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As a result, in both Europe and the United States, much of the debate over immigration is dominated by illiberal voices, the most insistent belonging to politicians who promise to protect the cultural integrity of the homeland against the presumed degeneracy of the alien.
For them, newcomers, living in an environment hostile to their way of life, need to preserve the cultural practices they bring with them, even if some of those practices – for example, arranged marriages, gender segregation, religious indoctrination – conflict with liberal principles.
He was not making a xenophobic argument that Muslims do not belong in Great Britain, or a multiculturalist argument that Muslims should be allowed to wear whatever traditional garb they believe best expresses their cultural and religious sensibilities.
As he pointed out, wearing the nijab is not commanded by the Koran and represents a cultural choice, not a religious duty.
Back then, Khatami and Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi “went shopping,” rather than attend a cultural event at the Asia Society and risk crossing paths – and shaking hands – with US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
On the contrary, because effective responses to poverty require a sustained focus on social movements, cultural and environmental concerns, and political leadership, attention to human well-being can play an important part in reducing material disadvantage.
But new evidence is emerging of the cultural barriers to women’s economic advancement, which must be addressed if the world is ever to attain its goal of gender equality.
Moreover, raising women’s cultural and economic status can help tackle the problem of what the Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen once called “missing women.”
Indeed, given that most jobs in developed economies require little or no physical strength, cultural values that discourage women from working outside the home are rightly regarded as archaic, serving only to undermine women’s economic and political freedoms.
More and more, populist leaders regard their election by the majority of voters as a license to crush all political and cultural dissent.
The potency of such efforts tends to be shaped by cultural norms, the institutional bargaining power of labor, the level of trust between labor and business, and the influence of individual and corporate wealth on politics.
Being welcomed within the great international family of the West will reassure them, stabilize them, and contribute to their political, cultural, and economic development.
"We have common cultural and humanitarian interests, and we are not immune from other’s problems.
They have helped power the world’s great economies and shaped our modern social and cultural landscape.
It is hard to overestimate the impact that the automobile has had on our political, economic, social, and cultural life over the past century.
That really would be a cultural revolution.
The third potential source of conflict consists in the fundamental cultural differences created by societies’ unique histories and institutional arrangements.
But, as new economic powerhouses rise, they will increasingly challenge the West, and not just for market share and resources; they will seek to infuse the global order with their own cultural understandings and frames of reference.
That way, immigration will improve the quality of supply in the labor market and boost firms’ competitiveness, without generating cultural pressures.
And while immigration liberals are right that migrants will help to ease demographic pressures in recipient countries, the prohibitionists are right that the newcomers will place considerable cultural stress on their new communities, particularly in Europe.
Together, these parties should take a binary approach, addressing both “hardware” factors (which remain constant, such as physical distance to treatment centers and elongated supply chains) and “software” factors (the intangibles that vary greatly in each region, such as the role of family and cultural beliefs).
Debates over the Taj Mahal’s position as a symbol of multicultural India have yet to be settled, yet the nation is already being torn apart further by another cultural controversy – this time, over a film.
For some Hindus, the difference between historical fact and cultural myth does not matter; what is remembered and believed is as important as what is verifiable.
Perhaps the coastal areas of South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, and China’s eastern seaboard share some common cultural characteristics and a similar economic strategy.
But it cannot rely only on some local economic breakthrough without any broader cultural and strategic underpinning.
The fragility of Asia does not mean that Western domination is guaranteed: with its universities, cultural values, entertainment industry, and strong military, the West keeps an edge, but maybe not forever.
Cultural pressure is already pushing people to favor particular traits in their offspring; in the United States, for example, buyers in the market for human eggs can shop for height, hair color, and intelligence.
Italy, for example, is under constant threat of cultural and economic separatism, albeit in a peaceful way.
Over the last few months, the two leaders have agreed on a package of confidence-building measures, including two new crossing points along the Green Line that divides the island; improved mobile, radio, and electricity connections; and mechanisms for business and cultural cooperation.
But perhaps its most remarkable impact would be cultural.
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