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They need to take a step back and examine the cultural assumptions underpinning their medical opinions.
To understand how cultural change can take place, it helps to take an anthropological approach, which invites us to study other societies, and to look at our own culture from a different perspective.
Intersex people’s bodies challenge fundamental cultural assumptions about sex and gender in many societies.
But now that we have ample knowledge about the issue, we can either critically examine and adjust these assumptions, or we can insist that individuals conform to existing cultural norms and social expectations.
Ethnic cleansing perpetuated by the Islamic State has reversed centuries of religious, ethnic, and cultural intermingling, and pushed close to two million people from their homes.
Moreover, cultural barriers reduce the wellbeing of those who do not speak the dominant language, especially indigenous communities.
The spirit of love for freedom, the spirit of solidarity, the spirit of the will to protect, jointly, our common cultural wealth, the spirit of alliance that is not opportunistic but emphatically moral.
It has emerged from what it calls a “century of shame” to become one of the world’s engines of economic development and cultural and intellectual achievement.
And all member states are subject to the economic insecurity, cultural anxiety, and political alienation that new political forces are exploiting by using referenda to recast politics as a fight between the people and self-serving elites.
If adopted, this instrument can make a real difference in the lives of those who are often left to languish at the margins of society, and are denied their economic, social, and cultural rights, such as access to adequate nutrition, health services, housing, and education.
Its framers understood that social and cultural stigmatization precludes full participation in public life and the ability to influence policies and obtain justice.
Countries with planned economies argued that the need for survival superseded the aspiration to freedom, so that access to basic necessities included in the basket of economic, social, and cultural rights should take priority in policy and practice.
By contrast, economic, social, and cultural rights were often left to linger at the bottom of the national and international “to do” lists.
Some will prefer to avoid any strengthening of economic, social, and cultural rights and will seek to maintain the status quo.
In other words, culture plays a much larger role in shaping interpretations of human rights than many realize, which implies that human-rights practitioners should be wary of passing judgment on any practice with deep cultural or religious roots.
As the cultural psychologist Richard Shweder notes, circumcision has featured in conflicts between Europeans and Middle Easterners for centuries.
In Western countries, meanwhile, interpretations of human rights have evolved alongside a larger cultural shift toward individualism and secularism, prompting opposition to a broad set of religious practices.
Circumcision has been an integral part of the cultural identity and religious faith of a large portion of the world for thousands of years.
As the United States has historically shown, tolerance means upholding a broader definition of people’s right to practice religion, or otherwise express their cultural identity, according to their beliefs, while withholding judgment on whether such beliefs are “right” or “wrong.”
The Council says that it invited officially approved Chinese writers because it wanted to create greater understanding of Chinese literature and promote cultural exchange between the two countries.
The British Council’s decision to ignore them, as well as exiled writers banned from entering China, such as myself, has turned what should be a cultural event into an unprincipled commercial-political transaction.
Only then we will know if the trade-off at least made sense, even if for many it was unacceptable: authentic social justice and progress in exchange for authoritarian rule, international ostracism, and a cultural desert.
Instead, Obama’s administration is guided by a relativist political realism that assumes respect for cultural and religious distinctions.
In addition to economic populism, a significant minority of the population also feels threatened by cultural changes related to race, culture, and ethnicity, even though much of this is not new.
Sadly, Indian society never really embraced the consensual values that India's Constitution proclaims: a participatory, decentralized democracy; an egalitarian society with minimal social and economic disparities; a secularized polity; the supremacy of the rule of law; a federal structure ensuring partial autonomy to provinces; cultural and religious pluralism; harmony between rural and urban areas; and an efficient, honest state administration at both the national and local level.
Maldivians are mainly of Indian and Sri Lankan origin, and have strong cultural and economic ties to those countries.
First, France is an indispensable link between southern and northern Europe at a time of growing economic and financial division between creditors and debtors (a fissure that has begun to assume a cultural dimension).
An active France can play a bridging role, leveraging its strong relationship with Germany (a friendship that is a pillar of the EU) and its proximity and cultural affinities to the Mediterranean.
It is time to shift the cultural conversation about data sharing from what researchers might “lose” to what they stand to gain – beginning with credit.
To discover Poland is to find a country that offers a rich cultural heritage, a vibrant civic life, and industrious, creative people who can overwhelm guests with their hospitality.
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