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.

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 influences such as Christmas creep may have led to the winter season being perceived as beginning earlier in recent years, although high latitude countries like Canada are usually well into their real winters before the December solstice.

This emerges in the writings of early British Cultural Studies scholars and their influences, ( see the work of, for example, Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, Paul Willis, and Paul Gilroy ).

Cultural influences, besides Buddhism, included the Mon outposts later assimilated into the kingdom and the Khmer.

: For an almost exact copy of this section, see Ten Thousand ( Greek )# Cultural influences

The Cultural revolution, which sought to remove perceived " bourgeois " influences and attitudes, caused large negative effects and disruptions.

Cultural influences on Ubaid culture: Samarran Farmers from the North, trans-Arabian bifacial indigenous hunter-gatherers, and circum Arabian nomadic pastoral complex

He was chosen as the Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance under Mohammad Ali Rajai's prime ministry in March 1981, and continued efforts to purge Iranian universities of secular influences, in what became known as the Islamic Cultural Revolution.

Cultural interactions patronized often by powerful emperors, such as Kanishka, led to development of art due to introduction of a rich variety of influences.

Velas ' Semana Cultural ( Culture Week ) is also another festivity that mixes local traditions and cultural influences from abroad.

Traditional Chinese arts have also re-emerged from the Cultural Revolution, but their developments have been hampered by the Chinese society's ready acceptance of outside cultural influences, particularly the popular culture of Hong Kong, which has a huge following inside the PRC.

Cultural capital is not transmissible instantaneously like a gift or bequest ; rather, it is acquired over time as it impresses itself upon one's habitus ( character and way of thinking ), which in turn becomes more attentive to or primed to receive similar influences.

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.

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

Inheriting a country fraught with social and institutional woes resulting from the Cultural Revolution and other mass political movements of the Mao era, Deng became the core of the " second generation " of Chinese leadership.

According to a decision by The Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Länder in the Federal Republic of Germany of September 21, 2001, in the version from May 15, 2008, this also applies to PhDs that were awarded in Australia, Israel, Japan, or Canada.

This is material from Alan Lomax ’ s independent archive, begun in 1946, which has been digitized and offered by the Association for Cultural Equity.

The right to food is a human right derived from the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights ( ICESCR ), recognizing the " right to an adequate standard of living, including adequate food ", as well as the " fundamental right to be free from hunger ".

* Thompson, Andrew, 1998, ' George Eliot and Italy: Literary, Cultural and Political Influences from Dante to the Risorgimento, New York, St. Martin's Press, 1998, ISBN 0-312-17651-1.

Reinventing Shakespeare: A Cultural History from the Restoration to the Present.

* The Indian Ocean in World History: Educational Website Interactive resource from the Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center

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.

Media bias is studied at schools of journalism, university departments ( including Media studies, Cultural studies and Peace studies ) and by independent watchdog groups from various parts of the political spectrum.

Cultural separatism exemplifies one practice in which one can expect a higher rate of meme-replication — because the meme for separation creates a barrier from exposure to competing ideas.

Cultural patterns there were different from, say, Mt.

It has helped to sponsor popular traveling exhibits, such as an early 2010s " King Tut " exhibit featuring magnificent artifacts from the tomb of the young Egyptian Pharaoh ; " The Cultural Treasures of Afghanistan " which opened in May 2008 and traveled to other cities for 18 months ; and an exhibition of China's Terracotta Warriors in its Washington headquarters in 2009 – 10.

Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies ( OANA ) is an association of news agencies from UNESCO ( United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ) member states in the Asia-Pacific region.

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

Cultural and religious pluralism has a long history and development that reaches from antiquity to contemporary trends in post-modernity.

Iraq created one of the most modernized public-health systems in the Middle East, earning Saddam an award from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ).

In 2000, the centre of Tirana from the central campus of Tirana University up to Skanderbeg Square was declared the place of Cultural Assembly, and given state protection.

The " borrowing " of religious rituals from other faith traditions by Unitarian Universalists was discussed at the UU General Assembly in 2001 during a seminar titled Cultural Appropriation: Reckless Borrowing or Appropriate Cultural Sharing by the Religious Education Dept, UUA.

`` And it's all the more tragic because it's so little deserved '', said Mr. J. J. A. Frans, a Belgian official of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.

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.

The UN International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of 1966 declares, in Article 13, that " higher education shall be made equally accessible to all, on the basis of capacity, by every appropriate means, and in particular by the progressive introduction of free education ".

Dix, like all other practicing artists, was forced to join the Nazi government's Reich Chamber of Fine Arts ( Reichskammer der bildenden Kuenste ), a subdivision of Goebbels ' Cultural Ministry ( Reichskulturkammer ).

Like all other religious activity, Taoism was suppressed in the first decades of the People's Republic of China ( and even persecuted during the Cultural Revolution ), but continued to be practised in Taiwan.

Observator Cultural covers the city's arts, and the free weekly magazines Șapte Seri (" Seven Evenings ") and B24FUN, list entertainment events of all sorts.

With the Sino-Soviet split and the Cultural Revolution, all legal work was suspected of being counter-revolutionary, and the legal system completely collapsed.

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

Lin, Chen, and Kang were all beneficiaries of the Cultural Revolution.

The effects of the Cultural Revolution directly or indirectly touched essentially all of China's population.

The start of the Cultural Revolution brought huge numbers of Red Guards to Beijing, with all expenses paid by the government, and the railway system was in turmoil.

" In Mao: The Unknown Story, Chang and Halliday attributed all the destruction of the Cultural Revolution to Mao personally, with more sympathetic portrayals of his allies and opponents.

Le Pen criticizes the other political parties as the " establishment " and lumped all major parties ( Communist, Socialist, Union for French Democracy ( UDF ) and Rally for the Republic ( RPR )) into the " Gang of Four " ( la bande des quatre – an allusion to the Gang of Four during China's Cultural Revolution ).

A massive media campaign was then launched against them, dubbing them the Gang of Four and blaming them for all the excesses of the Cultural Revolution.

In the context of Cultural Studies, the idea of a text, not only includes written language, but also films, photographs, fashion or hairstyles: the texts of Cultural Studies comprise all the meaningful artifacts of culture.

She became one of the masterminds of the Cultural Revolution, and along with three others, held absolute control over all of the national institutions.

The initial storm of the Cultural Revolution came to an end when Liu Shaoqi was forced from all his posts on October 13, 1968.

During the October Revolution of 1917, the Bolsheviks established an institution called Proletkult ( the Proletarian Cultural and Enlightenment Organizations ) which sought to put all arts into the service of the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Although he had always had one, it did not reach excessive levels until the Cultural Revolution, where all sorts of miracles were attributed to people who read his writings.

However, Mao stated that in a few years a new Cultural Revolution might be necessary and added " No one should think everything will be all right after one, or two, or even three Cultural Revolutions, for socialist society occupies a considerably long historical period.

In the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution, all independence of thought in China was stamped out.

* Sebastopol Community Cultural Center offers a wide variety of events and activities for all interests.