods.

I do think there are some philosophical points about the nature of culture to address (but the place for that is the conference circuit not the blogosphere); and I do question whether the traditional publishing structure is the right one to sit on top of the authors who just want to write.

During his residency he developed new paintings, but also shared his knowledge of the Tibetan contemporary arts scene, which is generally under - represented in the West where we tend to think more of their traditional culture.

Their works fuse traditional cultural knowledge with contemporary art forms, pose urgent political questions, and push the boundaries of how we think about art, history and culture more broadly.

In the attempt to rebuild, artists rejected traditional thought that had dominated prewar culture and embraced the scientific revolution through new, experimental approaches.

As people have different views of what is «feminine,» we hope to push the typical thoughts on femininity and not only have portraits of women, but also art relating to: Women across cultures, empowerment, non-typical feminine qualities, feminine qualities in abstract forms, traditional vs contemporary femininity, mother nature, and other creative concepts.

With fresh, innovative thinking, the authors speculate about the impact successful business venture will have on traditional Aboriginal cultures.