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Bunuel asks the question of why do we follow traditional social norms when we aren't even sure why they were created?
Those are all responses to social norms being broken, but their not real answers.
He takes social norms like the social formalities, sexual taboos, religious authority, and the western justice system and turns them upside-down, just to see what happens.
Second, John Sayles does not succumb to Hollywood norms and resort to special effects, rock songs or cheap dramatic plot twists to jazz up what seems to be a simple folk tale.
It came out at a time when I was going through my own rebellion against society and it's norms.
I could handle the dated costumes and social norms, but after an hour or so, it seemed as if that's all the film had to offer-a tour of SF's colorful corners in the Haight-Ashbury era, with a tacked-on murder mystery that came to no satisfying conclusion.
We have again three sick, married (surprisingly how come?) MCP types unable to control their libidos, and therefore chasing the skirts outside their marriage, and who ultimately are set right as per the norms of the happily married ones by one Mr. Lucky Bhaiyya.
I suspect while reading it that this is OK because the cultural norms to be depicted are alien and unfamiliar to a 1932 American movie audience.
It is hard to create new rules and norms.
I cannot fathom why serious journalists commit such egregious breaches of basic professional norms of fairness and impartiality.
The Iranian government’s contempt for the international community reflects its contempt for human rights and civilized norms.
In fact, the EU seems to have no conceptual framework for accommodating neighboring countries that aren’t actively importing its norms and regulations.
The challenge to post-1945 norms now playing out in Ukraine is a threat to them as well, and their engagement is urgently needed to uphold global peace and security.
Of course, there is no way to enforce full disclosure, but by creating explicit processes and expectations, we hope to reset norms.
Most states nowadays lie within borders that are widely accepted as legitimate, and they increasingly abide by international norms of behavior in times of war.
As with any other good, how information is consumed reflects economic and political opportunities, personal incentives, and institutional or cultural norms.
Multilateralism requires minimal consensus on global rules and norms among all major powers.
Nineteenth-century concepts of international order, based on zero-sum balance-of-power considerations and spheres of interest, are threatening to supersede modern norms of national self-determination, the inviolability of borders, the rule of law, and the fundamental principles of democracy.
The US has had the good fortune of choosing largely from among presidential aspirants who adhere to generally accepted norms.
And adhering to basic norms of decency – facts can be massaged, but not manufactured, and promises must be plausible, if vague – can lose them.
For the sake of democracy, we must take action to solidify basic norms of decency and transparency in vital election campaigns.
Like any market, however, the marketplace of ideas needs regulation: in particular, its participants should be bound by norms of honesty, humility, and civility.
Climate change, for example, poses dire threats to the planet that must be assessed according to prevailing scientific norms and the evolving capacity of climate science.
Meanwhile, Xi’s domestic policies seem to be taking the country ever further from Western norms.
With the exception of the almost defunct six-party talks aimed at eliminating the nuclear threat posed by North Korea, Asia’s powers refuse to be constrained by international rules or norms.
Thus, “Asian values” are not universal norms, but rather a self-preservation strategy harnessed to identity politics.
The regulatory institutions and behavioral norms that originated in the New Deal and developed during WWII came into full force: social security, a system of unionized labor relations, market regulation.
Countries that actively select legal norms from elsewhere, adapting them to local conditions, are on a par with countries that develop their legal order internally when it comes to the effectiveness of legal institutions.
As the push to transplant legal norms grows, international agencies should focus on helping countries make their laws effective in practice, not just on paper.
Indeed, outdated cultural norms and stereotypes – such as the idea that science, technology, engineering, and mathematics are “for boys” – continue to prevent women from pursuing ICT-based careers.
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