Realizing and recognizing these cultural differences improves cross-cultural understanding, and helps eliminate discomfort people may feel if the interpersonal distance is too large (" stand-offish ") or too small ( intrusive ).

" Realizing one ’ s consciousness (" conscientization ") is a needed first step of " praxis ," which is defined as the power and know-how to take action against oppression while stressing the importance of liberating education.

The crew Tintin joined was composed of Europeans from Axis or neutral countries (" Europe ") while their underhanded rivals were Americans ( although in later editions the US flag was removed from the rival ship ; see the image on the The Shooting Star page ), financed by a person with a Jewish name and what Nazi propagandists called " Jewish features.

( Reportedly uniforms of soldiers in background right are of the " Royal Americans ")

The Americans and the Lakota nation ( whom the Americans called Sioux or " Teton-wan Sioux ") had problems when they met, and there was a concern the two sides might fight.

") As a result, African Americans were represented in the U. S. Congress for the first time in American history in 1870.

Mission San Rafael Arcángel was founded in 1817 as a medical asistencia (" sub-mission ") of the Mission San Francisco de Asís as a hospital to treat sick Native Americans of the Bay Area, making it Alta California's first sanitarium.

* Pitahaureat or Pitahawirata (‘ People Downstream ’, ‘ Man-Going-East ’, derived from Pita-‘ Man ’ and Rata-‘ screaming ’, the French called them " Tapage Pawnee "-‘ Screaming, Howling Pawnee ’, later the Americans " Noisy Pawnee ")

The Americans ( also known as the " Amerks ") proved to be an even greater success than expected during their inaugural season, leading Rickard to pursue a second team for the Garden despite promising the Amerks that they would be the only hockey team to play there.

" SGL " (< span lang =" la-Latn " lang =" la-Latn "> i. e .</ span > " same gender loving ") is sometimes favored among black Americans as a way of distinguishing themselves from what they regard as white-dominated LGBT communities.

Early varieties, including those used by Native Americans, were the result of the mutant su (" sugary ") allele.

When English settlers arrived at Jamestown in 1607, they soon came into conflict with the Native Americans ( whom they called " Indians ") as the newcomers competed for land, game and other resources.

Exhibits related to the American prisoners include the interrogation room where many newly captured Americans were questioned ( notorious among former prisoners as the " blue room ") is now made up to look like a very comfortable, if spartan, barracks-style room.

It is well known and posted as Kinderkamack Road, which was a trail used by the Lenape Native Americans, whose named signified that it was a place ( the suffix " ack ") where ceremonial dances or prayers (" kintekaye ") were made.

As a result of the efforts of magazines like VIA: Voices in Italian Americana, " Ambassador ", a publication of the National Italian American Foundation and Italian Americana, edited by Carol Bonomo Albright, and numerous authors young and old, as well as early immigrant pioneer writers like poet Emanuel Carnevali (" Furnished Rooms ") and novelist Pietro DiDonato, author of Christ in Concrete, Italian Americans have been reading more works of their own writers.

Article III of the Jay Treaty declared the right of " Indians " (" Native Americans ") as well as of American citizens and Canadian subjects to trade and travel between the United States and Canada, which was then a territory of Great Britain.

During the early morning hours of 4 May, communist units initiated the second phase of the offensive ( known by the South Vietnamese and Americans as " Mini-Tet ") by striking 119 targets throughout South Vietnam, including Saigon.

") During the case, Solicitor General Charles Fahy is alleged to have suppressed evidence by keeping from the Court a report from the Office of Naval Intelligence indicating that " there was no evidence Japanese Americans were disloyal, were acting as spies or were signaling enemy submarines.

American attitudes towards Indians during this period ranged from malevolence (" the only good Indian is a dead Indian ") to misdirected humanitarianism ( Indians live in " inferior " societies and by assimilation into white society they can be redeemed ) to somewhat realistic ( Native Americans and settlers could co-exist in separate but equal societies, dividing up the remaining western land ).

Cochise ( or " Cheis ") was one of the most famous Apache leaders ( along with Geronimo and Mangas Coloradas ) to resist intrusions by Americans during the 19th century.

" Chong " is the 19th-most-common surname among Chinese Singaporeans ; " Chang " is the 6th-most-common surname among Chinese Americans ; and " Zhang " was the 7th-most-common particularly Chinese surname ( i. e., excluding ethnically diverse surnames such as " Lee ") found in a 2010 survey of Ontario's Registered Persons Database of Canadian health card recipients.

According to Forbes (" The 400 Richest Americans of 2004 ") and other sources, Geffen has pledged to give whatever money he makes from now on to charity, although he has not specified which charities or the manner of his giving.

Joe proceeds to give a speech about what is it to be a Canadian and what it is not to be a Canadian, making particular efforts to distinguish himself both from common Canadian stereotypes of Americans (" I believe in peacekeeping, not policing ") and common American stereotypes of Canadians (" I don't live in an igloo ," " I say ' about ,' not ' aboot '").

At night, wagon trains were often formed into a circle ( a " laager ") for shelter from wind or weather and corral the emigrants ' animals in the center to prevent them from running away or being stolen by Native Americans.

* 1971 – The first Pacific Islands Forum ( then known as the " South Pacific Forum ") is held in Wellington, New Zealand, with the aim of enhancing cooperation between the independent countries of the Pacific Ocean.

His analyses of art, cinema, youth culture, economics, and power formations, develop concepts such as " micropolitics ," " schizoanalysis ," and " becoming-woman ," which aim to liberate subjectivity and open up new horizons for political and creative resistance to the standardizing and homogenizing processes of global capitalism ( which he calls " Integrated World Capitalism ") in the " postmedia era.

Asceticism ( from the, áskēsis, " exercise " or " training ") describes a lifestyle characterized by abstinence from various worldly pleasures, often with the aim of pursuing religious and spiritual goals.

Malraux was responsible for realizing the goals of the " droit à la culture " (" the right to culture ") -- an idea which had been incorporated in the French constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( 1948 ) -- by democratizing access to culture, while also achieving the Gaullist aim of elevating the " grandeur " (" greatness ") of post-war France.

To further this aim he published De l ' Allemagne (" On Germany ") in French ( begun 1833 ).

Innovation in palissage ( training of the vine, usually along a trellis, and often referred to as " canopy management ") and pruning and thinning methods ( which aim to optimize the Leaf Area / Fruit ( LA / F ) ratio relative to a vineyard's microclimate ) have largely replaced more general, traditional concepts like " yield per unit area " in favor of " maximizing yield of desired quality ".

Indeed, even when frankly describing the nightmare world which is his ultimate aim (" A world where the thought of each man will not be his own, but an attempt to guess the thought of his neighbor (...) Men will not work for money, but for prestige, the approval of their fellows – not judgment, but public polls ") Toohey makes no mention of any overt dictatorship or coercive apparatus.

The Swedish aim of controlling the Baltic Sea by establishing dominions on the coastline (" dominium maris baltici ") thwarted Frederick William's ambitions to gain control over the Oder estuary with Stettin ( now Szczecin ) in Pomerania.

The aim of the show was to decide the best new young pop singer ( or " pop idol ") in the UK based on viewer voting and participation.

Usually die beiden Appenzell (" the two Appenzells ") are spoken of in a political context, and Appenzellerland in a geographic context, if the aim is to refer to Innerrhoden and Ausserrhoden collectively.

According to Hakuin, the main aim of " post-satori practice " ( gogo no shugyo, or kojo, " going beyond ") is to cultivate the " Mind of Enlightenment ", " benefiting others by giving them the gift of the Dharma teaching ".

Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin opposed the Marxist aim of dictatorship of the proletariat in favour of universal rebellion, and allied himself with the federalists in the First International before his expulsion by the Marxists. In 1864 the International Workingmen's Association ( sometimes called the " First International ") united diverse revolutionary currents including French followers of Proudhon, Blanquists, Philadelphes, English trade unionists, socialists and social democrats.

Usually die beiden Appenzell (" the two Appenzells ") are spoken of in a political context, and Appenzellerland in a geographic context, if the aim is to refer to Innerrhoden and Ausserrhoden collectively.

The principal responsibility of the boom operator is microphone placement, usually using a boom pole ( or " fishpole ") with a microphone attached to the end, their aim being to hold the microphone as close to the actors or action as possible without allowing the microphone or boom to enter the camera's frame.

" Cock-a-doodle-doo Coalition ") with three other centre-left parties ( Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats ( HNS ), Istrian Democratic Assembly ( IDS ) and the Croatian Party of Pensioners ( HSU )), with the aim of running in the December 2011 parliamentary election.

In particular, its members aim to abolish export subsidies and trade-distorting (" amber box ") domestic support measures for agricultural products and seek to improve market access for exported agricultural goods.

Varlık Vergisi (" Wealth tax " or " Capital tax ") was a Turkish tax levied on the wealthy citizens of Turkey in 1942, with the stated aim of raising funds for the country's defense in case of an eventual entry into World War II.

They are called evangelists, a word meaning ' people who proclaim good news ,' because their books aim to tell the " good news " (" gospel ") of Jesus.

Destrudo is the opposite of libido-the urge to create, an energy that arises from the Eros ( or " life ") drive-and is the urge to destroy arising from Thanatos (" death "), and thus an aspect of what Sigmund Freud termed “ the aggressive instincts, whose aim is destruction ”.

After uncovering the heresy in Novgorod around 1487, Gennady wrote a series of letters to other churchmen over several years calling on them to convene sobors (" church councils ") with the aim " not to debate them, but to burn them.

To track targets needing greater traverse either a curved length of railway was used with the gun shunted backwards or forwards to aim ; a cross-track was laid with the front bogie turned perpendicular to the rest of the gun and moved up and down the cross-track to train the weapon ; or for 360 degree traverse, the so-called " Vögele Turntable " could be constructed, consisting of a raised rail section ( the " firing bed ") carrying the gun, running on a circular track with a central jack to raise the gun during traverse and to take some of the enormous weight.

However, within Gaudiya Vaishnavism it is bhakti in its purest state ( or " pure love of God ") which is given as the ultimate aim, rather than liberation from the cycle of rebirth.

The aim of the party was to promote the interests of First Nations ( i. e., " Native Indian ") and Métis ( mixed race ) people in the province.