It's wonderful hearing how much his parents instilled a passion for travel and
understanding other cultures in him.
«We think every person coming here is an individual, and we can show that we can improve ourselves by
understanding other cultures.»
We now come closer to
understanding other cultures and our own distant past on their own terms precisely because we recognize that their own terms differ from ours.
It is definitely true as
we understand each others cultures, and histories among the many other things, I believe planet earth has a chance.
I have no problem with religion being taught in schools, in fact, I think it's important everyone have an understanding of different world religions because it will help people
understand other cultures as well as see what leads some people to do the things they do.
Especially for Singapore, Otis stressed that an ability to
understand other cultures well will be more critical than ever as international business becomes more important.
This approach can make sure that
you both understand each others cultures and mindsets.
These women are popular because they are generally well - educated, know another foreign language and
understand other cultures, and have a greater chance of finding employment in a new country.
I want to find more friend to
understand other cultures.
Does teaching multiculturalism imply that our failure to
understand other cultures was partly responsible for the terrorist attacks?
The next international Pisa tests are going to compare how well young people
understand other cultures.
The test is underpinned by the idea that young people should
understand other cultures, show respect for «human dignity» and be able to objectively analyse information.
Students get to learn different languages and
understand other cultures.
He balances the anthropologist's quest to
understand other cultures with the compelling narrative style of his literary ancestors, including the New Journalists.
Helping our clients to
understand other cultures» business acumen is also often a challenge.
When you have such experiences with others, it helps you to
understand other cultures.»
«Making an effort to
understand other cultures is the biggest part of this global economy,» explains Kitabayashi.
Not exact matches
What's important for entrepreneurs with ambitious agendas is that they
understand why they have chosen one approach over the
other, how they have organized their infrastructure and
culture to make it happen, and where they will integrate growth or scale with
other competitive factors to make it harder for
others to emulate their success.
Other important decisions included:
understanding that investing in marketing was critical to generating sales; focusing on sales training, including the science and art of selling, was critical for building an expert and successful sales team; and most importantly creating a can - do business
culture where coming to work was fun.
When banks and startups better
understand the
culture and pragmatic concerns of the
other, we'll see a higher percentage of courtships result in real collaboration, bringing products and services to market that will ultimately result in better user experiences for bank customers.
In the U.K., the Department of Digital,
Culture, Media and Sport will direct Facebook, Alphabet Inc.'s Google, Twitter Inc. and
other companies to simplify their data management policies for consumers to make them easier to
understand, the Sunday Times reported.
I find that most of my Christian friends who talk about homosexuality are either determined to not think about the issue because of tradition and fear or are on the
other end and choose not to think about the issue because the pressure of contemporary
culture (in our part of the world) is to equate my sexuality with the colour of my skin which is, in light of history, a silly equation but we should just adjust our
understanding to accomodate.
How could husbands in that
culture,
understanding the chiastic sandwich structure and thus grasping Paul «s true message, have
understood anything
other than that they were to raise their wives out of their lowly position into a glorious one?
Theological hermeneutics should have a «spiral structure» in which there is ongoing circulation between
culture, tradition, and biblical text, each enriching the
understanding of the
other.
The classic anthropological picture, largely drawn from the study of primitive societies, of tightly - woven patterns of
culture, each element of which has to be
understood in relation to all the
other interconnected elements, is decreasingly relevant to the
understanding of man - in - relation.
Digital utopias disagree with those who worry about scenarios of worldwide cultural homogenisation, they see the emergence of new and creative lifestyles, vastly extended opportunities for different
cultures to meet and
understand each
other, and the creation of new virtual communities that easily cross all the traditional borderlines of age, gender, race, and religion.
Ideally they also learn and practice
other languages than their own; their holidays are used to gather knowledge and
understanding of art and
other cultures, rather than just sunning on a beach.
As it is, I
understand many people, if not most, don't remember anything at all, and furthermore, people of
other cultures and religions remember seeing things that conform to THEIR religions.
The reasons for «why» are vital in
understanding how
other people (and therefor the
culture at large) thinks.
The impact of the technologies and institutions of electronic
culture need to be
understood in relation to their intertwinement with two
other major modern movements, each of which is dependent on the
other.
In the one
understanding of contextualization, the revelatory trajectory moves only from authoritative Word into contemporary
culture; in the
other, the trajectory moves both from text to context and from context to text, and in the midst of this traffic the interpreter, rather like a police officer at a busy intersection, emerges as the sovereign arbiter as to what God's Word for our time actually is.
Eliade
understands syncretism not in a pejorative sense but as something inherent in
culture and religion to influence each
other.
He seems to assume that Christian
culture and politics in
other parts of the world can be
understood through categories derived from the past 200 years of Western liberal democracy and misses the fact that these communities have histories of their own.
On the
other hand it can be made up of intricate nuances that may not be so easily
understood and appreciated by outsiders to the
culture.
Not only must one view the individual patient as an operating biological organism, one must also seek to
understand both the environing medium for that person, which includes all
other persons with whom functional activity occurs, and the specific
culture that to a large extent shapes the perceptual patterns by which that individual experiences the world.
To avoid this pitfall, one should first read his autobiography, Out of My Life and Thought, and the first volume of his theory of
culture, The Decline and Restoration of Civilization; these two works supply the background and perspective necessary to
understand all the
others.
Today's world man has become with no value
other than his organs if sold or stolen... so what is happening only proves that we are imposing marketing the wrongs against the rights...
cultures and beliefs are going down the drain with all those values, morals, virtues some how turning into commotion among
cultures and beliefs turning against each
other misunderstanding each
other or unaware of
cultures way of living and beliefs to ease communication mutual
understanding as a nation of mankind and a nation of faiths.
Man of God and God fearing is what is counted for a man to represent a mixed
culture and beliefs nation for which he has to be aware of those
cultures and beliefs of those
other nations in order to be able to plant respects to become between those mixed
cultures and beliefs as such gives the assurance of mutual
understanding between the nation with
other overseas nations or even with those within the country of mixed
cultures and beliefs...!
It's hard to
understand a
culture that encourages violence against women, violence against their neighbours, violence and hatred against
other nations, suicide bombings, stoning people to death, so called «honor killings», chemical and biological weapons testing on prisoners, and a long list of
other «not so nice» practices.
The language - game concept is helpful as we try to
understand ways of thinking in
other cultures, not only primitive ones or those foreign to us but also the subcultures in our own country.
Even though it feels like a drop in the ocean, Unpopular
Culture (SPCK) was written for such a time as this — to help
other young people trying to find their place in a world that is harder to
understand than ever before.
V / hen a person tries to
understand someone of another
culture, or a genius, or even a younger or older person, he has difficulty; his
understanding is limited both by his own conception of what actions are intelligible and by his inability to share the
other's views.
The questions about religion and public life, those calling for «public» discussion, no longer focus on the verifiability of religious speech but concern quite
other issues: methods of
understanding and describing the religious realities, old and new, that we see appearing around us; useful criteria for assessing these religions and for defining and comprehending this new set of powers in our public life; and ways of protecting vital religious groups from the excesses of the public reaction to them, and protecting the public from the excesses of powerful religious groups — hardly questions a secular
culture had thought it would have to take seriously!
We recently searched for videos and
other material to help our kids
understand the damage caused to them by the hook - up
culture and, instead, to think about real personal relationships.
One only has to think about the countless
cultures around the world that developed gods independently of each
other long before humans began to travel globe to realize that all gods are a result of mans ego, fear and lack of
understanding.
The attempt to
understand what
others believe is noble and enlightening, particularly because with it comes the
understanding that
other cultures are beautiful too.
For like Whitehead and Dewey, Kadushin
understood that the concept of organic thinking offered an approach to logic and the foundations of knowledge that was an alternative to the perversions of the sort of blind faith in natural science that had come to dominate the intellectual
cultures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; an alternative that did not attempt to devalue science or replace it with a nonrational mysticism, but which did attempt to place scientific thought into a broader cultural context in which
other forms of cultural expression such as religious and legal reasoning could play important and non-subservient roles.
Being loyal to, and trusting in, one god, was not always
understood by
other cultures, but the Hebrew
culture influenced
others by their beliefs and religious practices.
Genesis, along with every
other creation story from every
culture on the planet, tells a story in terms that that
culture's people could
understand to explain how life began.
It is a small book, and the supporting sociological evidence is mainly referenced in the footnotes, but Greeley does propose evidence that, among
other things, Catholics have, compared to non-Catholics, a significantly higher appreciation of the arts and high
culture; they have more satisfaction and fun in sex; they better
understand the uses of leisure; they have a deeper and more stable relationship to family and community; they have a greater respect for the life of the mind, with educational achievements reflecting that respect; and they
understand the nuanced connections between freedom and authority.