Sentences with phrase «very dominant culture»

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Although they try to avoid calling attention to it, the new natural lawyers know very well that their project rests on metaphysical assumptions that the dominant scientific culture rejects.

He notes, «It is very difficult to screen out the obsessive prejudices of our dominant culture.»

Our «belonging» to that so - called «dominant culture» (if it is still dominant) constitutes the dimension of reciprocity and continuity without which it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to achieve a re-engagement.

Conservative ethnic leaders often argued that separateness from dominant American culture was essential to internally uniting their group; but every ethnic group was sharply divided over this very issue.

Delving into the text of the encyclical itself one finds that it addresses, appropriately, the utter incomprehension the dominant culture manifests towards something quite taken for granted in generations past: the very notion of faith.

A very male oriented, macho culture, rarely seen in the cities to this extent, is dominant.

The schools and classroom interventions that I've described educate a tiny fraction of the nation's poor children, and they are competing against a dominant culture in education that only very rarely considers whether there might be another, better way to motivate and engage children who are growing up in poverty.

New York has always had an outsized influence on national politics, and although Democrats are dominant in the state, the current president is very much a product of its political culture, too.

I am very aware of BDSM and its culture, I have a long standing fantasy of being a slave to an older, dominant, lesbian woman.

«In addition, I've learned that cultures where men are dominant have very different interaction expectations with a female principal than cultures where women are in charge of family decisions.»

Like the discreet drawing by Ilya Smirnov, «No Title Provided», placed above the radiator, or the small consumed candles on canvases by Josip Nosovel in the corner, Il Futuro era bellissimo per noi triggers a short - circuit mixing low and high culture, dominant historical narratives and esoterica, pop culture and cheap technology — temporalities, language, tone — in a moment that is both sentimental in mood and very dark in humour.

And for CAGW or religion or any strong culture, the dominant belief still got there by iterative selection of emotive narratives, which once again emphasizes an emergent process across very many individuals, that none of them own as such.

Hanukkah is a very minor Jewish holiday and commemorates a time, more than 2,000 years ago in which the Jewish people were at risk of being absorbed into a hostile dominant culture.

This legislation enshrined the White Australia policy, embedding dominant culture worldviews and priorities into the very birth of the federation, and of course the exclusion of us from Australia's birth certificate.