; Cultural Mormons

Cultural Mormons may or may not be actively involved with the church, and in some cases may not even be officially members of the church.

Cultural Mormonism includes a lifestyle promoted by the Mormon institutions, and includes cultural Mormons who identify with the culture, but not necessarily the theology.

They are also colloquially known as Cultural Mormons, the LDS equivalent of a lapsed Catholic, a " Christmas and Easter Christian " ( or based on an adage " Once a Baptist, Always a Baptist ") and a " Yom Kippur Jew " ( or sometimes " ethnic Jew ").

In contrast, Jack Mormons may believe but do not affiliate ; and Cultural Mormons may affiliate but do not believe.

Cultural Mormon is a term used for Mormons who no longer believe some, or many, of the doctrines of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but who self-identify as Mormon.

Cultural Mormons may or may not be actively involved with the church, and in some cases may not even be officially members of the church.

Because of the fear that divulging their unorthodox beliefs will result in stigmatization and increased attention, some Practicing Cultural Mormons prefer anonymity.

Humanistic Mormonism is a movement of Free Thinkers, Cultural Mormons, Disfellowshipped or Independents people related to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and other Latter Day Saint groups that emphasize Mormon culture and history, but do not demand belief in a supernatural god, or the historicity of the Bible or the Book of Mormon.

* Cultural divisions are tools of the modern scientist, and so should not be considered similar to divisions or relationships the ancient residents may have recognized.

Cultural and political influences from many parts of Asia, carried by successive waves of immigration, expansion, and cultural assimilation, are part of the modern culture of China.

The Taiping Rebellion, May Fourth Movement and Cultural Revolution are some upsurges of those waves in China.

Cultural imperialism is a term that is only used in discussions where cultural relativism and constructivism are generally taken as true.

Cultural activities are fairly diverse throughout the region, with the music, dance, theatre, and literary art forms tending to follow the particular cultural heritage of specific locales.

Cultural conventions exist, clinicians who are Members or Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons are an exception.

Examples are the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Offices that represent the government of the Republic of China, Somaliland's Representative Offices in London, Addis Ababa, Rome, and Washington, D. C. and the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices that represent the government of that territory.

Many theoretical perspectives attempt to explain development ; among the most prominent are: Jean Piaget's Stage Theory, Lev Vygotsky's Social constructivism ( and its heirs, the Cultural Theory of Development of Michael Cole, and the Ecological Systems Theory of Urie Bronfenbrenner ), Albert Bandura's Social learning theory, and the information processing framework employed by cognitive psychology.

The Cultural Theory of Risk distinguishes between hierarchists, who are positive towards both rules and groups, and egalitarianists, who are positive towards groups but negative towards rules.

Cultural factors are also relevant, as local populations tend to be homogeneous.

Economic, social and cultural rights are enshrined in articles 22 to 28 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( UDHR ) and in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights ( ICESCR ).

Cultural influences from all points of the compass are visible in the Finnish archeological finds from the very first settlements onwards.

Thus the songs of Uttarakhand are a true reflection of the Cultural Heritage and the way people live their lives in the Himalayas.

Other sources of income are the framework contracts from UNESCO ( United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ) and grants and contracts from United Nations bodies, foundations and agencies, which are used to support the scientific activities of the ICSU Unions and interdisciplinary bodies.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights are sometimes referred to as the international bill of rights.

The secretariat of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage are currently working with the Government of Egypt on an initiative to add the bay of Alexandria ( to include remains of the lighthouse ) on a World Heritage List of submerged cultural sites.

Nationwide political campaigns led by Mao, such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, are often considered catastrophic failures ; and his rule is believed to have caused the deaths of 40 to 70 million people.

Cultural influences left from Spanish colonization of the South and Southwest remain not only in the names of places but also in some ingredients in cooking, provided they grow in these regions ; these influences are strongly reinforced today by their proximity to northern Mexican states like Sonora, Baja California, and Chihuahua.

Cultural barriers can also keep a person from telling someone they are in pain.

There are criticisms that the development does not sit easily with or connect with its surroundings, and as a result Berliners have had difficulty accepting it as theirs ( despite the fact that the choice of Hilmer & Sattler's masterplan was partly because it was the only one to address the way the development juxtaposed with the Cultural Forum immediately to the west, although the Cultural Forum has itself faced similar criticisms of its own ).

* Cultural capital, the advantage individuals can gain from mastering the cultural tastes of a privileged group

Cultural imperialism can refer to either the forced acculturation of a subject population, or to the voluntary embracing of a foreign culture by individuals who do so of their own free will.

" Cultural processes add a second knowledge inheritance system to the evolutionary process through which socially learned information is accrued, stored, and transmitted between individuals both within and between generations.

Cultural diffusion: the spread of culture via interaction between individuals from one culture to another or within a culture

The Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights is a side-agreement to the Covenant which allows its parties to recognise the competence of the Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights to consider complaints from individuals.

Whereas other theories of risk perception stress economic and cognitive influences, Cultural Theory asserts that structures of social organization endow individuals with perceptions that reinforce those structures in competition against alternative ones.

Others object to the theory ’ s embrace of functionalism, a controversial mode of analysis that sees the needs of collective entities ( in the case of Cultural Theory, the ways of life defined by group-grid ), rather than the decisions of individuals about how to pursue their own ends, as the principal causal force in social relations.

Two areas differ from South Africa's apartheid system: Firstly, under a system called xia fang, or " sending down ", individuals or groups of urban workers were sometimes re-classified as rural workers and banished to the countryside ( at lower wages and benefits ), often as a sentence for " bourgeois imperialist crimes " during the Cultural Revolution ; by contrast, white workers in South Africa were never sent to work in Bantustans.

* 2003: The Massachusetts Cultural Council ( MCC ) awards GBYSO the prestigious Commonwealth Award in the education category, given every two years as the state ’ s highest recognition for individuals and organizations in the arts, humanities, and interpretive sciences.

This is comparable with Westernization and the decision faced by modern individuals such as American Indians to follow their native culture or to adopt Western customs and lifestyle, see also Cultural imperialism.

Cultural Christian is a broad term used to describe people with either ethnic or religious Christian heritage who may not believe in the religious claims of Christianity, but who retain an affinity for the culture, art, music, and so on related to it.

Particularly influential for many who utilize the term, Cultural imperialism, is his philosophical interpretation of power and his concept of governmentality.

David Rothkopf, managing director of Kissinger Associates and an adjunct professor of international affairs at Columbia University ( who also served as a senior US Commerce Department official in the Clinton Administration ), wrote about cultural imperialism in his provocatively titled In Praise of Cultural Imperialism?

The party's organizational structure was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution and rebuilt afterwards by Deng Xiaoping, who subsequently initiated " Socialism with Chinese characteristics " and brought all state apparatuses back under the rule of the CPC.

During the Cultural Revolution, following the downfall of Liu Shaoqi, who was Chairman of the People's Republic of China, no successor was named, so the duties of the head of state were transferred collectively to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.

According to Anthony Harkins in Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon, the term first appeared in print in a 1900 New York Journal article, with the definition: " a Hill-Billie is a free and untrammeled white citizen of Alabama, who lives in the hills, has no means to speak of, dresses as he can, talks as he pleases, drinks whiskey when he gets it, and fires off his revolver as the fancy takes him.

One notable exception is the work of Underhill who explores comparative linguistic studies in both Creating Worldviews: Language, Ideology & Metaphor ( 2011 ) and in Ethnolinguistics and Cultural Concepts: Truth, Love, Hate & War.

Cultural achievements of the Polatsk period include the work of the nun Euphrosyne of Polatsk ( 1120 – 73 ), who built monasteries, transcribed books, promoted literacy and sponsored art ( including local artisan Lazarus Bohsha's famous " Cross of Euphrosyne ", a national symbol and treasure stolen during World War II ), and the prolific, original Church Slavonic sermons and writings of Bishop Cyril of Turau ( 1130 – 82 ).

Mao set the scene for the Cultural Revolution by " cleansing " powerful officials of questionable loyalty who were based in Beijing.

During the Cultural Revolution, all politicians who had any history of being anything other than dogmatically Maoist were almost immediately purged.

Separate political struggles ensued among central government officials and local party cadres, who seized the Cultural Revolution as an opportunity to accuse rivals of " counter-revolutionary activity.

Many prominent generals of the People's Liberation Army who were instrumental in the founding of the PRC voiced their concern and opposition to the Cultural Revolution, calling it a " mistake ".

Moreover, Chen launched an assault on Zhang Chunqiao, a staunch Maoist who embodied the chaos of the Cultural Revolution, over the evaluation of Mao's legacy.

Years of resentment over the Cultural Revolution, the public persecution of Deng Xiaoping ( who was seen as Zhou's ally ), and the prohibition against publicly mourning Zhou became associated with each other shortly after Zhou's death, leading to popular discontent against Mao and the Gang of Four.

Those who participated were motivated by a mixture of anger over the treatment of Zhou, revolt against the Cultural Revolution and apprehension for China's future.

Hua spearheaded what became known as the Two Whatevers, namely, “ Whatever policy originated from Chairman Mao, we must continue to support ,” and “ Whatever directions were given to us from Chairman Mao, we must continue to follow .” Like Deng, Hua wanted to reverse the damage of the Cultural Revolution ; but unlike Deng, who wanted to propose new economic models for China, Hua intended to move the Chinese economic and political system towards Soviet-style planning of the early 1950s.

At the Fifth Plenum held in 1980, Peng Zhen, He Long and other leaders who had been purged during the Cultural Revolution were politically rehabilitated.