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In a world where, in comparative terms, there is less America because of the rise of China and India and the resurgence of Russia, and less Europe in diplomatic and strategic terms (due to institutional paralysis), if not economic and cultural terms, France, according to Sarkozy, must clearly define itself as part of the West.
Is the West a concept defined above all by its political culture, i.e., democracy and human rights, by its cultural dimension, including religion, or merely by its diplomatic and strategic implications, i.e., facing the rise of new powers?
This enables the construction of cultural bridges between host societies and home countries.
Indeed, the restoration of social dialogue as a tool with which to forge long-lasting consensus represents a deep cultural shift that augurs well for such efforts.
With their important role in modernization, applied scientists engage in cultural debates as well.
What is needed is a comprehensive policy agenda, comprising demographically informed measures that address political, cultural, and economic exclusion in a synchronized manner.
It does not help that a tradition of gerontocracy prevails in many countries, meaning that young people’s political participation and influence is restricted on cultural grounds.
Political and cultural exclusion intensifies it.
The perceived threat of mass inflows of migrants and refugees from poor countries with very different cultural traditions aggravates identity cleavages that far-right politicians are exceptionally well placed to exploit.
Ladies First, Women LastNEW YORK – Many people still believe that the attacks of September 11, 2001, were not just acts of political terrorism, but part of a cultural war, a clash of civilizations.
The two things that get people most excited in cultural conflicts are religion and sex, specifically the way that men treat women.
The cultural interpretation of 9/11 as a civilizational clash explains why a number of former leftists have joined conservatives in their hostility to Islam.
But cultural concerns allowed him to recruit quite a few unlikely allies.
The response to 9/11 and to Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s recent encounter with an African chambermaid in a New York hotel have very little in common, except for one thing: once again, cultural conflict was invoked in a misleading way.
One problem with the cultural argument is that it is often used to defend or excuse the behavior of the powerful against the weak.
Taliban men no doubt believe that the subjugation of women is a cultural privilege, as well as a religious duty.
The rather strict use of law in the US to regulate sexual behavior might reflect a puritanical culture, but it is more likely the result of cultural diversity.
Sweden, a country of limited cultural diversity, has even more stringent laws on sexual behavior than the US.
One cannot expect the law to solve all cultural conflicts.
No doubt many Afghan women in burqas are equally convinced that covering their faces is a cultural command – and therefore a natural duty.
For example, the refugee problem cannot be separated from wider problems concerning the integration of all inhabitants of Palestine, Jordan, and Israel – where the refugees are most numerous – into civil societies where they may enjoy equal legal status and equal access to economic and cultural opportunities.
The economic, political, and cultural elite is too thin, too uniform, and too closed.
Contrast this with the Chinese in Indonesia, a country where everything secular and modern is associated with political and cultural conformity to the nation-state.
More recently, Shaked approved the “loyalty in culture bill,” which would make government cultural funding contingent on the recipient’s “loyalty” to the Jewish state.
It is not exclusively urban, and it includes people of different cultural origins.
By slashing the funding for the institutions which created that civilization, Cameron has guaranteed that tomorrow’s Britain will be a nation not of world-class politicians, writers, and cultural innovators, but of wonky technocrats raised on bad TV, with little influence beyond their tiny island.
Educational exchanges under the Fulbright and Humphrey Scholar programs and cultural outreach activities should be increased.
A mad theatrical performance by a group of fanatics is part of cultural pluralism, and, as such, helps to expand the realm of freedom without posing a threat to anyone.
Of course, multiculturalism’s more thoughtful advocates never imagined that a cultural community could or should substitute for a political community.
The ideal of multiculturalism at home was echoed with an ideology of cultural relativism abroad, especially in the 1970’s and 1980’s.
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