Sentences with phrase «western high culture»

The man who would become Pope Benedict XVI was deeply concerned about the moral relativism he thought was corroding the West, and located its roots in Western high culture's refusal to say that anything was «the truth,» full stop.

F or the better part of two centuries now, one of the standard tropes in western high culture has held that the - God - of - the - Bible - is - the - enemy - of - human - freedom.

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Thus the Commission called for a Christian concern for Higher Education which helps critical rational and humanist evaluation of both the western and Indian cultures to build a new cultural concept which subordinated religious traditions, technology and politics to personal values according to the principle «Sabbath is made for man and not man for the Sabbath», enunciated by Jesus and illustrated in the idea of Incarnation of God in Christ.

The scholars who study Islamic culture today point out that the chief factors which have influenced contemporary Arab Muslim society are: the Western ideas which penetrated Arab society through education and increased contact with the West, socialist concepts which have spread throughout the world, communist doctrines which challenge religion in general, the expansion of university education, the admission of Muslim women to higher education, the study of ancient and modern philosophy in the universities, and the modern Muslim movements which have been so influential.

The UK has the highest rate of teenage pregnancies in Western Europe, children born to teen mums are among the most vulnerable of all children — and in African Caribbean cultures, early pregnancy is still very common.

To criticize those parents and call them ignorant and not meeting the needs of their children is the reason why mothers from Western Cultures suffer higher rates of PPD because people like you judge them for not having the luxury the «village» of support around them.

There are studies in Western cultures that find high rates of pediatric sleep disorders — upwards of 40 % [1]-- commonly defined by night wakings in infancy and then night wakings and bedtime resistance in childhood.

First of all, Japan is not an ageing society due to their birth rate (which is actually on the rise either way, from 1.26 in 2005 to 1.5 in 2016), but due to their high life expectancy which itself is a byproduct of a culture that generally respects the elderly far more than western countries do.

While higher caloric intake and overeating is common in many Western cultures, the Okinawans have a custom of self - imposed calorie restriction following the practice of hara hachi bu.

Asian cultures have a much higher intake of spices including daily use of turmeric, and have lower rates of certain diseases than western countries.

They further explain that a lower omega - 6 / omega - 3 ratio with increased levels of omega - 3 reduces the risk of many of the chronic diseases with high prevalence in Western cultures.

The «China Study» research strongly supports that these dietary differences are largely responsible for the much higher rates of heart disease, diabetes, stroke, many cancers, and other chronic diseases in Western cultures, including the United States.

«This high - pitched rhythmic speech is common in human interactions with dogs in western cultures, but there isn't a great deal known about whether it benefits a dog in the same way that it does a baby.

Theo Mercier (b. 1984, France) creates tongue - in - cheek sculptural and photographic assemblages of collaged images and found objects that playfully collapse the boundaries between high and low art, craft and industry, past and present, Western and non-Western cultures.

The use of French alludes to the hegemony of Classical Western - European High Culture while its representation in the exhibition suggests dissolution and degeneracy.

The once ignored, artististic impulses of non-white artists in the Western canon have been given increasing credit for their contributions in shaping high and popular culture.

From about the 1890s on, a succession of varied movements and styles arose that are the core of modern art and that represent one of the high points of Western visual culture.

The Health Secretary says there is an average wait of 11.5 years for compensation, that legal action is costly, that stillbirth rates in the UK are amongst the highest in Western Europe and that a «blame culture» is one of the problems standing in the way of improved safety.

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Generally defined, temperament is the biological basis of personality.4 Research on the topic of temperamentally - based socially wary, reticent and inhibited behavior has reported differences in prevalence of this construct between East Asian (e.g., China, South Korea) and Western children and youth (e.g., Western Europe, Canada and the United States); the former group has demonstrated a higher prevalence of wary, inhibited behavior than the latter.5, 6,7,8,9 In Western cultures, which value independence and assertiveness, socially - inhibited and reticent behavior is viewed as reflecting shyness, fearfulness and social incompetence; in East Asian cultures, which are dominated historically by Confucian and Taoist philosophies, socially wary and inhibited behavior is viewed as reflecting compliance, obedience, being well - mannered, and thus, social maturity and accomplishment.10