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The prevalence of a global culture is no doubt harmful to any local culture and mores.

Values, social mores, customs, even the visual environment and methods of communication seem to be on the opposite ends of the spectrum.

But she said her ultimate goal was to stay faithful to Austen's book and its timeless dissection of social mores.

Official data tell us as much about social mores (the extent to which self-killing is concealed) as about what really happens.

China, or any other state, has the right to take action against content it feels offends against its social and cultural mores.

Then, make it part of a broader discussion about the perils of rigidly applying yesterday's sexual morality to today's sexual mores.

Flatland is more than just a mathematical essay , it's also a treatise on victorian social mores.

He identifies three main factors that have helped maintain a democratic republic in the United States: good luck, laws, and mores.

Different mores, fashions, lifestyles and foreign lands were all seen for the very first time.

Foreign companies rely on their local staff for an understanding of local business mores as well as language, contacts and know-how.

The anarchic world can be reformed into a mores ecure and ordered one, if not into a world government.

How I spread Chinese culture and observe behaviors and mores of outer space as an ambassador to a planet of E. T.

The baseej disagreed: it was African-American so it could pollute Iranian society with the mores of the country's greatest enemy.

What might become of people who lack of faith of any kind, or obeisance to common social mores?

We've had an economic crisis, bailouts for bankers, a botched war for oil, neglect of climate change and the relaxation of social mores.

This acceleration of 'knowing' can impact education, public opinion, entertainment, mores, and cultural development.

Can this old civilisation stick to its mores and traditional virtues ?

These Seers embraced the whole of human experience, equating passion with divinity and discarding the stifling mores of the Church.

Now, the country's shifting mores are reflected in a proposed new look : long dresses, skirts below the knee and Ottoman-style fez caps.

Since the 1960s, the easy availability of reliable contraception has helped to spur a revolution in sexual mores.

The minister's response was: "Disuse is sometimes more efficient than (state) intervention in adapting the law to changing mores. "

Hostile to or disruptive of the established social order; marked by or engaging in behavior that violates accepted mores.

Somehow this manifests itself in the breakdown of social mores at the opposite end of society.

Women are very active in the industry in the West, but the Gulf's entrenched religious and cultural mores make gender a tricky subject.

Travel could enrich one's understanding about a country and its local cultures and mores.

Saudi Arabia follows a strict interpretation of Islam and religious leaders have strong influence over policy making and social mores.

so countries rid themselves of some traditional attitudes without adopting individualistic Western notions about broader social mores.

The mores of that village are hard to believe.

The critical habit of thought, if usual in society, will pervade all its mores, because it is a way of taking up the problems of life.

They are more open-minded, more concerned about their children's future, more influenced by abstract values than traditional mores.

Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.

Even by the standards of the Web, it was a startling demonstration of the rhythm and mores of micro-blogging in China.

Likewise, for most people, religious or political convictions or sexual mores are considered private matters.

In its streets I feel I am in a city still governed by mores and even manners that are part of global society.

A 2003 study by the late psychologist Shirley Glass found that the mores of sexual infidelity are undergoing a profound change.

Aristocratic mores, as adapted by most upper-class writers and exemplars , were clearly not applicable to most people.

The figure portrays the classical fashion and mores of the royalty and their traditional dress interplayed with whimsy and humor.

But his rants against feminism, Marxism, and Western sexual mores are little different from those made by Osama bin Laden.

Often such situations require a familiarity with language, customs, food, clothing and social mores.

Muslim countries, worried about the way in which the internet undermines conservative social mores on nudity and mingling, are twitchy too.

As for the idea of road crossings being adapted to reflect local mores and etiquette, Anorak approves.

Inwardly the chapter pure station stomach Fei wears this having no of son mores, merely lets her stomach Fei more of still back.

And others say they pick up useful knowledge about everything from changing fashion and mores to medical science.

In the "disjointedness" of traditional mores latent in this transformation was located the potential for the joint to modernity.

Mr Quatremer warned that the IMF was infused with "Anglo-Saxon mores" and that France could not afford a scandal.

but when emerging-country multinationals operate in rich countries they tend to adopt local mores.

The Taliban ran a brutal regime and are loathed by most town-dwellers; but many rural Afghans share their mores.

They know better, of course, but they also know that in this competitive climate it helps to play to the mores of the moment.

But "the gift" changes the traditions and social mores of their world for the worse.

Ms. Charles learned other mores through careful observation, or trial and error.

Barbiewas born in the innocent 1950s, and may find the mores of these changeabletimes hard to cope with.

In our new security-conscious era, flying is an operation that is inimical to the old mores of a wine-lover.

Much of the latest electronic guidance is sponsored from Saudi Arabia, and so reflects its conservative mores.

Values and mores and practices are changing all the time.

in some democracies they still are, reflecting the religious or sexual mores of the majority.

logic and rhetoric, able to contend: Abeunt studia in mores.

Tamil mores prohibit sex between people who are not married and sex across castes (though they are less bothered about marital rape).

The ocean liner, the Oronsay, is a floating microcosm of 1950s social mores and hierarchies.

The essential element in the mores and in personal morality is consistency .

One report from The Economist says, traditional mores hold sway around, most important in the preference for sons over daughters.

The level of house prices depends not just on levels of income but on social mores and the distribution of wealth.

What do we learn of the manners and mores of the New Zealand people from this film?

They point to curbs on free speech and the imposition of Muslim social mores.

their relationship is unaccepted in traditional mores.

Does this fit with the mores of contemporary society?

folkway an offence against social mores.

It also captures the social mores of the present day.

And it depends mores on you than on your employer.

Oh, bunking up. If you smell s'mores, don't be alarmed.

Economic mores can change.

Many people blame these changes on the decay of traditional mores.

The city will has less cars, mores subways in the future.

For example, the passenger automobile led to the drive-in movie and changes in sexual mores.

But the Czech move is motivated not only by mores.

And With more and more women willing to play the game, social mores are shifting.

And this is also what allows it, at its best, to resist, not reinforce, mores and prejudices that pose as truths of nature.

We keep making excuses for cultural mores in China, well let them respect OURs if they want to sell in OUR markets.

They have used all kinds of ways to distribute content that is low-class , crude and even vulgar, gravely damaging mores on the internet.

Some read "TWL" as historically specific, a choral representation of its contemporary social and sexual mores;

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